CS_METROBUDAPEST

● A F T E R L I F E ●

2011-07-17T22:50:00.003+02:00

After the success of V3 releases Im planning a 4th FINAL version of the PRO and to the basic version... not far, about some half year in the future. A much more stylish look and increased lighting to give the map a more up-to-date look.

ALSO: If u missed it, I made a FY [fight yard] reduced version already some months ago.

This version weights a 94 mb BSP only, a very impressive progress on online play and!

I made a directed promo video with nice music.. lets go.

http://www.cryingtimeline.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAH5fCfWxCE

ALSO2: Im on a new project which represents the famous hotel GELLERT and some areas of the SAINT GELLERT BATH.. Work now in progress so maybe another blog will start or on cryingtimeline u can watch some media soon... stay tuned!!

● V 3 ◦ V E R S I O N S ●

2010-09-30T23:42:00.009+02:00

'Some' complains about the file size made me a bit angry, and there you go.. v3 has arrived!

The changes? Well:

From now on there will be 2 version of it the 'FULL' and the 'PRO'. The full version got absolutley no changes at all except sound compression so it's 482MB. PRO version comes with a better gameplay and a splendid 302MB!

So now everyone can decide wich one is the favorit.

Enjoy-!-

● S U M M A R Y ◦ #2 ●

2010-09-11T00:34:00.009+02:00

These are the final statistics and dimensions of the map. The map now using 1050 textures, 468 models and 79 MBs of sounds. Because of the total 100% new content and detailed graphic the BSP size become a gigant 534 MB with normal zip compression 236 MB. ================================================== CS_METROBUDAPEST.bsp ==================================================
Object names	Objects/Maxobjs	Memory/Maxmem	Fullness
models	164/1024	7872/49152	(16.0%)
brushes	4810/8192	57720/98304	(58.7%)
brushsides	45313/65536	362504/524288	(69.1%)
vertexes	34497/65536	413964/786432	(52.6%)
faces	16943/65536	948808/3670016	(25.9%)
entdata	[variable]	796978/393216	(202.7%)
physics	[variable]	1863176/4194304	(44.4%)

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● N P C ◦ A T T A C K ●

2010-09-09T19:20:00.009+02:00

After more than a week the navigation file were ready for attack and a big test at my friends room with a fine PC [Dual 2 GHz processor, 2 GB ram, ATI Radeon 5650 HD (I guess)] happend. Firstly we tested the map with 32 bots [max player number], than with 8 bots. They performed well except areas like escalators or vehicle interiors that too tight so they got stuck sometimes.

So I recommend that You have a strong PC [like that I mentioned above].

The next and last point that I will accomplish about this project is the trailer video of the map.

And of course the map is available now here:

http://www.cryingtimeline.com/src/cs_mbp.zip

And I will start an official server soon...

● T H E ◦ G R E A T ◦ M E R G I N G ◦ P O I N T ●

2010-08-16T14:18:00.019+02:00

Now this was the main objective to merge the three maps into one, and as expected this move took a whole week. Large amount of time needed to wipe out all the graphical errors. Though all parts were fine in their own. From the mapping point of view this was the most interesting and complex task to accomplish.

In the meantime asap, I've checked on the tactics of the map.. The picture above show you the overview of the map and the basic tactics that I've labelled.

Dots are showing the fastest team member arriving at the most critical point before the battle line. I wanted to find out correctly, which location will be the first that hold the most fighting of a typical match.The results were fine, because I've pushed back the first terrorist team spawns back from the hostages to the back of the station, right before the examination.

So as You can see the fighting area will be that escalator's going up from station Deák square M3. This means that the 1st CT team have chance to advance before the terrorists are pinning them down. From the picture You can imagine the rest of the facilities of the match.

Now I'm dealing with the navigation mesh [NPCs] I'll post about it soon!

● A ◦ Y E A R ◦ O F ◦ M O D E L I N G ●

2010-08-03T00:04:00.005+02:00

It's been already a year that I've started to make the prop models for the map.

At last on 01-08-2010 the last model the 496th has been compiled.

It was a sokol radio.

From now on: I'm still waiting for some mates to send their works, such as graffitis and videos.

