Tatooine: Canyon Settlement

[Jaspo]

Sorry, first of all, I kind of left the screenies I have behind when I went computer hopping to get this posted.

What we have here is an alpha that overall is about 70% complete.

map overview:
gcw and cw conquest and lazer tag in Beggar's Canyon, podrace on the Boonta Eve Classic circuit (book accurate, and would be movie accurate if the movie was accurate...especially with the third lap included [from the deleted scenes], landmarks got shuffled around somehow)

readme:

Tatooine: Canyon Settlement
Alpha Release 1
By Jaspo

project status:
Conquest - Completed
Lazer Tag - Completed (mission included in the original lazer tag mod release, downloadable seperately)
Podrace - Very much WIP; track is about 50% complete and scripting is about 5% complete.

Podrace sectors and portals need relocation (I moved all the objects but not the sectors and portals, yet) so expect strange things.
Podrace mode does currently contain 1 model of fully unarmed and operational podracer. Happy flying (fast...very fast, and dangerous, as advertised)



Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?kkf36ho2oqabk5g

Edit:
Newer download (Alpha 2nd release on swbffiles):
http://www.gamefront.com/files/files/23 ... _alpha.zip

And Screenshots!

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[Ant]

This mod rocks! I just downloaded it! Finally someone made a Podrace map!

[DarthD.U.C.K.]

thanks! that sounds really interesting, i cant wait to test it

[DarthSolous]

Can't wait til the Podrace mode is finished

[sark4425]

Looking forward to your map! :atatpilot:

[Cerfon Rournes]

Can't wait til the Podrace mode is finished

This. The controls on the Podracers seem perfect. Other than that, great map layout and mini-map. Looking forward to the release.

[TWINKEYRUNAWAY]

How cool! Jaspo you really do make some pretty cool stuff!

[DylanRocket]

Podrace?I've got to try this!

[Locutus]

Sorry for the bump (I know it's close to the 30 days) but I finally found some time to try this out.
The podrace mode looks really fun but it seems very bugged (I know it's WIP but still) because when I spawn I don't see any terrain below me and only of few open objects in greater distance (except for the podracers themselves which are right next to me). As soon as I move (no matter in what direction) I get the out-of-boundaries message and die. Is it just me are is it currently really like this?
Okay, the real reason why I'm bumping is to ask: Can we expect a new version any time soon?

[Jaspo]

Well, up until a few days ago it was like that...the vehicle spawns and command posts and all that were simply located more or less in the default conquest location, rather than on any meaningful position on the racecourse...particularly since I haven't done the Laguna Caves modeling yet; that's the closest landmark to where they were...so basically everything was parked on the inside of Ben's Mesa (the minimap is accurate in podrace mode)
But, I've moved all that stuff to the starting grid now (though the modeling at the arena isn't complete either)
The out of bounds message is unfortunate, but probably unavoidable...to make the podracers fly rather than hover, yet be restrained to the appropriate flying height, I made the podracers flyers but set the player's minflyheight to 3 and maxflyheight to 6. Therefore, attempting to go either higher or lower than this will result in the out-of-bounds message (which I did manage to change)
and unfortunately will also result in your destruction if you don't get back to a flight height of between 3-6 in 15 seconds or whatever. I would of course like to be able to get rid of the message and countdown, while retaining the flight height constraints, but I'm not sure how to do that, or if it's even possible.
Right now I'm trying to figure out the race programming...I'm pleased with how well flyer splines are working in this context but currently the coding part is giving me some trouble (see the topic in the modding section)

EDIT
Added a new download link and screenshots (finally)

[zwyx1234]

Why do the podracers need to fly? hovering would be *much* easier and eliminate the bug altogether.

[Marth8880]

So the A.I. flyers will make use of the flyer splines.