Map ready for beta testing by clan in password only server tonight. Release of map to general COD2 community to follow as soon as any needed map fixes are completed.

WIP (Work in Progress) Update 11/5/07:

Map compiled with modelshadows and lighting improvements. Beta testing going well, fixing small things like light leaks around brushes, and railings that should not stop bullets, but currently do. Now hoping to release map by 11/22/07. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

WIP 11/6/07:

Well, I am not happy with the lighting inside chateau yet, but the outside is looking pretty good (it is my first map after all).





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edited on Nov. 6, 2007 06:43 pm by sgtbilkothe3rd

Fantastic Map Man! Keep up the great work

Thanks all for the kind comments. This map is my first COD2 map. The beta version of our COD2 mp_chateau is now in [release] for public review at our server located here:

69.12.100.205:28960


Please play it, and let me know what you all think.

i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! i love you! Nice map! Beta looked awlsome but for those light errors in the chateau.

edited on Dec. 5, 2007 09:03 am by playername

Thanks for the warm words. I have not worked on the lighting in the interior much, just tried to make the map work first. This was a map with a lot of detail in the interior to reproduce from scratch (for 1 person anyway, Bloody mostly worked on some parts of the exterior).

I may work on the lighting next, after I read more about it here. I am also open to suggestions regarding the interior lighting.

If you see "errors" please be more specific so that I can go about fixing them.

Thanks to you all.

I need to re-word that , bad choice of words on my part. Bloody did most of the exterior (probably 99%).

Paul,

Thanks for your kind comments. That Chateau map for COD2 required quite a lot of my free time last summer, and involved the help of my co-author Bloody, who is now with the {em} clan. We had a lot of fun putting the map together, but it never really caught on, because our map got finished right when COD4 was released.

Bloody and I still talk, I will ask him what he thinks. I have to tell you that he and I already discussed porting this map to COD4, and we may be inclined to do it ourselves. Rest assured, if we do that it will be posted here at modsonline first, for all to download.

The map was my first and only so far for COD2. So it has a lot of quirks in the design, and things I would never do again, that I did because I was a novice. But I was very careful to scale it as close to the COD1 map as possible, the map was built entirely from scratch, and I did not even use those tools that let you extract x_model positions from the original maps. I went by the seat of my pants. I didn't even know about the draw pos function in console for figuring out coordinates of things, I scaled everything manually, so it took quite a bit of effort and work by both {em}Bloody and myself.

edited on Feb. 23, 2008 05:30 pm by sgtbilkothe3rd