DRUGS

It's been so long since i've been into making maps and stuff.
Most of the stuff i remember downloading custom textures and compressing into the file itself so you didn't have to.

But if i were to have missed anything, i can only think of maybe the old counter strike source game.

Does this map require any extra games?

Hey if you want more space you can add layers to the map and connect them via teleport

No worries. Was just leaving feedback and not expecting any changes to be made or anything. I've played with hammer a little and am terribad with it.

If or when i do it in the future.
It's extremely unlikely that it'll be any time soon.
But when the time comes. i will be sure to redo the map to improve optimization, add features, and make it more build/combat friendly.
Just have been in a tight spot in life.

It's easier to reply to messages since it only takes all but 1 or 2 minutes.
but just adding minor things to a gmod map can take several hours. if not a few days if it's a huge overhaul or something, and with school and a near full time job. that's almost impossible.

If i were to say when i might have a chance to do something like it. it'd probably be when i graduate in june

Tested it out a bit. Kinda like it. Although the spawn area feels really out of the way. Every spawn, gotta walk/noclip a good distance to get back to where you wanna be, which isn't great for builders/combat alike. Kinda prefer spawn rooms like gm_vast and gm_warmap have, where new players can just walk out and see what everyone's doing.

source engine water in gmod soaks up a lot of your cpu power for some odd reason.
I would've imagined trees and all the trenches with the props for sandbags would've
but for me, the water was a good 30-40 fps diference (I have a 144hz monitor) so it dropped it to around 90-100 sometimes.
But when people start spawning a few huge contraptions. it's not abnormal to be at 25-30 fps

@mechnos
if i remember it's pretty decent.
It doesn't use the whole 1km x 1km x 1km that the source engine allows.
but i'm thinking it's about half a kilometer that i let you build high, for optimization and FPS reasons for the average pc player on gmod.

I would've used the whole 1km up if it weren't for the water. lots of people like making boats, that and water makes the map feel better.

What's the sky size like on this map? Looking for a good map for building/ACF, but a huge sky for aircraft is a must.

sorry to hear that dude...

I appreciate the compliment
I haven't been able to really do much of anything.
College and working a near full time job at the same time has really soaked up near every single hour of my life leaving me unable to do the things i liked to do.
i usually only get 2 days of the week where i have atleast 4 hours of free time anymore and it sucks.

I wish i could continue to work on this map, but at this current time. It's impossible until i graduate, and or get another job. perhaps one where i don't work on the weekends

really good sandbox map my man, keep it up!

I'll try to do so whenever i have enough free time to do so
Lifes been busy and will be for a while

Hey, the train tracks are covered up by the ground on one of the hills in one corner of the map. Could you fix this please?

best gmod map :)

LetZ WoR tagather!

Sorry for those waiting for updates.
I've been very busy in life now.
I'm going to college while working a near full time job and i hardly have time to do anything unless i'm lucky enough to have a day off on the weekends.

Hopefully sometime in the future i'll have enough time to update this map into something incredible.
Or just start over with a new project when i'm done with everything in school

Thanks for the help, i appreciate it!

Train tracks broken (on this position: -14964 , 11952 , 1768).
Great map btw.

Smaller update now
Just fixed a few props floating in the air

Added some more terrain features in the mountain and hills
Added a new build area by the drag strip to be protected from the elements

Re added water, and added train tracks in the map
Hope everyone enjoys it

And yes, i just realized after i uploaded the map and updated it, i noticed a floating tree by the trenches.
It's a magical tree so leave me alone
It doesn't listen to gravity

Damnit i was using water for RP and now that its gone i got no use for the map.

Sneak peak of the current map
Update will be released soon
Probably a few days

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1405707184

Currently making the new update now
I'm re-adding water (But it'll have poop water textures, it's basically "decent" water except it doesn't refract or reflect anything on it to save tons of FPS

And i'm adding train tracks in the map

Understandable, have a nice day

Here's something to consider: Ai_nodes

Same

lasagna is pretty alright, i prefer spaghetti though

n i b b a, i have a question
do you like l a s a g n a ?

Great building map!

Here's the map of this second
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1398595917

I'm not exactly sure if i want to keep the water removed (it seriously impacts performance, it DRAINS it)

I still have bits of the map i'm working on, and i plan on adding a bit more before i give it the green flag and release the updated map

𝔹𝕖𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕡𝕖𝕠𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕓𝕖𝕔𝕒𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕓𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕪 𝕒𝕝𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕪 𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕚𝕤𝕤𝕦𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖

missing tex

its awesome and beatiful!

you should make the bridge breakable it would cool also great map and keep making amazing content

The trees near the spawnpoint have missing texture. Is there a fix for it?

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1393899876
for anyone curious about the new trenches

I'll try what i can
Thanks for the support!

I understand if you don't feel too confident about nodes, from what I have seen other gmod content creators say it is not an easy job. But I cannot wait to see you go for it! Right on man, keep this cool content comin!

In the future definitely will add nodemaps for NPCs and such
For when i will do it. i'm not sure, it may be tricky for me because i've never done it before but i will try

This map looks amazing from the images you have posted! Question though, any plan to add A.I. nodes to this map in the future?

I'm going to stop working on it today because i'm not quite sure how to fix the fact that water is sucking up the frames in the map by a overwhelming amount.

You pretty much need water on a ACF build map so boats can also fight tanks and such or whatever.
or to build just boats if you want.

Oh yea...
Just discovered the water was the problem...
I just got over 100 Frames boosted from compiling without water

I’m still working on trying to optimize and achieve maximum FPS in the map.
So far I’ve removed atleast 35% of the static props in the map, reduced the power of some displacements to 2, and I’ve removed some areas that didn’t seem to have a huge impact on the map, so far it’s hardly done anything

At one end of the map looking towards the other end gives a steady 80 FPS (with my i5-4690k processor)
I have however noticed when looking at water that it sucks a large sum of performance so I’m looking into it at this second
I’ve temporarily removed all water in the map and am compiling to see what the performance is now

Hi larry thank you for precisions

for 2 reasons

1 being that if it rests at 90 fps, it won't take much building or prop spawning to make it hit under 60
and 2, being i have a 144 hz monitor and i can see the huge difference from going to 90- back to 144 and back and it looks bad.

but 40 fps with a dozen acf builds doesn't bother me
however, 40 fps with just one build will so i'm like i said, trying my hardest to optimize with what i have and it's proving to be challenging.

it wouldn't be a problem if Hammer or really the source engine would allow the use of GPU and CPU power with gmod, and not just CPU.

There pretty much is no solution to the textures missing. That's 100% my fault because i forgot to add the textures to the houses when packing the files into the .BSP

You'll just have to wait till i finish the new update for the map.
I'm aiming for it to be released either in the next few hours (Unlikely)
or tomorrow

I've completely re-worked the trenches, removed the town and replaced it with something somewhat interesting, and i'm trying to optimize the map for the best FPS possible.

I'm aiming for the absolute highest frames possible for what the map is
I'm settling for a constant 150 fps or higher at the minimum and i've yet to suceed.
currently in some areas it rests at 90 fps at the highest which is unacceptable to me.

Pretty good map, but im having a problem. The town for me is completly untextured. Do you know a solution to this?

this is a very orgasmic map