Minimap *press C*

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• monkeymaster Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13771Members

  August 2003

  bah just need help wif 1 thing, is this picture of the minimap for the commander or the map for when you press C <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->? if its the commander one, can someone tell me where in the ns folder the sprite for the big one when you press C is ? plz!..

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• Onkel_Dittmeyer Join Date: 2003-07-05 Member: 17951Members

  August 2003 edited August 2003

  That is the same sprite. The commander mode and the minimap itself on the upper right screen of a marine use the first frame of it and the great map you get while pressing 'c' uses the remaining 4 frames. Before you ask-
  This is due to a technical limitation of the Half-Life engine: Sprites can be only up to 256*256 pixels, so if you want to draw a big sprite you have to assemble it from several smaller sprites. You can see this if you look carefully at the digesting or gestating sprite.

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• Maus Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5599Members

  August 2003

  They're in your ns\sprites\minimaps directory, and you'll need a sprite viewer and a sprite compiler in order to edit them. My <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=19&t=20223' target='_blank'>Modelling 101</a> links page at <a href='http://members.aol.com/handhyle/101index.html' target='_blank'>http://members.aol.com/handhyle/101index.html</a> links to both, and a couple of tutorials.
  
  If you really want to dive in and mess with the minimaps, I'd suggest piecing together the four quarters into a whole map, putting on all the names, then cutting it up into 256x256 pieces again.
  
  If you're new to sprite editing though be warned that it's a bit complicated at first, so you'll definitely want to back up the original map files in case you screw them up.

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• monkeymaster Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13771Members

  August 2003

  ok so i saved the 4 pictures of the map, so now i can go ahead and edfit them and then get a sprite compiler or something and then when i press c it will say the wordS? ? ...
  
  anyone know a site or something with overviews of the maps and the names of the sections in it so i can add em in ?

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• ZiGGY Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12479Members

  August 2003

  <!--QuoteBegin--Onkel Dittmeyer+Aug 13 2003, 01:31 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Onkel Dittmeyer @ Aug 13 2003, 01:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You can see this if you look carefully at the digesting or gestating sprite. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
  lol I thought my monitor was just fubar

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• Iced_Eagle Borg Engineer Join Date: 2003-03-02 Member: 14218Members

  August 2003

  <!--QuoteBegin--monkeymaster+Aug 15 2003, 04:48 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (monkeymaster @ Aug 15 2003, 04:48 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> ok so i saved the 4 pictures of the map, so now i can go ahead and edfit them and then get a sprite compiler or something and then when i press c it will say the wordS? ? ...
  
  anyone know a site or something with overviews of the maps and the names of the sections in it so i can add em in ? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
  I don't think any sites have recent map overviews

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