The Playground Revisited

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:59 pm

Alright, here's another map I just made. It's now running on nullbzflag.gotdns.com port 5154.

It's a simple four-team CTF map with the fortresses (remember the original Playground map I have on 5155? hence playground revisited). But now they are shaped as cylinders! So they're a bit more fun to look at.

Anyways, let me know what you think of this one.

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:03 pm

Oooh...now that looks fun. I'll have to play that later.

Very nice.

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:22 pm

Alright, already found one slight problem around the bases, but nothing major. Here's the fixed version.

A Vicious Muffin · Post by **A Vicious Muffin** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:36 pm

Sweet! Do those middle balls fire lasers and ww genos like on the other map?

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:37 pm

No they don't... nor do I really feel like making them do so right away again. We'll see how it goes for a while, then start adding stuff.

knoxkorner · Post by **knoxkorner** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:47 pm

TangenT wrote:Alright, already found one slight problem around the bases, but nothing major. Here's the fixed version.

How do you put an attachment in a reply?

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:52 pm

anti-spam wrote:
TangenT wrote:Alright, already found one slight problem around the bases, but nothing major. Here's the fixed version.
How do you put an attachment in a reply?

Instead of using quick reply, hit the Post Reply button.

Back on subject now.

ducktape · Post by **ducktape** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:28 pm

that looks awesome

GMMan · Post by **GMMan** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:57 pm

Cool.

Red Cobra · Post by **Red Cobra** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:05 pm

Its a very good map. It's a little big though. Looks like it would take a long time to get from base to base. Inbetween the bases it could use a little more than those curved things. Overall nice map. I would love to play it if it were shrunk down a little.

Red

knoxkorner · Post by **knoxkorner** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:13 am

cool but how do you (in bzflag observer mode) Go up?

GMMan · Post by **GMMan** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:22 am

<Shift>-<Up> to do down, <Shift>-<Down> to go down. Look in your help menu on the BZFlag main menu.

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:36 am

Red Cobra wrote:Its a very good map. It's a little big though. Looks like it would take a long time to get from base to base. Inbetween the bases it could use a little more than those curved things. Overall nice map. I would love to play it if it were shrunk down a little.

Red

It actually doesn't take that much time. You spend more time getting up the fortresses than you do getting to them. But thanks for the constructive feedback.

And the curved things... they'll be updated into something cooler eventually. I might make them vertical, as opposed to on the ground.

I also might add some physics into the map sometime, so that you can go bouncing around all over the place.

---------------------

Edit: Added some more stuff to the map, including more fun obstacles between bases (especially if you choose to go up) and added spawn zones. I will post another map update and some more screenies when I add some flag zones.

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:34 am

Alright, I know I modified the last post to say I was adding flag zones... well, I'm not. But I did add some (more) death drivers (go find them yourselves, one's invisible). And a timed world weapon (SW) in the middle.

So here's a couple more screenies, and the new map file.

Zelgadis · Post by **Zelgadis** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:12 am

perfect, but the 1st one was better

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:25 am

The first one's still up, just on 5155 (if you're wondering why there are two rotations, 5154 will be 4-team, 5155 is 2-team).

knoxkorner · Post by **knoxkorner** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:48 pm

GMMan wrote:<Shift>-<Up> to do down, <Shift>-<Down> to go down. Look in your help menu on the BZFlag main menu.

{shift + down} go down oppisite for up

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:27 pm

anti-spam wrote:
GMMan wrote:<Shift>-<Up> to do down, <Shift>-<Down> to go down. Look in your help menu on the BZFlag main menu.
{shift + down} go down oppisite for up

While you're seeking help here, would you like to comment on my map? Because neither of your posts here have done so.

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:36 pm

I agree with 1st Consul, the first version was much better, IMHO.

Both are cool.

WarPig · Post by **WarPig** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:02 pm

looks pretty cool! what did u make it with?

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:09 pm

WarPig wrote:looks pretty cool! what did u make it with?

Actually, I hand coded it in a text editor. Would you believe it?

CUPCAKE · Post by **CUPCAKE** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:43 pm

Wow, nice map TangenT

I'll have to play it some time.

PS, wouldn't it be really east to Lazer Snipe from base to base? Or are the walls higher than they look? (Or maybe no lazer flags on the map?)

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:40 am

The walls are higher than they look.

CUPCAKE · Post by **CUPCAKE** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:52 pm

Oh, okay. Because that wouldn't be very fair if people could just snipe other when they spawn.

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:17 am

CUPCAKE wrote:Oh, okay. Because that wouldn't be very fair if people could just snipe other when they spawn.

Agreed, which is why I changed the bases slightly from the original.

If you look on the rotation it's on, you'll see I changed a couple of textures.

The steps and elevated platforms have caution borders now, and the spheres in the middle have changed.