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Indoor Maps Will TLA have indoor maps?

#1 Caesar

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Posted 06 August 2005 - 08:16 PM

Will TLA have any indoor maps, and if not, will Scenario Designers be able to accuratly portray the insides of buildings, mines ect.?

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Posted 06 August 2005 - 10:12 PM

You mean like in BfME? ... as in the Mines of Moria scenarios... ?

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Posted 06 August 2005 - 10:16 PM

Although I havent played BfME, I suppose so something like that...

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Posted 06 August 2005 - 10:22 PM

Someone trout hit me... bash me or something.

I just remembered BfME doesn't feature "an underground map". It just recreates a whole map "underground"... like what you would want to do with AoK or something with their map editor... create dark textures... etc... :-/

... sorry Caesar89 ...

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Posted 07 August 2005 - 05:42 AM

In BfMe 2, there will probably be underground maps, as some are featured in an interview.

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Posted 07 August 2005 - 03:11 PM

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I just remembered BfME doesn't feature "an underground map". It just recreates a whole map "underground"... like what you would want to do with AoK or something with their map editor... create dark textures... etc... :-/

Oh, well thats ok, thats what I'm doing with my campaign for BOME. My idea for TLA is to have eyecandy objects that can be put togather to make walls and tunnels for underground and indoor scenarios. You wouldnt get that with a random map, but it could be used in scenarios.

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Posted 07 August 2005 - 04:16 PM

We should boycott all of EA's attempts in making the most perfect "LotR" game.

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Posted 07 August 2005 - 09:29 PM

HistoryGuy, on Aug 6 2005, 11:12 PM, said:

You mean like in BfME? ... as in the Mines of Moria scenarios... ?

I think it would be better to compare indoor scenario's with those of WarCraft and StarCraft.

And I know the team has been brainstorming about the multiple layers (underground, aboveground) but I have no idea what they have done with that so far.

Anyways, would be nice for RPG scenario's but I find it hard to imagine where those scenario's should take place.

Wait, maybe there are a few things: Thangorodrim and the royal halls/dungeons of Elwë Singollo.

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Posted 08 August 2005 - 08:51 AM

Moria, Nargothrond(invasion of), Menegroth(the dwarves escaping with the silmaril), Gondolin (the seven gates, of which some were underground), ...

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Posted 08 August 2005 - 05:33 PM

just a quick heads-up from the devs: yes, we are definite planning on having underground maps in the game ... at certain points in the game you'll be able to switch between surface and underground ... but i can't divulge any more details as of now ... cheers!

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Posted 11 August 2005 - 10:40 PM

Perhaps TLA can be modded so that the underground can resemble the interior of a building. :king:

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#12 Caesar

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Posted 11 August 2005 - 10:45 PM

Why not both? Terrains and wall types could include both underground and interior pieces, and some that could act as both. I would suggest that each civ have it's own wall types for underground and interior maps.

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Posted 12 August 2005 - 10:00 PM

Considering Moria, then there have to be buildings underground. Heck, even considering Dwarf buildings in general.

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#14 Caesar

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Posted 12 August 2005 - 10:29 PM

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Considering Moria, then there have to be buildings underground. Heck, even considering Dwarf buildings in general.

Not necessarily. You could have eye-candy objects that could serve the purpose of resembling of forges and armouries. Problems might come in where you have to show Khazad-dum at its height, and then the ruined and pillaged mines of Moria, but this could be solved by giving playable civs (maybe even scenario civs) multiple individual tunnel pieces (including stairs and eye-candy like pillars and statues- I'm going to stop myself now because I can go on forever on this topic). I am dealing with the same problems in making my AoK campaign for BOME.

I suppose you are right about the Dwarf buildings though, they didnt build on the surface very much, so unless you are planning to make underground portions of maps available even in random-map games, you might have to sacrifice accuracy for playability