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Hey all.

Well, I know this has been done before, but it doesn't look like anyone's posted a map up *looks behind shoulder*. IKL Dead Man and I thought we were the first to do it, but we aren't sure. So don't go pointing fingers.

All that aside, we've made a map where you can freely move about the outer boundaries of Sandbox with no worries. The map is clean and clear of clutter, and ready to be forged on. It also comes with a nice little description =).

The outside of Sandbox can be used for a number of things, but the most interesting one that came to our minds was night maps. For the first time, you can have a completley darkened area, totally open to do what you will with. The center of the map is still lit, but the outer edges are quite dark when Gloomy is on.

Anyways, how you guys forge it isn't up to me. Here are a few example screenshots:

Download Sand-Blasted

They're on vacation.

Almost at the invisible walls.

Those dunes are HUGE.

The map really does get pitch black with the Gloomy filter on.

Ok, well, thats it! Thanks much to IKL Dead Man. Without his help, we wouldn't have figured this out. Hope you all enjoy.

Question: How did you do this?

Answer: We overloaded the map with trip mines, then placed teleporters outside of the map around each tower, and save/quit Y-Intersection Tubes on the tower's guns. We had one tower that was quite the bitch, and we had to use extra resources on, because it wouldn't let us get close enough to put it directly on the gun. It was a pain in the proverbial ass.

EDIT: Sorhan posted up another blocked map that has all the original Sandbox objects on it. For those of you so interested, here's the link.

http://www.forgehub.com/forum/halo-forge-maps/58955-laser-blocking.html