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I think that you should use blender, it isn't actually that hard to learn if you read through this.. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro It is more flexible than wings and (in my opinion) easier and faster than wings when you know it. For making most BZFlag objects that don't cause ...

The only problem I can see with this map is a low FPS for anyone with less than 2GB of RAM. But other than that you surely have raised the bar for map makers by a considerable amount.

I was just playing it with ahs3 and we found that HTF was boring, as you knew the way after the first one; it became less about trying to find you way and more about seeing who could do it the fastest. I think I might make it into an FFA with no rico, some flags and noradar. I think I will have the ...

Yeah, good point. Also another question I wanted to ask is do you think I should make it bigger and harder or smaller and easier?

The steam roller idea sounds interesting. What do you mean landmarks? Like a unique object for each part of the maze so you know you have been there?

Ducktape, I really like that idea. Dose anyone think it should have shots enabled and SW?

I haven't made a map in a while, and I always made CTF maps so I decided to make a fun map. And after some thinking I started to get work on a maze map, the maze layout was designed by the GIMP maze plug-in, I then loaded that image into blender and started to model it over that. Here is a blender r...

This was up before anomalys I believe. Nice work, it really sets the scene, but that whirlhole seems a little square..

You can still have stairs with no jumping in a map, just set a high _maxBumpHeight.

Looks a bit too bulky in my opinion. Perhaps add another way to get past the wall, like some steps.

It has all of the quality's that a popular map needs to have, great work. I like the castle areas.

Looks fantastic, don't ask me how but it just looks like it will be popular if it gets hosted, perhaps it's the nice layout or all the rico possibility's, great work!

silver surfer
Punctuation and proper spelling are greatly appreciated in this forum. What kind of changes will you be making?

Looks alright, I can't really see that many rico opportunity's but the layout looks good.

Looks really good, but what happened to the "dead mans pass" sign in the middle?

Wow, those balls have a really low face count, perhaps you could add more. Other than that, great work.

I like it, lots of rico opportunity, lots of places to hide. One thing that would be cool is if you added a texture matrix to the sphere in the middle, so it looks like it's turning around.

That may be the easiest, but we are trying to figure out which way is the best for many objects. Okay then, I think you can do this with groups... define many_objects meshbox position 0 0 1 size 10 10 1 rotation 0 end meshbox position 0 0 2 size 10 10 1 rotation 0 end meshbox position 0 0 3 size 10...

You can make an invisible object with just one line of code...

Tanks can already do that with _noClimb 0.

Yeah, there are the 4 main walls dividing the map and then to protect the bases there is this wall...
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Divider?

That's weird. Oh, just a little fact, the laser goes of for 10 seconds, and then stays on for 4. What do you think of the playability? I wasn't too sure about making a 4 team CTF with a world size of only 400.

waterLevel name example_waterlevel height -1.0 end The "height" is below 0, it means that it is off, make the height anything about 0 to turn it on at that particular height, but in my opinion, it looks crap. The way I make a water level is by adding this to the map file material name wat...

The most fun maps to play are the ones that you've made your self, especially when lots of people are playing on them

Yay! I finally got around to writing the configuration file; the actual map was finished about a week ago, all of the objects are mesh, made in blender. It's a 4 team CTF, and here are the screenshots, map file and configuration file. You can use the map or configuration file in anyway you want, hos...