Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-05-19 23:52
ye then you will most likely struggle to get your head around the texture pallets system as its very different from most other games.
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Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-05-19 23:56
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
Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-05-20 00:04
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
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
Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-05-20 00:19
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...Squaddie09 wrote: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.
Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-06-16 07:08
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 
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. Only finished one map before, a flat plain with two huge bases at either end. definitley not PR style, though .Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-06-17 01:48
Hello CRF,
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
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.[R-DEV]CodeRedFox wrote: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.
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
Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-06-17 04:14
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.
Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-06-17 13:36
OK, but still, as a new mapper, one would not expect me to finish a PR map quality standard map in 200 work hours.sCobra wrote: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.
Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-06-17 15:26
Hopefully this will get a few good maps into the fray for PR.
Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-06-17 16:27
first Rhino has to set it up. And that's if he has time, although I'm hoping he does.Smuke wrote:Hopefully this will get a few good maps into the fray for PR.
Re: Interested in a Mapping Contest?
Posted: 2009-06-20 21:45
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
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