First Strike Forums — I had forgotten how fun this was

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-18T22:59:10Z

The only housing the whole map, the rest will be tiny bunkers and check points and such.
I don't know what else to fill the garden with, but I think I'll raise the terrain under the tree and rocks a bit and play with different textures.

The bomb crater. I've added more wrecks (a pickup, a car, and some crates strewn about, as well as a destroyed APC) after taking this screenshot.

New and improved provisional air base. I'll either remove the Igla AA or consider making it impossible to use (static or something), if I can get around to editing vehicles as well as tinkering with the map editor.

Apologize for horrid picture quality.

Overview, showing Gas Station, BH Bunker, Clothesline Fortification, and the Bombed-out Convoy.

Got to move those vehicles about a bit so it doesn't look like the last one was hit by the bomb (it'd have been obliterated had that been a direct hit, I'm sure).

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-18T22:23:54Z

Minimap

If you think the layout is strange, it's because this map never was never intended to actually have one - it was, as said, only a practice run to get to know the editor .

Some notes:
- The road continues off the map in the south, it just doesn't look that way on the map.
- The brown line denotes a forest trail.
- The grey area that unintentionally looks like a phallus is a valley/canyon. At the end of the canyon is a plateau with a tank in an Improved Position and not much else.
- As was said, I plan to make everything but the canyon forest, once I get acquainted with the Undergrowth and Overgrowth.
- There is currently a transport heli and a J-10 on the map. These are there only for exploration purposes, and neither will be there once the map is done, unless I can turn them into statics or make it impossible to enter them for both teams or something.

More screens coming up.

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-18T11:20:53Z

Placing down a few statics and a road makes me a monster? Haven't seen Zyth's lastest work, have you ?

lol Generate a minimap and upload it here

You are apparently badly envious of my MSPaint skillz.

Minimap coming up. Not much to render yet, though.

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-18T05:18:50Z

What kind of monster have you created , Ty ?

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-18T04:25:04Z

You need to put ends onto all your sandbag walls!

lol Generate a minimap and upload it here

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-17T23:29:57Z

Gas Station. The chopper is just there to allow me to quickly explore the map. I'll probably replace it with a wreck static when the map is done.

Anyone for a game of chess?

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-17T23:10:13Z

Aaaaaanyways, when Luke is done discussing my miniskirt, perhaps, as Ty says, we can go back on topic ?

Ty: It's really my third or so map, but it's my first map in the sense that it is the first time I've done more than crack open the editor, making a few hills, tripping over the unintuivite UI of the editor, and leaving in a state of utter confusion laced with frustration after two minutes of editing .

The map started as me running through the tutorial over at the Bfeditor Wiki. I expected this to be just another mocking-about map where I went through the editor and got to know the basics, but it's grown on itself to the point where I'm actually considering making a map out of it. It features some few trees, a road cutting through it north-south, the Black Hawk wreck, the forest fire base above, a large canyon/valley with a plateau/overlook CP with a tank, and a gas station and a couple houses. It could conceivably be finished as a playable map at some point, right now I'm just playing around trying to fill it with details. I want some more hidden bunkers and I'm trying to figure out how to use under- and overgrowth to fill the map with trees and foliage.

Current state, trademark Safe-Keeper MSPaint style:

It's a tiny map, size 256 if I remember correctly, though it seems a bit big for it.

If you're still curious, I can e-mail what I have to you.

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-17T22:43:12Z

Mr. tooty-too , youre speaking to me ?
(looks down, way down to see him )

yea , it wasnt about pink skirts , but that softer side of mapping touches my feminine side.

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-17T22:26:00Z

Luke how about you stay on topic and stop making ridiculous comments about the color of the cloths...

Safe is this your first map? And do you have a plan for it/minimap drawn up.

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-17T15:17:36Z

Luke SkyRaper wrote:

Is that Your pink mini-skirt hanging out to dry ? cute !

Maybe it's a scotish regiment and the kilt was washed with a new red jacket ?

But i like the setting...

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-16T00:27:26Z

One cammo latex mini-skirt comming up !

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-15T15:02:57Z

Make me a clothesline with Army-issue underwear or stop griping.

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-15T14:01:53Z

Is that Your pink mini-skirt hanging out to dry ? cute !

Re: I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-15T12:10:04Z

A distance from the wreck bunker, the Reds have built a fire base and supply storage.
To the hot place with camouflage, these guys fend off air attack with Middle Kingdom macho:

Before you ask, I have no idea why I placed the sandbags facing outwards.

I really liked having the fuel dump where it was, but I had to put down more sandbags to keep
American flank attacks at bay, and having flammables right behind you in a firefight
can put you at a bit of a disadvantage.

So it got moved back to within pissing range of the parked armoured patrol car, the storage crates and the clothesline.

Again, nothing breathtaking, but I felt like posting it for some reason anyway. When the editor doesn't crash, decide to do something strange for some inexplicable reason, or spew out endless lines of red text even though it should have learned by now that I'll just ignore it like I'm supposed to... it's not that bad at all. Pretty fun, really.

URLs:
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r292 … lling1.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r292 … lling2.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r292 … lling4.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r292 … lling5.jpg

I had forgotten how fun this was

2008-07-15T12:03:38Z

OK, so I finally got around to download and set up the BF2 editor. I'm a long-time RTS scenario designer, and used to be a member of Woad Creations, which was a renowned design team making scenarios for Stronghold, Age of Empires I and II, Empire Earth, E:DOTW, and other games. Funnily enough, I'd forgotten how much I love to make maps, but now it all came back to me.

Nothing spectacular so far, but I'm learning more and more each day.

You're out and about in the woods with some sheets of wood and a shovel, and you find a Black Hawk wreck.
What's a guy to do? Use the dead bird as a makeshift bunker ceiling, of course!

Maybe Control Point flags aren't meant to be rotated. It was back in its upright position the next time I uploaded the map, anyhow.

What else should I put in the damned hole? I'm tired of putting crates everywhere, and the flower pot doesn't fit.
I wish BF2 came with more furniture.

Pretty much finished. Added the Black Hawk's door and some sandbags outside for additional protection,
and another chopped-down tree over the hull for added camouflage. The Commies will never find us here !