so far...
a few pointer........
1.The area where your water is, add a little foliage around the sides here and there, and also change the texture below the water to something a bit more murky.
2.Change your textures, I.E. don't have the same prevailing texture through out the whole map, add a little dirt track maybe criss crossing the foresty bits.
3.Height variation is a really key thing for map emersion, also its good to have textures coresponding to the height and terrain change, say you did make a dirt track, maybe you could make a small height variation, I.E. lower it a bit?
4.If you can do it yourself or if you can get someone to do it for you, add a few tanks and jeeps, maybe even a plane?!?

vortexus wrote: so far...
a few pointer........
1.The area where your water is, add a little foliage around the sides here and there, and also change the texture below the water to something a bit more murky.
2.Change your textures, I.E. don't have the same prevailing texture through out the whole map, add a little dirt track maybe criss crossing the foresty bits.
3.Height variation is a really key thing for map emersion, also its good to have textures coresponding to the height and terrain change, say you did make a dirt track, maybe you could make a small height variation, I.E. lower it a bit?
4.If you can do it yourself or if you can get someone to do it for you, add a few tanks and jeeps, maybe even a plane?!?

1: I will.
2: To which textures?
3: Yes, I have lots of low ground.
4: I can do this but the trouble is no-one really has any plane models or jeeps.

Xavious wrote:You've got a lot of jagged and unnatural-looking terrain. Use the height blend tool to fix that up. Also, add a little height variation to those flat areas (such as in your first picture).

yes and other than that the environment looks better. but WW2...zombie mode? I thought you said you were just learning custom sides. If you are i would leave it as the main modes with custom sides that are very well done instead of a ba-jillion modes that are all poorly done.
and how can we vote on sides if we still haven't seen them?

true, i'm waiting for bob's skins, and the poll is about what you want to see done, not voting for what you can see.
Thanks everyone for the constructive comments! Everything will be done to try and make this map a memorable one!
@JediJunkie - This will be done - If my polis massa sky starts working - which it isn't - anyone know why?

Par3210 wrote:true, i'm waiting for bob's skins, and the poll is about what you want to see done, not voting for what you can see.
Thanks everyone for the constructive comments! Everything will be done to try and make this map a memorable one!
@JediJunkie - This will be done - If my polis massa sky starts working - which it isn't - anyone know why?

As for the sky I don't know, because i don't know what you're doing. That just isn't enough info for anyone.
As for the map, I think it needs work. My Diagnosis.

Too Star Warsy, some of those buildings are from Tatooine, and they way they look now is to weird for the map. Reskin or Replace.I'm not going to say anything about the crashed space ship in WW2 battle field.
Too flat and jagged, swipe the raise tool around a bit, then swing the flatten brush plenty.
Too unatural, the water specifically. I that is a river, they don't straight like yours does. If that's a lake then, it's too square. If it's a waste water treatment plant then add concrete.
Too big, you shown a lot of pictures and the map look humongus. Scale it down please.
Too much sand, the ground texture was the same all the way through. I know Belguim isn't a desert.

And the planet model has got to go. This map has potential, I can clearly distinguish the POW camp, and the tree placement in the forest looks good. A lot of this is simple fixes, and if you let them go, the players won't take you seriously.

Well, definintely an improvement - but as B1-Burt said, you need to scale down the "star-warsness".
For one, there is a crashed Techno-Union ship in the middle of the map. I don't mean to be rude, but I don't think they had those back in 1942.
And also, you can see earth in the background. You may want to change that, as it means these dudes are fighting on the moon (and this isn't designed to be the moon).
This has a lot of potential, and you are getting there. Just keep working at it, and it will be great.

B-1Burt wrote:

Par3210 wrote:true, i'm waiting for bob's skins, and the poll is about what you want to see done, not voting for what you can see.
Thanks everyone for the constructive comments! Everything will be done to try and make this map a memorable one!
@JediJunkie - This will be done - If my polis massa sky starts working - which it isn't - anyone know why?

As for the sky I don't know, because i don't know what you're doing. That just isn't enough info for anyone.
As for the map, I think it needs work. My Diagnosis.

Too Star Warsy, some of those buildings are from Tatooine, and they way they look now is to weird for the map. Reskin or Replace.I'm not going to say anything about the crashed space ship in WW2 battle field.
Too flat and jagged, swipe the raise tool around a bit, then swing the flatten brush plenty.
Too unatural, the water specifically. I that is a river, they don't straight like yours does. If that's a lake then, it's too square. If it's a waste water treatment plant then add concrete.
Too big, you shown a lot of pictures and the map look humongus. Scale it down please.
Too much sand, the ground texture was the same all the way through. I know Belguim isn't a desert.

