LongTerm collaborative map edit.

[EvilGrins]

Whole dealio I kept to pretty much 1 forum:
http://hermskii.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=3576

Though there's been screenshots from it in several.

Map is THUNDERBOLT'S MonsterHunt DarkForest, a massive map that I loved but thought could use some tweaking. Been getting help from Nelsona, suggestions from others.

It's nearly done, there's downloads on the 3rd page of that for stages of the edit, if anyone wants to take a run at them, but make sure you get my 1st release edit, plus the download for the GreenieGun, otherwise none of the subsequent downloads have anything in them other than the map.

[Red_Fist]

WTF there is NO paths, not even the one for the bots to get out of the start building.
I played (tested) MH-EG-DARKFOREST.unr

Ordered them to "cover me" or "freelance" like pulling teeth since there is no path out of the building.

Put the editor in zone view,and look at the paths.

I would not mess with the looks it looked pretty cool.

The whole map design I can see what you are doing, however I can herd the monsters, use creature factories so one can't do that. That will allow you to decrease the health of those pawns, but still make it as hard.

I like the map, refreshing level unlike all the rest.

Use the blockpath and the monster waypoint to guide the bots along, then spawn more enemies upon the bots them hitting the monsterwaypoint.

[EvilGrins]

WTF there is NO paths, not even the one for the bots to get out of the start building.

Pathing isn't my strong suit, and there was none on the original map. That's why I had Nelsona take care of it. I released my initial edit, Nelsona pathed it, and then I would do some final edits.

Nelsona is great with bot-pathing, and something he calls monster-pathing.

Nelsona's first was this:
http://hermskii.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1285
I had some issues with it, under the heading of "TOO MUCH PATHS! TOO MUCH PATHS!!" as everything on the map attacks at once. Which would've been fine on a smaller map but on this big thing it was too much of a memory drain.

This was Nelsona's 2nd:
http://hermskii.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1289
Think they have the same filename, be careful there.

I like the 2nd better, and we'll see how it goes from there. There's a few more bits of tweaking to do.

Ordered them to "cover me" or "freelance" like pulling teeth since there is no path out of the building.

Originally I played it that way too. Only 3 bots, all of them following me. Usually when they died, i died either just before or after so they'd come out of the cabin again following me.

[Red_Fist]

You need to see the paths for yourself.

Rightclick the gray area right above the unrealed window and ckick "show paths"

Click the icon, same area to see zone view to see the blue and red lines easier.

there is NO path network here at all, NONE

ADD
They will follow you, a little but order "freelance" , the idea of paths is to have them not need to follow you and complete the map on their own. (and other important reasons for the monsters)

It's a pretty cool map even seeing in the editor. It has great potential if you learn creature factories, blocked path actor with triggers, and use monster waypoints.

[UT99.org]

None of two have

Warning: Failed to load 'C:DOCUME~1darkLOCALS~1TempRar$DI00.109MH-EG-DARKFOREST_PT1.unr': Can't find file for package 'WSWestern_Pack1'
Warning: Failed to load 'Level None.MyLevel': Can't find file for package 'WSWestern_Pack1'

Please share complete one

[ASLY]

WSWestern_Pack1

• http://www.filedropper.com/WSWesternPack1

[UT99.org]

EvilGrins medor

Warning: Failed to load 'Level None.MyLevel': Can't find file for package 'ripperjrm22'

[ASLY]

RipperJRM22

• http://www.filedropper.com/RipperJRM22

Check which files are you don't have with [zOm] Server Map Manager

[Higor]

Time to try it...
About paths, I always have BotZ to fix my issues ^^, might as well post the path file while the map has no network.

Edit: OH SHI-
No mirror!

[papercoffee]

...I always have BotZ to fix my issues ^^

What about a BotZ Window menu like the one for the default bots?

[Red_Fist]

It can be advantageous to leave out paths if desired to certain monsters or places you don't want the bots to go or monsters to leave, it can have some advantage depending on the way you want the map to work. Is probably what he is talking about, because sometimes you want the monsters to just mull around some area and only attack when they see you and not follow you around.

I might path this mainly for bots to keep up with you like one long path and not too many offshoots. like follow a road.
But there should at least be a path for them to get out of the house.
Not sure I am looking at the correct map version either.

But what one could do is keep herding all the monsters, go back use a redeemer and kill them all at once. So probably would be good to use those monster waypoints, when a bot hits one it could send an event to spawn another area of enemies, and a trigger for the player to hit, use a large radius. Then as you go along there could be another fight scene more new enemies.

But then if someone just ran around the map there would be a zillion pawns that spawned. That brings in the counter, so for each area you would have to clean before the next trigger could "other trigger turns on" spawn the next area.

There is a ton of things that could be done depending on how you want the map to play.

[EvilGrins]

Getting the impression i should've waited until the entire project was done before posting anything about it here.

there is NO path network here at all, NONE

Yes, that's what I said. The first released edit, the incomplete one, has no paths.

Please share complete one

Because Nelsona knew I had all the files for the map, he only mailed me back the map with the pathing he had on it. If you download my initial edit, along with the link for the GreenieGun, and then try all that with the map you downloaded... it works fine.

so you don't have to search · http://www.mediafire.com/download/u0z96 ... t+ZETA.zip · http://www.unrealcentral.com/downloads/ ... nieGun.zip

I can't do anymore on the map until I get home tonight, and Nelsona got my input on his latest edit of my edit... so he may have a newer download for me to look at by then too.

[Red_Fist]

Just not sure what map I am supposed to be trying, post a link to the most current one for testing.
I have the other files already.

ok this is what I got just now
DarkForest ZETA.zip

[EvilGrins]

Just not sure what map I am supposed to be trying, post a link to the most current one for testing.
I have the other files already.

DarkForest ZETA.zip

The ZETA, plus that GreenieGun, have all the files you need. The ZETA has NO pathing.

Try this · http://hermskii.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1285 · That's Nelson'a first edit. He loves it, me not so much... because everything attacks at once.

Still, try that one and let me know what you think.

[Higor]

Grins, u gotta optimize the mesh rendering.
Measure the diagonal distance of the map square, have all decorations have a max render distance of let's say... 70% of said distance, you'll make lots of decos disappear like that if you stand on a corner of the map.
Select the decos, go to Display > VisibilityRadius > set that value to the max visible distance you want.