FS The Hills Have Eyes (2-6) Options

[Rampastring]

Since I can edit my posts now, I've updated the download of the newest map version (1.2) to this post (It was in post #25 originally).

Here is my third map.

Size: 120x140
Players: 6
Mapper: ^Rampastein
Lighting: Bright "golden", will change to dark red after some time of gameplay.
Tiberium amount: Medium

The civilians in the area are annoyed of the war and of the battles in the area, and have warned the commanders that if they kill too many of the civilians they should start digging graves for their soldiers.

It's the end of summer in this map, and the night is coming while the players are building their bases and fighting in the area.

After some time the night comes, and there is a beautiful red glow in the sky.

This map's lighting will start going darker and more red while playing, but it doesn't have a day/night loop.

Day will last long, then it starts getting darker quickly, then it comes red, and after a long time it becomes even darker and the red glow in the sky gets stronger, making the ground red too.

This map has the following keys in the AI section.

Paranoid=no ; To make sure the AI players don't ally with the civilians.
ComputerBaseDefenseResponse=8 ; To make sure that the civilians will get some damage if they attack an AI player's base or harvesters.

So, this map is a free-for-all map.

Screenshots:



**Day**











**Afternoon**










**Late afternoon**









**Early night**









**Late night**














 The_Hills_Have_Eyes_120.zip ( 250.06K ) Number of downloads: 518


This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Jul 3 2008, 11:23 AM

[Arsenal 121]

How do you place the files into the expandXX.mix file?

[Rampastring]

Well, I'm not sure if I can explain it clearly enough, but I'll try.

First, download and install XCC Utilities. (required for making MIX files). Before proceeding further, read some tutorials on how to use XCC Mixer from the XCC Utilities' website.

Also, read this tutorial.

Then create a new text file named "multiXX.pkt", where XX is a number between 02 and 99. (Do not use 01 since it's used by the Firestorm expansion)

Then add the map's name to the MultiMaps section of the file (create a one.. for this tutorial we'll use TheHillsHaveEyes) and add the map's info to the file. (Look at the Firestorm expansion multi01.pkt file's structure for how to do this. You can find the multi01.pkt file from expand01.mix.)

Once you're done with writing the map's info to the multiXX.pkt file, open XCC MIX Editor. (Start -> All programs -> XCC -> MIX Editor)

Create a new mix file named "expandXX.mix" where XX is the same number as you had in the multixx.pkt file and insert the multixx.pkt file to the new MIX file. Then click on "Save".

Then, download the map and extract it to the TS folder. After you've extracted it, rename the file "The Hills Have Eyes.mpr" to "TheHillsHaveEyes.map" (it MUST match the name in the multixx.pkt file). After this, insert the map file to multi.mix.

After this, delete the multixx.pkt file from the game's direcotry and you're done!


Yes, I know I explained it quite badly, but if you can't get how to do it after reading this tutorial, I recommend that you simply extract the map to the TS folder and let it be there. The slowdown isn't a serious deal at all unless you have an old computer and you have dozens of maps in the TS folder.

This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Apr 29 2008, 06:07 PM