can someone please test out this map and perhaps give me some ideas to make it better?

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Download ctf_darktranq_v102.rar

Update: Ive made some graphics for this map "arena3"

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Download Arena3_PR2.rar (3mb)

Update 2: heres a new one.. ctf_Plains
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Download ctf_Plains .zip (~2MB)

wow... this looks awesome... CTF, right? wouldn't do good in DM or such!..

Its 20 MB at the moment though! any ideas on hosting?

holy [CENSORED].. :OOO 20 megs??

um add me to msn m00rox@gmail.com i can upload it manually for you if you send it to me :)

what!? 20mb!? how can that be possible.
the thumbnail link doesn't work by the way. :x
and the layout seems to be nice. :D

how can we test it if theres no link? and by putting my face all into the screen to see the little thumbnail, I can tell it looks pretty sweet :D

Rapid Development in progress:

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sweet... is it a picture in front and polygons under?

Nope, almost though ;)

If you want to drastically reduce the size of a bmp file, you can, providing you know your way around a image-editor like Jasc's Paint Shop Pro. I won't go into holding-hands detail though.


1. Load the bmp into the programme, then save it as a .gif file. Optimize the .gif before saving to determine the max amount of colours used; experiment with this to find a mix between image quality and size.

2. Load the gif image into the programme, then save it as a BMP file again. Optimize the BMP file to 'RLE', or 'Run Length Encoding' . This process will cut the image down by a possible 4/5th's or more, depending on the complexity of the image.



By doing this, I managed to get this map.....

http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/topic.php?topic_id=26093


..down from 66mb's, to 1mb. Map's bigger than ctf_run, yet 'completely' covered in custom scenery. More a feat in map-engineering than a map that's designed for playability though :|

i will buy 500 of those maps right now :P it looks good, could be for an exclusive clan so that only peopel who downloaded before hand can play it :P. great screeny

Thanks for the tip, ill give it a bash. map is finished and just doing some internal testing :)

or try .tga file type.

It is supported by soldat, and is much smaller.


EDIT:

Hmm...
I figured this one out by looking at the texture file...
Also look for a missing poly (it's buggy ingame) at the
right part (middle )

ZOMFG!!!!
thats amazing :o

thanks :)

Respect to m00 for the hosting!

m00 be the most fly nigga in dis ghetto dawg
downloading... downloading :P
Wow thats pretty damn good, do more and make a pack. and have a go in some of the comps goin around

hey its only 7 megs lol i thoguht it would be 20 :P

anyho good job on uploading it :D

Check out the new map post#1

Any ideas on gameplay improvements and stuff?

wow great new map :)

i dont really know about the gameplay but these maps would really look good to advertise soldat or somthing :p

w00t i LOVE it!!! it's just...WOW! Amazing! Awesome! Greeeaaaat!!! n1!!!
I'm just
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of it's beauty!!!

Can someone tell me how to get bots to work? i dont see much bot related stuff in the polyworks program.

there is nonein pw
only mm and mm+
me and keron would gladly waypoint for you :P

I'm better.

:-P
I love the maps. PW will have wypt. support in the next version but there's no point if you can't work 'em in MM or MM+ as they'll be the exact same (just with more features; that's all).

true :P
but i'm a better mapper :P

Did you just take a screenshot of the map and photoshop it, then put it over the polygons?

i thinke he made the map, took a screenshot and went over it...

No, I think that's all possible to see in-game.

@semagae: maps are pointless without wypts. :-D

... so?
i do both decently :P

i DIDN'T make the Arena3 map, so i cannot take any of the credit for that.
i did make ctf_darktranq though.

Basically i took a screenshot of the map polys for arena3 and then made the image to fit.
For ctf_darktranq i simply made the image first then built polys over it.

Shouldnt there already be waypoints for arena3? seeing its one of the default maps that comes with soldat as far as i know...

From the screenshots, that looks awesome. What else can I say? GJ

yeah keron is king ping when it coems to waypointing. let him do it. your maps are so beutiful. its almost art.

These maps look really cool, they give the game a different feel.

quote:Originally posted by Dumbo... Shouldnt there already be waypoints for arena3? seeing its one of the default maps that comes with soldat as far as i know...

Whoever said it lacked wypts.? Whoever said those wypts. were good? :-D :-D :-D

i opened arena3 (new one) and there were no waypoints...

Im workin on some more stuff, stability problems have caused me to lose some of it though :S

:O
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Noes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111
lol
Figured out a way to half the file size for the win.