Empires Steam Edition Public Tasklist

This thread is where we'll be asking members of the community to do certain things for us, to speed up development. Current list:

1) Every official map (and unofficial too) needs some images to be shown before map load, such as we had back in the 2.12 era. To do this, use, cl_drawhud 0, make sure your graphics settings are on full and there is nothing drawn on the GUI. Screenshots should be 512x512, 1024x1024 or 2048x2048(this would probably require some stitching on your part). The pictures can be of the map when Empty, or when a battle is going on. Just make sure to cover 3 different aspects of the map, and we'll choose the best 3 that are made up.

More to be added later.

 

add someone has to write a "1 a4 page side long guild commanding for dummies"

with noobs flowing in from all sides its going to be newb teams with newb comms fighting newb teams with newb comms

and basically the only part where you need to have "some" idea of what the fuck you are doing is the commander part... if both teams have a crap commander no teams will have fun and both teams will leave this game for ever

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also ffffff this, IL DO IT MYSELF IF NO ONE WANTS TO ITS JUST MY ENGLISH VOCABULARY AND SPELLING SUCKS

edit, sorry i had to vent some frustration anyway it suits the need to have bold language figural speaking

 

I could try to write a pdf with pretty pictures on Commanding, starting tomorrow when I got a hangover.

 

None of that is important, Beerdude already has it covered, and we won't have so many players that there are no commanders. We just need vets to help command on servers and teach newbies.

 

It just needs to be plain simplified english so every Indian, bangladesh-man, Chinese, russian understands it.

 

Would it be possible to make this into a mappers' option? Instead of requiring code support, mappers could make their own images etc.

 

About that commander and guide stuff, since this community is a multi-language community, why not make a multi-language guide for Empires too?
Translated by members of the community of course.
All we need is German, French, Spanish and a mix of Norwegian / Swedish / Danish, since those languages are quite similar.

 

Is stuff like this okay?

w00kie's first try on emp_silo screenshots 1024x1024 px

Also, can we somehow include the node_graph files into every map to get rid of that "downloading node_graph" shit?

 

This is the intention.

 

They're ok, but 480x480 is too small, and the angles weren't that fantastic. To be honest, now I think about it, an empty picture is probably best.

 

its 1024x1024 you doob

 

My bad. And with that, I can say no. You need to ramp up your settings for the screenshots, ESPECIALLY anisotropic filtering.

 

480x480 is the fuck dropbox makes out of 1024x1024. It's hard to make good screenshots when 80% of the map are fugly or look kinda generic.

 

i made an awesome picture guide one time

 

great
till a few seconds ago i didnt know what to do this evening
(bored of every game)
now i know what to do

 

I'll take some good screens..I like photography. Any maps you want in particular or all of them?

 

Anisotropic filtering makes all the textures go blurry after like 2 minutes.

 

2 metres you mean?

 

http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/10061381/1/Empires Promotional Screenshots?h=114da6

 

That's mipmapping, and it's done to prevent the massive amounts of aliasing you would get otherwise.

Trust me, blurry textures are less problematic than having your entire screen be full of fuzz.