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[njm1983]

uh no. What I mean is this:
http://i220.photobuc...jm1983/glow.jpg

Both my map and the EA one do this when using the rj cam, when the map is saved as a different name it doesnt happen. for example:

map wip minas tirith - my map name doesnt have the glow.
map wor minas tirith - both EA and my map have that glow when using the original name.

I guess we could just work around it and plug in the different map name, for the campaign, wotr, and skirmish.

[Nazgûl]

Whoo... what the HECK is that? I never had that happen?

You had that all the time? In the retail game too?

[njm1983]

yeah, wierd huh, I want to try something, could you send me the EA minas tirith in a pm I have it but its has a few edits to it, I want a virgin version, Im goinna import the rj scripts and see if its the editing of it thats causing it, no idea why it would but I figure its worth a shot.

[Nazgûl]

You want mine, or the pure vanilla one from EA?

[Rob38]

It's the hardware fog in the map.ini file that is causing it Here's what it looks like in the MT file:

Weather

  HardwareFogColor = R:246 G:240 B:212

  HardwareFogEnable = Yes

  HardwareFogStart = 725

  HardwareFogEnd = 2000

End

Just simply remove it from the map.ini and it won't be there

[robnkarla]

Ah, you beat me to it, Rob.

Yeah, make sure you add the map.ini to the mod and remove the hardware fog.

Robert J.

[njm1983]

oh now we know sweet, so i guess we can change that.

Edited by njm1983, 26 November 2007 - 07:49 AM.

[Sûlherokhh]

Easily done. Just comment-out the section 'weatherdata'.

[Nazgûl]

Aah, THAT... I should have known that. I was just so caught off guard with that report NOW (so late into production) that I ruled that possibility out. Espescially since you said you didn't have it if yo renamed the map, but now I get why, cause there's no map.ini for that renamed map

I always uncomment that darn "fog" on routine, so it slippped my mind. Sorry, I should have known it was that
That "effect" has to be turned off for all RJ Cam maps, otherwise it looks really weird =)
HERE is another example from the SKYLINE thread...

Edited by Nazgûl, 26 November 2007 - 10:58 AM.

[LordEcthelion]

I already love this map

Awesome job!

Be careful about the balancing, though... archers that high up could get some quite unfair attack bonuses ^^

Ummmmm, wouldn't they actually have insane archer bonuses?? They are practically shooting off of a mountain!

Also I just wanted to go on the record for sayig that this map is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTICALLY AMAZING!!!

Edited by LordEcthelion, 30 November 2007 - 02:27 AM.

[Lord of the Rings Junkie]

They are practically shooting off of a mountain!

Like I said before, although they may get fantastic range, realistically their accuracy would probably go down a similar amount.

[njm1983]

well all thats left to do is the pelennor and that is proving much more difficult than I thought. with all the different variations required to make the field look "real" it is taking some time. and on top of that I havent been able to work on it this week, fortunately saturday iam FREE, muhahahahah!

[Nazgûl]

Awesome...

*feel like re-posting one of your lovely screens*
Just making sure noone misses the new fantastic look of MT in SEE

[njm1983]

ok lets remind them what the other side looks like too!!



in this shot the tombs of the kings behind the city is complete and all the unecessary objects removed from the city.

Edited by njm1983, 01 December 2007 - 06:04 AM.

[m@tt]

Doesn't WBII have a copy texture feature? If you could copy a large section of the textures from the original MT map then that would save a lot of time.

[njm1983]

yeah it does, Im not sure if I can use it with one map and then open another and paste the selected area. Ill give it a shot though, thanks for the tip.

[Rob38]

yeah it does, Im not sure if I can use it with one map and then open another and paste the selected area. Ill give it a shot though, thanks for the tip.

Sadly, you can't transfer the texture copy tool from one map to another It's funny... you can transfer objects, scripts, and settings from one map to another but you can't for textures and terrain.

[njm1983]

so ive spent roughly 4 hours on and off working the fields of the pelennor, and im a 1/4 of the way done. while testing to see if I liked my results in-game, i snapped another shot of the city from the front as far away as possible. ENJOY

Edited by njm1983, 02 December 2007 - 01:10 AM.

[Thorongil45]

absolutely love your work on minas tirith, njm1983!

[Nazgûl]

I can't tell you how happy I am to not have to see that old completely square "mountain" behind the city...

Now, if I could model I would create a skybow with a special section for the "real" mountain, and sorta "fake it" in there, but this map is gonna rock regardless