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Created this map in my spare time it's a small Mini Arena. With a few players can be very intense shooting.

http://www.savefile.com/files/1458005

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C&C welcomed.

*Edit* Updated .pk3 to include GPL & source files.

You could have a better choice for a floor texture. That diamond floor doesn't really blend into the theme well

Update:
Replaced the old diamond floor with a different texture.

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http://www.savefile.com/files/1459716

C&C welcomed. :)

You improved a lot very quickly. Well done kit89.
I gave it a short 1on1 against Liz and had much fun. You added fine details. Here are my issues:

Strange item/weapon placement. The map plays good at 1on1 but you placed all the stuff for 2on2 or even more players. Why are there 4 Rocketlaunchers and so much ammo? After 5 frags I had 100+ rockets available. Too many armours and health for my taste as well.
The room with the quad powerup shines in quality over all the other parts of the map. Is there another possibilty to reach the yellow armors on top of that out of order elevators/storage racks except rocketjumping? I won't go for it because yellow armor is not worth hurting my self that much besides there is is another yellow and red armor in the same room. ;)

Can't wait to see this getting perfect. I love 1on1 maps.

Thanks Cosmo.

I wanted the map to be flexible in the amount of players it can have. I played it with 6 bots and it was great frantic fun & great tactical fun with 1v1.

There's no way to get up to those stacks with out hurting yourself in some way. I may swap some of the items around to encourage/ risking it up there.

Yet Another Update:

Started moving the weapons around to give better balance. Removed a variety of ammo(especially the Rocket Launcher). I placed a Mega health & Combat Armour on the stacks. Removed the Large health.

http://www.savefile.com/files/1459819

Enjoy!

Neat map Kit. I can see myself getting p0wned here. :)

As far as C&C, I find symetrical maps hard to learn. I'm having a little trouble figuring out which "storage rack" room is which until I hit a jump pad and see either a rail or the two health powerups. I think both rooms currently have red lights. Maybe if one were blue?

I like the prominent stairs. They could be a lot of fun dropping grenades down.

I appreciate the worthwhile rocket jumps.

Ooh, the room with rails is an interesting camping spot! You can rocket jump off the rack onto the ledge near the ceiling. You can walk around almost the entire perimeter of the room. When you finally get spanked, there's megahealth, rails, and rockets to continue annoying people with. :)

A very nice map that deserves a spot in OA's standard mapset.

Not sure why you call it "Mini", to me this is about normal/best size for 4 player DM.

The biggest problem imo with the lastest beta is the lighting, e.g. the area with the stack and railgun the walls are just Black and raising the gamma (e.g. to 2.0) the floor becomes almost blindingly White.  I know q3map2 has lots and lots of options to control lighting (a lot to learn), so I hope you can find the right options to make everything look reasonable, otherwise I suggest use a brighter wall texture or dimmer floor texture.

Looking good. I would suggest that you lower the floating structure with the lights so that it is more prominent. People dont always see things that are above their eye level; I only saw it because I rememberred it from the screenshot.

I'll go around the rail & stack walls and lighten them up slightly.

Glad everyone is liking the map. :D

Update:

Added lights around the areas that where black/really dark.
Lowered the floating light structure. Making it slightly more noticeable.

http://www.savefile.com/files/1463013

Enjoy!

Update:

Improved lighting, was still getting told it was too dark. So I made it even brighter. Thanks Enki for helping out in that area! :)

http://www.savefile.com/files/1465162

Enjoy. :)

Update:

Added some details to the more bearer parts of the map, And some more lights.

http://www.savefile.com/files/1484136

Hopefully the final update.

I reduced the ambient light and added in larger lights, to give each section a colour. The Two large areas at either side, one uses yellow lights the other orange.

http://www.savefile.com/files/1484312

C&C welcomed. :)

Floors in outdoor areas still seem way too bright to me.  I suggest using a lower -sky parameter to q3map2, maybe -sky 0.3 or so.  (I had the same problem with my own map, and I disabled it completely with -sky 0.0, and instead added some large lights near the sky ceilings).

The plasma gun placement is a bit awkward imo, too close to the edge.

There is a large plain wall above one of the ramps (the wall above the other ramp has a light), and that would be a good place for an OA banner :)

Hope that helps.

Looking good kit89! :)

I shouldn't have copied over the old ones. Everything looks prettier for some reason but I can't place it. :)

I would suggest adding some marker to the megahealth or red armor rooms so that they're easier to distinguish from the ground. It's not a big deal normally, but if I'm getting stomped, well ... I need all the help I can get. :)

A pit under the Quad damage might be fun.

Okay added in a tonne of stuff, made some modification here & there to some of the details and added new ones in.

I also fiddled with the lighting a bit more, so that looks pretty damn good. The ramp now cast shadows! I found out that patches by default don't cast shadows.

C&C welcomed.

http://www.savefile.com/files/1486108

Looks way better now.

You should try adding "-dirty" to your light compilestep if you didn't test that yet. Your corners and narrow places will become a bit darker.

Yep, lighting has improved a lot.

One last architectural thing that doesn't look good imo, where the skirting just stops:
(http://glbsp.sourceforge.net/shots/kit_minia.jpg)

Thanks for the tip, I'll do a test tomorrow. See if it adds to the map.

I'll modify the map so the edge doesn't stop suddenly. :)

After that I'll be committing him.

*Final Release*

(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/8496/g2461om3.th.jpg) (http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=g2461om3.jpg)

http://www.savefile.com/files/1493504

Enjoy!

Congrats!
Finishing something is often harder than starting it :)

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I've made rocket jump in the room with armor shards. Staying here, I could see through the walls.

The same is possible in dm4ish

Decided Mini Arena needed a bit of an update. I had sudden inspiration to remove the stacks replacing them with floating platforms.

Overall the modifications I made adds & improves gameplay imo. :)

- Removed the Stacks
- Added floating platforms
- Moved certain items around
- Added more detail around the map
- Fixed bug with flags.
-Added  changed gradients of certain areas.
-Added jump pads to floating platforms instead of rocket jumping, should encourage
some interesting Z-axis fragging.
- Improved lighting

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Here's a .pk3 for those that want to test: http://linxonline.co.uk/dev/OA/minia_dev.pk3
To run, type in the console:  /devmap minia

C&C welcome.

Enjoy!

I agree. I love OA_MINIA but these changes will make gameplay much more dynamic - especially when there is more than just a handful of players. I like the lack of mega health now. However, you can still RJ in the plasma gun room and shoot down at the floating platforms in the next room. Is this an intentional feature? Regardless, the map is great!

Glad you like it ChaoticSoldier. :)

Thanks for reminding me about that little fault, I've resolved it now.  I'll be releasing another version soon after I've resolved a few issues with the bots it seems they can't make the distance from the platforms I've added. :(

*Update*

- Bot Support
- Fixed bug in plasma room

I think that's pretty much it. I'll be committing it for svn if there is no other bugs with it.

Any Suggestions always welcomed. :)

http://linxonline.co.uk/dev/OA/zminia_dev.pk3

*Warning*
Adding this .pk3 will cause you to load up the latest oa_minia from the menus, so if you are playing on the servers make sure to remove this .pk3

- Modified ramp
- Added platforms under weapons

The map is pretty much polished up.

http://linxonline.co.uk/dev/OA/zminia_dev.pk3

C&C welcomed. :)

Enjoy!

Yeah, that's perfect.

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