Behind the Scenes

Behind the scenes

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In our Behind the scenes page, you can check out what we're doing at the moment or what we've been up to lately. All images shown below are copy protected and are ONLY for demonstration use!

Building the Castle

The map scenario is located in Meldert, a real location situated in Flanders. As the map may suggest, it's all about a castle which holds one of the most important war documents at that time (fictional).

Facts:

During the war, the castle was a stronghold not from the german army, but the allied forces. Allied soldiers had their secret whereabout where they could transmit important documents or events. It's in that very castle where 400 students have courses and lessons as it is now serving as a school ... .

Fiction:

German forces have built their base in the woody domain of Meldert. It's their radar that is jamming all allied aerial back up. It's up to the allied manpower to get hold of the war documents, which contains very important information for the German Paranormal Intelligence.

About the Castle

To create the castle for the map, it was rather a big (litterally) challenge. It's up to us, manwhore and shagileo, to built the castle as exact as possible, considering the life size and the different rooms.

The big problems were the pinacles on top of the castle. While testing the first phases of the map, we saw some textures were just blank. Of course there was a lot of panic, because you don't really know what to do.

Screenshot during testing

After a lot of hours, we decided to just rebuilt the 4 pinacles and it worked (and still works :) ).

It's all about fantasy

A lot of people, especially first graders, in school believe that there is actually an elevator in the castle that can take you to the roof of the building. Well, it's a nice thought considering it's just the door of the toilet with some old light buttons next to it... . It's manwhores great idea to react on this wild dream by really building an elevator that can take you from the basement bunker onto the rooftop where you can joy-jump to gibbo-heaven.

Not only the elevator is a wet dream, a tunnel maze from the chapel to the castle is another one. Ex-students of Meldert, and we're talking about the late '50s, also believed that the rear of the chapel door brings you to an underground tunnel that leads to the castle.

We, getting high of all those great ideas, included such a maze in an earlier version of the map.

Another great fantasy is the mystic basement of the castle. It is considered a great honor entering the basement, for it is forbidden for students to enter it. Only by helping the staff of the school you could enter and I'm one of those lucky basterds.

If there is something you can't enter, then there will be born a legend about it. Everyone creates his or her vision of the basement and that is why we also created a very fictional basement in our map. We don't want to expose the secret now, do we :) ?

It takes two ... or more!

Mapping isn't just a labor for one person... well you could, but it would take you so much more time to built a map. The best way to map is to work with 2 or more. Originally the map idea was conceived by [SLUT] Paralysis, who gave us a whole self drawed map.

Starting from this drawing, we could start building the virtual map. As in a movie, it doesn't always turn out as you first thought. A lot of plans were changed or added. But the main idea still remains: stealing documents and secure them by first escorting a tank to blow up the castle main gate.

1 for the chapel, 2 for the show!

In the original planning, [SLUT] Syphilis was assigned to create a chapel where allied soldiers could spawn. It would be the very first close encounter with radiant for syphilis and it would be some tough nuts. Because of some scale problems we couldn't integrate it into the original map version as it was too small. After some advise, syphilis would bring us a larger and better version. Well both are correct, but another problem occured: it wasn't realistic.

It was up to manwhore to recreate a chapel that would match the real life chapel as it is in Meldert. After 72 hours of mapping, manhwore presented a pearl of a chapel!

original chapel by [SLUT] Syphilis on the left

chapel by [SLUT] manwhore (radiant view)

But because of the great atmosphere present in syphilis' chapel, we decided to give it a special place in the latest version of the Meldert Castle map. It's up to the player to find out where the party is going on!

Up next:

A new page will be added soon with all the live updates as our map is coming to an end! A launch date hasn't been set yet, but you can expect the map fall 2008 !!