Creating a Danger Zone Map

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Danger Zone is a fast-paced battle royale game mode built on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's tactical gameplay where players use their wits, skill, and resources to fight to the finish. Featuring solo or team play.

Warning:  For a map to function correctly, it needs to have a dz_ prefix, with game_mode set to 0 and game_type set to 6.

Note:Valve has released no documentation about this game mode and everything is researched by players.

Basic requirements for a DZ map

• trigger_survival_playarea

See dedicated page of this entity for more information.

Warning: This brush needs to be at least 13440x13440 units big, if not the game will crash upon deploying. Recommended size is 16384x16384.

Warning: The recommended footprint of a dz map is 20480x20480 units, combined with a trigger_survival_playarea sized 16384x16384.2

The footprint of the map must be made of a solid texture (nodraw or skybox will not work).

Using other sizes for the map footprint or the trigger_survival_playarea may cause the tablet overlays to become misaligned.

• point_dz_weaponspawn

These should be scattered around the map, there needs to be some distance between these otherwise they might fail to spawn.

Warning: Not having enough of these can result in game crash upon deploying. Numbers that are verified to work are 41 and 321.

A single point_dz_weaponspawn is enough to prevent the game from crashing upon deployment. It is however common that no item will spawn from this point_dz_weaponspawn. This method may be useful for playtesting the map early on in development, before loot locations are decided upon.

Fundamental Entities

• info_gascanister_launchpoint

Point entity to specify location where gas canisters should launch from.

• info_map_region

Point entity for setting the name of a map region to display.

• point_dz_dronegun

Point entity for spawning drone guns.

• point_dz_parachute

Point entity for spawning a parachute upgrade.

• func_hostage_rescue

A trigger volume for hostage rescue zone.

• func_tablet_blocker

A trigger volume that disables Tablets when players are inside of it.

• game_survival_logic

An entity that will fire outputs when events happen during Survival Mode. For example playing ambient_generic after missiles launch.

Note:This entity is not required for the map to work.

• trigger_survival_playarea

A trigger volume that defines the bounds of the survival play area.

• dz_door

Point entity that acts samely to prop_door_rotating, but can be locked and set up with prop_counter and point_dz_weaponspawn to create a door that requires money to unlock.

Note:How to set up this entity correctly is documented on page dedicated to this entity. Quick Link

• point_dz_weaponspawn

Point entity that acts as spawn point for various survival entities.

Note:What kind of entities this creates is specified below.

Entities spawned by point_dz_weaponspawn

Warning: Placing these manually in Hammer can lead to undesirable effects!

• func_survival_c4_target

Safe with money.

• prop_weapon_upgrade_chute

Parachute backpack.

• prop_weapon_upgrade_tablet_zoneintel

Tablet upgrade that shows next safe zone.

• prop_weapon_upgrade_tablet_droneintel

Tablet upgrade that shows drones and their trace.

• prop_weapon_upgrade_tablet_highres

Tablet upgrade that improves zone precision.

• prop_weapon_upgrade_contractkill

Contract to kill a player that will reward $500.

• prop_weapon_upgrade_armor_helmet

Armor and Helmet.

• prop_money_crate

Bag with money.

• prop_metal_crate

Metal crate with SMG weapons.

• prop_loot_crate

Can be various crates, utility, explosives, pistols, melees.

• prop_ammo_box_generic

Ammo box.

• item_cash

Stack of banknotes.

• dronegun

Drone turret.

• hostage_entity

A hostage.

Limiting area where players can deploy

Spawnmask texture used for Blacksite

This is controlled by a png that needs to be located in csgo/maps/ with name format dz_mapname_spawnmask. It should represent an overview of the map, where black filled areas block deploy points.

Adding overview image for tablet

Tablet overview image of Blacksite

This is controlled by a vtf texture that needs to be located in csgo/materials/models/weapons/v_models/tablet/ with name format tablet_radar_dz_mapname

Note: A vmt is not needed.

Note: The tablet overview image is not same as map overview image, it needs to be roughly 30%(?) smaller in order to line up with the world.

To do:  Figure out how to get tablet overview lined up with actual map.

Adding overview image for deployment selection

Deployment overview image of Blacksite

This is controlled by a png that needs to be located in csgo/materials/panorama/images/survival/spawnselect/ with name format map_dz_mapname.

Prefabs

• Working dz_ map template by Zool.