Well, I've been working on this map for some time, and i have to say it looks pretty good, and it works well as a air combat style map.
Now its pretty balanced, with a ground battle and an air battle. So even if you only fly the entire map, the tickets should balance out. I'll hold off posting my main map just yet.
My only problem so far is a purple strip that goes along the bottom of the sky, is there anyway i could change its color, or cover it up? I'll post a pic if needed.
Last edited by Astute on Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:34 pm, edited 8 times in total.
ok cool its fixed, guess i need to change the title then. Apparently it was using the naboo1 dome which called for mountains, but i disbaled those in the sky file, So instead it would just show purple. Just a little editing and my sunset should be complete. I also did some tweaking for some worth while effects. Ties buzzing through the air in almost formation, the imperial music going just before both sides hit and a massive dogfight ensues.
might consider releasing it as soon as i'm satisfied with it. My main question is, do you guys like my sunset? not sure if its convincing enough.
Well, might as well add a description and a bit of info then. Basically its a pretty simple story, The imperials have located a coastal airfield used by the alliance and have launched a beach attack at dusk. You have a choice of leading the charge up the beach/down the beach, or taking the fight to the air as a rebel or imperial pilot. While i haven't tried multiplayer, its pretty balanced by itself, so should you make a bunch of kills as a rebel pilot, the at-at should even out the ticket count. The AI, on the medium setting, played very well. Most of the time i had to duck and cover as an x-wing swooped down to pick off some of my guys. While the ground combat fairs pretty well, the air combat probably is what you'll play this map for. Only gameplay problems i could spot would be the long walking distances, but really who wants to walk when you can fly.
Hmm... now i have difficult choice of which of my maps i want to release first.
hmm well i'm trying not to make it too big but, what do i do with clone wars? since the jedi starfighter isn't the best along with the extra work i have to do with the gunships. Could i make CW into The Battle For Naboo instead... and how much work would i be looking at?
Well i'm coming incredibly close to releasing a beta, yet i've come upon a few bumps in the road. Namely, should i add a whole bunch of vehicles, or leave it a simple ground/air war. Also, i've discovered how to make boats... yep, boats. And with this i could have an entire naval battle going on off the coast. Now the question is, do i release this map for air combat, or delve into naval combat and slow the release.
hmm, there is one major problem with naval combat, i wouldn't be able to make new models for the ships and such, or at least i wouldn't know where to begin making rebel/imperial ships since there are pretty much no references.
Really, the boats should only be available to whoever is attacking the coast line. In this case the Imperials. You could make something simple with an open roof or a closed roof, whatever you want. If you made Naval battles in your map, it would be completely worth the delay. And it would make your map in a league of it's own. I say you go for it.
I thought of this when coming up with the idea for this kind of map. Since there are no real boats in the game, just make an island far away from the beach landing. At the island, place a couple of speeder bikes and skiffs in order to enable the attacking party to get to the beach. I would also have a CP of some kind at the beach so that when the attackers capture it, they don't have to go all the way back to the island to respawn. If and when someone does come up with a boat with a huge spawn point, you can rework the map to incorporate it in a later version.
well, yeah i'd like to make my map unique by adding ships, but really now that i think of it, my map won't be able to handle even fairly small ships. Mabye i'll make a sequal to this map using the same atmosphere only with ships. Besides, i find this map quite fun with all of the dogfighting.
Since i could pretty much rig any vehicle to work like a boat, i think it would be better if i called on the help of the more experienced XSI users for help. That way once i've released my boat map, i'll release all of the ships for use as well.
Ok, the map is pretty much done except for a few annoying errors that i can't seem to get fixed
> can't get grass to appear
> color issues (though i don't see anything wrong with it)
> missing sound
If you guys know any quick fixes for these, please post.
Ok, i've fixed almost everything and its almost ready for a beta. The only thing i'm having trouble with is sound. For some reason i can't get the music to play, and the y-wing is missing its sounds. I tried the tutorial in the stickies, but no luck. Here is my sound setup
