Yes I am very familiar with the Random/Smooth combo. Funny story in fact. When this map was at maybe 10% WIP, I proceed to cover the entire 2km x2km with a smooth brush size of maybe 3-4. This took me two evenings(+12 hours) to complete this. This is the first time I have ever suffered hand pains from using a mouse. Anyways I then discover a "wall" on the last row of pixils on my map. No matter what I do I cannot lower this wall. Soon I am unable to compile the map in order to view the changes ingame. I spend the next 2 days(+16 hours) trying to package the map. Now remember I am still a total BF2Editor noob, so really I don't have a clue what is going on. I will say that this persistance of banging my head against this wall is what pushed me over the editor's "learning curve". Patience is more than a virtue and thinking things through before you execute them will save you many hours of pain when working with the editor.Remember - terrain deviation is your friend! small ditches and micro gradient changes especially in the dense wooded areas is what makes infantry combat so interesting I think in the woodlands.
totally agree.. always great to play out the storyline in your head..but dont actually worry too much about what the final layout will be asset wise..[R-DEV]CodeRedFox wrote:Just make a cool map worry about the other **** like factions and stuff later.
Yeah I re-read his post and didn't read it properly the first time at all. Russians flogging the Taliban as many AKs and RPGs to them as possible after being at war with the buggers seemed a little silly...Snazz wrote:^He may of been referring to the CIA funding the Mujahideen.
Any chance you can revive this link Rhino? I think this would help out a lot.Battlefield 2 Editor - Objects Directory: http://www.armoryclan.net/cpg143/index.php
Taliban was funded by the CIA. The US bought Soviet weapons from somewhere and shipped them to Pakistan, who shipped the weapons to the Muj. These militias could easily buy arms of the world market. It would be cool to see a faction with some legal, hunting/semi-auto rifles and those military rifles.Taliban funded by the Russians? I know they were pretty well funded by the USA and UK and probably a couple of others a fair while back, but Russia?
K:h:i :d :r:;1016212 wrote:That is a very long drive Iron Taxi. What felt longer, Northern Ontario or the Prairies?
I've done that trip a few time visiting family in Thunder Bay to Sault Ste Marie. Although similar, the inspiration for this map comes from BC in the Kootaneys.
Northern ontario by far is the worst.. I've driven it like 3 times now and it always suxs...
3 .as for LM : you can have the tunnel objects very dark while leaving objects over ground bright by simply generating LM for them with different settings .3. On a day map, can I get my tunnels and underground bunkers to be very dark/black except where the static light sources are? Or can you only achieve this effect on night maps?
4. Do the ambient statics( ex waterfalls, smoke plumes) lag up players at all? Should these be limited in numbers? If so what is a rough estimate?
Some of you might now that i played around with custom water lately, for those that don't: to keep it short i did some waterplanes on my own.1. Need the lightmap samples for Quinling Water plane.
CFR told me they would be included in the next release cycle but I don't know if he meant 0.86 or 0.9.
here you go: http://realitymodfiles.com/rhino/static ... es_LMS.rarK:h:i :d :r: wrote:1. Need the lightmap samples for Quinling Water plane.
CFR told me they would be included in the next release cycle but I don't know if he meant 0.86 or 0.9.
Good to know. I was going to try this but I was not sure if it would work. I will expand on this though.3 .as for LM : you can have the tunnel objects very dark while leaving objects over ground bright by simply generating LM for them with different settings .
change the settings so as to fit the tunnels for example then select all the tunnel objects that should be LMed dark , go to compile - generate LM - "trace selected" .
To make the terrain inside the tunnels darker than outside you probably have to play around with the GI fill intenisty ( turn it down ) in the terrain LMs.
I know about the destructible limit, what I wanted clarification on is whether the smoke/fire/water effects fall under the the same restrictions.4: you shouldnt have more than 350 dynamic obects on your map ( oncluding destr. ones) afaik. it will result in issues (ctd etc.) it does affect performance of course but not to a great extent ( afaik)
well it works either way... i dont see why it would be a bad idea to generate with different settings.'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;1016779']generating objects with separate settings is a bad idea... Just use GI lights to do most of your sky lighting, with a low GI fill intensity, this way anything above ground will be bright and anything far away from any light will be really dark.
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