Profile of ernesto-m

Hi Flying Dutchy,

have tested your Maps. It seems you don´t like vehicles, but it makes fun to Play your Maps.

Waiting for your Feedback, to my maps.


Mapper Greetings
-ernst-

Hey Ernesto,

Here are 3 of my maps. I was going to wrap up Fubar Fjord as well, but I cant make out which version was the right one. It is a published map, so it could probably be found through steam.


http://www.mediafire.com/download/71q6xcj20er2j7r/Paintball+1.6.rar

Paintball is a map I made at the request of my brother. It's very much a work in progress, still have to tune some of the routing and tacticals, as well as general desing & styling features. Also this is my 1st map which doesn't use snow, so I'm still trying to find all the right splines/tiling combo's etc.



http://www.mediafire.com/download/gdask0ag19e071b/Wolfenstein.rar

Now this one is absolutely insane. At some point during testing I found out I used the wrong castle walls... These wont let you fire over them. I was going to fix this with canal walls and sightblockers, but I ran into the object maximum which is what ultimately shut down the whole project. I'm not even going to mention how much time went into that map.



http://www.mediafire.com/download/3f7qatoawbyq731/Schloss+Wolfenstein+Co-op.rar

But, the mission was to build a castle thing. Smaller map, less walls (they crowd the object list a lot) and different design alltogether. I like to make comp stomp maps, and I hate my defensive positions getting nuked all the time. Since I'm not great with coding, I designed the maps to have few munitions points, and added scar code to ban russian mortars. All my snow maps have a working blizzard and lamps, as well as a raised pop cap. Allthough I'm definitly going to try and incorporate Janne's script from his recent thread to tweak the manpower income a little.


You will probably have a laugh at my messy copy pasted SCAR codes. Somehow it does work though!

Now, to clean construction mess.

Hi Flying Dutchy,

thanks for your maps, will check them out in the next days.

On steam i found your Fubar Fjord map,...the Weekend is taken by map testing ;o))


After your construction works, you can have a look to my open map Projects,...is there a end of constructions in sight? ;o)


Wish you nerves of steel for the construction
-ernst-

PS: if you have coh 1 too, you can find my old maps here:
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?125501-Finished-Map-List/page2

Hahaha I bet you played "Z" too?

Another question: what kind of marker do I use to "aim" the PAK guns with? Another Ally spawn marker? I took a look at your maps but I couldnt spot a marker which you used to aim.

Ambitious project, how long you been working on positioning those houses?

Thanks again!

Moin moin Flying Dutchy,

to spawn any kind of Object to your Map you need a Marker (Ally Marker).
The Name of the Object you will find in luaconstauto.scar.

To make all Markers visible in Worldbuilder, you have on the upper right side of WB an Icon with a Flag Symbol, if you push it, you will see all placed markers.

The Maps are all in Progress, but i´am not the best mapmaker. To give the map a professional look, my Patience is weak ;o( but i like scar Scripting ;o))


Have you had time to Play one or both maps and if, what is your Impression about?


November morning greetings
-ernst-

Ernesto,

For extra chocolate muffins:

Could we also rotate these PAK43 guns?

Hi Flying Dutchy,

yes we can! ;o)

Set in WB another two markers such as "mkr_3" and "mkr_4". This is the direction where the Emplacements are facing for.

Now you must change the scar script lines in which we spawn the Emplacement to:

eg_vehicles=Util_CreateEntities(nil,"eg_vehicles",EBP.GERMAN.PAK43_88MM_AT_GUN_MP, Util_GetPosition(mkr_1), 1,Util_GetPosition(mkr_3) )
eg_vehicles=Util_CreateEntities(nil,"eg_vehicles",EBP.GERMAN.PAK43_88MM_AT_GUN_MP, Util_GetPosition(mkr_2), 1,Util_GetPosition(mkr_4) )


After saving the changes in scar script, save your map in WB too, "Export packaging", and have fun.


Nothing seems to be unpossible greetings ;o))
-ernst-

PS: may be this link is helpful for you:
http://fortresseuropemod.com/scardoc/treeview/treecode_nojs.htm

Hi Ernesto,

It is still very confusing to me. I get you have to put down a marker somewhere, but then what?

I have never found a tutorial online which explains how markers work. Sure, there are some people that say: Hey look at this, you can add smoke. But that somehow seems worlds and leagues apart from what you have to do here.

I have absolutely no programming background, so I have incredible difficulties trying to understand how everything works. It's a wonder I got some basic SCAR scripts running as it is...

How do you spawn something on a marker? Is that what the script is for? Can I just blatantly copy the script you posted in a SCAR file without any "OnInit" and "end" stuff un there? How do you know which way the emplacement will be facing? Do you name the emplacement itself eg_88 or is that the entitygroup which contains all the PAK43's?

If you could send the map that might be helpfull.

It is really frustrating to see everybody talk in jargon and special programming lingo, and not know what the freaking duck it means


Either way, I appreciate you trying to help out.

Hi Flying Dutchy,

i get my scar Basics in CoH1-Forum, look here:
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?211948-How-To-Some-Basic-Scar-for-Mappers&highlight=SCAR+Commands

Ok, may be my very broken english is the reason why all is so confusing to you ;o)

I try to explain in Steps:

-start Worldbulider

-load an existing map, oder create a new one.

- select Marker-Icon in WB ( in the upper border of the WB-Window you will find a little red Flag-Symbol)

- klick on Marker Name "Alley Spawn", will place you a Marker to your map. (1st marker is named "mkr_1", you can change the name, if you like. Place a 2nd marker, "mkr_2")

-open an Editor ( notepadd ++ ) and copy the following lines:



import("ScarUtil.scar")
function OnInit()

eg_vehicles=EGroup_CreateIfNotFound("eg_vehicles")
eg_vehicles=Util_CreateEntities(nil,"eg_vehicles",EBP.GERMAN.PAK43_88MM_AT_GUN_MP, Util_GetPosition(mkr_1), 1)
eg_vehicles=Util_CreateEntities(nil,"eg_vehicles",EBP.GERMAN.PAK43_88MM_AT_GUN_MP, Util_GetPosition(mkr_2), 1)
Cmd_CriticalHit(World_GetPlayerAt(1), eg_vehicles, CRIT.VEHICLE_ABANDON,0)


end
Scar_AddInit(OnInit)


-save the scar-Scipt with the same name like your map name such as "testmap.scar" in same Folder like your map is located.

-Now save your map in WB and after it select "Export package" (WB : file->Export package)


Result: When you start Coh2 and select your map "Testmap" the script will spawn you two EBP.GERMAN.PAK43_88MM_AT_GUN_MP, at the marker positions "mkr_1" and "mkr_2", without a selected facing Position, but this can also be done with the function we use to spwan the entitiy.



The name of the Entity Groups you take is your decision, in this example i take "eg_vehicles".
Helpful is to name Entity Groups starting with "eg" and Squad Gropus with "sg", it is easyer to find, if your scar script will have a lot of lines.


I send you my testmap, as a link ( when i am back from work ;o),so you can find out how markers and scar script works.

never give up greetings
-ernst-