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I removed a bunch of the windows for performance reasons. The main big ones are still there but it's not really easy to shoot out any of them. The ones at the stairs at break room you can shoot into the vent above main entrance but that's about it. I also removed the little windows in secondary pump room.

Thanks for the comments guys Check out the version on Dropbox, it's current.

I like putting first the milk and then the cacao in my chocolate.

That is utter blasphemy!

New build is up today. Took out another 10k polys with clever culling. Added playerblocks in various areas, tweaked foliage and played around with some lighting. Anyone have any bugs/issues to report?

It feels alive. The lifter has disappeared

Yea, I was doing render testing and noticed that at various places around the map, over 90k polygons in meshes were being rendered. So, I got rid of some of the windows on the building which allowed rendering of things on the other side and then I'm in the process of doing some culling trickery with low-poly meshes. The big tanks are the first to receive this and so far save 4k polys by using a low-poly mesh at a distance. The forklift alone was 7k polys so I've saved 11k polys outside. I'll put the forklift back inside where it can be culled easier behind an anti-portal.

Hmm, I'm just wondering whether replacing the old files(triggerlighreset.u, S-mAAP_Pack_6.uax, M-mAAP_Pack_6.usx, T-mAAP_Pack_6.utx, SpankyCameraTextureClient.u) with the same names is going to do something bad or not...

EDIT:
I guess spanky anwered this question already.

Yea, you'll have to make a backup. I don't think SpankyCameraTextureClient.u changed but all the others did.

Yea but you also have to stick the other files in there as well and then make sure to remove them before playing online. I'll put that in the main post.

I did and nothing happened... Then again, I was using the editor version of AA.

Turn your sound up

It won't work in my 2.5 install because there is no spanky's camera texture or something like that.

I knew there was something missing. I've added it to the download link above. Play it in AA, it's better.

First off, please don't spam this thread with "Spanky's Back!" nonsense. As said many times in several threads, I want to see the pending map updates released. There's a lot of work that the public hasn't seen yet that has been waiting roughly since February 2012.


Not long ago, I looked up the maps in the pending folder and decided to take a peek at my Pipeline. For some reason the editor crashed way too often to be able to do anything, even move an object around. It was something terrain-related. Even after removing things and rebuilding the map, it was still there. Unfortunately, I couldn't use this and it would have most likely caused issues with gameplay. I had to redo the changes I had made. That's what this thread is about.

I've had a lot of ideas for Pipeline and I'm hoping to integrate them. Maps in older games are so dead, there's no life in them. You don't believe you're actually there. It's not about looking realistic, it's about looking alive. The sounds and fluid objects like haze, dust, wind, smoke, steam, and how those interact the other objects in the map.

For now, I'm not keeping a changelog. There's tons of things added/changed and I'll just let people notice them as they play the map. There's plenty of surprises laid out through the map so explore around and post your favorite things as well as the things you don't like!


Testing this map online is at your own risk. Your computer won't blow up but you add these files to your AA installation and then join an online server, you'll probably get kicked and you'll probably freak out and think someone caught your 1337 hax. They didn't. You're just not supposed to have these files. Play it safe: backup your current files, pop these new ones in your AA folder, test the map offline and then restore the old files to play online normally.