{"id":183,"date":"2010-01-19T01:22:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T09:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2011-02-02T20:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T04:05:12","slug":"ctf_2fort_revamp_b3-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/archives\/183","title":{"rendered":"CTF_2fort_Revamp_b3 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beta-3 release of ctf_2fort_revamp is out. For anyone asking: &#8220;WTF is that?&#8221; it&#8217;s an &#8220;improved&#8221; version of <a href=\"http:\/\/tf2wiki.net\/wiki\/2Fort\">CTF_2fort<\/a> designed to be less stalemate-prone&#8230; To make it a bit more fun to capture the flag than to simply defend it.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamebanana.com\/maps\/download\/101457\">download it from <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">FpsBanana<\/span> GameBanana<\/a>. <strong>Edit:<\/strong> If that doesn&#8217;t work, grab the <a href=\"http:\/\/files.technofovea.com\/maps\/ctf_2fort_revamp\/ctf_2fort_revamp_b3.zip\">local copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/HzevQB56fdg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/HzevQB56fdg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The main changes from Beta-2 are&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more Details and changelog--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Much reduced filesize due to better shadow handling. (Required lots and lots of tweaking.)<\/li>\n<li>More size-reduction because B3 will not be HDR-enabled, because I think longer download times are currently a bigger problem for people than not having HDR lighting.<\/li>\n<li>Better performance across the whole map, due to fixing an issue involving the rotating clouds in the skybox.<\/li>\n<li>Changed the ramps out of the water <a href=\"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/archives\/143\">yet again<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The underwater tunnel has more decoration and lights to help orient players.<\/li>\n<li>Altered layout near main spawns to weaken certain sentry positions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Known issues\/concerns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using a sentry (which is taller than a dispenser) Engineers can leap onto the new tall obstacles near their main spawn. Judged a non-issue since it opens them up to being Ambassador&#8217;ed from outside their sentry&#8217;s range, and while it gives them an interesting perch it also sharply limits their potential sentry placements.<\/li>\n<li>The new upper gallery in the intel room is a bit cramped, yes&#8230; but that&#8217;s intentional, an attempt to provide attackers the maximum possible ways to edge a sentry using the computer equipment there to shield themselves. If it&#8217;s not working for the purposes of taking down a sentry which is within the intel room, then I&#8217;ll revisit it.<\/li>\n<li>There will be some shadows which are better than the original 2fort, and some which are worse. I&#8217;m hoping that 98% of the time nobody can even tell if some shadow is &#8220;unrealistic&#8221;. If you find something you really don&#8217;t like, post a screenshot and it&#8217;ll be fixed up for B4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the subject of file sizes, here&#8217;s a comparison between two of Valve&#8217;s maps (2fort and doublecross) against various versions of 2fort_revamp. I&#8217;ll be putting the non-HDR (blue bar) version up for downloading, but the final will have HDR. (The purple bar.) Using bzip2 (for a .bsp.bz2 extension) on the map brings it down an incredibly low 11 megabytes. That&#8217;s a third the size of B2, although it&#8217;s without HDR.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/map_sizes.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191\" title=\"Map filesizes\" src=\"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/map_sizes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/map_sizes.png 526w, http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/map_sizes-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I think people want the blue one.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beta-3 release of ctf_2fort_revamp is out. For anyone asking: &#8220;WTF is that?&#8221; it&#8217;s an &#8220;improved&#8221; version of CTF_2fort designed to be less stalemate-prone&#8230; To make it a bit more fun to capture the flag than to simply defend it. You can download it from FpsBanana GameBanana. Edit: If that doesn&#8217;t work, grab the local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}