Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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Ello, this is my 6th map and perhaps my finest ;P. screenies are attached. bzw map is released in GPL-2! Happy tanking!

P.S. lemme know if you want to host it. Plz call it Island Blitz by MDSKPR (in blue color)

Thanks!
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Re: Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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Some improvements that you might consider:

1. Use "alphathresh" and "notexalpha" on the "leaf3" material
(this avoids the per-frame back-to-front sorting)

2. Use "noradar" on every object except the island meshes
(also, add "noradar" to your "ccwater" material).

3. Set the BZDB variable "_noShadows" to "1" to disable shadows
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Re: Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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ok cool i will update it! thanks!
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Re: Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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Here is the update after the revisions it tis attached!
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Its up at bzbattleground.com:5042


Enjoy :)

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Re: Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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Looks great MDSKPR.

Nice to see you're still making maps :)

The only thing I'd change is add some shift to the water so it moves and noradar so radar looks nicer.
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Re: Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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Thanx ahs, yeah trepan suggested it
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great MDSKPR! you still can make good maps! I like it a lot!

only comment to improve the map is to add the notexalpha (as trepan mentioned) and the noradar for the 2D playing and radar starring tanks (pity we miss the great sight hanging out at the beach ;)

keep up the good work!



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Re: Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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I tried the notexalpha thing on the leaf3 texture(for the palms tree leaves) but it made it look really funky(the leaves had purple boxes around them) so i decided to leave that out.....
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Re: Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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Where did you get that leaf3 texture from? It looks familiar. Here is how I did it originally.

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material
	name bark
	diffuse 0.627 0.322 0.176 1
	addtexture mesh
	occluder
end

material
	name leaf
	diffuse 0.1 0.8 0.1 1
	noradar
	nolighting
	noshadow
	noculling
	addtexture http://images.bzflag.org/msheppard/anomaly_palmleaf2.png
end
Adding this

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alphathresh 0.4
notexalpha
will work as trepan suggested.
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Re: Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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i got it from purple panzers desert war....
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Re: Island Blitz by MDSKPR

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Might want to at least give credit for that in the map file and -srvmsg.

You can never give to much credit, but you can give to little.
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