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Show us what you can do on 2.8's editor. If you create an awesome map, we'll convert it. No offense but there's too many noobs (I was once one too) that create novelty garbage. I don't want to discourage people from creating things but I don't think we're at a point where we can allow people to have the editor (too much support, tutorials, complaints, requests and "add my map to assist plz").

Here's the only screenshot I have of my first "map":



At that stage, I was just putting objects in different spots and thinking how cool it was. Things weren't even aligned. I've been working on (and learning UED) Pipeline for 3 years. You can't pick up all the quirks/features overnight. I still don't know all there is to know.

The idea for a long time has been to create a AA Mission Depot type website. There's more problems with that though. With PunkBuster, you can get kicked for custom maps and there's no way to tell a custom map from a hack without posting the map file up and matching a MD5 if PunkBuster captured one. Then, having a voting system for getting maps in Assist without bloating things up. It's something we'll think about down the road if 2.5 grows more.

This is just my opinion. Jonny and Blueblaster may not agree with me.

btw good work that map the screen shot shows you have taken time to learn this editor and well it wont be long till we see your full map it's my guess??

I'm not sure what screenshot you're talking about. If you mean the one I posted in this thread, that's an old map that no longer exists. I'm not proud of it at all. If you're talking about Pipeline, you should see the public beta roll out in another day and a half. I'm running around doing updates now.

Starting with an existing map is great, especially a developer created one. They're 100% complete with a wide range of features.

As far as pipeline, here's the latest:
http://youtu.be/tSwilTDJ86A?hd=1
It won't have bloom in the public beta though.

There's MD5's for existing files (maps, meshes, textures, sounds, system, etc) and then there's a whitelist of files you're allowed to have. So, if you modify existing files, you'll get kicked. If you have files not listed in the whitelist, you'll get kicked.

This made it a problem in the past with mAAp mode because servers had to have 2 different PB configs and users files had to be moved back and fourth to mesh with those configs. This is eliminated in the next version of Assist.

living life on the edge, I like that in my men.

It's below freezing and I went outside to pee. How's that?

pball is a good map for minimal players. Karma would be good especially on this map as you could shot the objects out the way players are hiding behind.

Karma is there in v7. It's buggy on non-windows clients and servers though.