Yeah I'd appreciate an EVO config, features in EVO are fairly significant because they provide cover. The old dv had bushes lining the main path that were awesome for ambushing. Sry my phone keeps capitalizing evo

well, I cam always let you do the feature placement on it with a prerelease version, send me your feature def, then I can include the alternate feature config in the release...

that way evo can have a feature layout that better suits what you.

you could also have featureplacer read a config from the modfolder if there is no (fitting) config in the map.

Thought about that but then it would get into issues of mods containing feature defs for versions of maps. Say desert valley version 12 vs this one, 12 is a 20x20, this one(currently 15) is a 24x24

Thank you. I think it will become difficult for vehs to exit S-W bay, once there are three mex and a solar. Would it be possible to make the ramp that closes the bay for vehs (and is open on the S-E side) a little bit shorter, so that more vehs can pass?

just to add those ramps would be 16 hours of work, and make the map look less natural.

care to draw on the map where you want them and I can see about it?

Well, you could always decrease the height of the map a bit to open passages for vehicles, assuming that you define height via mapoptions and assuming that you apply mapoptions according the mod.

Whatsoever, I think that vehicle passability isnt really that big of deal. Theres still lot of room to maneuver for them and considering that map is 20x20, vehicles are still viable tactic because of their speed.

And just to remind you smoth, BA folks aint the only one here. Actually ZK people are playing your maps more than them.

oO - I didn't know it was so time-consuming!!
I made the pic, so you know what I mean, but IMO it's not worth the work-time, because the person(s) in that corner just have to be a little attentive, and (in BA'ish game) choose kbots... or if they go veh, just not build the moho-mex, and s/he/they will be fine.
My idea was to make the part marked "not passable" shorter, and the "passable" part longer :) but as I wrote: never mind.

It is doable. I thought you wanted actual ramps on the cliffs which is a whole other bag of suffering.

great :)

it'll probably still be another 10-12 hours(I will have to redo the splat maps) and then build the texture. so don't expect that part to change but if you guys think of anything else, I am not starting the texture build until 8pm cst so I am around until then.

this book just keeps on opening

I have not finished it yet. I stopped working on it for a bit to focus on work related stuff IRL. "the book keeps opening" is an incorrect statement as I didn't do the release yet. I am not sure of the point of your post. Do you have any actual feedback?

http://www.smoth.net/files/Grts_desertValley_15.sd7

Not a release but I wanted to give you guys a file to take a look at.

forb, if you want to do a feature def. this will be the release version, I just want to give some of the ba guys a chance to:

A: try the metal spots out
B: try the metalspots widget out.

important thing: I fixed a few issues with the metal spots widget and added some randomized gfx so it won't be teh same spot over and over. The spots images will be redone later.

anyway do take a look.

doesn't show up in the map list

Umm forb, really?

Don't know what happened try extracting it?

shows up for me. "Desert Valley 15"

You didn't preface it with GRTS. My bad.

I love it. Don't like your metal textures much for this desert climate (prefer mine), but for green they would look nice. It will be nice to finally have a usable blueprint template.

sooo ba people, I need that feedback if you could be so kind.