After that the chance to merge the three maps will be available and with the full map I can make the radar picture and the navigation file. That would be the end of the map creation. I think this will take 2 weeks..

"Walk in the park."

● S O U N D S C A P E S ●

2010-08-02T23:09:00.002+02:00

The fact that there's no one on the map except the players without an environmental sound design the map would be totally deaf. On the first weeks of June I made all the sound sources and scripts for the soundscapes of the map... so each major parts of the map have it's own design.

● W H A T ' S ◦ H A P P E N E D ◦ S O ◦ F A R ●

2010-03-15T15:49:00.008+01:00

I've learned some optimization so m1 is now running mutch-mutch better. Optimalize visibility is very important on multiplayer maps. We have to do it.

After I checked the memory fullness table again I found a very bad status, ENTDATA was at 195%! I cant leave it this high becasue it may casue game crash on older PCs. As I know this limitation isn't a problem newer versions of source engine.

So I done some filtered compilations on this entdata numbers and I found lighting is what too expensive.

From the very start I wanted to use texture ligting [this is an old method of lighting what is now a legacy from the old engine.] but I thought this isn't working anyomre with source, but I was wrong.

With this method you don't have to add any light entities around becase all lights will be generated by the VRAD light compiler program. On the bottom picture you can see a test of it.

● A L M O S T ◦ T H E R E ●

2010-01-31T04:38:00.025+01:00

I feel much lighter after I've sightly finished the EXIT of the third line.

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Right away there is the most mental part of the mapediting. I made three maps back than to facilitation my work and from then the aim was to make and finaly merge the three pieces.

This is a pic from my DUMMY map [it only contains the flooring] that helps to make my accuracy 100% and with the merging.

Firstly I measured and decided the rotation of the -Third Line Station- on the Z axle. Maybe this is the most exciting part from the point of mapping, because the whole -T.L.S.- have a -16° difference from the grid of the map. Than because of the circumstances I was forced to modify the length of -T.L.S.-. That was a painful movement for me. T_T

With all this done Im free to finish the remaining escalators..after than moving on with that oblique angled hallway is what will be the final step of construction here.

● B R A N D ◦ N E W ◦ S C R E E N S ●

2010-01-15T21:11:00.009+01:00

● L I T T L E ◦ B O T ◦ M A T C H ●

2009-10-25T06:22:00.027+01:00

For the first time we have had a great time on the M2 part of the map since 2 escalators has been completed.. bots finaly got sense.. it was fun and refreshing to see how would be the map at full size operate! great of course! [must be]

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Here is a report about the animated steps of the escalators as well. I went so far and this is the reason i was left for so long. I learned XSI mod tool and it turned out like this:

Yes, i can make the escalators moving i made 3 tests already, but as a result in Soure engine based games- animated models have somekind of 'lag' [thats what i calling this phenomenon] I mean original polymesh* and the collisionmodel** have some distance from each other and this also depending on the animations speed, so faster movement causing more and more distance. Not only that!- If the player stands on the escalator it will poke him around or if blocked by the player he can even die.

Anyway, ive already gathered info to solve these problems, chacked the original models and deafault run on Half-Life2 too.

The conclusion is- running the map under HL2 have no considerable problems. Player and moving platforms have no harsh & wierd interactions. Whats with in CS:S... !?!! Just see this video from a 'glorious' physics:

So this is annyoing and its cannot be fixed by just scripting around and if its not .. well thats out off my beat. The only thing that i can put the blame on is the CS:S modified physical parameters. [maybe]

Another people on forums were asked for such problems with their animated models as why they cant shoot through and they cant get any shootmarks!!!. [aaahhh!]

* polymesh - the model that u see in the game and animates

** collisionmodel - that u cant see in the game but it makes the real solidity of the model.

Sadly i wont be finish in this year too...

● B O R N ◦ O F ◦ T H E ◦ F I R S T ◦ E S C A L A T O R ●

2009-08-24T02:15:00.003+02:00

YES, its finaly there! The very first and the longest escalator of the map. It has seven static parts the front and the end crush barrier the body the 3 parallel lines of steps and the 6 handrails.

Still has not texture jet and it's static for every inch. I've already search for tutorials to make the steps animated... needs [very/long] hard work. But till than, [or forever the steps will not moving a bit.] im movin along and finish the another esc.s in line2.

