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Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2007-08-06T15:11:16Z

ive never played 1942

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2007-07-26T17:21:22Z

I didn't really like the BF1942 mapping tools. I gave me no sense of scale, so I ended up making my small village about the size of New York. laaaag almighty

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2007-02-04T18:05:34Z

FSDev| General Un-Co wrote:

TY2D2 wrote:
a community mapper?
lol, do you really think one of the 'community mappers,' of whom I think Canadiens is the only one, Can make a map this phenominally difficult, that requires the largest staic ever made for a bf game, by theirself....
If they could do that properly by them selves, that person would have definately found their way onto the team by now.

I actually agree with this. BF1942 mapping was a lot more accessible to people who had an investigative streak in them, but 2142 isn't looking great from an accessibility stand point right now.

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2007-02-02T00:11:47Z

And ISD Judicator.

This was discussed at length over at that other mod's forums, and the conclusion was that it'd be a hard feat to accomplish. I think it could be done, though, and if it could, it'd be awesome. I think it'd play like the original Death Star I map (still in that other mod), only the "trench" would be a totally enclosed tunnel and there should probably be more than one (for game-play's sake).

If the surface of the DS was made vertical so that the tunnels were more or less horizontal, I suppose it could work nicely. It'd make for a very different type of map indeed.

I picture fighter pile-ups in the tunnels and dogfights in the main reactor .

[View distance]

I don't mind short view distances. We'd be in twisting, winding tunnels and wouldn't notice it the least. Same as with ISD Judicator - 90% of the time you were in some enclosed corridor with lots of corners.

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2006-12-09T16:33:56Z

remember sea_rigs from DC (BF1942). That was a huge static.

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2006-12-09T14:22:04Z

Wouldn't you then crash into walls? Or will it be WIDE tunnels which then would not be like the actual Death Star(remembers only about four ships fit side by side which would make it far too difficult to make a turn).

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2006-12-09T14:18:35Z

You don't have to make the whole deathstar.

If you made the end of the tunnels a death zone, then people couldn't get out.

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2006-12-09T07:34:41Z

You NEVER KNOW.

*I was actually thinking what you said after I posted that but I decided not to edit it out*

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2006-12-09T06:34:46Z

TY2D2 wrote:

a community mapper?

lol, do you really think one of the 'community mappers,' of whom I think Canadiens is the only one, Can make a map this phenominally difficult, that requires the largest staic ever made for a bf game, by theirself....

If they could do that properly by them selves, that person would have definately found their way onto the team by now.

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2006-12-09T04:57:17Z

Yea it doesn't really have to be THAT many peices to hte tunnel.. could be alternating peices, or pieces that fit like a puzzle in different configs.... The Core, that would be really hard to do though... Because its massive. Plus the surface... Hopefully one day you guys can pull it off... if not then a community mapper?

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2006-12-09T01:56:35Z

Its very much possible with clever tunnel setup and lod settings .... Im pretty sure I could pull it off ..would be quite a while from now tho.

Re: 2nd Death Star Trench Map

2006-12-09T01:31:51Z

There's a couple impossibilities to overcome before we attempt something like that. Firstly, I don't think the map would be complete unless we had a large surface area the imps could defend over. And given that it's an incredibly high amount of statics to build a tunnel then we can't have the view distance that great. And with a short viewdistance how do we render the large plates that make up the surface?

It'll take a lot of mapping genius to overcome the obstacles posed by trying to put something so huge into the BF engine. That said, I'd love to give it a try! Though only after we've gotten the mod out the door.

2nd Death Star Trench Map

2006-12-08T22:00:23Z

This is a rather ambitious map, and should thus be left to the end of development if made, but a map set within the narrow tunnels of the second DS would be incredibly fun, if simply for th navigational hazard.