Interested in a Mapping Contest?

[Rhino]

ye then you will most likely struggle to get your head around the texture pallets system as its very different from most other games.

[Squaddie09]

do you possibly know of any good tutorials to help us out with this? Id like to get a bit more involved here by creating a few 3d models and stuff, so will be more than willing to learn a thing or two

[Rhino]

there really isn't any static tuts out there tbh.

How ever you can learn a little from these ones:

Very Basic static creation tut: Creating Your First Static In Max / Gmax - Official BF Editor Forums

UVing tut in a simliar manner to how you UV to static texture pallets: Uvmapping - The Other Way Around (56k Warning!) - Official BF Editor Forums

Texturing statics tut (not sure how good this one is): Texturing BF2 StaticMeshes

BF2 Texture Layers Video tut (not sure how good this one is): 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download tutorial_BF2layers.zip

gl, if you have any more questions make a new topic as this is going a little offtopic now

[Tonnie]

I have modeled, textured, animated and uved stuff, but never exported for use in bf2. I have only ever created works for Total war games and for stuff at college and personal use. I will pick it up easily though (hopefully) as I already have a good grasp with 3ds max and photoshop and several techniques when it comes to coding and scripting.

Mate theres more to statics then you may think.... I mean i am trying to get my head round most of it, also sqauddie if you find a good tut on let me know coz i have been looking for one now for ages...

[A_Mosquito]

I've used the standard Bf2 Editor before, and would be interested in making PR maps, if only for fun . Only finished one map before, a flat plain with two huge bases at either end. definitley not PR style, though .

[wuschel]

Hello CRF,

When I was working on Korengal I had taken 3 months off of work. I worked everyday 8+hours. I started Korengal March 08 and didn't complete it until August 2008 (0.8 release). And this was for a 1km map. For a first time mapper I would expect 3-5 months to complete a map working 8 hours a day.

Just some food for thought. Your experience may vary as I'm kinda of a perfectionist sometimes. This is in no way to deter you from trying as having people play on your map is a great thing to experience.

thank You for this information. I wondered how long it would take to make a map for this game with a such high quality: ~ 720 hours.

Even if I would dedicate 1 hour per day, that would still be two years of making a map. Allmost unbelievable ... but also a very strong argument not to start such an endeavour if one is not absolutely certain. And it is a margin for the standard of PR maps.

Regards,

Gibbon-6

[sCobra]

codered also puts a lot of detail into a map to make it look nice, whereas you could make a good map that works well and is fun, and add pretty things in a later version.

[wuschel]

codered also puts a lot of detail into a map to make it look nice, whereas you could make a good map that works well and is fun, and add pretty things in a later version.

OK, but still, as a new mapper, one would not expect me to finish a PR map quality standard map in 200 work hours.

[Smuke]

Hopefully this will get a few good maps into the fray for PR.

[azreal64]

Hopefully this will get a few good maps into the fray for PR.

first Rhino has to set it up. And that's if he has time, although I'm hoping he does.

[Rhino]

Cheers for all the votes guys. Although there was many more people it looks from the poll results interested in this potential contest I doubt I will be running one due to some things that have come up in r/l so we will have to see.

Cheers again for the input and I wouldn't fully rule this out from not happening, I might find some time or someone else might run it