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gm_buildthing_remade

a decently sized sandbox map with an emphasis on npc pathing and support and a few random things

lessons from past mistakes, failures, a broken hammer, idiocy, and embarrassments

-AI nodes, pretty much every walkable surface has ai nodes, except the bottom of the uh lake pond thing, unless you want me to
- strider nodes, now you can have decent engagements with striders, instead of them brainlessly standing around shooting you
-air nodes, birds and scanners will fly around semi properly now, though sometimes the birds fly into walls
-working helicopter/gunship pathing
-FRIGGIN CRANES, 3 FRIGGIN CRANES, now for all your uh... crane needs, shut up its cool and fun, 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒖𝒑 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍, 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍
(d2_coast_04 would like a word with me)
-a big mirror in a room, and the infamous color room, as well as a sizeable underground basement thing with a ramp thats shrouded in darkness and terrible shadows.
-a 3d skybox that kinda looks wierd, and the funny env_skypaint entity so that the sky actually has color instead of not having color (gm_justanocean *cough* *cough*)
-uh a hilly thing in the corner that has ai and strider nodes and some air nodes, if you're into that sorta thing
-a semi deep pool of water, where 2 out of 3 cranes are near
-HDR
-climb nodes on the outside corners of the buildings, which in theory should work, but i haven't gotten a zombie to climb one due to being out of aggro range
-doesn't cause you to puke your eyeballs out because of terrible texture choices
-a few secrets hidden around the map, though they aren't really anything special, but have fun i guess (yes they work and aren't botched like the 5 something lambda's in gm_justanocean)
-added ladders for easier access to some rooftops
-added a way to get to the hidden room without noclip
-updated lighting
-updated the skybox a little bit
-FIXED THE MISALIGNED TEXTURE ON THE ONE BUILDING
-added some stuff to the hidden room
-cleaned up the inarticulate mess of ai nodes and redistributed them better to improve performance
let me know if theres some gaps for ai between node or if something wierd happened with ai

--ignore that previous point, i screwed the ai pathing bigtime UNTIL NOW, IT IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL AND 10x BETTER THAN BEFORE

--moved the color room to the basement
--added a quake 1 slipgate i made (with some creative liberty taken with the teleport texture, its just a modified version of the original warp texture, except its now an animated cubemap, which is a pain to make, takes up a bit of space, but looks cool)
--added a second way to get to the secret room
--implemented random objects to hopefully improve combat scenarios (there's jump nodes)
--implemented an experimental respawning props thing (please inform me if any bugs or something pops up because of this, or its behaving as it shouldn't)
--adjusted lighting here and there
--added fog
--some other optimizations
--added a garage door and a lightswitch to the main building
--did a bunch of other stuff that adds up

--for some odd reason the spawnpoints for the respawning props aren't where i placed them, so half of them are in the middle of nowhere instead of near the main building

uh what else do i have to say about it, its a map...

uh credit to Valve for uh making the cranes i guess, even though i modified them a fair bit and whatnot but that doesn't matter because they still made the cranes
credit to some invisible blue balls for forcing me to work even more, otherwise this map would be complete garbage
uh credit to some of my friends for putting up with me for all these years and motivating me to work on stuff again
what else
uh credit to players like you for throwing rocks and stuff through my window for all these years so that maybe just maybe i could learn stuff and improve as a person.

--credit to ID software for making Quake, the respective textures i ripped and ported, and for making plenty of awesome games (especially quake 1 and 2)

let me know if theres any issues or bugs and i'll see what i can do