● B O O K S H O P ●

2009-06-12T19:55:00.000+02:00

For the first bookshop [at metroline 2's entrance ] 82 new models compiled.

● S U M M A R Y ◦ #1 ●

2009-04-11T03:34:00.030+02:00

I want to publish some statistics of the 3 maps. All these numbers are form the 3 log files that generated by Hammer after each map compiled.

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================================================== 2 stations from line 1 - name: CS_METROBUDAPEST_M1.bsp ==================================================
Object names	Objects/Maxobjs	Memory/Maxmem	Fullness
models	114/1024	5472/49152	(11.1%)
brushes	2441/8192	29292/98304	(29.8%)
brushsides	19709/65536	157672/524288	(30.1%)
vertexes	24653/65536	295836/786432	(37.6%)
faces	13480/65536	754880/3670016	(20.6%)
entdata	[variable]	147874/393216	(37.6%)
physics	[variable]	974470/4194304	(23.2%)

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================================================== 1 stations from line 2 - name: CS_METROBUDAPEST_M2.bsp ==================================================
Object names	Objects/Maxobjs	Memory/Maxmem	Fullness
models	19/1024	912/49152	( 1.9%)
brushes	1682/8192	20184/98304	(25.0%)
brushsides	12667/65536	101336/524288	(19.3%)
vertexes	16377/65536	196524/786432	(25.0%)
faces	9826/65536	550256/3670016	(15.0%)
entdata	[variable]	162050/393216	(41.2%)
physics	[variable]	603742/4194304	(14.4%)

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================================================== 1 stations from line 3 - name: CS_METROBUDAPEST_M3.bsp ==================================================
Object names	Objects/Maxobjs	Memory/Maxmem	Fullness
models	28/1024	1344/49152	( 2.7%)
brushes	1622/8192	19464/98304	(19.8%)
brushsides	14931/65536	119448/524288	(22.8%)
vertexes	31553/65536	378636/786432	(48.1%)
faces	19998/65536	1119888/3670016	(30.5%)
entdata	[variable]	202341/393216	(51.5%)
physics	[variable]	754063/4194304	(18.0%)

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● C E L E B R A T E ●

2009-03-28T10:13:00.004+01:00

Let's celebrate the 150 successfully compiled models and i also want to thank with this video for those few people who helped me to reach this far point.

● M 1 ◦ P R O P ◦ S U C C E S S ●

2009-03-28T08:27:00.002+01:00

Task of filling up LINE 1 with props is finished. From now on im going to make the links and exits for the stations.

● V O T E ●

2009-03-17T09:02:00.006+01:00

A vote started about when i will finish this stuff. Please vote if you mind. [The vote ends on 2009 november 21th 04.00 am...]

● N E W ◦ S C R E E N S ●

2009-02-23T10:42:00.016+01:00

Check out the new 'SPLENDID' screenshots in the mini-sites galery! It's not mutch but i wanted to replace the old stuff for a long time. Watch out for the new props!

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● I M P O R T A N T ◦ P O I N T ●

2009-02-15T01:17:00.011+01:00

Now im at the first step of seting the stations together. Till this time each 4 stations were apart because this method are simplifies the editing. When im finished the GANZ vehicle the 2 stations of line 1 merged. So now i have 3 map files and there is the question: 'How do i set them together right?' This event is prepares the end of the project.

● T H E ◦ G R E A T ◦ R O O F ◦ R E D U C T I O N ●

2009-01-23T19:13:00.004+01:00

This is the 'Vörösmarty Tér'-s lamp and roof prop section. [also converted from hammer to models]

● F I R S T ◦ P R O P S ◦ O F ◦ D E A K - M 1 ●

2009-01-23T19:11:00.003+01:00

● 0TT0 ◦ & ◦ B R E A K A B L E ◦ P R O J E C T O R ●

2009-01-23T19:01:00.005+01:00

● 81-717 ◦ V E H I C L E ◦ P T ◦ 3/3 ●

2009-01-23T18:28:00.003+01:00

At map start on the terrorist side the half of the team will arrive with this train witch has a various interior and one detailed vehicle. Now im thinking of the max 16 player number on the full map. That means 8 in terrorist team and just 4 player will start in the train the anothers will start on the peron.

