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Port Arctica (Recent: V0.99, last update: Apr-03)
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grand_diablo
March 20, 2004, 5:50 pm
Another DM map from me. Now waypointed.

PORT ARCTICA
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Screenshot: www.marketzone.de/files/PortArctica.jpg
Download: www.marketzone.de/files/PortArctica.PMS
Scenery Files: www.marketzone.de/files/PortArctica_scenery.zip

Setting: Around a port somewhere in a northern country, the slightly enlighted horizon announces the upcoming summertime.

Have fun [:)]

EDIT: New version V0.99 online now.

Changelog (V0.95 > V0.99)
- Fixed one polybug
- rounden up some places
- removed the platform that was put in in the first update. Created another one left from it
- Added new scenery, for example: the rock now divides the beach into 2 areas
- heightened the ground at the beach a bot
Please redownload the scenery file with the map


Changelog (V0.9 > V0.95)
- Fixed one polybug
- Fixed one "jumpy" place
- Removed one edge on a hill to make it possible to run it up
- Added new platform, that now splits the right "cave" entrance into 2 little tunnels (to prevent long range camping through the tunnel). See screenshot.
- Added bot waypoints. Bots are too silly to make it through one path, they tend to hang on some places. But if you activate enough of the bots, they will do some nice battling on the beach and other places.
- Darkened the water bitmap (_water.bmp). Redownload the scenery-file to get the new one.

Sprocket
March 20, 2004, 5:54 pm
i only download waypointed maps... sorry

Deleted User
March 20, 2004, 6:15 pm
I love the style of your maps. :D

Hercule Poirot
March 20, 2004, 7:00 pm
kewl map starting to like em ^^

Deleted User
March 20, 2004, 8:02 pm
I loved glowing dawn, and I love this too, but I would like it waypointed [:(]. I'll download it when someone does it.

Sprocket
March 20, 2004, 8:12 pm
i cant do it, i'm a lousy waypointer...

grand_diablo
March 20, 2004, 8:13 pm
quote:Originally posted by Stalky
I loved glowing dawn, and I love this too, but I would like it waypointed [:(]. I'll download it when someone does it.


*quoting myself*
What i want to add in the next version:
- enhance some polys and fix poly bugs
- maybe some background rework
- bot waypoints

means: I WILL do it, the next version will be waypointed [;)]

grand_diablo
March 20, 2004, 9:02 pm
New version 0.95 online now. For changes, see title posting. Have fun :)

Sprocket
March 20, 2004, 9:30 pm
good work, man.
will download it now...

Hitman
March 21, 2004, 12:37 am
Yay, another map! Not as good as your other one though, but still good. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

..Lol, funny how you've got an installer for just two bits of scenery.

MisterX
March 21, 2004, 1:41 am
I didn't download it, but it looks as good as glowing_dawn. as said before, nice style :)
and what about a version 2 like with glowing_dawn, where you can walk on the platform where the lighthouse stands, and maybe the lighthouse being a solid building?

grand_diablo
March 21, 2004, 2:29 am
quote:Originally posted by MisterX
what about a version 2 like with glowing_dawn, where you can walk on the platform where the lighthouse stands, and maybe the lighthouse being a solid building?


mmh, thats not a good idea, cause it would ruin the perspektive, as you see that the cliff+lighthouse are far in the distance [:)]

but this map isnt finished yet, stay tuned for some new inventions (maybe) :P

Holden
March 21, 2004, 3:26 pm
More like a painting than a map...very nicely done!

N1nj@
March 21, 2004, 10:58 pm
I don't see the big scenery on the map when I play, it happens in glowing_dawn and this map too:

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Hitman
March 21, 2004, 11:09 pm
This might sound stupid, but you know there is a separate download for the scenery...

N1nj@
March 22, 2004, 1:10 am
Ya, it does sound stupid :D

And I already have the sceneries installed in the scenery-gfx folder.

Inquisitor
March 22, 2004, 9:15 pm
lol. look at ville mk. 2 's avatar

Deleted User
March 22, 2004, 10:48 pm
Yay, thanks Grand Diablo! Love your maps, gotta go try this one now [:D]

grand_diablo
March 27, 2004, 3:51 pm
Now that ive got my pc back after a total hdd crash last sunday, ill soon start mapping again, and of course ill improve Port Arctica.

Good to be back, by the way :)

Sprocket
March 27, 2004, 3:57 pm
welcome, what's you're next project ?

grand_diablo
March 27, 2004, 8:31 pm
quote:Originally posted by Sprocket
welcome, what's you're next project ?


at first ill improve port arctica, i dont know yet what will come next. those maps are made out of spontaneus ideas, i cant "plan" them days before [;)]

DrocK
March 28, 2004, 7:09 am
creative and original gj

N1nj@
March 28, 2004, 7:14 am
quote:Originally posted by N1nj@
I don't see the big scenery on the map when I play, it happens in glowing_dawn and this map too:

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fine dont help me

DrocK
March 28, 2004, 7:45 am
Ehmm for me it works fine.. N1nj@
download the Scenery Files from www.marketzone.de/files/PortArctica_scenery.exe extract them to "whatever your hardrive is":\Soldat\Sparks-gfx
and it should work, i think i'm answering your problem i dont know maybe is something else but thats all i can say
good luck
peaz

N1nj@
March 28, 2004, 6:41 pm
I did have the sceneries installed, that's why you would see those thingys on the land...

grand_diablo
March 28, 2004, 11:19 pm
quote:Originally posted by N1nj@
I did have the sceneries installed, that's why you would see those thingys on the land...


I have actually no idea, what is causing this problem on some systems.

You could try one thing:
open the _Parcticabg.bmp in your scenery folder with a pic-editing tool of your choice and save it again as a standard bmp file. Maybe this will solve it.

grand_diablo
April 2, 2004, 11:39 pm
A new version is online now, i improved the map with severall additions/modifications. For changelog, see main posting.

New screenshot is available too.

Have fun :)