[TS] Blood River (2-8)

Tuc0 · Last edited by Tuc0 on Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:35 pm; edited 5 times in total

Blood River
2-8 players

I have decided to create a remake of "A river runs near it" map from Westwood.
Map is made from scratch, it has large size for 8 players, giving players more building space and increased map details in all ways.

There are some basic triggers like Day&Night cycle, plus special ones such as bridge repair trucks or 10% chance for ion storm during night.

Feel free to post feedback.

Update to v1.1:
-Small cliffs and slopes adjustments
-Cleared some tiles near C1, C3, C4, C19, C20, C21 cliffs
-Small vein changes

Update to v1.2:
-fixed 2 wrong tiles near spawn 5 (waypoint 4)
-applied newest E1 Elite's IsoMapPack5 compression

Update to v1.3
-fixed missing dirt road tile
-adjusted hint for pathfinding

Update to v1.4
-fixed stuck units after leaving tunnel (bottom left tunnel)
-playable clear area increased to 202x210 (also more build space for 3rd and 7th location)
-small terrain adjustments at map edges
-updated both map preview images

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E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

Nice, big and detailed map.

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Wow, this looks amazing. The map crashes when I try to open it in FinalSun, though.

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Tuc0 · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:06 am Post subject:

Crimsonum wrote:

Wow, this looks amazing. The map crashes when I try to open it in FinalSun, though.

Thanks,
to open in FS: set "Size=0,0,204,214" in text editor.

Tuc0 · Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:42 pm Post subject:

Update:
-Small cliffs and slopes adjustments
-Cleared some tiles near C1, C3, C4, C19, C20, C21 cliffs
-Small vein changes

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Tuc0 wrote:

to open in FS: set "Size=0,0,204,214" in text editor.

woah, not only a big, but a huge map.
And also very well detailed.
Great job.

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Tuc0 · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:34 pm Post subject:

Thanks

I still can't believe how lucky I am to be able to use different IsoMapPack5 compression. Without it, the map would be much smaller or details would be heavily compromised.
I really appreciate E1 Elite's work even more, knowing that only few people will actualy use it.

HG_SCIPCION · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:01 pm Post subject:

beautiful map, TS maps are very special.
More maps please!

Works in RA2:

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

That's some damn beautiful artwork.
HG, your signature desperately needs a link to your Global Crisis mod.

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Tuc0 · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:48 pm Post subject:

@HG_SCIPCION
Nice screenshots Rating 10 out of 10! Perfect!

Does the RA2 draw water cliff edges shadows in the same way as TS?
I have mixed land and water cliff edges together to prevent shadow bug.

TAK02 · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 7:32 am Post subject:

I'd like to file a complaint: the name "blood river" is false advertisement, as the water is clearly blue, not red. I'd like 10 million dollars please #Tongue

Looks nice, tho.
Oh, and @HG too Smile

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Tuc0 wrote:

Does the RA2 draw water cliff edges shadows in the same way as TS?

Instead of fixing it, WW removed cliff shadows entirely.

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E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

Tuc0 wrote:

I still can't believe how lucky I am to be able to use different IsoMapPack5 compression. Without it, the map would be much smaller or details would be heavily compromised.

Try the latest map renderer, it should give better IsoMapPack5 compression.

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Any way to get the same updated compression to Starkku's MapTool?

Also, since the renderer already does more than just render the map, it might be worth to consider updating the name of the program...I propose Final Sun Finalizer #Tongue

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E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

Latest map renderer computes 18 different 4-level tile field's sort combinations and selects the best out of those. Those 18 selected combinations were arrived at from statistics of large number 4-level sort combinations on 100s of maps as it is computationally intensive to have all those. Starkku's Maptool just gives 4 individual 3-level sort combination options to be given in profiles to check which one is better manually. Manually checking those large number of combinations is like going backwards when an application can do it for you with a click of a button.

Tuc0 · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 3:00 pm Post subject:

Indeed, it compressed IsoMapPack5 in my map even more. Nice job!
The only thing standing in the way of big maps up to wxh=512 is (probably) FS minimap window Smile

Which makes around 74% of original size.

TS IsoMapPack5 limit is around 9753 lines.

Tuc0 · Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:49 am Post subject:

Update to v1.2:
-fixed 2 wrong tiles near spawn 5 (waypoint 4)
-applied newest E1 Elite's IsoMapPack5 compression

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E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

That IsoMapPack5 lines limit can now be extended in the game with this hack.

Your snow map divide and conquer also needs fixing, to make it run on vanilla game.

Tuc0 · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 7:06 pm Post subject:

Are there any issues or IE with D&C? IsoMapPack5 has 8941 lines so it shouldn't be issue.
I have have tested only on my modded and vanilla TS Clients.

E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

Answered on that map thread. It was crashing with IE EIP:0058BF9C for the IMOV overlay usage.

Tuc0 · Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 9:27 am Post subject:

Updated map to v1.3
-fixed missing dirt road tile
-adjusted pathfinding

Iran · Pyro Sniper **Joined**: 23 Mar 2011

Tuc0 wrote:

Indeed, it compressed IsoMapPack5 in my map even more. Nice job!
The only thing standing in the way of big maps up to wxh=512 is (probably) FS minimap window Smile

Which makes around 74% of original size.

TS IsoMapPack5 limit is around 9753 lines.

Can't you just patch the game to read more lines?

Tuc0 · Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 12:55 pm Post subject:

Iran wrote:

Can't you just patch the game to read more lines?

I have patched game.exe, but it takes no more than one minute for additional compression and making it playable on other TS clients.

Tuc0 · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:43 pm Post subject:

Update to v1.4
-fixed stuck units after leaving tunnel (bottom left tunnel)
-playable clear area increased to 202x210 (also more build space for 3rd and 7th location)
-small terrain adjustments at map edges
-updated both map preview images

note: if you would like to open map in FS, decrease map size using MapResize by -5 on width and -7 on height dimensions.