User Created Maps

Gappy · Post by **Gappy** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:26 pm

Keep in mind that people don't really play 'big' maps. Once you start going past 14 sectors, its basically a bios/giga map. Try and avoid sector explosion.

Tontow · Post by **Tontow** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:01 pm

Are there any maps have a random number of sectors and alephs? - Such a map would have to always end up symmetrical, but have a random number of sectors and alephs each time you play on it.

mesial · Post by **mesial** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:57 am

jgbaxter wrote:QUOTE (jgbaxter @ Jan 14 2007, 12:19 PM) Mesial catch my on irc or something and I'll show you, it's not overly hard technically, most of the issue is making a decent map. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

OK, found my way there...

Post by **Raveen** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:48 pm

tontow wrote:QUOTE (tontow @ Jan 14 2007, 09:01 PM) Are there any maps have a random number of sectors and alephs? - Such a map would have to always end up symmetrical, but have a random number of sectors and alephs each time you play on it.

No, this was discussed a while ago but I think it was shelved becuase nobody could think of a good way to code it.

Anguirel · Post by **Anguirel** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:54 pm

Raveen wrote:QUOTE (Raveen @ Jan 15 2007, 07:48 AM) No, this was discussed a while ago but I think it was shelved becuase nobody could think of a good way to code it.

I can think of several good ways to code it. I'm just too lazy to actually get around to doing it. The simplest system would avoid changing Allegiance code entirely by capturing game-end messages (much as TAG does) and after a game-end event you have an outside program overwrite a map file. Creation of an interesting randomized map isn't that terribly difficult using graph theory, but even that could be short-circuited by pre-creating several maps and simply randomly selecting one each time. Bonus points for having a few such random map entries so you can select a general size as well.

mesial · Post by **mesial** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:33 pm

Even with your heip JG, AME makes no sense, i can't figure it out. I'm just going to forget about it, i guess we got enough maps...

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:40 pm

oh you just double right click to place sectors and drag the alephs between them

not knowing about double right click held my up for ages. once i figured that out i was sorted

Post by **Raveen** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:22 pm

I'm going to write some documentation for AME this week (hopefully). That should hopefully allow more people to make maps which gives server hosts the best choices possible.

mesial · Post by **mesial** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:12 pm

I've always said that if I could not figure out a program, I shouldn't be using it...

Anguirel · Post by **Anguirel** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:38 am

_SRM_Mesial wrote:QUOTE (_SRM_Mesial @ Jan 21 2007, 02:12 PM) I've always said that if I could not figure out a program, I shouldn't be using it...

I've always said that if I couldn't figure out a program, I should recode the interface. This has made me very good in figuring out how to use programs. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />