[RELEASE] El Alamein Mappack

[Pirelli]

Re: [RELEASE] El Alamein Mappack

+ the editor has a million bugs that makes it a bitch to work with.

[Pirelli]

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Saying mapping is easy as hell is like saying painting a picture is easy as hell. Sure - everyone can paint a picture, but theres very few that is worth hanging on the wall.

[wolfi]

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Thats true dude, thats true. And thats why i quit mapping for bf2 a month ago.
It takes too much time to paint the terrain, thats what i hate.
The mapping itself (placing objects, spawners, whatever) is fun.
I wish we were able to put custom stuff into the maps like the custom-maps in bf42.

[Pirelli]

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the reason why you cant dl maps when joinnig is it would take to much bandwith dling maps that are 30-40ish MBs. the reason you can do it is cs is because the maps are ALOT smaller.
and there are alot of servers running custom maps your to ignorant to see that. Also mapping isnt supposed to be fun/ its supposed to be rewarding knowing that you made a map that makes people ahve fun and happy.

Solution: the game letting the host to specify a dl link on another server that the downloader will use - NOT using the gameserver for this task.

[alexroyce]

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Dont judge the difficulty level based on trying to paint two colors of terrain.
Making a good map is not just to know how to paint terrain.

Its not hard to paint terrain. Its mind numbingly boring. Youd think theyd add a "paintbucket" tool.

the reason why you cant dl maps when joinnig is it would take to much bandwith dling maps that are 30-40ish MBs. the reason you can do it is cs is because the maps are ALOT smaller.
and there are alot of servers running custom maps your to ignorant to see that. Also mapping isnt supposed to be fun/ its supposed to be rewarding knowing that you made a map that makes people ahve fun and happy.

Source maps are around 40mb for medium sized maps (my upcoming map is 46mb). De_CrookCounty was 80mb and people could still download it off the server. To say mapping isnt fun is wrong, mapping is done because its both a fun and rewarding aspect (why map if its boring?), but ive only seen a few custom map servers (3 at once was the most), and usually no ones playing. The amount of work just doesnt pay off to have only 10 or so people download the map and play it, let alone find a server running with it.

The BF2Editor is way too boring for me to keep intrest in. Spending so much time just texturing the friggin' ground really kills the fun, and then seeing no servers running it just makes it seem like a total waste. Plus you cant even run it in singleplayer since we cant create bot nav data.

[Pirelli]

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Yes, there should be a terrain fill tool.

[Pirelli]

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You might wanna try Terragen

http://bfeditor.gotfrag.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1716&highlight=terragen

[Tk-421]

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Yes, there should be a terrain fill tool.

Have you tried this tool out yet?

[amish marauder]

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holy poo, this is my fav map for BF1942 and DC. I was just thinking the other night that I wished someone would mod this map for BF2, Thanks dude its like wishes DO come true!

[Pirelli]

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Have you tried this tool out yet?

No, sorry, I havent - I've done it the boring way, painting all "by hand"

[[6th]Hoovie]

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You should try " Omatic " in only a few secs you can change your brush size to what ever you want!

[wolfi]

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Yep works fine for me. But its still boring :p

[Mr.Burns[Ger]]

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i think the community its not worth to make custom maps.
everybody plays on ranked server only, specially on karkand cos you can make many points for ranking.
the servers with custom maps era empty. why should i make c-maps?
the quality of the c-maps is very good, but none is playing.


why??

[xXMMMSXx]

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i think the community its not worth to make custom maps.
everybody plays on ranked server only, specially on karkand cos you can make many points for ranking.
the servers with custom maps era empty. why should i make c-maps?
the quality of the c-maps is very good, but none is playing.


why??

You anserwed your own question.

People seem to only play for ranks. Personally if I find a really good map I like then I will indeed play on it with other like minded people.

[[6th]Hoovie]

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maybe if EA would make some of these maps for ranked servers then everyone would be playing them because were all tired of the sameo ld maps thats why wake island is soo popular right now.