Monday, March 3, 2008

Roofs, entities, game modes


This screenshot shows a randomly generated map that was today's MOTD (map of the day). You can see that there are some entities now, like the palm trees, blue barrel, and roadblock. Also implemented recently is support for team deathmatch and sabotage game modes. You can see the rooftops are now covered with a pitched roof instead of just a flat walkable surface. I plan to make that optional, but these roofs seem more natural for motifs that would be in settings other than the middle-east.

I have got a version now that is considerably easier to use - it lets you type in a map name to create and it does the rest. Hopefully I'll have a couple more bugs worked out soon and be ready to do a public release and start announcing it on some of the mapping/modding forums.

One real hangup is the difficulty of making airstrike and helicopter paths. You'd really think this would just work automatically, but these cool new features are only possible with some work on the part of mappers.

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