Atredies Capital in Skirmish?

[ethan]

is there any way to get the atredies capital campaign map in skirmish? it's a really nice map, and it has cool stone things!

thanks for your help, if you provide any.

[guusr5644]

i didnt saw it but i was told i will probably

like it so ill try

[nemafakei]

Hm... Can map makers make stone buildings - the textures exist - and you only need squarish objects.

[ethan]

i mean where you build on. the squares, you know?

[IxianMace]

Hm... Can map makers make stone buildings - the textures exist - and you only need squarish objects.

Stone buildings? What stone buildings are you talking about in particular? If you like, I could try building a map with these 'stone buildings' for you. :) Just tell me what textures to use, and what objects you want me to use, including the tileset, and the lighting. I've already made an Arrakis and Giedi Prime map, I'm going to go for Draconis and Caladan next. ;D

[ethan]

i would like a Caladan one well lighted and JUST LIKE the Atredies Capital from Campaigns

[IxianMace]

Well the only lighting scheme that would fit the Caladan environment/map would be 'caladanscript.ssf' I could try to mix lighting effects with different maps, but that wouldn't be very realistic (check out the fan made map: "Massacre on Giedi Prime")

So you're saying that you want a map that uses the Caladan tileset, and that is exactly like the Atreides capital map in the campaign? I'm not sure I could get it exactly, but I'll give it a go if you like. What kind of lighting do you want me to use?

dawn.ssf

nighttime.ssf

caladanscript.ssf

lateevening.ssf

iceworld.ssf (lol)

giediscript.ssf (lol)

normaldune.ssf

storm.ssf

[Gobalopper]

All campaign maps are stored in the MAPS00001.rfh I think... its one of the first ones. All you would have to do is extract them to your Maps/ directory, ie the one used for fanmaps, and it will be available in the game.

That is how Stealth got Hole in the Rock to work in skirmish if I remember correctly.

[ethan]

how do you extract from rfh?

[Gobalopper]

DuneEx2 is the best program for that.

[ethan]

ok, i will d/l it from Fed2k if its not huge.

like over 500kbs

[ethan]

i mean this and this

[Gobalopper]

Well it will be that map but it won't have the buildings of course.

[ethan]

yes, i understand now. i have downloaded the DuneEx2 now. is it relatively easy to use?

[Frodo]

yes, it is very easy to use. It is similar to winace and winzip but for rfh files.

[ethan]

alright, i will work on it.

[ethan]

ugh, i cant find any .cmf files. where are they?

[Frodo]

go to the maps0001 directory, they should be in there.

[Gobalopper]

They aren't stored in cmf format, they are just regular files that you would see *after* extracting the cmf file.

[ethan]

so you pack it up with the mappacker and unpack it in the emp directory?

[Gobalopper]

Ok here are the steps:

1. Open up DuneEx2

2. Open up MAPS0001.RFH

3. Find the map you want by looking at the path field.

4. Extract that directory and it's files to Emperor/Data/Maps/

5. Open Emperor and find the map in the listing.

[IxianMace]

Just tried that, and unfortunately the map is unplayable. It showed up fine in the map listing (only without the thumbnail image), but it said that it was a 0 player map). :O ::) Therefore, when you click play, no matter how many players you have, it always says: "Selected map is too small for this many players".

[guusr5644]

maybe you can fix that with the map editor!!

or attach the map ill try to modify it ok?

[IxianMace]

Without the .dme map template that was used to create the actual map, no modification is possible I'm afraid. :(

[ethan]

thats crap. are there any other Campaigns that will work?