What would you like to see in an island?

[jakerod 254]

Simple Question. What would you like to see in an island? What should it be like?

[Dauragon 0]

big airports, cities,highway

[jakerod 254]

Wow that was fast. City has already been done over 100 buildings (Including a nearby factory complex) Air ports will be there too once i get to the spot. and i think ill be able to do the highway too.

[hellfish6 7]

I'd like to see industries. Not huge factories, necessarily, but things like lumber mills, cement factories, etc. Stuff you see in everyday life that you don't notice.

[jakerod 254]

As of right now I have factory complexs, fields of the akat02_kevy tree (which looks like could be used as some kind of harvest tree) and lots of farms. There will be more things eventually with custom buildings but i need some more texturers and modelers to help. BTW: As you may have noticed im just sitting here hitting refresh (trying to delay studying for french)

[hellfish6 7]

Might I recommend that you do what BAS is planning for their island - minimize the buildings. OFP by default has something like 1000 faces per building, IIRC. You only need six faces to make a cube. For the computing cost of one normal building in OFP, you could have about 166 buildings that are simple textured squares and rectangles. Think about it.

[Dauragon 0]

I would love to see a Presidencial/Mayor building which is enterable(for some missions) , industrial sector would be nice

how about a racing place?

just a few additional suggestions

[waffendennis 0]

Or make scripting points like if player enters an village then the village will be created in a short time and if player leaves city...well the whole thing will be deleted so no lag and good FPS or not?

[jakerod 254]

Ya i was thinking about doing that for some of them. Only thing is I don't like playing in towns (as well as many other people) where there is no cover cuz none of the buildings are enterable or not many of them anyway.

[waffendennis 0]

And thats where my idea comes in....

[jakerod 254]

I think the scripting thing is a good idea but not sure if it would work. I had the presidential idea too my team mate is gonna start work on it soon. And someone else suggested a racing place to me a few days ago which i am also considering.

Edit: Ya you posted the scripting idea while i was typing the last one so i couldnt see it.

[waffendennis 0]

It's ok and i hope you can let the script work because you are the first then who did it and sets an new standart to OFP then ( well i am working on the script to for my islands USMC Hawai, Ouhau etc etc ) so maybe we can work to gether on it?

[Dauragon 0]

If ya need any beta testers ya know where to find me

[waffendennis 0]

If ya need any beta testers ya know where to find me    

that line need's to go in the History

[Major Fubar 0]

A couple of rivers with bridges...

[jakerod 254]

Ill try the rivers but ive been having problems with the bridges lately but ill try.

[The Frenchman 0]

A giant destroyed city with ruins, destroyed churches with towers to snipe from, destroyed cars. Actually, it would be neat if someone could do islands that are parts of real cities. (Moscow,a war torn moscow.)

[jakerod 254]

That wont be happening anytime soon. I was thinking about doing that after I finished this one making a normal and a war torn and maybe a winter. (Its gonna take a long time)

[killswitch 19]

<ul>[*]Large land areas. Big islands. 25.6x25.6 km.

[*]Extensive road networks (more than one way to travel from A to C via B)

[*]Ports

[*] Rivers, lakes and valleys

[*] Urban areas and rural/farmland areas

[*]Somewhat flatter landscapes. No more 600 m peaks 100 m from the shoreline. 200 m hills 1 km from the shoreline is better.

[*] Bridges. Lots of them. Wide so the AI can traverse them.

[*] Winter version of same island on release. (I can dream,can't I?

[*] To repeat, mountains don't just pop up out of nowhere. Highlands away from coastal areas. Ok, Dover is nice and steep and by the sea but AI pilots cant handle cliffs.

[jakerod 254]

Don't think i can make it that big anymore is about hte size of malden right now.

Road Network is pretty complex

Ports will be there once i have some new buildings

Im planning a lake

There are several valleys

Highest point is only about 300m

Bridges ill try but having trouble with them

Probably be a Winter Version sometime

[@cero 0]

Yeah, rivers, bridges, and winter version. That's the main, don't think maybe, be the first to create a island addon with two versions in the same download.

At list it would be nice, and I know this 3 things are probably the most difficult ones to do, well, a winter version would need a full texture face-lift, and I can imagine the work on all that

[PunkSk8 0]

-A big city with lots of tight ally ways (not the wide open ones like bis made)

-Have some dumpter, garbage, different kind of city objects, that would provide good cover on the streets and in allys.

-A big airport

-A tall grassy jungles area.

-corn fields and junk.

-roads go'n through tall grassy plains(good ambush areas)

[jakerod 254]

#1 Done

#2 We will have them as seperate objects that hte mission maker can put iin

#3 We will have it

#4 Not gonna have a jungle maybe grass

#5 Ill try that

#6 Same as above

[PunkSk8 0]

You could also make one half the island a different country from the other. Then in the middle have a huge barbed wire boarder, battlefield kinda thing. but have all the same ideas as before like the cities and junk. I still like to see my tight ally ways idea i would make a map like that but i'm still trying to figure out wrpedit, and visitor

[suchey 0]

I always thought Alcatraz would be a good island to have for OFP.