Kreedz Olympics

Since the news post will eventually go away I thought that we would go with the thread dicussing everything that relates to the project.

I've got quite a lot going on in my head right now but I'm not intending to propone everything, just most important things regarding basics.

First of all, as we still didn't figure out yet, is there anyone who can answer if such complexity and size even possible to map in cs 1.6? As the news post says at least 5 areas for different activities will be there, but I think there's gotta be more.

> swimming pool
> tracks (probably a couple of them for different distances)
> longjumping area (probably a couple of them as well for different techniques)
> obstacle course race (probably a couple of them again)
> ski jump

Now you have a rough clue of the caliber of the work that is going to be made. So is it fittable at all in one room? Or should it not be one room? Maybe teleports to each area will make a thing.

Also, should it be a live contest or offline? If it's first then I suggest that there needs to be some sort of transparent wall next to you that opens up whenver the trigger is pulled, to start the battle. This is a good solution to avoid false starts if the case is "no-press" timer rather "press-timer".

Would it also be possible to make several timers for each course that jumper goes separately from others (if we're still talking about live tournament)?

Also, as this project seems to attract a lot of people and will probably be a real fun map to play outside the tournament why not supplement it with lj room and as I said in comments maybe even make it an official map for recording longjumping?

That's some basic stuff to kick it off.

Discuss.

Hello, i was talking with PU9 and he told me to share my ideas here so

Probably most people agree that making one big map (stadium) is the solution. And because the size is limited by engine, all disciplines can´t actually fill into the stadium only, so we have to put them somewhere else. Here are few possibilites:
ps. sry for my Paint skills

1)Tower stadium
A high tower building, which u can´t see from outside, some disciplines in each floor and on the top floor open air stadium with nice view to the skies.
Note: each stadium means a moderate size stadium, which engine can handle (talking about +-2000 wpolys)

http://screenshot.cz/BFQ5Q/
If not tower, same variation is the stadium on ground with floors in underground.

2)“Flattened ring stadium“
A stadium with kind of flattened ring around it, where are disciplines separated by walls.

http://screenshot.cz/IYSSV/

3)Universal stadium (normal stadium with replaceable .bsp file)
A stadium, where you can fill as many disciplines as engine allows ( same like others) , but here you can´t add more stuff somewhere else. Instead, before each tournament- lets say each 3 months- disciplines are updated, new ones added, old replaced- similar to Crossfit games. For example there would be like X regular disciplines which are played each Games and Y disciplines changeable-changed every tournament for new ones.While actual disciplines would look very simple in terms of mapping- some start/finish lines, needed entities etc, nothing big- imagine them like tools or equipment. The stadium itself would be beautiful already.. Each tournament the .bsp file would got updated or new map version with different name would be added (xj_games1,games2 etc) so everyone could download it and start practise with- lets say- one month in advance news annoucement.

I personally like the third option the most for its flexibility, ppl can make up new ideas so disciplines would be inovating each time

Hey bluemagic! I knew that there was this kind of timer implemented somewhere out there but what does trigger_multiple stand for and what walls? :D Is it by chance something that appeals to using several timers on a map? Great if so.

@Roadrunner. All ideas are great. However, I didn't quite get the last one. Are you suggesting that the thing about it is that it is modifiable? Can't you apply it to 1 and 2 just as easily? What do I not understand?

to bad mappers cant map together in the same time on some website or something ;s gl

Originally posted by random`

to bad mappers cant map together in the same time on some website or something ;s gl

Originally posted by kQbmig

8bo, post that link you sent me a couple of months ago.
I think It'll help some mappers understand a lot of basic things, such as how wide a track should be and how long it should be. the VERY hardest thing to build in hammer would be the start lines for each runner.

Oh ps: 1 unit = 1 inch.

sounds like a good idea for kzmod

nvm

London Olympics Sketch:


This is totally possible for sure: I have seen a lot of football pitches on cs 1.6
http://gamebanana.com/maps/search?search=football

Spider1 I understand the engine and what limits are, big olympic stadium with all disciplines inside of course is not possible as many think..thats why i suggested that kind of smaller stadium (which can handle 1 big event) with side areas where would other events be). Olympic games on goldsource not possible? Totally disagree, but we have to tighten our belts and use imagination. I would just dont call it Olympic games since we cant simply affort the atmosphere, but XJ games or smt similar (smaller). Anyways many real disciplines arent convertible to cs ,for example theres no stamina so many endurance races are irelevant.Theres only strength which we can convert to strafes/strafe technique,precision and timing.

@spider. such map is possible, but there isn't many people who can do this.

@demo. using the new features from vluzacn's tools like the copy model could save a lot of precache models. so the only problem is the open space, which will cause bad fps.