Behind the scenes

[Nightmare]

This post is probably long overdue, but now that I've had some time on my hands, I thought it would be neat to go through and show a couple of my sketches and plans for my maps.
Most of these papers have seen pretty harsh times as I haven't exactly preserved them in the right spot, but they've still survived.

Yes, I am aware my handwriting is terrible, and even worse here as I often just do these at a very quick pace, scribbling down as much as I can before I forget.

If you guys enjoy this, I have tons of other papers that I can scan upon request, the ones below were the best out of the collection.

NM_Castle


NM_Mansion




NM_Town


NM_Cliff


NM_Dual_2


NM_Jungle_3 Testing Notes


NM_Pit

[ConnoR]

Wow thats alot of notes

[Nightmare]

Wow thats alot of notes

That's only a third of it for NM_Jungle_3.

[waywaaaard]

Yep, I had such planning for mario and lev_facilities too. If you are testing your map and finding bugs - I have to write them down otherwise I fix some but forget the others

[Pedsdude]

If you are testing your map and finding bugs - I have to write them down otherwise I fix some but forget the others

Indeed, I never manage to remember everything I need to fix if I try without writing any down

As for actually planning maps on paper, I used to do it but I don't do it anymore, I tend to go with a general idea and build naturally upon it as I go.

[ultralala]

a quality-map should have such notes. Very nice. Too bad i never played one of them cause i started in cod4. I have Cod2 but its so much different to jump there(i have a ghostbind for sprint to feel better lol). Is that a frogger like course in NM_castle?

[Rezil]

Pfff, that's organised compared to mine(I have floorplans of my other maps lying around somewhere but I cba to look for them right now - these are from jm_cruise):

[ConnoR]

Still more organised than my notes would ever be if i started mapping lol

[Azabael]

Cool stuff.

And lol @ the skull on rezil's paper.

[Hoogie]

Do you all make like drawings? I thought most people just start making the map.

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

Massive pics are massive.

[Soviet]

Do you all make like drawings? I thought most people just start making the map.

Yep.

Cool stuff NM, I was wondering if you were ever going to actually get around to releasing all that stuff

[waywaaaard]

Do you all make like drawings? I thought most people just start making the map.

That's why those mappers are good.