Planelike areas, Needed for Azure NPC mod Options

[balduran]

I'm making this quest and one of the characters is exiled in a pocketplane. The problem is that the only suitable areas I can think of are already in BG2.

Can anyone think of a area that would look like a pocketplane? It has to be big enough to host a serious battle involving melee fighter, one or two mages and a demonic creature + the entire party.

One more thing: there are so much tutorials on areas, but I couldn't find any that tell you how to port areas from the other Infinity game to BG2.

This post has been edited by balduran: Sep 22 2005, 09:51 AM

[balduran]

The Troll Mound is a good idea. Thx

I played around with the Tileset Map editor and made a new area with FOUR pocketplanes inside it, which will be connected through portals. It took me two days to make that baby work, with countless reinstalls and test in game environment.

BTW, if you happen to make a new area, stay away from the EXTENDED NIGHT option! It crashes the game and I had to reinstall three times to find out what was wrong.

I also downloaded the bitmap of one of the dungeons from TofEE(Temple of the Elemental Evil) and made a nice .tis out of it. I guess Azure will be a very tempting mod with the two rather large new areas to explore.

But I noticed something interesting - the compressed TIZ format works twice as good as a rar at maximum compression, when you compress areas that consist of tiles from Infinity games. However, when I tried to compress the tis of the TofEE dungeon, WinRar gave a little smaller archive than Tispack. This is something that area makers should probably take into consideration.

This post has been edited by balduran: Sep 24 2005, 11:05 AM