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It is a vehicle...

Really? So then is it possible to get a regular trooper to be read as a vehicle?

seriously...considering how well astute made the underwater map for swbf1 http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... rene;55285
you should ask him for help on the wepons and water effects

I wanted to post that map too to help u Darth_Z13, it seems ratattack was first. As you may know i would love an underwater map.

I pretty much give up trying to make firing underwater possible. I'll give all the units a melee weapon as well as a blaster so that when they go into the bases they can fire but when they are underwater they must use the melee weapon.

One question: Is this map going to be both above and below water, or just under? If it is going to be underwater only, it would be better to not actually use water, but mess with the sky and lighting, unit jump, etc. since it would be much more realistic.

If it is going to be both above and below, then you should use water, but be awrae that it will be much less realistic.

It's supposed to be totally underwater. So I would add shadows and change the sky to look night-ish?

Astute managed to get it looking really realistic in his SWBF1 map Kamino:Serene. You could ask him for the changes he made, but I think it was mostly sky file work as there were no lights in BF1. He placed underwater vegetation, lowered the unit run speed and jump speed, and made the units have harpoon rifles.

Yeah you need to make sure you are simulating less gravity...basically jumping slower and drifting along very slowly

Does anyone have pics from Kamino: Serene?

OK I PMed Astute, I'll continue working on map design in the mean time.

@trainmaster, there are some pics in this topic.

Some one in that thread had an idea about using an Ewok spear...good idea

I'd already implemented that as my harpoon before I read that post. It was by -_-.

I'm playing alot of kamino serene on BFI, until this map releases, however i want to have a few underwater maps so can serene be converted?

if i were you darth_z13 id ask someone with experience in making these types of maps...mabey you could email the idea to lucas arts and possibaly they might respond

What?

Why would LucasArts have ANY experience with making these types of maps..? Especially because Pandemic was the developer...

I remember that map Astute made - I didn't find it convincin genough to believe I was underwater... but hey - it's not on Earth

You gotta at least plan ahead of what you want in the map, before you actually DECIDES to make a map which is on unusual terrain. Astute made a somewhat nice illusion - which is the best you can do.

Underwater maps are obviously not the best choice - so create an illusion with all the tips people have posted here would do the trick. Don't try to convert units into vehicles - and for some reason I think it's in the droideka's laser's odfs that you can find something to 'penetrate' the water.

Ya OK, I will. Astute hasn't replied anyway.