First Strike Forums — Questions

Re: Questions

2010-04-05T11:05:41Z

Thanks for the quick reply.

I have moderate knowledge of bf2 editor (mainly mapping) I have spent ALOT of time making a map that I lost due to a HDD failure.

As for the models If you guys need an extra model or two I am willing to lend a hand. I can export from Maya to 3ds max... but I am not very good at UV mapping and texturing the models. Mainly because I found it very tedious and boring so never really spent a lot of time learning it.

Thanks...

Re: Questions

2010-04-05T10:53:22Z

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The game itself was actually made using Maya, however almost all modders use 3dsMax (I can't remeber if there was a particular reason; Possibly because the tools are better)
2
http://games.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ea-gam … elines.doc
3
The editor only has a couple of sizes for maps: (Number of grid squares per side)
256, 512, 1024
with scales: (Size of grid square)
1,2,4
If memory serves me at the very least scale 4 has issues, scale 2 is the only one I know to work properly, so the largest map size is 1024x2 which results in a 2048m x 2048m map

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If you are seriously interested in mapping, I suggest you download the official tutorials and read my Ultimate Mappers Tutorial: http://forums.fsmod.com/viewtopic.php?id=4060

Questions

2010-04-04T20:37:22Z

Question 1: Does this mod use maya or 3ds for moddeling? As I am pretty good with maya but I hate 3ds max.

Question 2 : What would the max polly count be for a vehicle/static?
(not a big fan of making weopons)

Question 3: What would the recommended map size be in terms of the size in the editor? no bigger than? no smaller than?

Thanks...

P.s. Im sure I caould think of some more Q's but that will do for now.