Complete mental mapping block

[Schizophrenic]

I sit here, staring at Radiant, trying desperately to come up with an idea for a map.

 

Nothing happens.

 

 

SO... you people think of ideas for me. I don't want any "OMG MAK THEED PALACE DULE OF TEH FATES!!!11111 DARTH MAUL RULZ!!" or anything like that. Those are blatantly obvious things that aren't the least bit original. If I was going to make something like that, I wouldn't be here asking for ideas.

 

 

Single or multiplayer, doesn't matter. Just be creative (something that I unfortunately can't do).

[patchx]

make an sp level

 

theres too many mp levels they all start to sound the same

 

maybe make a level that doesnt use kyle as the lead character

though dont use tavion cause she's mine

 

make a level about desann escaping the jedi academt after murdering that jedi in cold blood that he got kicked out for

 

there ya go instant plot

 

-patch

[UniKorn]

Take the bus, got to the city, go to the library, get some books on architecture, head back home, start.

[B0rG]

Go to the shopping mall. Look around. Its a perfect battle arena. Think of the movies. Imagine scenes you wish were in them. Think of scenarios in your level. Create them in your mind, connect them in your mind, and if you've got it in you, draw it down on graph paper.

 

And if you get a picture in your mind, go forth and create it and stop at nothing (short of stupid level construction) to get the look you want in every single nook and cranny.

 

As Unikorn said, look at architecture and look at it closely. Look for simplicity within it and duplicate it. Study the JK2 textures and think of how you can incorprate them into your map. I find that many textures can often be used in more ways than what they were orignally intended.

 

And before you even start on a map (especially if its ambitious) have a good hard study into the most efficient ways of doing it. Laying the very foundations of your level from the start with some degree of forethought can heavily impact the efficiency of rendering capabilities and compile times of your map.

 

And if you really are stuck for ideas on level concepts, don't worry. Go ahead and create rooms, prefabs and textures and wait for the bigger ideas to come to you. They will come. ANd when they do, you'll have all your homegrown gear to incorporate. Dont waste time staring at the screen whatever you do, unless your studying how to do stuff that you don't already know how to do.

[Tigris]

If you're a bit frightend to make up a level completely new, search the web for scetches of StarWars places and begin building them- You still can be creative by placing all the details and stuff, but you have a basic idea already how it should look like. Worked well for my cantina

[DaviJade]

Need I say more...

[Spenturion]

Please, make a single player map, they are so much funner, and you can do so much more with it. Why not make a map with new enemies.... that'd be great if you could. Why not make, or find some models for gungans. I'd love to chop Jar Jar up.

Spenturion:fett: