Quote from El Farmerino on July 31, 2012, 12:23 pm

Not bad, but a couple of issues:

It looks nice in terms of design, but the lighting is really off - although there are some lights around, it looks like it's in fullbright, with all the ugliness that entails. It's a shame, because it I think it'd look really good if it was well-lit, especially the section inbetween the two chambers.

As for the puzzles, I had an issue with the second where I tried to grab the laser cube through a portal and ended up with the orange portal switched off with me unable to get back and reconnect it. Spent a good 10 minutes wandering around before deciding to jump into the goo and redo it... I would recommend putting some distance between the wall and the cube to prevent that happening. Otherwise, no real complaints and a solid map.

Quote from taco on July 31, 2012, 12:27 pm

I experienced quite a bit of bad/unexpected/broken behaviour from buttons/triggers.

Quote from sicklebrick on July 31, 2012, 12:54 pm

Hahah, that was awesome! My face lit up after [spoiler]seeing the surprise [/spoiler]
The puzzles were a nice difficulty too; [spoiler]I trapped myself once in the 2nd puzzle by trying to grab a cube through the portal and once by standing at the other side of the water and dropping the cube in[/spoiler] but once you're clear on the rules it's tricky enough to be fun without being a huge mess of hundreds of testing elements. Maybe the reflecto needs a respawn button, but apart from that I loved it

Quote from LoneWolf2056 on July 31, 2012, 1:40 pm

El Farmerino wrote:

Not bad, but a couple of issues:

It looks nice in terms of design, but the lighting is really off - although there are some lights around, it looks like it's in fullbright, with all the ugliness that entails. It's a shame, because it I think it'd look really good if it was well-lit, especially the section inbetween the two chambers.

Tbh the lighting was a hell of a lot better with HDR off, but then I get the black elevator floor glitch

sicklebrick wrote:

Hahah, that was awesome! My face lit up after [spoiler]seeing the surprise [/spoiler]
The puzzles were a nice difficulty too; [spoiler]I trapped myself once in the 2nd puzzle by trying to grab a cube through the portal and once by standing at the other side of the water and dropping the cube in[/spoiler] but once you're clear on the rules it's tricky enough to be fun without being a huge mess of hundreds of testing elements. Maybe the reflecto needs a respawn button, but apart from that I loved it

Thanks, ill see what I can do

Quote from The Irate Pirate on July 31, 2012, 1:52 pm

You could just cut out the whole elevator section if you wanted to?

Quote from LoneWolf2056 on July 31, 2012, 2:57 pm

Think I have made the correct changes that were suggested and the map no longer takes place on the surface of the sun doesn't have HDR any more so the lighting is a little better. Thanks

Quote from Jepp on August 1, 2012, 7:41 pm

Great work!! The first puzzle was great, the bts area looked awesome and the last puzzle was alrite, I didn't like how the second laser shut of when you got the lasercube into the first room, I see how it's neccesary for the puzzle to work but it is not very logical. Also a small note is that maybe you should change the indicators for the 2 cubebuttons so it better shows that when both are pressed the enddoor opens, it had me heavily confused for about 10 seconds

Another thing is that the difficulty may be a tad over easy maybe, atleast for most PTI-players who have totally forgotten what a puzzle is ^^

Overall very nice ideas and very well executed, a great start for your first all-hammer map!
Thank you for mapping!

Quote from LoneWolf2056 on August 1, 2012, 8:32 pm

Thanks Jepp, yeah the 2nd puzzle didn't really work out that well and I do agree the map is too easy but its tricky trying to make a difficult puzzle with the single portal gun cause it so easy to trap the player, im sure someone else could come up with something much better xD I definitely learnt a lot from doing it though so its something xD I still have a long way to go though.

Quote from Jepp on August 1, 2012, 9:32 pm

I didn't think the map was too easy I thought it had a very nice difficulty, kept you thinking without really getting stuck! Seeeing this as your first real map I really want to see what you come up with in the future!:thumbup: