City Map Project

[Natalya]

I've gotten some work done on the city. As you can see, it's going to have a So-Cal theme.

[Miguel]

very nice im really lookin foward to this mod i know it might be a good while before you release it but im patient

[Natalya]

The game is almost playable but there is still one huge obstacle in my way... Okay right now you can do like everything with respect to classes. You can choose a class, choose your gender, and then it will spawn you accordingly. So, you can be Government, Civilians, or Rogues. Everything with respect to this works. You get paid properly based on your class, and classes can be set to assassinateable. The team radio works too.

What has to be done is items. There's no real incentive to play the game if you can't accomplish things -- the game is just pointless. But if people can work to getting cool stuff like cars then there's a reason to play. So basically what is needed is a sort of economy. I already figured out money and crap, but what I'm working on now that is really hard is the item system. The idea is for players to be able to buy stuff and have the game remember it, then for the players to be able to use them. Lockpicks for example... You buy a lockpick, find a locked door, then when you use it the door gets unlocked and the lockpick is deleted from your inventory. That's what I'm working on now. Once that's done the mod will be playable because prettymuch everything else is in place. It will need refinement, but it will be worthwhile to play.

Okay some preview pics of the map...



In-n-Out Burger



Kitchen in one of the apartments. They only come with the fridge and sink, so players would buy furnishings for it like the table and chairs here.



I've been working on this police car. People who like to be cops would try to save up for one of these. It's not finished yet though -- this is just a beta version of the car.



The parking lot on left will be for the government building. The section here that I have completed is like the edge of town, so the other corners of this undeveloped intersection will be towards the city centre.



The town so far. The far edge will be going into the more urban bit of the city. Some of these buildings are from ze_retribution, but here you can go inside them. The one on the left has a big apartment, while the red brick one has three. The other buildings are stores and the fast-food joint. You can also see X-Storm's playground.

[X-Storm]

Nicely done

And u added my playground.
U know where i will live now

[DoT]

I just thought about this nat, make a way to prune the database. I'm sure with the mod there will be a lot to save, and when a new mod is relases, we'd imagine a lot of people will come to see what it's about, some may not like it, but their shit will be saved, so maybe a feature to the plugin that cleans up unused files after x amount of days.

Also...holy shit...i can''t even compare what i've been working on to your shit already...omg...

[Miguel]

Wow so much progress already! I got one suggestion though (IF IT HAS NOT ALREADY BEEN DONE...)

The ability to make more than one profile for or character whatever you wanna call it for the server...
Say there is too much of one faction. I can already sense Rogue will probably be very popular. Well maybe you could have a second profile or even third if 2 factions are overpopulated to play on so the game isn't totally imbalanced.

Like I said maybe this has already been done.

[Natalya]

Oh it doesn't remember that. When u leave the server it sets u back to civilian and when u join it sets you to civilian. You can change it using !class when you're playing, but there's a time limiter on it so you can't use it every 2 seconds. What it remembers is your money, ur bank account, and hopefully in the future it will remember items you bought like a car for example. When u join u can spawn ur car, then when u leave it gets deleted.

[Miguel]

ah ok i got the whole concept wrong. i like the way this sounds also though!

[Natalya]

Also...holy shit...i can''t even compare what i've been working on to your shit already...omg...

Hey this goes for everyone not just u DoT...

Though I might have great skills as a mapper, that doesn't mean that your contributions are not valuable. Because I'll be the one putting all the pieces of the map together into one cohesive city I can work to improve upon and incorporate any of y'alls contributions. For example, X-Storm made a small park area, and I managed to use the playground he made from it. So yeah even if you think you don't compare or whatever, if you make something it helps.

[Natalya]

[DoT]

[Natalya]

[color=royalblue]Wait until you see what I'm doing for City Hall.

DoT make a building for this. Gas station would be nice, but anything really.

Also:











Like the police car? 4 skins so far.

[Miguel]

holy crap nat nice work :O

[X-Storm]

I'm so going to crash a police car

[Cogbern]

no x-storm your not going to crash it until you steal it, then you can crash it. XD