● I N V A S I O N ◦ O F ◦ T H E ◦ 4 0 ◦ S I G N B O A R D S ●

2009-01-23T16:29:00.007+01:00

The convert of these signboards are complete. Its really useful to do it because the same types of the boards uses the same texture and only the model variates. Again im saved a few megabites... [what a hero.] And also there is all the animated clocks.

● A L L ◦ S I G N B O A R D S . . . ●

2008-09-05T23:09:00.009+02:00

All of these signboards are made in hammer in past but now im planning and working on to convert all of these objects to models too! I must simplify as far as i can.

● 81-717 ◦ V E H I C L E ◦ P T ◦ 2/3 ●

2008-09-02T22:57:00.005+02:00

The detailed green interior of the standing '81-717' train witch one is contain the hostages inside.

[metroline 2]

● 81-717 ◦ V E H I C L E ◦ P T ◦ 1/3 ●

2008-09-02T22:15:00.007+02:00

Well.. longtime passed and its all done. First here all of the soviet trains models. Those two blue trains are exported from hammer when i realised my trains are too detailed for the game, so it would be better if some of the trains -[i mean witch are not preferred by the gameplay or players]- are only closed models. [less compiling time and less power needed from the pc].

● G A N Z ◦ R E P A I R ◦ v7 ●

2008-08-17T02:34:00.005+02:00

Since the Ganz vehicle done it has many of structure and texture repairs i hoping this was the last one.

the repair list:

● fixed wrong smooting on models from lightwave. smd plugin

● fixed collision models

● texture fixed on model: ganz_lights

● some clips and glass brushes removed inside of the train

● L A S T I N G ◦ M O D E L S ◦ O F ◦ D E A K - M 3 ●

2008-08-14T03:20:00.005+02:00

With these im finished the M3 line. Past days carrying their hard work: Our favorite "BÜRK" -clock appears!!! and some another props. And now theres no more problems with making my models since i solved the collision compiling problem. [concave power!]

[thanks Talon!]

● B R E A K A B L E ◦ B A N I S T E R ●

2008-08-04T13:41:00.010+02:00

I had a problem with this object because source cannot render well objects witch countains solid and transparent parts. Basically u have two parameters to define an alpha based texture but neither of them will works without error on these objects. I found the solution when i saw an official model in CSS that dosent have this problem. Decompile it! and finally in its QC file there was a line about this model have two textures on it. bah. Well there was an alpha based texture for the glass parts and the same without alpha for solids.

● M O D E L I N G ●

2008-07-31T03:39:00.010+02:00

Since summer started there was a primere task to make my own models to detailing the map. After a month ive done with 37 models and i think this number hits the 40% now. [maybe] So im working on hard and quickly to speed up the project. In future ill report u from this events more. [and there is that 37 models in one pic. check it out!]

● B E G I N N I N G ◦ G A M E P L A Y ●

2008-07-31T02:06:00.011+02:00

In 2005 i made this picture from a blueprint to clear up how the map will work.

As u can see: there is 4 stations from the all 3 different metro lines of Budapest. [Vörösmarty square - metroline 1 ● Deák Ferenc square - metroline 1 ● Deák Ferenc square - metroline 2 ● Deák Ferenc square - metroline 3]

So 'Deak square' is the junction of the 3 lines -i mean 3 stations are connected - that is why its interesting for us and to make it as a Counter-Strike - Hostage/Rescue map.

2 more reasons to make it:

● F I R S T:

it'll archive reality, because metro line 2 had a full reconstruction in 2005-7, but on the map we have the old 'Deák square' for sure. [its more claustrofobic and has that old fearsome aura]

● S E C O N D:

If u planing to see Budapest once or if u already live in Hungary, u can learn from this map how Deak square works and its structure. [u wont get lost ..i was in the same situation once]

T H E ○ S T O R Y ○ and ○ G A M E P L A Y:

The story of the map is set on 21th November, 2005. Some terorrists capture hostages in the metro [metroline 3], meantime the police closes down the territory [the special forces starting at 'Vörösmarty squere' and travelling through as passangers to the next station 'Deák squere']. The terrorist forces came from metroline 2 - so the 2 teams headed for the line3 where the hostages are detaine.