i thought instead of clogging up the 1.0 dicussion with things not related to the 1.0 release i make a thread just dedicated to vapo's new map, for listing changes, bugs, and whatnot

http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f354-community-maps/91883-map-black-gold-4km-wip.html#post1507053

 

***********************************BLACK GOLD***********************************

 

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv178/vapoman/ingameMap18march.jpg

 

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv178/vapoman/flaglayout-1.jpg

 

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv178/vapoman/Black%20Gold/loadBackground4-1.jpg

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv178/vapoman/Black%20Gold/loadBackground3-1.jpg

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv178/vapoman/Black%20Gold/loadBackground2.jpg

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv178/vapoman/Black%20Gold/loadBackground1.jpg

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv178/vapoman/Black%20Gold/BF22011-01-2723-57-56-13.jpg

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv178/vapoman/Black%20Gold/BF22011-01-2723-56-40-81.jpg

 

Terrain was made using GeoControl 2, Texture made by Bf2_Tpaint and the training map layout (used in the old versions) is from Kashan Desert 0.85 (thanks for the permission to use it).

 

Teams are PLA vs MEC, I would be happy to use a community faction in the future

 

The basic story of the map is that China needs more oil for its fast growing country, and to get the oil it needs it has invaded an oil rich middle eastern/central asian country.

 

Albulm:

Black Gold pictures by vapoman - Photobucket

 

Vehicle layouts

[b]AAS 16 inf layout[/b]
Both teams:
6x troop transports
4x logistics truck
2x Transport Jeep
2x transport helicopter


[color="Red"]PLA[/color]
2x VN3
2x WZ551 50cal

2x FAAV

1x Zhi-9 light attack helicopter
Or
1x wz11 light attack helicopter

[color="DarkOrange"]MEC[/color]
2x BRDM
2x MTLB 50cal

2x Military Techinical

1x ec635 light attack helicopter
Or
1x sa341h light attack helicopter

 

[b]AAS 32 alt layout[/b]
Both teams:
2x troop transports
4x logis

2x transport helicopter


[color="Red"]PLA[/color]
3x VN3
3x WZ551

2x AAV
5x Type 98 MBT

1x Zhi-9 light attack helicopter
Or
1x wz11 light attack helicopter 

2x Z10 Heavy attack helicopter

[color="DarkOrange"]MEC[/color]
3x BRDM
3x MTLB 30mm (placeholder for BMP-2)

2x AAV
5x T-72 MBT

1x ec635 light attack helicopter
Or
1x sa341h light attack helicopter

2x Havoc Heavy attack helicopter

 

[b]AAS 64 std layout[/b]

Both teams:
2x troop transports
4x logis

2x transport helicopter


[color="Red"]PLA[/color]
3x VN3
3x WZ551

2x AAV
5x Type 98 MBT

1x Zhi-9 light transport helicopter

1x J10 fighter jet
1x SU30 two man bomber jet


[color="DarkOrange"]MEC[/color]
3x BRDM
3x MTLB 30mm (placeholder for BMP-2)

2x AAV
5x T-72 MBR

1x sa341h light transport helicopter

1x MIG29 fighter jet
1x SA34 bomber jet

 

Latest version:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20013980/black_gold_17_feb.rar

 

Previous Versions

Download Black Gold 27 Jan

Download 24th December version

Download 12th December version

Download 8th December version

 

Installation:

delete any old versions of community_training in this directory:

Program files>EA GAMES>Battlefield2>mods>pr>levels

Then exract the downloaded file with WINRAR into the levels directory.

You should now have a folder called black_gold containing info, client.zip and server.zip in your levels forlder.

 

 

ChangeLog

28_jan 2011

This version does not use an installer.

No longer using Training layout.

Several new flag locations.

Many new changes to statics, terrain and sky.

 

24_dec 2010

Added alt layer for community training night.

Small tweaks.

Now using an installer.

