Hitchhiker's Guide to Ice Giants' Lair...

Nemesis Revised · Post by **Nemesis Revised** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:57 am

Below is a map for those who keep getting lost in the Ice Giants' Lair. Each map is connected either by blue arrows or by colored connectors. Example: a red connector means that it portals to another map with a matching red connector.

Have fun, and good hunting!

~if there's any comments or suggestions, feel free to post about it. No flames please

Post by **Lokey** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:01 am

Heh, my areas line up as well as always (assume some off camera movement lol)

Someone have an app to recommend (something like Viseo, just without the thousand dollar license)? Current methods just don't cut it, and I find using a spreadsheet to map things out too tedious:

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:36 am

hehe penguins!

Also, looks like broken areas has been fixed

Just got killed by a critical from left field, had to log to respawn, came back and area was normal!

Nice work!!!

Post by **lordshelt** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:29 am

This may be perhapse one of the most helpfull things ever posted one here. Good Job!!!!
OH don't get me wrong, I like yours as well Lokey, it's ummmmm...... nice yeah, nice.

Post by **DM ex Machina** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:59 am

oddly enough, Adobe GoLive would be great for mapping out detailed flowcharts. you could design a flowchart map with empty image boxes and then later drop in screensaves that would autoscale to fit them. use the blank space around them for notes. if you needed, you could later link each image to a larger version. basically, you could design an enire mod map as hypertext. it also has a site mapping system that might prove useful.

Quark, Illustrator, and Photoshop would all work well too. basically any good graphic design-ish program is versatile enough to be misused for most purposes. for something like this, the most important thing would be having a familiar workflow (since you're trying to save time, not make a pretty product).

AggieDan · Post by **AggieDan** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:16 pm

Lokey wrote:Heh, my areas line up as well as always (assume some off camera movement lol)

Someone have an app to recommend (something like Viseo, just without the thousand dollar license)?

If you're a fan of linux (and KDE) then you could try out Kivio. I've not messed around with it but give me a bit to compile it on a machine and see if it is possible to drop the maps in easily. I'm running pretty much only gnome desktops in linux, so I'll have to get the kde-base files in there first.

Though, knoppix may have kivio in its bundle.

Also, there is the "Draw" program in the openoffice.org office suite. I just did some playing around with that. It looks like it could get the job done.

The good thing about openoffice.org is that it does have a Windows port.

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:46 pm

AggieDan wrote:The good thing about openoffice.org is that it does have a Windows port.

I use it exclusively. Under linux and Windows both.

Post by **Lokey** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:51 pm

Open Office on the next comp for sure, looks like a great software package (maybe on this one if MS apps sucking up memory gets under my skin more).

Someone was working on a Viseo map, but is no longer hosting it (token I believe, see here). I remember another thread about a free-ware mapping utility on these boards that produced some really nice output as well.

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:27 am

Open Office 2.0 is in beta right now... can wait 'til that's out of beta. Ignore the complaints that it uses Java too much.

AggieDan · Post by **AggieDan** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:09 am

Lokey wrote:Open Office on the next comp for sure, looks like a great software package (maybe on this one if MS apps sucking up memory gets under my skin more).

Go ahead and download and install it along side your MS Office stuff. There is no conflict. Though, don't spend too much time fiddling with it... *chuckle* I'm liking all the new content. There ARE priorities.

AggieDan · Post by **AggieDan** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:12 am

DrakhanValane wrote:Open Office 2.0 is in beta right now... can wait 'til that's out of beta. Ignore the complaints that it uses Java too much.

I avoided mentioning the beta quality 1.9 releases that I saw out there because nothing would be more painful than finally figuring it out, spending a few hours working on it and then it crashing. It *IS* still in beta, after all.

And that time could be used towards updating NS4.

Terminal Insanity · Post by **Terminal Insanity** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:50 pm

if you can get me a png, gif, or jpg of each map preview like that, and tell me where each exit links up, i could add it all to my php script ... it will generate maps for x areas away from a given position, or generate plain text n/w/e/s type instructions or graphical instructions on how to get from point a to b