MRPLUTO said:I'm glad to hear you're "almost tempted to try making something like that". I hope you and many others will. I would, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to use the terrain editor.
Get the help files and ask for help in the editor forum. That's how I got it to work. I'm by no means an expert, though. I can slap together tiny maps that work for H2H, buff target practice, etc., but I'm utterly terrible with getting the contours to look good. I'm working on that, however. Just takes practice with BMP2MAP.
Back to your suggestion, I see you really put some thought into it before you posted up. Today I messed around with your idea some. I calculated how big a map I'd have if I made a circle with 2x the area of a small map. Voila, I get a circle that's 50 or so miles short of the edges of the big map grid at the cardinal points, just like you suggested
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So now I've got an idea for a map layout to fit in that circle. It would have about 120 total bases of all types. That would put it right about in the middle between your typical existing small and large maps. Basically, 2x the playing area and 2x the number of fields of a small map, and 1/2 of each for a large map. I think that would be a good fit for typical arena numbers. And it definitely is not nearly as daunting a project as the full-blown large map.
There are a couple of issues, however, that make me hesitate to really start on this. First is, would HTC want a map of this description if I made it? Second, how much work done now would be salvageable once AH2 comes out? Maybe I can bother NoBaddy to let me use whatever he's gonna update Trinity with
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But I need the practice and a project so I'll definitely do something along these lines. Who knows, I may get the hang of BMP2MAP at least
In my computer's "My Pictures" folder is a file called "maptheory1". Can someone tell me what I should do to post it here? Please be very detailed; an obvious step to you probably would never occur to me.
You gotta have the picture uploaded to some site on the internet. If your ISP gives you webspace, just upload it there. Don't worry about putting it in a fancy webpage, just store it in the space they give you like it was another of your HDs. And remember where you put it, because that gives you the URL of the picture. The URL will look something like this:
http://my.webspace.provider/myusername/mypicture.jpgOnce you've done that, you open the box here on this board to type in a message. Use the vB code to include an image in your post. In the upper left corner of the message box there's a link to the vB codes, but all you do is put the following where you want the pic to appear in the text:
{img}
http://my.webspace.provider/myusername/mypicture.jpg{/img}
Only you use square brackets instead of curly brackets.
