And turn it into a survival map. I've never made a map with hammer before, but I looked through a bunch of tutorials and instructions and I think I get the gist of using brushes. But I don't just want to recreate part of UCI, I want to add some fun/silly stuff inside to make reference to pop culture, since that was one of the things we touched on in class. The end project will be a video of the process of making the map, and playing the map.
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The trigger will be in the lecture hall for class (outlined in red.) It is build very much like a cinema, mainly because it is made for us film studies majors to watch movies on actual prints. I wanted to make the trigger a projector, and have it show part of the film called Demons.
and have the zombies break out of the screening room like they do in the film (zombies coming out of a movie about zombies coming out of a movie about zombies) I only want the trigger to work when all survivors are inside the room and the doors are all closed.
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I want the lecture hall to have all of the equipment, but make it the hardest place to defend. When the player realizes its suicide staying in there, the player should leave, but the doors only open after the zombies start pouring in. When it becomes obvious they must leave and open the door, I would like to create a glowing red cylinder with Master Control's (from Tron) face on it, that starts descending from the sky towards the survivors when they reach the bridge outside saying NOO!
and tries to smash them. Touching him will result in an instant death. If you don't move fast enough, you wont be able to use the bridge, but as soon as you do, a tank will spawn and try to kill you by knocking you back into Master Control. I have no idea how to make it, or even if it is possible in l4d2?
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There's a sign on campus (its like an electric billboard kind of thing, where it tells us students here about upcoming events, don't know the proper name for it) that I would like to add to my map, and make it zombie apocalypse appropriate. Its marked in green. I want it to paint a kind of picture about what happened to UCI when the zombies hit, and warn about "strange behavior" and encourage people to wash their hands and what not. When swine flu hit, it was pretty much filled with warnings about the spread, and telling us to get vaccinated. I think including it in my map will both make it seem more like UCI and kind of satirizing the fear swine flu.
4. There's a pub on campus (marked in blue), which i would like to add into my map, making it the only other room I plan on making. I want it to have a jukebox with custom tracks. It is my understanding that custom sounds don't work anymore with regular maps, if this is the case, I could change my files and record myself playing with the files I want the viewer to hear. Inside the pub there are various TV screens, i would like them to be interactive. Upon activating one of them, I want to play a clip of another famous AI (HAL 9000), that again tries to screw you over by calling zombies into the pub.
Basically, I want to make the map as cinematic as possible. I don't want it to feel like another custom survival L4D2 map, but something people who don't play games can understand. It starts exploring the deserted and zombified campus, the protagonist sees familiar things in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The protagonist attends lecture and finds it littered with corpses in the lecture seats, and starts the movie/calls for help. The player is then zombies and discovers that the lecture hall is a death trap, and decides to head somewhere safe, somewhere familiar, and ends up making a mad dash towards the pub. Outside, Master Control makes an appearance and tries to kill you, but the joy of surviving his suprise attack will be short lived, as a tank comes out of nowhere and tries to cooperate with Master Control in killing your ass. When the survivors defeat the tank and escape Master Control's wrath, they make it to the pub and try to hide out in there, but Hal appears on the monitors and goes "Just what do you think you are doing?" The pub gets overrun by zombies and the protagonists die.
So that's my basic idear, some tips would be appreciated.
