Thin Ice - Prepared assault Bomb/Defuse & Hostage rescue
by CMG Lee (cmg_lee@yahoo.com)

csde_thinice is a sniper-friendly defusion/rescue map set in a
symmetrical winter park.  Cross a frozen pond with slippery brittle
ice, swim the icy depths or take the land route to the ice castle.
Scouts, submachine-guns, shotguns & assorted items abound.  If there
is demand, I'll let players buy (though AWP is too powerful here).

Features:

1. Thin ice
    Dark patches shatter with any pressure (unless crouched) while
    lighter ones break when shot.  Victims fall into a freezing
    underwater cavern with limited exits.

2. Long-jump module
    A Half-life power-up in the igloo puts springs in your boots!

3. New hostage skins
    Had enough of lab coats & jumpsuits?  Try my menagerie of sorts.

4. New textures
    Tired of as_tundra textures, I Photoshop'd some of my own &
    borrowed a few trees from tree.spr (added snow on the leaves).

5. Slush
    Patches of soft snow let players hide & ambush the enemy.

6. Falling snow
    Check out this low-poly way of rendering snowfall!


Installation:

Unzip csde_thinice.bsp & csde_thinice.txt into your cstrike\maps
and csde_thinice.wad into your cstrike\ directories.  To modify the
map, unzip csde_thinice.map (Worldcraft) or csde_thinice.qkm (Quark).

Bugs:

1. The tiny icebergs were originally floating func_pushables that
   could be pushed around to form stepping stones, but they floated
   too high & flew out of the water when pushed against the wall.
   What parameters should I set for proper behaviour?
2. Players in slush should experience white-out (like being flash-
    banged) until they get out.  Does anyone know how to do this?
3. Because trees are made of intersecting "rectangles", transparent
    parts are actually solid & block players/bullets/grenades.

Credits:

1. MYGO pals for betatesting
2. tree.spr creator for some tree textures
3. Link for his ingenious suggestions (bergs, slush & cold damage)


Being my first attempt at an "organic" map & trees, csde_thinice
has much room for improvement.  Feel free to modify or reuse my
map & wad.  Send me a link to your masterpiece.  Enjoy :-)