This update includes realistic water, doors on all buildings, updated textures, a larger docking bay for the space station,
and a complete rebuild of the underwater base on Igom.

Due to lag and graphics glitches, the lights on the space station no longer flash.

It is also re-compiled to be fully compatible with the new Source engine.


IMPORTANT: If water or metallic surfaces lag you very badly, you should turn down the video setting for reflections.
The reflections from the water and most of the metallic textures in the map require large amounts of graphics processing.

Some images:

spawn planet:


Under water base:








space station door opening;


space station:

My opinion is that the planets should be very larger than they currently are.

The spawn planet is the biggest planet model there is. So is Igom and Anaua.

Nice Looks good. Works well with spacbuild and finally has building on a space build map. I think it is also good because spacebuild maps take alot of time and effort.

Great job.

Oh good! One of my favorite space build maps, and now it's even better!

Cool.

Fantastic, downloading now, nice work kamekazi !

I played an erlier version of this map on a server in the internet. There wasn't any gravity in space.
What must one do to make space deadly and without gravity?



Edit: Why is that something that deserves a Zing!. I really want to know

Awesome work. Was playing this earlier and the water-planet is much better, now. I do, however, have a few requests.

I noticed in the first version of space-build, it seems like you had more planets.. Or at least, more content. I was wondering if we could get some more planetary bases, like the first version.

In addition, I was wondering if we could get some more use out of the asteroids?

Thanks!

Performance can be a big issue on spacebuild maps. Huge planets would make them unplayable.

Awesome map by the way, probably my favourite spacebuild map.

I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but whenever any props go into space, I get this:


They constantly flash the spawning texture, making it impossible to see through glass props. On planets, its fine.

that's because of the heat feature, there rapidly cooling down and being damaged, that was an addition to CDS, you need to use a space shield to keep the props from being damaged.

Yeah.. Space shields are located under CDS Tech.

There is more content than there was in the first version. Go back and look at it then look at this one.

...Or you could just turn it off with CDS_adaptivetemp 0 or something like that.

Cool I needed a new space build map!

Can you upload this somewhere else the GMod.org? It's dreadfully slow right now.

Nice, but it seems that when I look in the direction of Igom, I lag bad. I'm not sure if it's Igom, the space station, or the purple room. I've had the lag issue with the purple room before, so could that be it?

Whenever I go underwater, it get the black-and-purple 'missing texture' chessboard on the surface of the water and everything goes incredibly bright sometimes--any fix?

Some of the brushwork is utterly horrible, other than that good job :) I also have the pink and black checker board underwater as well.

I was talking about space_war v.1, but then I just realized that was made by a different person.

Possibly because this is the first map that has a space station or someone could just be going around giving random users different ratings.

Um.. not true. SB_Gooniverse has had a space station since it was released in June, last year.
Edit:
Just sayin'..

Yes, but Gooniverse's space station is made of PHX props and lags people like crazy.

Actually, it's one prop, one physics object (something like that). It just uses a texture that makes it look like PHX props. But I agree, it does lag like crazy. But so does the space station on this map.. and you can't delete it.

Very nice, I like how the space station is laid out. Nice and simple, but effective :)

Also, having a raised platform on the starting planet is very handy. I tend to build without hoverballs so having a bit of height when first launching gives me an extra boost when first taking off.

you can disassemble the gooniverse station, it is many props pasted together in hammer.

I also have that problem with this map as well as with sb_gooniverse. You and I seem to be having a lot of the same problems.

meh...Garrysmod.org is such a hopeless file host. Like consistent 6-20 kbps downloads from them.

I really love the map, the planets are brilliant the underwater base is brilliant and I think the space station is the best available!!!
I just have one request please:

Could you release a model for the space station so I can use it other places please?

Thanks a bunch,
Dany

your internet connections sucks. I get a normal speed of 1MB per sec

the gooniverse station is made of individual props, you can move and collide with each.

if I ever get around to making another space map I will include a station with fewer polygons so it shouldn't lag.

Edit:

Sorry I cannot make a space station model because it is made of brushes.

Hey... erm.... the download won't unzip for me, is there any other place I can get this?

Nice, but if it is not too late, Could you make a version without the water on spawn planet? thank you in advance.

The new version is done. I will make a new thread for it as gm_Spacewar_v3.
it has dx7 water on the ocean planet(Igom) to stop the major fps drop there.
the spawn room no longer has a window to stop RSO errors at login.

Oh God, you mean cheap water?

yes, cheap water, but now the water is gone, many admins and players wanted the water removed due to huge fps drop.

do i need a high performance pc to play this cuz im right on the border of being able to play gmod at all

Please note that this map is coming up on two years old now. That note about performance was probably for those who had made the switch to the Episode 2 engine and found several gmod maps unplayable. If your computer meets the system requirements for Episode 2, then you shouldn't have too many problems on this map, any more than you'll have with playing gmod with minimum requirements.

You should also consider using this map: http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=30097
It is a more recent version.

I don't have episode 2. I just have half life 2. I guess I don't have to worry about that aymore I am getting more RAM, a better CPU, and a larger hard drive and I will be getting the new version of this map so never mind

Edited:

I think you just have a slow computer cuz my gmod.org is goin pretty fast

quite good map. I like it