Ideas Please!!!!!

BIYA · Post by **BIYA** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:47 pm

Ideas please!!!!!!! Our fellow Map Makers need your help. We have ran out of Ideas I REPEAT We have ran out of ideas. We need your help.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:56 pm

Uh... I like making maps resembling the real world, with building structures and roads and sidewalks... the only map I made was based off those ideas.

Post by **trepan** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:36 pm

Heh, who's we?

toaster · Post by **toaster** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:44 pm

My next map was going to be a nanotank map. I've been gathering models for making a desktop (stapler, tape dispenser, coffee cup, pencil holder, keyboard, monitor, mouse, desk lamp, printer, etc. The idea was to make these large enough to have to play around them, but keeping the world size reasonable. You're welcome to the idea if you find it of interest.

Post by **trepan** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:10 am

Actually, toaster raises an issue that I've been trying
to work on. The new file format makes it easy to use
other peoples' models. I'd like to start up a collection.
So far, I've got rocks, lousy rocks. Some basic object
like trees, bushes and buildings would make fine
additions. Collecting some general use textures is
something else I'm trying to do. For the most part, I'd
expect them to be tileable, and definitely free of any
copyright encumbrance.

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:59 am

I'm making lame white (blocks) and black (pyrs in the same place as blocks) for my map if you want those when im done?

Post by **trepan** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:21 am

I don't quite understand, are these chess pieces
that you are refering to? Are they built out of boxes
and pyramids? The library I'm hoping to build will
consist of mainly mesh objects, that look a little more
realistic then objects built with the current boxes and
pyamids.

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:30 am

mesh?

Post by **trepan** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:33 am

Most of the new map features for the
next release are described at the bottom
of the bzfs man page:

http://my.bzflag.org/bzfman.cgi?bzfs

El_Bastado · Post by **El_Bastado** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:13 am

trepan wrote:Most of the new map features for the
next release are described at the bottom
of the bzfs man page:

http://my.bzflag.org/bzfman.cgi?bzfs

Hey Trepan,

Just noticed "/me" is missing from the (html) manpage between "/vote" and "/msg". The explanation text is there, the heading is not.

Regards,
EB

Sir Lance-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Lance-A-Lot** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:39 pm

Hey I would love a library full of objects like that...would it be located at like shellshock or sumtin?

BIYA · Post by **BIYA** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:50 pm

I got a metal plate texture if you want it? And bubbles to

Dutchrai · Post by **Dutchrai** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:09 pm

Out of ideas you say? Nah! Wait for my next one (The Abyss), which will feature a lethal meteorite shower.

Dutchrai · Post by **Dutchrai** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:10 pm

P.S.: I was not joking.

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:29 pm

dutchrai, wich version is this map going to be in?

Dutchrai · Post by **Dutchrai** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:21 am

Current version. Really. Just wait and see

wegstar · Post by **wegstar** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:33 am

I'd say a maze is a good idea, one loaded with booby traps, etc. But then again, people would want to shoot tanks...

BIYA · Post by **BIYA** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:13 am

Well, from knowing thumper for so long. I know how to make them not kill each other and/or make you invincable. Yes a maze will be fun I might make one myself.

sid6.7 · Post by **sid6.7** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:22 am

trepan wrote:Most of the new map features for the
next release are described at the bottom
of the bzfs man page:

http://my.bzflag.org/bzfman.cgi?bzfs

The BZW section:

i can see my map making days are over for sure! LOL

BIYA · Post by **BIYA** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:13 pm

People really dont know but it takes awhile for a Mnaker to get used to new versions of bzflag and there new objects. For the future I mean

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:13 pm

I am SOOO sticking with good ol' maps! mabye a little extra variables and the stairs, but im sticking with blocks, pyrs, teles, and links! Whose with me? lets here it mapmakers!

leave that new crow to trepan.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:05 pm

Scorch remind me each morning to bug you about using v2 stuff in your maps.

wegstar · Post by **wegstar** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:51 pm

Scorch..you're just a bit too used to the "ol' maps"

make friends with the v2 maps stuff and you will slowly come to accept them...

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:43 am

baah humbug i say to them!

BIYA · Post by **BIYA** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:38 am

Im with you. It takes alot of skill to make a great map with the old stuff when we have circles, moving sidewalks, and ex. That means if we "Ol Mnakers" succeed we will be the best there ever was.

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