Two map ideas

DShiznit · Posted: 06 Jan 2010 06:08:08 am Post subject: Two map ideas

1. Apartments- 3 apartments with different themes, connected by a hallway. You'd start in an average looking one, there'd be one on one end of the hall with ponies and rainbows, and other crap considered to be "girly", and a third one on the opposite side that plays host to a grisly murder scene.

2. Cruise Ship- As much as I'd love to have a full-size Spirit-class Panamax Merchant Ship(such as the Carnival Miracle), I don't think that would be feasible in this engine. So, I'd go with something smaller, probably less than half that size, which could still be very expansive for a minifigure, but not make the user's CPU cry blood. It would have several staterooms, allthough perhaps only one of each type would be accessible, some kind of dining room, a promenade, and of course a deck with a pool or two.

Now, I've heard of something called "zoning" I have no idea what this is, and I don't think I've ever used this before, but if it could reduce strain on most people's machines enough to make said full-size ship even remotely playable, I'd love to learn how to use it.

MikeShinoda32 · Newbie Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 22

Both sound good Dshiz.
But didn't you make a cruiseship brick-build already? I suppose that would be less laggy as a map instead of a build.
Although that apartment one... grisly murders??
Perfect. Hope you can make it pretty gory.
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KermMartian · Posted: 06 Jan 2010 10:25:57 am Post subject:

Yeah, I'm not too fond of the apartment idea (well, I like the idea of a bunch of apartments, but not so much the themes you came up with). Razz

The cruise ship idea is cool, though, and yes, zoning would help significantly to make this feasible.
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elfprince13 · Posted: 06 Jan 2010 10:32:10 am Post subject: Re: Two map ideas

DShiznit · Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:08:21 am Post subject:

oh cool. Are portals affected adversely by scaling of the interior?

elfprince13 · Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:18:33 am Post subject:

during construction, or after it's been exported? I'm not really sure, but I'd recommend just building to scale. For reference, 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.6 is the size of 1x1x1 brick in constructor.
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DShiznit · Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:27:41 am Post subject:

and 20 times the minifig is about the scale of a human being.

CyberPrime · Power User Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 370

a cruise ship sounds very cool. That would leave hellaroom for secret areas, kitchens and whatnot. Engine room maybe.

DShiznit · Posted: 06 Jan 2010 10:47:21 pm Post subject:

I was only going to do the passenger areas, but if you're familiar with cruise ship engine rooms, go ahead and whip something up in Constructor...

http://go.nwa.travelpn.com/ecruise/ShipDetailsDeck.do;jsessionid=0B399BAFFC161557D5D7A89FEFBBEE1F.p0730?shipId=182

elfprince13 · Posted: 06 Jan 2010 10:50:10 pm Post subject:

that looks like it would zone fairly well. The sweet thing about constructor is one of you could model the engines to an appropriate size, and then send it to DShiznit, for him to drop into his prefab folder, and the place however he wants.
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DShiznit · Posted: 06 Jan 2010 10:55:26 pm Post subject:

Wow, I forgot just how a huge the spirit class was. I think I'll scale this down considerably. I only need 1 theatre, 1 restaurant, and some other assorted amenities. I could actually just re-create my cruise ship build in constructor...