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Thread: Fields of Winnekendonk26 Aug 2018, 01:36 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Aug 2018, 07:56 AMSturmpanther Any update yet? THE STRUGGLE This map does a good job of balancing buildings without physically mirroring them. The building layout seems to possibly favor the south as far as distance to important buildings. But the north building group seems stronger and would favor the north a little. So there is a lot of subtle balancing going on. Mostly done with sight blockers to the key points around the buildings. Which is my next point: there are enough sight blockers around that the buildings are not strong enough to want to camp in them. They are too easy to flank and do not cover enough terrain to be worth camping in. In 2v2s, the strong cutoffs force most of the game play around the center of the map. It will be very interesting to see how flanks work when more players are on the map. POSSIBLE SMALL CHANGES: 1. As a player, when I see long hedgerows like these I am not sure if there is barbwire fencing inside of the hedges. So it is not obvious that I can walk thru these lines. Could leave little gaps here and there as visual cues to players that they can cross these hedges. The barb wire exists in other places on the map and is usually easily visible (good job). 2. The mirrored buildings on the edges of the maps are not balanced. I would remove this hedge sight blocker. In 2v2 these buildings probably do not see much play. But in 3v3 they may become important MG strongholds to guard artillery pieces. 3. I think the minimap shows a building here (YELLOW BOX). As I keep saying, I cant wait to play this in 3v3 In: Summer patch 2018
Thread: COH 2 Art Director Geoff Coates back to work to relic23 Aug 2018, 20:41 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Aug 2018, 20:18 PMTiger Baron ... craters are less than 6 feet deep. The map in CoH literally looked like the side of the moon after 3 hours. I do miss the devastation of COH1. But I also do not miss being in a 3 hour AI game only to have it ended because the terrain became impassable. And watching vehicles drive down into giant holes then shoot into the air on the other side looked dumb. So I agree with the minimized terrain deformation of COH2. Could maybe make it a little deeper? Oh and I like COH2 graphics better. In: Lobby
Thread: Fields of Winnekendonk22 Aug 2018, 02:11 AM Downloaded and ran it in COH2. Looks good! I will give a better check later. In: Summer patch 2018
Thread: Fields of Winnekendonk21 Aug 2018, 04:33 AM Jump back to quoted post21 Aug 2018, 01:48 AMTric I use those sticks in question all the time, they should not give red cover, it is most likely the road spline bleeding over into the placement of the object not actually being where it shows. I could also be the fact that there is no cover anywhere near it and it will show as negative cover when you have no cover in the vicinity. BRANCH_PILE_03 I am noob, and found them when I fixed up Redball Express. I moved the south shed and truck around and these sticks were left over. Go near them and your units show RED cover. Bizarre. I spent 20 minutes chasing down some texture that would cause it. Nothing worked. Removed the sticks. Red cover gone. Then my skull exploded into a glorious pink mist fountain. And children came to dance and play in the shower, for it was hot in the summer of 2018. - Mr Throbe I think people tend to stack them on or near other cover objects and the other cover overrides theirs. Just did a quick test to be sure. Another mess of grey matter on my keyboard. The bundles on the right fuel are less of a problem because it is surrounded by stumps. As you walk thru, the model cover toggles Yellow, Red, Yellow.. In: Summer patch 2018
Thread: Fields of Winnekendonk20 Aug 2018, 21:23 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Aug 2018, 19:23 PMMonolithicBacon Here's the .sga of the updated version if you want to test it. Since everyone is very busy I thought I may help out (partly because I cant wait to play this as a 3v3). Sorry for the very late ideas. THOUGHTS: A. Also this map will be CLOSE THE POCKET heaven with the heavy cutoffs. B. Should the VP territory go behind sight blockers for USF lockdown? 1. The base MG coverage could be better. There are blind spots in a few locations. 2. The green cover in the north does not match the south. North truck is in MG range. South it is not. In is probably better? 3. The large north base grove should be removed. Maybe make a hedgerow/small tree hand made grove? This would also give more room for the base area and possibly more MG bunkers. 4. There are small bundle stick piles that for some unknown reason Relic chose to give RED cover. Please delete any you find. Middle west road area and right fuel area have some. 5. Since some one-click win items can sometimes attack into the base area can we make the base areas much larger. Please with sprinkles In: Summer patch 2018
