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--||*NEW MAP*||-- DireStrights... well just take a peek.
Posted: 17 Aug 2006, 22:05
by aGorm
Anyway, anyone from the map forum will have seen the screens already, but I have released it now for playing!!
http://www.onebob.co.uk/darren/screens/dires/1.jpg
http://www.onebob.co.uk/darren/screens/dires/2.jpg
http://www.onebob.co.uk/darren/screens/dires/3.jpg
http://www.onebob.co.uk/darren/screens/dires/mini.jpg
First thing... I expect to release a second version of this at a later date (IE when teh new map format is finished) with features and such...
And so I wold also value your coments on it very much so so I can iron out any problems when I remake it!!
Thanks
Enjoy
Eat Polo's
aGorm
::EDIT:: Oh and the Link...
http://www.unknown-files.net/browse.php?dlid=1551
Posted: 17 Aug 2006, 22:09
by rattle
Looks nice will give it a shot. By the way Isn't it Dire Straits?

Posted: 17 Aug 2006, 22:11
by aGorm
Because thats a famous band which I didn't nick the name of!!!
aGorm
(PS and I cant speel anyway...)
Posted: 17 Aug 2006, 23:50
by Quanto042
The map has finally arived!
Will play it soon!
Posted: 17 Aug 2006, 23:52
by Forboding Angel
Good to see this map finally. Please tell me the metal isn't gimped...
Posted: 17 Aug 2006, 23:53
by AF
buggi thinks this maps minimap is rude.............
can we have thumbnails not links?
Posted: 17 Aug 2006, 23:57
by aGorm
I cant thumbnail so there and to be fair theres no difference...
Trying to see whats rude... but failing admrily!!
And If the metals screwed i need to know befor I release version 2...
So go play it

and tell me whats wrong with it.
aGorm
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 00:37
by AF
Well I wanna see what the map looks like before I wait for a 1600x1240 image to display in a separate tab.
Besides you of all people should know it's basic presentation.
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 00:42
by aGorm
Yes, however I have to time to present this all nicely and, as I said, I have no clue how you do thumbnails...
I wanted coments on the map, not my post...
and there 1200 x 900 or somthing like that.. I always size them down slightly. (1900 x 1200 is a bit big for most people)
aGorm
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 01:11
by AF
In photoshop paintshop etc
Resize image to 180x120
Save as
add _thumb or w/e to the end
You might also wanna change your links so they dont show raw urls.....
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 01:30
by rattle
Or put them up on fileshack, it automatically generates thumbs and forum code for linked thumbs and saves traffic.
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 01:47
by AF
You should have put them on unknown-files.net along with the map, unknown-files generates thumbnails quite nicely....
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 03:03
by Warlord Zsinj
You need to stick two of these fellas at each end of the dividing mountains:

Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 03:07
by LathanStanley
features?
none?
I'm insulted...
nah not really...
but c'mon agorm... stick a few in..
that or ask me to make some "map specific" ones... you know I'll do it...
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 05:07
by TA 3D
aGorm,
why???
You mirrored it!

Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 06:10
by Dragon45
Lathan - agorm - hear me out
Put GIGANTIC, high-detail statues on each of the four corners of the straits. so 4 statues in all.
they would be Guardians. Knights in shining armor etc
just like the LOTR thing in Zsinj's post.
how SWEET would that be.
oMG OMG OMG
pleaaaseeeeeeee?
Non reclaimable, but destructuable :D
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 08:59
by Wolf-In-Exile
I've a critique about the texture if you don't mind.
The area where the shore meets the water should have a dirt texture instead of a grassy one, to show erosion.
However, it would be ok to put a grassy texture for areas on steep river banks, since the river water rarely rises high enough to erode the soil.
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 09:57
by aGorm
YOU BARSTED YOU RUINED THE SURPRISE!!!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK I BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE LAST 3 WEEKS THAT I HAVN'T FINISHED YET, HOW COULD YOU!!!
First thing... I expect to release a second version of this at a later date (IE when teh new map format is finished) with features and such...
In other words your neat idea is infact sitting half finished on my mates computer... that was goona be the nice surpires in version 2.
I cant belive you did that. Thats so unfair.
I'll never release a map early again...
Anyway, end of my getting upset...
I know how to make a thumb image, I ment how do I put them in teh forum insted of links... Dispite me being here 3 years I dont know what the BB code is to do so... (thius is still the only forum I have ever used...)
On the Gardians (not that someones guesed it) they will not be destructable or reclaimable. Also teher not replicas of teh lord of the rings one, that would just be cheating.
Also... Whilest me and my mate are finishing them they might turn out crap... if so I'll be giving LathanStanley a call.
Zsinj... did I like acidently tell you I was going to do that or somthing... Its so unfair.
And 1 last thing.. its rotational symatry not mirrored...
aGorm
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 09:58
by aGorm
As to wolf... well pointed out! I'll fix that up in version 2...
aGorm
Posted: 18 Aug 2006, 12:26
by LathanStanley
well thats a good deal aGorm... I was just kins meaning "in general" if you need features to ask...
I'm working with ferboding right now... but meh, his shouldn't take TOOO long..
but I do have interest to finish that one building I started.. whenever that comes to be
but my tyranids are like done... just still trying to get the Alpha Channels to work on em so they are "simple" to put on maps... and I'll do it for all my features, or someone I convince to help me will.. possibly smoth.. if he's still around...
but yeah... I'm crankin em out for the next week or so... after that, skool starts again, and I'll be runnin idle again..