 

12_dec 2010

Fixed known bugs.

Added crates to everyflag.

Made terrain more bumpy.

Moved around and added a few more static objects.

New minimap.

Changed some of the vehciles, added mec light helicopters.

New terrain lightmaps.

Edited March 21, 201115 yr by Austin

also may i suggest that you could put two spawn points on the mains the other one being near the Heli's?

Yeah all the spawn points, vehicle spawns, and flags are going to be redone for AAV4 so ill probably do that.

Latest minimap and the current plan for the attack routes (about 17 routes so far I think).

 

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv178/vapoman/ingameMap16feb.jpg

 

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv178/vapoman/flaglayout01.jpg

-snip-

Edited April 26, 201115 yr by Austin

I like the lighting scheme in that.

That is looking really nice Vapo, top work!! I hope to see it in game!

great stuff mate, a fair bit of effort.... looks tidy.

its a really great map, i highly recommend it

looks like mars, but thats awesome

Thanks guys :shower:

 

I am in need of some people to test some things with me, tomorrow or later. Mainly need to see if the 4km map shadow bug is bad enough in my map for me to need to change the sky settings.

EG of bug: http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e142/kysterama/4x_shadow.jpg

 

Download link:http://www.gamefront.com/files/20013980/black_gold_17_feb.rar

Exract to EA GAMES/Battlefield 2/mods/pr/levels

(delete previous version first if you have it installed)

 

Hamachi Download (choose unmanaged):https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/download.aspx

Hamachi Server details:

name: vapomaptest

password: vapoman

 

Reply here if interested...

The hue in the sky is fantastic and has great ambiance.

 

Original looking map ... Lurve it!

Dude that looks amazing.

 

One thing caught my eye:

 

the 6th pic in your post, the one with the bunkers in a right around a tower and some smaller shelters, it looks a bit barren. Maybe scatter some fuel tanks (the larger kind) or other things around in there. Maybe just a few piles of rubble.

yeah i'll help you out, just depends on the time tho, if you can make it before 4 i will gladly help out

Would be happy to lend a paw. Looks awesome, although It's a shame can't Replace the MEC 'Millitary Technical' With the Vodnik's they used to have....

 

Vodniks were awesome.

Ill help out after work today, if you like.

I like the look of the map. My fav maps are the ones with a bit of everything in them, close streets, open plains, roccky hills and random out posts. Im downloading it now.

Good work!

im home all day Vapo so just PM me if you want

Its a very interesting map vapo, testing that shadowbug, its only noticeable in when flying in jets pulling up after taking off/attack run and in rear camera, so not really noticeable at all. There is a runway shadow flicker issue, but from memory that's the runways that cause that because its on kashan etc too.

 

Im running all settings on high with 4x AA and max vd on the scalebar.

Ok Im going to be running the server at ~12 WST (perth time). Ill be on TS.

keep getting this msg

 

Thank you for downloading black_gold_17_feb.rar

The file you are looking for seems to be unavailable at the moment.

Please come back later.

Please Click here to go back to the file

keep getting this msg

 

Thank you for downloading black_gold_17_feb.rar

The file you are looking for seems to be unavailable at the moment.

Please come back later.

Please Click here to go back to the file

 

Its doing that for me to. Ill upload it again, might fix it.

 

EDIT it didnt fix it, I guess you will just have to wait until it is available.

Edited February 18, 201115 yr by Austin

The gamefront/filefront dl is broken so I've uploaded the same map version on 4shared.

 

http://www.4shared.com/file/faGsWhQ0/black_gold_17_feb.html

 

Enjoy.

Dl now. File size 69.3MB.

Love ur map Vapo

I'd be happy to giv u feedbacks as a Low-End User

 

I would really love to see this in the next release xD

Cheerz

Got the Map, working and looks good. Should organise for a round this Weekend to test and stuff about on it. See how much we can break to make sure it's all stable and ballanced, and all that other good stuff.