New Map : Inverse Conditions

[BaNa]

I made a new map, its an 8 way ffa map. I wanted to make a noob friendly ffa map, so here it is. On default settings all bases are accessable only from centre, where you have a lot of metal.

Speeds are boosted a bit, because map played slow otherwise.

I mangled smoth's mapsettings so now there is one settable map option, "pro height". If that box is ticked, map will have a lower height, making it less sheltered.



pro passability for kbots (needs mapoption box ticked!):





noob passability for kbots (default):





maplink in text: http://springfiles.com/spring/spring-ma ... conditions

[SirArtturi]

I love how the mountains look

[aegis]

that's pretty.

[smoth]

very cool idea and pretty!

*why not add inverse as an option as well?

[SirArtturi]

very cool idea and pretty!

*why not add inverse as an option as well?

Would not work with the texture and all the preshading.

[smoth]

you have to change the sun angle for that, try it, works better than you think..

[Gota]

A very pretty and clear looking map.

[SirArtturi]

you have to change the sun angle for that, try it, works better than you think..

Shadows are preshaded on the texture

[smoth]

so do the gundam maps.

Either way, was just a suggestion.

[Pxtl]

That pro bot path doesn't look balanced - looks like some of the inter-base barriers are blocked and some aren't.

Still, it's nice to see somebody making a porc-friendly map that isn't a clone of DSD or SpeedMetal. And a pretty one at that.

[BaNa]

That pro bot path doesn't look balanced - looks like some of the inter-base barriers are blocked and some aren't.

The degree of passability may be different but you can send a kbot down any of those interbase ledges.

also, smoth: I mangled your code for inverse to do the height change :) It would be a nice addition, but i'll leave that to future maps.

[Cheesecan]

I'm excited to try this map out, looks fun to play and good job on coming up with a fresh FFA layout.

Have you thought about making the terrain continue a bit outside the playable edge? That's one feature you can do now with lua.

Also you might want to use lua metal spots(I say this to every mapper) .

[smoth]

also, smoth: I mangled your code for inverse to do the height change :) It would be a nice addition, but i'll leave that to future maps.

If I am around in the future let me know(with a bit more than a day or two please) and I can help you iron all kinds of crap out! (you could have had a few options for height, you know like a drop down?)

[BaNa]

Does anybody have the original version of this map? I lost the archive in reinstalls and it has disappeared from springfiles.

[Beherith]

http://beherith.eat-peet.net/stuff/Inve ... itions.sd7

[BaNa]

Reuploaded http://springfiles.com/spring/spring-ma ... conditions

[Pxtl]

I wanted to tag this up in ZK... but ZK doesn't have it listed. How do I get a map into ZK's map system?

[Google_Frog]

Register it on rapid iirc.

[Pxtl]

Great!..... how do I do that?

edit: just tried this map in Zero-K. As I suspected, slopes that are supposed to be bot-impassable allow the bots up to the crest, even in noob mode. This makes the map completely imba since only a few slopes have this behavior.

It needs a fix. Even a brute force usage of the slope modifying mutator to steepen the whole thing would work.

... or was this intentional? Now that I look at it, each of the 4 cardinal mountains has one scaleable face. If so, a better graphical representation of this effect would be nice, such as visibly applying a different texture to the bot-scaleable faces.