[CANCELLED]"Star Wars: Battlefront Expanded" Official Mod Thread

[Led]

 

keep in touch!

[Giftheck]

UPDATE: I've started working on this again, but I'm doing it on odd days instead of all in one go - if I do it in one go, I know I'll just end up losing interest again.

So far, this is what I've come out with:

-The Republic Commando is gone, sadly. Even with the lower-resolution model, it still triggered other units into low-resolution more often than not. It's been replaced with the Clone Assassin.
-The new clone legions are as follows: Phase I, Phase I snow, ARC units, 501st, 212th, 327th, Coruscant Shock Troopers, Galactic Marines, 41st. The ARC units will have a prototype Phase II unit as their commander (special thanks to AceMastermind for fixing the model issues)
-The MagnaGuard will be armed with a Tri-Shot pistol as its secondary weapon.
-A modified campaign will folow the Republic, Empire and Rebels up to after the Battle of Endor.
-I want to reconvert a couple of BF2 maps - mainly Geonosis, Kamino, Utapau, Coruscant and Mygeeto, and this is mainly due to collision issues with the original conversions - Geonosis hasn't been converted at all, actually. Kamino has major collision issues, as does Coruscant. Utapau and Mygeeto have minor issues that hex-editing will fix. Sadly, this will take quite a bit of time as each collision mesh has to be renamed. Some will probably have to be re-exported to enable collision properly. Any help on this front would be duly appreciated.

[TK 141]

How does the clone assassin work?

[Giftheck]

Basically, it's a sniper. The layout of its weapons hasn't changed.

[Unit 33]

Fantastic, are you sticking with the same skins for Empire and Rebs from the last version, because those were beast.

[Giftheck]

With exception of the Incinerator Trooper, yes. If I can find a place for the Incinerator, maybe in a separate map mode, I'll definitely add it in.

[Giftheck]

A new development: Teancum released the shipped BF2 spacemaps on GameToast. So I'll be portin and altering a couple for my mod: Space: Coruscant, Space: Yavin IV, Space: Kashyyyk and Space: Hoth.

Aside from this, I won't be converting many maps from BF2 - I know I want the Death Star, the Jedi Temple, Mygeeto and Utapau. The current Mustafar conversion is fine. Plus I'll be adding Coruscant: Streets.

So my planned map list is thus:

Bespin: Platforms
Bespin: Cloud City
Coruscant: Jedi Temple
Coruscant: Streets
Death Star: Interior (GCW)
Endor: Bunker (GCW)
Geonosis: Spire (CW)
Hoth: Echo Base
Kamino: Tipoca City
Kashyyyk: Islands
Kashyyyk: Docks
Mustafar: Refinery
Mygeeto: War-Torn City
Naboo: Plains
Naboo: Theed
Naboo: Prototype (will change name later)
Rhen Var: Harbour
Rhen Var: Citadel
Space: Coruscant (CW)
Space: Kashyyyk (CW)
Space: Hoth (GCW)
Space: Yavin (GCW)
Tatooine: Dune Sea
Tatooine: Mos Eisley
Tatooine: Jabba's Palace
Utapau: Sinkhole
Yavin IV: Temple
Yavin IV: Arena

[SleepKiller]

Sounds good, looking forward to it.

[MARCUS]

where can i find those space maps?

[Led]

ggctuk will be porting them--they are not released (for SWBF) yet

[Phobos]

good idea, isn't there a tutorial for how to port maps somewhere?

[Led]

Battlebelk wrote one that lives on gametoast.  Sleepkiller has mentioned that it is not perfect.

[Giftheck]

It isn't perfect because it may port level geometry but sometimes the paths are screwed up and there are collision issues you have to manually fix. However, I know that there's not as many collision problems with Space objects as there are with the ground map objects. However, since I'm not proting geomoetry with Space maps, all I have to do is copy over the object files and the layouts, and not the terrain files, and I can do the rest from there.

[Giftheck]

What I may do, is release the space map ports as separate first, just as a beta. Anybody agree with this idea?

[Led]

What I may do, is release the space map ports as separate first, just as a beta. Anybody agree with this idea?

I am on board!  Let me know if I can do anything to help.  I've gotten decent at making map lua's

(Still learning on a lot of other stuff though )