And the planet model has got to go. This map has potential, I can clearly distinguish the POW camp, and the tree placement in the forest looks good. A lot of this is simple fixes, and if you let them go, the players won't take you seriously.

Thank you a lot for this! I will take your comments on board and fix them as much as I can. I don't have a good concrete texture though. And I'll definetly make the lake round. I can't skin things - so I don't know about the tatooine buildings - they were spposed to be a area where there was a town and the soilders go through it. If I hear more comments about it though I will remove it. The crashed spaceship was a mistake - I'll remove it immedietly. Thanks again.

Fierfek wrote:Well, definintely an improvement - but as B1-Burt said, you need to scale down the "star-warsness".
For one, there is a crashed Techno-Union ship in the middle of the map. I don't mean to be rude, but I don't think they had those back in 1942.
And also, you can see earth in the background. You may want to change that, as it means these dudes are fighting on the moon (and this isn't designed to be the moon).
This has a lot of potential, and you are getting there. Just keep working at it, and it will be great.

Did I put the earth in? O.o Oh yeah! It's there in the pics! Darn! I'll get rid of that too! Thanks for pointing that out. And yes the crashed ship will be removed.
Also I'm going to use some beds from Jabba's Palace to make a few trenches with beds. I think this will increase the feeling of - horrible beds - sleeping rough - bombs overhead - stuff like that.
As for the sky can anyone help?
I have:
Copied naboo's SKY file into my world1 folder and renamed it to my 3 letter map name
Got the following textures from naboo's file as listed below =
nab2_bump1.tga and .tga.option
nab2_skydome.msh and msh.option
sky_naboo2.tga and tga.option
and got rid of my default yavin stuff except for the main textures. (yav2_main1 and stuff like that cause I need them)
?

Did you get my PM with zombies?

Par3210 wrote:As for the sky can anyone help?
I have:
Copied naboo's SKY file into my world1 folder and renamed it to my 3 letter map name
Got the following textures from naboo's file as listed below =
nab2_bump1.tga and .tga.option
nab2_skydome.msh and msh.option
sky_naboo2.tga and tga.option
and got rid of my default yavin stuff except for the main textures. (yav2_main1 and stuff like that cause I need them)
?

You may need to clean and munge to get your new sky to show up.

Vegati - thank you for the zombie skins! But I have a error in my BF2 log - it crashes the map. Here's the bf2log -

clean and remunge

that's what I assumed. I'll do it now.
Wait a min do I have to make a folder in _BUILD called cis? I renamed the first CIS to CIS1 and made the new folder cis. I don't even need CIS1 as I don't use cis units in my map.

try editing the sides req file and such. Also make sure that your level's lua is in order

vegati wrote:clean and remunge

That won't fix these errors.
So what you need to figure out is what you're missing. REQs, ODF names, etc.

I didn't think that that would work but it's always worth giving it a shot

*EDIT* Well when I run it it works fine so I'm guessing he either edited the sides I gave him or he messed up his lua

I did remove the giant gammerean which didn't have its own texture. Is that it? It said in its odf that it shared the normal gammeroan texture that vegati provided but zombified.
I'm trying again - still munging - been munging for a hour now

That's got to be frustrating. Is it stuck on something?

P.S Sorry I haven't been able to help for the past hour or so. Gametoast was acting funky.

me too. When I munge eddie's model pack it gets stuck on eddie_prop_grass which I don't even use for about 30 minutes.
I hope it works this time otherwise I'm going to throw my computer out the window.
EDIT2: Wait a minute! The only unit that has a REQ is the normal gammerean guard!

Par3210 wrote:me too. When I munge eddie's model pack it gets stuck on eddie_prop_grass which I don't even use for about 30 minutes.
I hope it works this time otherwise I'm going to throw my computer out the window.

If you don't use it, why not just remove it?

Xavious wrote:

Par3210 wrote:me too. When I munge eddie's model pack it gets stuck on eddie_prop_grass which I don't even use for about 30 minutes.
I hope it works this time otherwise I'm going to throw my computer out the window.

If you don't use it, why not just remove it?

lawl I was thinking that just as I posted the message.