Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Beach Version 2.0

One of the things that bugged me about mp_beach was that, well, it didn't really look like a beach. At least not like an Atlantic wall sort of beach. The thing the original map was supposed to convey was the idea of pillbox bunkers and casements along beaches like Normandy.  These apparently had too many curved surfaces for 2001 technology, so we were left with a small bevel on top of largely cubic structures. Thankfully my PC these days can render a million polygons at 200 frames per second, so I've decided to go through the old map and make it look something like the actual Atlantic wall looked some 60 odd years ago. The layout is still roughly the same, but I stalled on remaking the map because it was boring for 2013. Hopefully it should play as good as the original, because there are still servers running it 12 years later.



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