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OH also, you probobly know this already but, the wampa cave has no lowrez geometry and such so i had a hard time finding it.

Thank you, I'll see if I can add lowrez to it.

New screens of progress so far.
Edit: Major problem getting the ATTE sounds working.

ive also had that problem before, but im sure youll figure it out. the heavy trooper looks nice btw, and so does the droid's explosion.

Thanks. I'm really happy with the heavy trooper. I just took out the transperancy from the shocktrooper.msh for the imp_inf_trooper_pack.tga by hex-editing it, which someone had previously changed. The original model didn't have transparency on it. In the beta you can clearly see the shadow from the invisible pack. I previously added the cape as well, so it looks a lot better now.

Edit: I now have BFX Clone War era support added.

awesome!, this is turning out well.

Jendo7 wrote:Edit: I now have BFX Clone War era support added.

Any chance of Dark Times?

Unfortunately I've had a problem with localization issues, as the Hoth Turret's had a different ODF name in BF1. This means I can't use the localization from other mods when adding era support, as the Turrets show the text "THIS IS A BUG, REPORT ME!" For this reason I've had to add in all the BFX unit, and weapon localizations myself. That wasn't too bad as I've got the BFX assets which I used as a reference, and there arn't any random units. To add in localization for the Dark Times though would be another matter due to random units. This would take a lot of cross referencing in game, and would probably take up too much time just for one map. It is a shame though, because I really would've liked to have added it.

Also, stock Hoth has already got Dark Times support, so it's not a major loss.

I was more thinking to a support for the KotOr era...

like your map

nice new pics

Screenshots are nice but the loadscreen image looks a bit... I don't know how can I say... too expanded.

Jendo7 wrote:Unfortunately I've had a problem with localization issues, as the Hoth Turret's had a different ODF name in BF1. This means I can't use the localization from other mods when adding era support, as the Turrets show the text "THIS IS A BUG, REPORT ME!"

If you're compiling the map anyway, just name the turrets something else. You're not limited to using the default name.

That's what I thought but when I tried to change the turrets odf names in zeroeditor the turrets were deselected. I also put the BF2 Hoth turret odf in the world odf folder, and then I tried to replace them in the editor but I couldn't get the correct positioning, so I gave up. Unless I've done something wrong.

You can't change the .odf name of an already-placed object, even though it looks like it's an option. You can place a new object in the same location, which is all I'm suggesting. I don't think exact turret location is really a huge deal on such an open map like Hoth, but if you want to be nitpicky, all you need to do is select your old object, press "p" (to bring up vector coordinates), copy its position, and then paste it in to the same field on your new object. You can do the same thing by manually editing your .wld file.

Thanks very much Mav, I've done that, so I'll now be able to add support for your mod.

Jendo7, thanks for adding BFX. it's my favourite mod (because there are "real" belbullab-22 starfighters <(^.^)> ).

The same as Grievous's fighter? I can add that, no problem.

Edit: Dark Times 2 support added.

Edit 2: Have now got two Belbullab-22 Starfighter's for the BFX era. I reduced it's take-off height and speed, so it's more suited for a ground map

Edit 3: Added Droid Starfighters with custom skins to the CW era
Edit 4: Dark Times II Gunner Assault added

Edit 5: Balance issues corrected by adding another command post in the tunnel that connects to the shield generator. Extra barriers have also been placed.

Also added a hunt mode with Imperial snipers, and probe droids v Wampas.

Edit 6: Have been trying out different cave textures. The first three screenshots show transparency added, which have now been changed for different textures shown in the last three pictures. Although adding transparency looked good, I was able to see through the cave to the sky, and also see the edge of the map, so I decided not to use it. Anyway, I think it looks better with the new textures.

well i like them very much with the transparency added, and since you can see to the sky with it though, have you thought about retexturing a billboard from like mos eisly and putting it there ( like in the ground above the ceiling? this would make teh sky unseeable from the cave and the ground look normal.

SAMofBIA2 wrote:well i like them very much with the transparency added, and since you can see to the sky with it though, have you thought about retexturing a billboard from like mos eisly and putting it there ( like in the ground above the ceiling? this would make teh sky unseeable from the cave and the ground look normal.

That would be a good idea, the only problem is the ceiling of the cave is very close to the ground above, and there are also parts of the cave floor you can see through. If I do a version 2, which I may well release after version 1, I'll try and do that. There are some hoth snow rocks that I could place around and above the cave that would look better and would hide the view outside. This might take a while, so I think I'll release version 1.0 around New Year, and then I'll add transparency to the cave for version 2.0, and release that later on.

Great news, I love this map

ok cool. I eagerly await the release of this map. also, just so you know, billboards are as thin as paper pretty much, and they have no collision geometry, so you can step through them eliminating possible walking issues around the area.

also, i dont remember if i said this before, but ill say it again, with either texture, the caves look 100% better than before.