Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

HI, OKAY I MADE MY FIRST MAP YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH, IT WAS FUN  AND GETTING A KICK OUTA PLAYING IT,,,,,,,I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS..................... DOES ANYONE HAVE THE COMPLETE DIRECTIONS FOR CREATING ITEMS AND WORKING THE EDIT FUNCTION...........HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH THE  START PLACEMENTS..............LOL THEY SHOW UP ON THE MAP BUT WHEN THE GAMES STARTS LOL THEY ALL GO TO THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN
CANT WAIT FOR THE BETA...........AND IF I CAN BE OF ANY ASSISTANCE WITH MY LIMITED KNOWLEDGE OF 0'S AND 1'S WOULD BE GREATFUL..THANKS
 

i'm not sure how to do maps but doc a cola showed me a site with an armada2 map edit faq, the same thing happens to me with the start postions

Ah

have you namend all start location right ?

example :camera_01  

i think it must be Camera_1 but camera_1 .. i think the map preview will find camera_n places, and they will be displayed correctly in the "fixed location" preview, but the game only uses Camera_n nodes as start locations.
Its only a theory, to be on the safe side, use Camera_n nodes :)

the FAQ is available here
http://www.strategyplanet.com/starmada/map...al/mapfaq.shtml (http://www.strategyplanet.com/starmada/mapcentral/mapfaq.shtml)
therefore map editing is a bit easier than in original armada 2, don't get confused

first of all, this mod is awsome!
i am also having trouble with the starting locations.  i followed the instructions here http://www.strategyplanet.com/starmada/map...al/mapfaq.shtml (http://www.strategyplanet.com/starmada/map...al/mapfaq.shtml)  but when i try to play the map, it says there are no starting locations  :(
 

ok, how to make start locations  B)

scroll to the position you want to make the first player start (yea)
ALT-leftclick where the start location should be. You will add a pin-like object
now doubleclick on the pin. A options dialog should pop up. Leave every setting untouched except the name. Change it to Camera_1

repeat this procedure with Camera_2, Camera_3 and so on

thanks for that

is there any way of say if you want to have astroids going from one cornor to the other any way of doing it all in one go???

thats not possible currently...

dang!
will it or...?

i hope so  

for performance reasons there will be a few asteroid sets which are larger then now.. so fuildic will get playable :) with this 'sets' it will be easy to fill large areas of a map with asteroid fields..
moveable asteroid fields are not planed

yay, nay

Then I wouldn't spend forever making a field to have it crash on me :(  

OKAY I TOOK A LOOK AT THE INFO ON ARMADA FILES WITH REGARDS TOO MAKING MAPS........PRETTY INFORMATIVE THO IT SEEMS THERE IS STILL A SHIT LOAD OF DATA THAT IS NOT BEING SHARED I GUESS MAYBE TOO KEEP THE MAPS TO A PRMITIVE LEVEL OR FEAR WE WILL SCREW IT UP.BUT SO FAR SO GOOD..............DOCA I SENT YOU TWO MAPS THAT I MADE THEY ARE RATHER LARGE MAPS NOT SIMPLE ACTUALLY AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OR ANY ADVICE...THANKS

where did you sent them to? i haven't received an email

DOCa Cola

have you got a high junk filter maybe i know hotmail have done anoying things like that put up my junk filter setting with out asking me in the first place???

man they can be anoying at times!!! :schmoll:  

pls. send emails to docacola@borgcore.de
i even don't usually check hotmail account due to i receive a lot of spam mails there

DOCa Cola

lol

err right i just done my second map the first one i've asked docacola to place the starting places on the second one i tried it i'm still starting in the middle even though i place down 4 start loactions???
in short hand HELP!!! ^_^  

#1  Starting Locations

If you want to make a map with only 4 players, you have to turn off the extra starting positions.  To do this, hit Ctrl-R, and for Starting Locations 5 throught 8, on the right-hand side of the box, change SP/MP Choosable to empty.  The extra start locations at the center of the map are these extra slots.


#2  Asteroids

EDIT:  Never mind, didn't play with all the buttons yet.

and the asteroid field box / the asteroid field path won't work in Fleet Operations :)
but to save time and performace there are now so called "asteroid sets" which are complete ateroid fields you can place, which allow you to fill large asteroid areas in no time. cause armada has far less objects to calculate even fluidic (the slowest map in beta1.1) should become playable :)

oooopppppssss ahhhhh doca cola i think i sent it too your hot mail account by mistake and if iam a very lucky bear its still there i had to do a major reformat here and lost most of the maps i had made and there was one there that i really liked would you mimd taking a look at hotmail........gullp....thanks

gulp is all? I know someone who gets hundreds of emails from forums, never uses his eamil, and thats his new one too.

yea, i have installed a program a while ago so that my hotmail account is checked through my mail program but i got no mail from you, really

DOCa Cola

i can hear u scream from hear lol

lol, that was just our cars brakes

o ok then
lol

can you place thisaddey in the info section please?

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