Map Rats Unite!

[War Bringer]

... yah... anyway, flamescreen brought up the idea a while back about everyone getting together for a project. i know i know, it's pretty hard and a lot of the folks are busy. but the idea is still there. and summer's coming up... well, in this part of the world at least.

anyway, in case we ever get to it, i thought we should at least plan on how to get organized.

some thoughts i had were

- have a certain place/day(s) where/when we can all meet and update.
i.e. chat rooms, irc, etc. a place where we can brainstorm.

- a list of tools
everyone should have the same and right equipment, encluding manuals and how to faqs.

umm... i guess that's it for now... i kinda put things that were pretty vague, but it was just an idea. i figured it was something to do to keep the FO:T interesting and get things rolling. like an activity (hell, i'm a community activities specialist... it's what i do 8O ... so shoot me...) .

[War Bringer]

i just realized that OTB and the rest of the guys would kill me if they saw that i was suggesting we start a NEW campaign.

YOU GUYS, it's just a brainstorm suggestion... hehehe... nothing to jump on, but something to start with...

... baby steps...

[Flamescreen]

The idea was to start roughly late September-early October, so some could get time out off their projects to help a bit, including myself, since I intend to finish mine untill then(I get a lot of free time in summers). So it's quite early even to talk about it right now. The idea is for us to be almost equally accessible for the project, starting a special conversation group for it would only burden the backs of people who already have their own projects running, like OTB, or MV, or JJ86.

If you have a list of ideas-suggestions for the project already, I would advise to store them somewhere untill mid-September, or later, when we might start such a discussion group, unless of course, everybody shares your opinion. The last thing I would want would be to lose people for "pestering" them too much. As easy and convenient for everyone, is my goal for this one.

[Ed the Monkey]

I've been slowly working on a concept for a raider's side mod for tactics, but seeing as how I just started mapping a few days ago i know it will take forever... if anyone wants to gimme some pointers it'd be really great, i'd be even more happy to be able to work with someone on this... I respect a bunch of the work you guys have done.
I'm sure you've all played C&C... well... I always played as the russians just for the fun of that one level where you were told to eliminate the civilians. I also had fun playing FO as a slaver... Being bad can just be more fun sometimes, that's kinda what I wanna touch on with this. If nothing else I'll be asking for help all the time on here anyway...

[Jimmyjay86]

If you've got any specific questions or needs ask away. I can send you clips of buildings or stuff if you need something to fill out your map. Also if you want to add sprites of stuff not in the game, I can make some for you.

[Ed the Monkey]

Thanx for the offer... it's not possible to get a hold of the sprites of the old raiders from fallout 1 is it? I always liked the earlier raiders to the ones in tactics (personally I think the ones in leather were cool, the new ones are kinda cheezy). Aside from that I can't think of anything right now... but I might pretty soon. anyway.. thanx again, I need all the help I can get.

[Red]

No... The FO1 sprites have 6 sides (to represent the hex), whiel FO:T have 8 (the square and it's diagonals), so ou can totally forget about character sprites from FO1.

[Ed the Monkey]

argh!! but i want my leatherclad raider!!! *CRAP* oh well....thanx for letting me know, guess i'll use the raider sprites i have.

[Jimmyjay86]

You can change the color of the characters in FOT. Make the leather armor look black and it should be good enough.