This might have to go on vacation for a bit, i have just returned to uni and i dont really have much spare time to work on this,
Hopefully i will find time to work on this before the christmas holiday.

Gillipig wrote:It's a little too dark I think! I like what you've done with the roads. Maybe you could make it dark outside but not inside?

As in dark outside the houses and light inside? I have tried to do that, are there any parts you think are particularly dark?

I like the idea, on the other hand I think there will be a lot of complaints about not being able to read it. So you will probably have to nix the idea. Let's wait and see what others have to say about it.
Yeah, im expecting complaints, but there are not many words that mus*le, pat*ol, tu*n, sec ...

Let me just start by saying legends are the worst part of a map for me...

I got this done awhile ago and i have been sitting on it trying to decide if it looks right. Basically to make the legend fit as an easy option i have just let things overrun a bit, my reasoning being the legend was typed on ...

Just my thoughts but i always felt when london was ever done it would be really good done in the sort of style of a cartoon map, sort of thing you get on postcards... See the picture below for what i mean. (sorry about quality done with my phone from the front of a jigsaw).

image

natty_dread wrote:Also: you need to give the text and lines a tilt to match the paper's.

They are matched with the paper, just the paper is not matched with the picture

Finally got round to do some work on this map, trying a new legend style. Thoughts before i continue.
(the minimap is copy and paste at the moment, i will redo it properly later.)

[bigimg]http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/9269/operationdrugwarlnewleg.png[/bigimg]

nice background - but I would maybe stop the river at the edge of london. It looks strange flowing over the background like that.

Sorry Rj... your advice is usually solid but at this point I have to disagree... Stopping the river at the edge of London would look odd and abrupt IMO.

What do ...

actually gimil, you can train your brain into going straight to rem sleep by power napping 10 minutes at a time. it's really really hard at first but after a while when you fall asleep the brain knows it's not going to last so you go straight to rem.

Yes, but is that worth it? Even for CC ...

Congrats Andy, when (or more correctly if) you ever have enough of managing the hoards out there, you should definitely return to foundry.
Maybe make a map

5 years, this makes me feel old.

I had a mate who tried changing his sleep pattern to 6 half hour naps, i was tempted to try but sadly does not really work when you have to turn up to work everyday slightly awake.
Maybe when i start besieged i will try changing my sleep pattern, then i can map make twice as fast...

Hi tel,

I have to be honest although the new 3D image for the photo is fantastic. I feel that the overall quality of the image is brought down by maintain the old envelope background. It looks outdated compared to your new crisp image. I think you are more than capable of bring it up to standard ...

It was going to suggest splitting it but then i reread and saw you did that anyway. But maybe instead of having a file for each icon and add them to the map one by one, make a file that is the same size as the map image and place all the icons in their correct places on that, then you save that as a ...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24801217/Operation_Drug_War_L_New.jpg

Army number test

Done
Changed the special army circles to make them look finish. I reckon this is now a fully finished draft i think. So i have posted it with the army numbers aswell

To Do
Still got to finish ...

ha that was meant to be in another topic, never drink and post

The first things I noticed were the badges (for Detective, etc.) and the books (for District Attorney, etc.) are awfully blurry/pixel-y/uneven. The steering wheels are also rather pixel-y. Even the other icons have their imperfections...
Yeah i noticed that and im working on, although very slowly ...

Is it possible with the current XML to have if you hold A+B you get +1 autodeployed on A, but if you only hold A or B you get nothing?

Cheers Tel.

If anyone has any old red and blue 3D glasses lying around here is the image from drug war in anaglyph 3D

Im definitely going to try this on castle battle when i start it again, as it would make a good 3D image, sadly drug war being top down does not lend itself as well. Also this method of 3D does ...

Honestly, the lighting effects are too prominent here. I understand you're probably going for a realistic look, but the high fluctuation in light levels makes the map look all splotchy and hard to read. Maybe you could even them out somewhat?
Possibly, anyone else think this is an issue? For now I ...

Some of the borders don't make full lines
That is meant to be where the territory borders moved from roof level to ground level, i might just get rid of it.

and you don't have one separating telephones from the places they can hit inside buildings?
Good spot i will correct that asap.

Cheers ...

natty_dread wrote:So take the core elements of feudal - the castles, IMO - and build a new gameplay around them.

Feudal castle assault

I personally would prefer people to say that they dont like a map, rather than sitting around waiting for comments, as without comments the map wont go anywhere.

As for giving feedback, if i have a problem with a map i always try to give a suggestion on how to improve something if im going to ...

To many CCers trying to vote, crashing their site

That should now be the right one.

DiM wrote:very jagged borders.

My bad, comes from updating the same image over and over again, so i think that is an older image. Check back in a bit and hopefully i will have found the newest image