[M] (4) TPW Artifice

On August 16 2011 01:50 Gl!tch wrote:
Very much like the map. Love the use of those green forcefields for aesthetics. I've been wanting to create a similar custom xel'naga tower, how do you get it to change from one model to another? i see you used the Library Disk and then the Library itself.

On August 15 2011 18:02 Zeon0 wrote:
its like 5 easy to take bases? i would love such a map, but i think expanding is way too easy on this map.

On August 15 2011 18:50 Ragoo wrote:
I'm going to be honest: At first I thought this was a super boring standard map and didn't like it. But now that I see all the effort that went into this unique aesthetic style and the fact that you used custom watchtower models, I love this map.
Kinda sad how my view changes so much cause of looks, but take it as a compliment for excellent aesthetic work

Thanks, and regarding the custom watchtowers; honestly, this was a massive pain in the ass. It took me hours to figure out, and I only persisted because I'd already invested so much time in to getting it working. I eventually got it all sorted at like 5am one night a week or two ago, and promptly went to sleep, so my memory of how I actually did it is a little hazy =/.

Essentially, what you have to do is - in the Xel'Naga unit in the data editor - change the model to the one you want to use, and then edit the event triggers to get the animations you want (I only use one model here, the animations are already built-in). It was quite easy to do that part, but my problem was the animations were the opposite of what I wanted (it looked "active" when it wasn't, and lowered into the ground when activated). Swapping them around wasn't easy (I'm not an expert on animations or event triggers, I had to find a way to reverse the "walk" and "stand" animations assigned to the model, or something like that).

I know this probably doesn't help a great deal, it's not something I'm eager to revisit but if I can find the time I'll try and put together a guide/walkthrough to doing this kind of thing. I also encountered some weird bugs, like every time you activated the tower it would jump about a marauder's height upwards, exponentially, so eventually the tower would be floating miles above the map... ;D

On August 16 2011 03:11 funcmode wrote:

Thanks, and regarding the custom watchtowers; honestly, this was a massive pain in the ass. It took me hours to figure out, and I only persisted because I'd already invested so much time in to getting it working. I eventually got it all sorted at like 5am one night a week or two ago, and promptly went to sleep, so my memory of how I actually did it is a little hazy =/.

Essentially, what you have to do is - in the Xel'Naga unit in the data editor - change the model to the one you want to use, and then edit the event triggers to get the animations you want (I only use one model here, the animations are already built-in). It was quite easy to do that part, but my problem was the animations were the opposite of what I wanted (it looked "active" when it wasn't, and lowered into the ground when activated). Swapping them around wasn't easy (I'm not an expert on animations or event triggers, I had to find a way to reverse the "walk" and "stand" animations assigned to the model, or something like that).

I know this probably doesn't help a great deal, it's not something I'm eager to revisit but if I can find the time I'll try and put together a guide/walkthrough to doing this kind of thing. I also encountered some weird bugs, like every time you activated the tower it would jump about a marauder's height upwards, exponentially, so eventually the tower would be floating miles above the map... ;D

On February 16 2012 14:26 -stOpSKY- wrote:
I saw this map is in the second round of the playhem, does anyone else notice REALLY bad lag on it? I play in games with around 15% cpu usage but when I play this map my usage spikes to like 98% and just lags the shit out of me. I noticed some people who were streaming the playhem were getting the lag too(WBC was the person I saw experiencing the bad fps drop).

On February 16 2012 16:08 Timetwister22 wrote:


That's a result of the Omni Light doodad, which is used to make the bottom layer glow all green and what not.

On February 16 2012 19:27 lefix wrote:
Hmm, we did run some FPS tests on artifice, like on every nasl map. We noticed slight fps drops when you got towards the center with the light doodads. Those were then removed. But that was already a couple weeks/months ago :D

I have personally no idea what problems you are experiencing, I cannot notice any fps drops on artifice and my computer actually sucks. Are you 100% sure it was the map causing problems?