Spring RTS Engine

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

I love how the mountains look

that's pretty.

very cool idea and pretty!

*why not add inverse as an option as well?

smoth wrote:very cool idea and pretty!

*why not add inverse as an option as well?

Would not work with the texture and all the preshading.

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

A very pretty and clear looking map.

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

Shadows are preshaded on the texture

so do the gundam maps.

Either way, was just a suggestion.

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.

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.

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) .

BaNa wrote: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?)

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

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

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?

Register it on rapid iirc.

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.