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Hello my name is The Black Diamond. With the help of my friend flying popcorn i am now createing maps . This is my first map and i hope you like it. (please consider) Thanks to positive gravity's comments i have added 2 giant pyrimiads and a set of stairs to get onto a pyramid (the teleporters on the 2 pyrimiads link to eachother) i have uploaded the file again so you may see my edit's. ty for comments. (sorry for spelling)

Not bad for a first map, but here's some tips:
Most CTF maps are symmetrical, here you went with an asymmetrical layout-generally it's hard to pull off a good asymmetrical 2-team CTF map.
It's too open, once you get past the middle line, it's almost all open-usually bad.
Try looking at popular maps, look at what makes them popular, don't copy, but learn from what worked well in the past, and try to see if you can improve on it.

not bad!
few WG flags would be nice though.

Please choose a license for your map file:
http://my.bzflag.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=10575

Yes, it is very open around almost the whole map, fill it in and add a 2nd or 3rd level to Play on to increase the playing area. Don't make a full whole level just add blocks and steps so players can get up to them. Map sure you test the map out so you work out all/some bugs to make game play smoother. Take a look at a bunch of maps in the map release section and see what made them popular.

I have edited my first message look there everyday for responces to your questions or comments.

Ok, make sure you update the screenshots each time you update the map file
Ps, it's a map you made, not a server. A map is run on a server.

I know like i said flying popcorn taught me i make a map post it on here and if im lucky someone will put it on there server ty for trying to help though lol

Can you post screenshots of your new map?

To be honest i dont know how

Here are some screenshots of the map.

The Black Diamond
You seem to have links for those teleporters on the map, but they seem to be unfinished/not made. (They all lead to the same place, from the same place.)

i made it so the teleporters did that sorry my map is just weird sorry i like things to be odd and funny sorry im making my map as random as i can but i got a question how i get an overhead view?

You go in observer mode and hold shift and press up and down arrows to go up and down, to tilt the viewing angle you hold ctrl and up and dan arrows.
If you want to make a really random map like you said you're doing you may want to make a FFA style map (free for all). As you can do almost anything you wish in it. CTF style maps should almost always symmetrical.

It's actually a screenshot from a map editor (evident in the screenshot where you can see the arrows coming out of the teleporter).

ok ty but to let you know i will not be posting new screen shots sorry if you wish you may take them yourself

i have edited the map it is now a FFA map and i have added a HUGE amount of new items and designs please take another look

Which one is it? Where are the screenies?

here you go but idk how to take screen shots please tell me how and i will take them


The Black Diamond

F5 in game on a private server.
print sreen then ctrl + V in microsoft paint then save and attach.
for the server just do this (I assume you're on Windows) open command prompt and type this and here is a post all about setting up a private server on OS X made by CBG
http://my.bzflag.org/w/Category:Server
http://my.bzflag.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=3940
Please, pretty please, read it.

Seeing as how you've been badgering me about it, here it is. You just need to do one simple thing, copy/move your map file into your bzflag folder containing all the bzflag stuff. just change the "noob" to your name and change the file location is debug you can have from one to four
-d
-dd
-ddd
-dddd
Each ranges higher and higher in the debug level.

Please Pleeease read the whole wiki about server and read the sample config and look for the mac OS X part in it.

ok i need some help i dont get it how i test my map?

I just told you, load the map into the server with the method provided above.

take a look at my site. it may help with testing a map and making one. i suggest looking at iBZEdit and iBZServer windows. they my give you a bit a of help.

http://www.bzmapping.co.nr/

Hosted at bzbattleground.com:9012

I played on it when it was full of people, and it seems to play ok.

My main complaint is that there are lots of things on the upper levels, but no easy way to access them. Almost all gameplay happens at ground level. You should make some teleporters on the ground that link to higher blocks. Also, add some more boxes that are short and wide enough to easily jump onto (eg 15 units tall), and easy to jump off and onto a higher box.

Some of the superflags are overpowered, too.

ok i will work on the teleporters as soon as i can and how do i change power of the superflags