emp_atomic, also chris0132's fabulous blog.

Eh, only about 1 AM in the US West coast (PDT).

The manifest uses antlion_blood.pcf and vortigaunt_fx.pcf, neither of which actually have their particles used in-game. You could probably rename the .pcf to one of those and throw in some dummy particles with the same names.

...At least until a dev does the proper thing and puts 'map_custom1.pcf' into the resource manifest.

 

Hmm that's an idea.

I'll do that if I can't annoy trickster into solving my problem for me.

 

so that is confirmed?

It's odd that the custom soundscapes works fine but the particle manifests are messed up :/

 

Well custom soundscapes have been around a lot longer than custom manifests.

Ok the map is done, I tested it with a few folks and the installer works fine, I still need to test the download from server option however, and the map is 90mb so it's going to require a server with an FTP mirror I think.

 

All decent servers use a separate fastdownload connection for map download, and we can even compress it considerably.

 

I think the rooms would benefit from a lightmap with a higher resolution if the compiler can handle it.

 

Depending on how large the map is and how much is rendered at once, we'd receive the engine hunk overflow pretty quick. Most empires maps won't work with a lightmap scale smaller than 32 simply because of the size.

 

The map is about a quarter of maxsize in source, and it seems to be pretty well optimised, there's a few points where you can see a large portion of the map, but mainly it's fairly good.

 

chrissoawesome

 

sooooooooooooooooooo whats the release date? I'm sure you have a better idea now that its pretty much finished.

 

Just finished the first test and it went OK, there are a few annoying bugs such as if you walk into someone on a moving lift, it kills you, presumably because softpush is badly coded and intersects you with the lift geometry, so I am going to have to find some way of making lifts kill people who block them but not do damage otherwise.

The stuff I was actually worried about though went fine, I'll see what I can do about the bugs and then release it properly.

 

And I recall either you or someone else telling me that, but I followed the instructions on the valve wiki, but it doesn't work.

 

Ahh now see that's using different names than the valve wiki. Valve wiki says to call it <mapname>_manifest.txt. That says particles_<mapname>.txt

Fortunately however this is an easy thing to correct, I just have to change the names.

Cheers.

 

make map official when next update comes along...

 

It looks beautiful. How does it play though?