The premise of this map is some sort of space-dome. It's basically going to be a saber only DM, and will be best played with around 4-6 players. There are 3 platforms inside the dome that are floating, in which an elevator is in constant motion traveling up and down to transport you to them.

Here are JED shots of the map:

Top-Down view


Angled shot


3D Preview shot


In Game Shots:

This is the whole map from far back


On one of the platforms, you can see the elevator going down.


On the floor platform (that door is a trap that dumps you into space)


The top platform, where you can see outside of the dome into space.


Tell me what ya think

I'm still looking for more ideas.

[Edit] Textures are temporary, I know they currently suck.

Seems like a great idea. But IMHO you should get a cool sky(star?)map. With planets and such. I really like it so far. And you're right about the textures. Ke ke ke.

have rotating/spinning holograms of planets or comets or suns inside the map. Dunno too much about JK mapping, but if you could just have no clipping on 'em, and have em fly around in a circle about the central axis, it could look quite neat.

Eh, not really sure how I'd pull that off to be honest.

I talked with Shred18 some, and he tutored me in a few things I wanted to know. Expect to see some new spiffed up screenshots tomorrow.

Considering how simple that map is, I'd make everything way, way more round. And the platforms should be perfect n-sided polygons. It looks like you cleaved them right now, and it looks kind of funny.

Assuming you used the perfect polygon method for the rest of it, it would be relatively easy to recreate it with two or four times as many sides.

Sweet level. What I awnt to know is where you got that hot model?! Bossk looks friggin sweret! HOW do I get!!??

In reply to Emon:

I don't understand what you mean when you say n-sided polygons. I did cleave the platforms, though.

In reply to Hacksaw:

The model is apart of Shred18's Jedi Knight Rebirth, you can get it at http://www.jkhub.net

by n sided im pretty sure he means more spherical. Instead of having like 8 sides.

After a chat with Emon, and him refering me to the Perfect Polygon tutorial...

OLD Platforms


NEW Platforms


And a JED preview of what's to come:


Kudos to Shred for helping me with the skybox!

Comments/sugguestions?

Recreate the MYST planetarium, damnit!

Looks much better.

I'm betaing...

Sick layout, great for duels

Floating planet holograms wouldn't be so hard to make. A translucent 3do in a template derived from _decor would be enough, I suppose. To make them move, you could use frames, or a rotation with an off center.

The crates are somewhat out of place...

Crates don't exist anymore, I'm going to replace them with my own 3do now.

I'll have updated in-game shots as soon as I figure out why I'm getting HOM now in the skybox, and I wasn't before..

Bah, anyone here that thinks they may be able to help with my skybox giving me HOM now, could you please PM me? Thanks.

How big is your skybox?

Too many adjoins in view?

I added star destroyers in to the skybox, and when I got HOM I figured that was the problem...I took the star destroyers back out, and the skybox was as it was before. However, I still have HOM. I have no idea what's wrong.

So yeah, I can't remember who I exactly lent the beta of this map out to, but I know I at least let a handful of people try it out. If *anyone* still has this level I'd greatly appreciate getting it back to me. I had a HDD failure awhile ago, and the FTP I was hosting it on shut down as well, so I no longer have it.

That's why you put files on JK Hub. Next time, make a project and upload a file.

I just didn't expect my HDD to crash as well as my FTP host going down around the exact same time. However, I know a handful of massassians were sent the beta test, but obviously everyone may not have it by now.

no one expects there HDD to crash lol