Concept

A GUI application for automatically downloading & updating maps from l4dmap{s,db}.com

Features

• Update & Maintain map directories

• Show popular maps
• Bug reports for glitchy maps

  • Puts quality control symbols beside each map (egs: smiley face, yield sign, & burning wreck)

• Enable/disable any of the maps with ./-boxes

• Launch L4D2, or find/create games with specific maps

  • Show ping!!!

Which Toolkit to Use?

UI Possibilities:

• L4D2 Interface Mod

• OpenGL
• Clutter
• Java
• Python QT
• Python GTK
• Ruby QT
• Ruby GTK
• JRuby JNative

Better ability to see the map & structure

Show the user a 3d blueprint of the level (introversion style). Choice areas of the level will be coloured/filled-in. If you hover them, or click them, it'll stream a vidcapped panning camera for that area. (Assuming vidcapping is easy... otherwise screenshots can do.)

• Could a video be rendered from specific angles to allow the rotation of the blueprint to be synchronized with the video, so it looks like the cube is full of ground, trees, zombies, etc? (Maybe removing the sky and such, so it doesn't block the view.)