Thread: Tile Editor (Industrial Rubble) Crashes Worldbuilder20 Aug 2018, 21:12 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Aug 2018, 21:01 PMPeenar Battalion IT WORKED! ... THAT IS AWESOME! Good to know it can be done. Your hard work may save some other poor souls in the future! In: Mapping Discussion
Thread: Tile Editor (Industrial Rubble) Crashes Worldbuilder20 Aug 2018, 19:07 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Aug 2018, 18:36 PMPeenar Battalion Unfortunately, despite saving before attempting my tests, whenever I open the Tile Editor section Worldbuilder instantly crashes on me now. (On this map and only this map) Not sure how you can fix it by normal means, if the worldbuilder will not open it. I have never had this happen. WARNING: THIS HORRIFIC HACK MAY NOT WORK If you have a lot invested and want to try: I would download a HEX file editor and change the name of the texture in the file. Then try to open it in the worldbuilder again. Make a backup first! Pick a texture name that is equal or smaller than the one you are replacing so you don't overwrite stuff. Equal is best! EXMAPLE: in file you may see: grass\grass_02333?333? The texture is grass\grass_02. You dont want to overwrite the 333?333? If the name you choose is smaller, you will want to overwrite the last characters with NULL or ASCII 0. If that doesnt work maybe try space ASCII 32. The SGB file is what you need to edit. It will be very large, like 10-20 MB. So it may take some time to open in an editor. And the texture name will appear twice about 1/3 of the way in. In: Mapping Discussion
Thread: How to make a custom loading picture!19 Aug 2018, 00:10 AM Jump back to quoted post18 Aug 2018, 23:31 PMPeenar Battalion So I'm having a unique problem with loading screens. I've attempted to make my own custom loading screen through Gimp but as soon as I get into game the loading screen appears black and I can see a vague pop-up message repeatedly appearing and closing as the map attempts to load. Generically most people use 1920x1080 pixel, 24-bit TGA (ie No alpha channel). TGA can be compressed or uncompressed. Again, I only ever see UNCOMPRESSED images. The code to load an uncompressed TGA is very easy, that is why most games use it. EDIT: I will have to try some other types and see what happens... - TGA 24 bit Uncompressed - WORKED - TGA 24 bit Compressed - WORKED - TGA 16 bit Uncompressed - Black screen on load. Game loaded and played ok. DDS has too many options to test. I am not sure I would ever feel good about DDS working unless Relic has it posted what version to use. I have seen a map that was saved as DDS with DXT1 that works. Approximate file sizes for 1920x1080 image: - TGA 24 bit uncompressed 6.0 MB - TGA 24 bit compressed 5.6 MB - DDS using DXT1 compress 1.1 MB In: Mapping Discussion
Thread: Units Auto-Seek Cover18 Aug 2018, 20:26 PM I always tell units that are capping to move further than I want and then press stop when they are where I want them. But I usually have lag so they just walk into MG fire and die anyway In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: How to make a custom loading picture!18 Aug 2018, 05:36 AM ROSBONES HOT TIP #1 To make a cool fake depth blurred screenshot do the following: 1. Setup a scene in the worldbuilder. Place objects like tanks, planes, etc from the EPBS\Races folder on your map. DO NOT SAVE! I am using my map Novgorod Outskirts for this example. 2. Adjust the camera view to get a cool shot. Press CTRL+F3 to take a screenshot. The image will be in your COH2 screenshots folder. 3. Now select to view the depth buffer in the menu. DO NOT MOVE THE CAMERA VIEW! Press CTRL-F3 to take a screenshot of the Z depth buffer. You should now have two screenshots: Raw and Depth. 4. Open the images in a good photo editing program with layer support(Photoshop, Gimp, etc). You will want to adjust the histogram(Contrast/Brightness/Gamma) of the DEPTH image to get the white sections as white as possible and the dark sections as dark as possible. 5. Make a copy of the RAW image and make it the top layer of the raw image. Now apply some BLUR to this new copy. We will call this image BLUR from now on. 6. Next create an alpha blend mask for the BLUR layer. Use the DEPTH image as the mask. You should now have something like this: You can flip the blur distance by inverting the BLUR layers mask (Negative image). You can adjust the BLUR layers mask histogram to adjust the blur effect. Or adjust the mix value of the layer. Once you are started you can try all kinds of fun stuff like blurring the alpha layer mask, etc. There are also more options to view in the worldbuilder like SPECULAR, GLOSS, etc. You now can add all kinds of shine to your images. EDIT(08/25/2018): 7. You can add fog to your image by making a copy of the DEPTH layer. Set it to the top layer and mix it as SCREEN or HARD LIGHT. You may need to invert the colors. You can colorize the layer for different colors, etc. Again adjust the histogram(Gamma) to get just the right fog effect. NOTES: - Dont forget to clone tool out the RELIC logo and 3 axis gizmo indicator. - nVidia control panel allows you to override the worldbuilder video card settings and force stuff like anti-aliasing for better quality shots. I have not tested AMD video cards. In: Mapping Discussion