Stepping Stones, My first disasterous try to make a map... Options

[Daroach]

This is a map for 2 Players which are divided by a canyon.
I tried to test this on TS and terrain was blanked out and the tiberium dissapered, can anyone help me?

Size : 20x55 Temperate

Story: I havent thought of one yet, something about civilians stealing an ICBM launcher...

Edit: Got a story! : Because of the fall of kane local terrorists pick up the peaces of the fallen NOD. They have tighten security and soon the society called: EA (Earth Alliance), will do what nod failled to do...

Triggers: Some but FS won't show the event selection or Action selection (the pulldown tab) so they are incomplete and kind of stalled until further notice.

Minimap:Will be in FS.

In Game:Can't load up for some reason...

Welcome for critisim...

This post has been edited by Cat-a-strobe-ic Dj: Dec 28 2009, 08:30 PM

[Ixith]

well I have three possibilities to why it won't load up...

A) The map is just too small. 20 cells wide is beyond small....i can hardly open the map up in final sun and view it properly because it starts jumping around in the final sun viewing screen
B)the unfinished triggers may be causing it to crap out. Which is weird as to why FinalSun won't pull down the events and actions set...i have no clue what might cause that.
C) You have some tiberium on slope and that will cause the map to crash once you go over it. But again that's once you go over it with the screen while ingame meaning you have to get it ingame first.

But yea i'd have to guess on A of any of those 3 because the game wants you to run on a resolution that can essentially view the entire map and I have a feeling that if the number of map cells doesn't exceed the amount that should appear on the screen with your resolution then it will crash as it doesn't know what to draw outside to border the map if there isn't any more map. Just a guess.

I suggest trying a map no smaller than 50X50 to start out.

But...from what I can see,
1-your cliffs are placed for the most part correctly. However, you didn't quite connect all of the cliffs correctly to the bridges. The Bottom right and the Top Left outside edge of those bridges aren't placed correctly. The top left is one cell back from the bridge spot and the bottom right is just missing one more cliff piece.
Your are also missing the 1 cell cliff connection pieces for the horizontal cliff tiles.
And finally concerning the cliffs you may want to make sure you finish the cliff set all the way to the edge of the map even if it's outside of the blue line as otherwise when you go to level it will cause slopes to level out around the cliff side.
2-Your hills/slopes should be more level and not just suddenly drop off from the cliff like that. It works the way you have most of them but it makes it look weird and quite un-natural.

That's all for now. I suggest just trying a larger map as I believe that is the reason this one won't work. Try 50X50 the size that finalsun gives you at start for your next map or even bigger.
But good luck with continuing on with mapping.