[added] Palace of the Ancient One

[brammator]

Here's preview for PotAtOe (And Fer'Zhul, with little addition of one room, not having it on this workstation). And my conern is that level layout is clearly optimized for landscape 4:3, so I either scrutinize it to current 436:506, producing gimped but still usable for overlooking image, or make it, like, 800:600 with better detail, but also adding traffic. Don't mind bright colors, it's for testing purpose only. What's more acceptable?

Another trouble is 3-level staircase room (far left side of map), since all other rooms are at zero-level height. Should I produce 3 traffic-eating .dds (with shadow of 1st level on 2nd and 3rd layer), or just draw full 2d projection of all 3 levels into one layer?

[gm9]

Nice, looking good!

I'd say if you go for 3 levels make the staircase rooms in the small format. Large format would be 1600x1200 btw.

[brammator]

You mean, one big with 1st overall level and 2 small with 2nd and 3rd staircase-room only? I think that not a good idea, because if you got there, you can't see other groupmembers on map while they wandering other rooms.

Edit: Also, I think 1600x1200 is maximal but not mandatory resolution for bigger maps. Is there discussion I can read about new formats?

[gm9]

I guess theoretically you can use any format, although we never tested that. Go ahead and try it. We'd need to make changes on the backend though to support that though.

[brammator]

got problem with level naming -- fer'zhul map style name is "exp05_dun_void_palace_" and potatoe is "exp05_dun_void_palace_raid".
can't divide epic version by tiers: "exp05_dun_void_palace_raidN" and "exp05_dun_void_palace_raid_N" didn't work, it loads exp05_dun_void_palace_N entries. any suggestions?

[brammator]

<ImageStyle Name="exp05_dun_void_palace_raid" MenuGroup="Innothule" DisplayName=":f:exp05_dun_void_palace_raid" zonerect="-900, -900, 800, 459">
    <ImageFrame Source="images/user/exp05_dun_void_palace_raid.dds" SourceRect="0,0,1200,960" />
</ImageStyle>
<ImageStyle Name="exp05_dun_void_palace_0" MenuGroup="Innothule" DisplayName=":f:exp05_dun_void_palace" zonerect="-900, -900, 800, 459" heightmax="35">
    <ImageFrame Source="images/user/exp05_dun_void_palace.dds" SourceRect="0,0,1200,960" />
</ImageStyle>
<ImageStyle Name="exp05_dun_void_palace_1" MenuGroup="Innothule" DisplayName=":f:exp05_dun_void_palace 1" zonerect="-900, -900, 800, 459" heightmin="35" heightmax="65">
    <ImageFrame Source="images/user/exp05_dun_void_palace_1.dds" SourceRect="0,0,1200,960" />
</ImageStyle>
<ImageStyle Name="exp05_dun_void_palace_2" MenuGroup="Innothule" DisplayName=":f:exp05_dun_void_palace 2" zonerect="-900, -900, 800, 459" heightmin="65">
    <ImageFrame Source="images/user/exp05_dun_void_palace_2.dds" SourceRect="0,0,1200,960" />
</ImageStyle>

[gm9]

Originally Posted by brammator

got problem with level naming -- fer'zhul map style name is "exp05_dun_void_palace_" and potatoe is "exp05_dun_void_palace_raid".
can't divide epic version by tiers: "exp05_dun_void_palace_raidN" and "exp05_dun_void_palace_raid_N" didn't work, it loads exp05_dun_void_palace_N entries. any suggestions?

Actually no, had the same issue with the frostfell permafrost instance and we tried all sorts of things but couldn't get around the limitation. This seems to be due to how some of these instances are set up.

If you can't find a solution I can try to contact the map guy at SOE. Haven't talked to him in months anyway, I want POI filtering!