Company of Heroes: Eastern Front

Eastern Front Mod (Read-Only) => Mapping => Topic started by: Ltevanlee on January 19, 2011, 09:11:58 AM

Title: Map building
Post by: Ltevanlee on January 19, 2011, 09:11:58 AM
Hi guys, I want to start making maps, but I'm just confused to hell on what to do. Any tips, ideas, suggestions, or requests?
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: cephalos on January 19, 2011, 01:21:36 PM
yeah!  ;D ;D
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?207599-The-mapmakers-tutorials (http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?207599-The-mapmakers-tutorials)
check this. to get the basics.
Don't worry about your first map, just try to look around and get used to some buttons.
Hold Shift to rotate, H to set height, C to copy objects.
At the beginning of making map create new MP map, set it's size, and after loading press "Scenario - atmosphere properties - fog" and TURN it OFF - this will allow you to see better, and increase the performance.
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: SpungE on January 19, 2011, 04:12:01 PM
send a pm to jimbosmith he is a very good tutor  8)
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: pariah on January 19, 2011, 04:27:47 PM
Yeah, i have spent a long time playing around with World Builder, trying to figure it out, but there's no sort of instructions or anything! I would REALLY love to know how to make territory sectors! It's so stupid that they expect people to just know these things...
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: SpungE on January 19, 2011, 04:33:05 PM
youtube has a lot of video walktroughs made by players
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Max 'DonXavi' von B. on January 19, 2011, 06:18:30 PM
You can also ask me :D
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Walentin 'Walki' L. on January 19, 2011, 07:28:50 PM
http://easternfront.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorial:Making_a_Multiplayer_Map (http://easternfront.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorial:Making_a_Multiplayer_Map)

I made it and noone is reading it! EVEN WITH PICTURES :D!
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Max 'DonXavi' von B. on January 19, 2011, 07:35:00 PM
I made it and noone is reading it!

'cause people are lazy. Too lazy to search on their own.
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: pariah on January 19, 2011, 07:36:50 PM
Great tutorial, Walki1! It's now in my favorites. Maybe 1 day will be able to make a map of my own...
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Max 'DonXavi' von B. on January 19, 2011, 08:10:17 PM
Maybe 1 day will be able to make a map of my own...

 ;D ;D ;D

Are you so tall or fat that you need a map OF you? :P

Anyway, short, but precise and failsafe tutorial. Good work. Wish that people could search for it on their own and stop asking the same gdm question a thounsand times.

Maybe I will also make a tut where I explain some of the basic functions like creating tiles, splats or splines and also action markers.
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: pariah on January 19, 2011, 08:12:15 PM
It's not for me, man; All the fleas keep getting lost in my crevices!
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Blackbishop on January 19, 2011, 08:24:05 PM
http://easternfront.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorial:Making_a_Multiplayer_Map (http://easternfront.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorial:Making_a_Multiplayer_Map)

I made it and noone is reading it! EVEN WITH PICTURES :D!
I didn't knew about it!! I created a simple topic about it and also is stickied!
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: pariah on January 19, 2011, 08:26:33 PM
Hey, that's great, man! That will help many people, i'm sure!
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Blackbishop on January 19, 2011, 08:41:55 PM
Perhaps the reason nobody knew it in part was because there's no tutorials on that section of EF's wiki.
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: pariah on January 19, 2011, 08:46:39 PM
Could be... But i don't know what a "wiki" is... (And your spell-checker doesn't know, either...)
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Blackbishop on January 19, 2011, 09:08:19 PM
Could be... But i don't know what a "wiki" is... (And your spell-checker doesn't know, either...)
(http://i56.tinypic.com/2d8gfwn.jpg) (http://i56.tinypic.com/2d8gfwn.jpg)
You can check it for yourself ::). (http://i56.tinypic.com/2d8gfwn.jpg)
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: pariah on January 19, 2011, 09:17:06 PM
Oh, yeah, there's a "Wiki" button! It would be more noticable if you could see it from this here forum... And it doesn't seem to explain what exactly a "Wiki" is. But, yeah, i'll have to explore there some day. The Internet is such a big place, isn't it?
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Walentin 'Walki' L. on January 19, 2011, 09:22:56 PM
hmm now that it is stickied I'm going to make more of them ;).
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Blackbishop on January 19, 2011, 10:22:01 PM
Oh, yeah, there's a "Wiki" button! It would be more noticable if you could see it from this here forum... And it doesn't seem to explain what exactly a "Wiki" is. But, yeah, i'll have to explore there some day. The Internet is such a big place, isn't it?
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Extracted from Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki)

You could always see that wiki link at the top of EF forum, no matter what section you are visiting so, I don't know what are you talking about :-\. However, that section is far from being finished.
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: pariah on January 19, 2011, 10:46:08 PM
Thanks for the info, blackbishop. By the way, this is how i see your forum:
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Blackbishop on January 19, 2011, 11:07:32 PM
What a weird case :-\.

Here is the link of EF's wiki -> http://easternfront.org/wiki (http://easternfront.org/wiki)
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: pariah on January 19, 2011, 11:09:56 PM
Thanks, man. But i can see it from your home page. Just not the forum.
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Ltevanlee on January 20, 2011, 06:44:38 AM
Made my first map today. Thanks for all the help!






                    One more thing, how do you make a good looking hill?
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Rikard Blixt on January 21, 2011, 09:03:57 AM
Thanks for the info, blackbishop. By the way, this is how i see your forum:

You are using another theme, try switching to the default theme to fix it.
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: pariah on January 21, 2011, 01:41:44 PM
Oh yeah, that worked. Thanks, Rizz! I prefer the "testtheme" because it's wide-screen... By the way, the first and last themes seem to be exactly the same...
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Ltevanlee on January 21, 2011, 10:02:02 PM
I'm making a map right now, its called Evanstown (not the finally name) I'm around 25% done, my younger bro wanted to have a bridge map, that wasn't included in CoH:O (he's getting CoH for his b-day). Sorry no screenshots today maybe when I'm 45% done. I'm also making another map, called Beach Assaut (5% done) out of interest of making a beach defense map, and the attacking side has to cross the "ocean" to get to the beach.
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: pariah on January 21, 2011, 10:07:31 PM
Well, i can't wait to see how you are going to have crossing an ocean work in a primarily land-based R.T.S....
Title: Re: Map building
Post by: Ltevanlee on January 22, 2011, 11:44:34 PM
I got the idea form this map: http://companyofheroes.filefront.com/file/Iwo_Jima_8p;92408, (http://companyofheroes.filefront.com/file/Iwo_Jima_8p;92408,) you'll see what I mean.




I've scrapped both maps in favor of Trenchvile (10% done).




           P.S. I used this to help me build the trenches.  World Builder Trench Design Tutorial (part 1) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWg-D2NayLw#)