EPT[Guide]Map Making - Page 3
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Chef
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Fir3fly
Australia251 Posts
and i was like "wow gee it doesnt seem to be massive" *opens a spoiler* "....OH MY.." now im utterly speechless... great work | ||
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MagicalTits
Canada1 Post
Here's an image of it. http://imgur.com/LaVbj.jpg | ||
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synapse
China13814 Posts
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
Check the first question in the FAQ in my guide for more info. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=95404#2 | ||
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synapse
China13814 Posts
On June 30 2009 07:58 Grobyc wrote: You have to make them unit sprites. Check the first question in the FAQ in my guide for more info. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=95404#2 Oh thank you  I tried units and sprites... didn't know I had to use unit sprites  | ||
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Nightmarjoo
United States3359 Posts
On June 23 2009 08:43 MagicalTits wrote: Absolutely amazing work! Unfortunately I stumbled upon your guide too late, and my mapwork was too far near completion to re-do it all. So it'd be great if you could tell me what to change, other than the obvious 128x128 dimension. Here's an image of it. http://imgur.com/LaVbj.jpg Well aside from it being 128x128 and the issues that causes, the biggest thing I see here is that your shapes and sizes are a little off. You should try to make things more roundish, not jagged or amoeba-looking. In particular, your mains, nats, and the nat cliffs all look really awkward. The mains are much too large I think, and the nats far too open. You should look into promaps more, in the editor if you can. I don't know tl's policy on map protection, but if nothing else to prevent lastshadowing maps I won't post any unprotected promaps here. If you pm me I can point you in the right direction. The neutral blocks are unnecessary and annoying imo. The spells don't appear to be terribly useful or game changing, I find it hard to believe they'll matter in most games, I think they could've been placed a little more productively (not overdoing it is important though). What's up with the 2 mineral gas expo in the center with a swarm over it? Your map's flow could be better also, the pathing I mean. It's possible this is a side effect of (2)128x128 so I won't comment more on that issue. All I can suggest really is that you make another map. Not every map needs perfected, and every successful or failed map gives you experience, practice, and helps build your understanding. | ||
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Loli
60 Posts
Can anyone give me a little help? Thanks. | ||
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spinesheath
Germany8679 Posts
The ramp might still be a doodad. In that case you would only copy the underlying terrain. Right click the ramp, select convert into terrain. If that option is not there, it should already be terrain. Btw make sure to disable the fix doodads option somewhere in the menu, it usually is only annoying. If that didn't fix your problem, select a patch of terrain, then paste it somewhere on the same map. If that doesn't work, you are either in the wrong mode (like doodads instead of terrain) or you should (re-)download the latest version of SCMD2. Once you can paste terrain on the same map, open up another map in the same instance of SCMD2, you don't even have to close the current map. Make sure that the 2 maps have the same tileset or you'll paste weird terrain (you can't mix tilesets). If that still doesn't work and you have the latest version of SCMD2, you probably should report it as a bug on the official homepage. | ||
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Loli
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Un Gato
United States123 Posts
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Nub4ever
Canada1981 Posts
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50bani
Romania480 Posts
Dear Mapmakers, make maps smaller, like 112x112 or just put more water on them like on Athena so you can keep main2main distances long but everything else should be laid down tightly in the center. Less resource spots would be useful toi have as well TvP is so hard these days | ||
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TriniMasta
United States1323 Posts
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thopol
Japan4560 Posts
EDIT: Thanks NMJ. | ||
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Excel Excel
142 Posts
On December 24 2009 01:52 50bani wrote: Dear Mapmakers, make maps smaller, like 112x112 That mapsize crashes BW. Also... wasted space. What is it? Python's completely open center is apparently not wasted, but this map's center apparently is? EDIT> If TL ever gets a mapping subforum, I nominate this for sticky. | ||
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Piste
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SaetZero
United States855 Posts
Lots of neat ideas to ponder over.... ...pooooonnnnnnnnnnnndeeerrr... | ||
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Talic_Zealot
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Bajadulce
United States322 Posts
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