Town Building Project

[heady mural]

I've been working on a project to test my own building skills and for a possible use on a B41 server. Here are some of the first works of it - a small neighborhood.

[heady mural]

The first two story house of the town, the roofing is pretty easy to get the hang of.

[atomic shuttle]

looks lovely, looking forward to more!

[round thistle]

keep at it!

[heady mural]

Tyty I will post more soon

I’ve made very large progress since these

This will be used as an event map in a public server on b41

Strip mall and gated community

[dusky junco]

very nice 😎

[heady mural]

gas station without forest placed around it yet

there is a story inside with the broken barricades and a note guiding players to the boarded shed outside for loot

[heady mural]

completed and with forest

army surplus store

this will be the largest place to acquire weapons on the map

there is a hidden sledgehammer to be used to get through the protective walls

[heady mural]

hacker joined server while I was asleep and hit the town

only one house gone

[wild osprey]

how it is to build maps, like is it hard or very intuitive

[heady mural]

if you mean like making a map mod I cant give a solid answer on that bc I havent gotten into that yet

but for stuff like this

its important to work at your own pace

[raven bobcat]

Are you going to release this as a map?

[heady mural]

I have no plans to do that

It’s extremely small and basic to most maps

Likely just going to use it for events on the server it’s being built on

[raven bobcat]

Ok, that's cool

[heady mural]

id like to get into mapping someday though

maybe when b42 mappings tools get made

[iron atlas]

Is this your first map?

It's pretty good, and if it's your first one, then it's really nice for the first map

I like the surplus store, looks good!

Can we see the inside ?

[heady mural]

yes this the first time ive built much of anything

next time I get on ill take a pic of inside

[iron atlas]

That's cool

Is it 1x1?

[heady mural]

whats that mean

this isnt made with actual mapping tools or anything

im just building it with brush tool and build menu on

inside of the server im working on

[iron atlas]

Like is the map 1 cell big (300x300 tiles, or 256x256 tiles in b42)

[heady mural]

ah

im not sure

its not super big or anything

ive just been building it off the river

[iron atlas]

When you open worlded, you should see the size of the map

[heady mural]

yes

its not made in worlded

im building ingame

[iron atlas]

How did you place the buildings then?

[heady mural]

brush tool

and build menu mod

[iron atlas]

Alright then

That's pretty crazy then, great work!

[heady mural]

tyty

[iron atlas]

I thought you are using all of the tools

You should try using them

[heady mural]

yes I rlly wanna get into using them sometime

[iron atlas]

Sometime

[heady mural]

maybe with b42 releases the tools

making maps seems like a very fun thing to do

[iron atlas]

As you wish, me and a lot of others are using the unofficial ones

Work just fine

[iron atlas]

It's true

[heady mural]

unofficial ones?

never heard of those

how do i access those?

[iron atlas]

Yes, made by a modern

Modder*

[iron atlas]

I'll send you a link to them

[heady mural]

thank you

[iron atlas]

It's on github

https://github.com/Unjammer?tab=repositories

Here is his list of stuff

There is worlded, tilezed and other stuff that you can check out, like map files of b41 map

[heady mural]

very nice

ill look into it later

is it very hard to get into mapping?

[iron atlas]

It's tricky sometimes, but it's 100% worth it

https://youtube.com/@daddydirkiedirk?si=bdADDURw4NXGkfQ6

This will help you A LOT

As well as official tutorials made by the devs, mapping channel here and the unofficial mapping server that I'm also in

A lot of great people there

[heady mural]

wow this guy has tons of videos

these seem very useful to help getting into mapping

[iron atlas]

Of course, each one of them is helpful

[iron atlas]

I look into them even now, when I kind of know what I'm doing

[heady mural]

is building a map like using brush tool?

[iron atlas]

I'm not really sure as to what a brush tool is, but there is a brush tool in TileZed and you can draw your map

[heady mural]

brush tool is an admin tool ingame

you can type in specific file names (i think?) to show you tiles in game

like one thing u can type in is say like

wall_overlay

and it shows stuff related to that

certain locations have their tilesets like mall

[iron atlas]

Oh

It's kind of similar

[heady mural]

what I was mainly confused about is like

[iron atlas]

You would have to check it out yourself to see

[heady mural]

placing stuff

like walls

since it isnt in game

[iron atlas]

It's easy

The hardest part is being consistent lol

A LOT of people are starting with 100x100 cell projects or even bigger, which is straight up crazy and only a couple even come close to finishing

[heady mural]

what would be a good reference to 100x100?

louisville size?

[iron atlas]

Hmm

It's even bigger if I'm not wrong

[heady mural]

dang

[iron atlas]

Yeah

[heady mural]

yea id probably start small

to learn the tools

[iron atlas]

My map is "only" 8x12

[iron atlas]

All of the more skilled mappers reccomend making the first map 1x1

Just to feel the tools

I for example, made a 1x1 when I started, then 2x2 and now 8x12

[heady mural]

is a 1x1 a single chunk?

would that be like small neighborhood size?

[iron atlas]

A chunk is 10x10 tiles in b41 and 8x8 in b42

(It's very small)

[heady mural]

ah

do you have to do loot zoning

for maps?

is that very complicated

[iron atlas]

Like loot spawning in buildings?

[heady mural]

yes

dont you have to zone that?

if you make it as a mod

[iron atlas]

Nope, if you'll select the right room definitions, it will be alright

You can do custom ones too if you want

But you really don't need to

[heady mural]

ah yes thats what I was thinking of

the room definitions

[iron atlas]

Yup, it's simple

Your first map can literally be a farm with a lake in the forest

I decided to go more "hardcore"

But it's your choice

[heady mural]

that sounds like a very good first map

wdym by hardcore lol

[iron atlas]

Yes it does

[iron atlas]

I decided to make a whole neighborhood (it went horribly wrong)

And it took a LOONG time

[heady mural]

do you have any pictures? I wanna see lol

[iron atlas]

I don't think I have any unfortunately

It was a long time ago

Around 7 months

But it was horrible looking

[heady mural]

does the b42 tools have the roof stuff? like the vent units

[iron atlas]

Yes, yes it does

A lot more tilesets

And some of the old ones got updated

[heady mural]

nice nice

can you use modded tiles in the map maker?

[iron atlas]

Yes

[heady mural]

thank you for all the info

[iron atlas]

A lot of people are using them

[heady mural]

seems like itll be fun to get into

[iron atlas]

It is super fun 😁

And it's addicting

If you won't overwork yourself

[heady mural]

yes that is what I am doing now with what I am making in the server

if a part becomes too tedious I dont overdo it

[iron atlas]

You could make a map for your server maybe?

[heady mural]

that would also be a good idea

can map mods be added to a already made server?

i dont own the server but I am an admin on it

[iron atlas]

I'm not sure about that, never got into the server making stuff

[heady mural]

me either too much

[iron atlas]

But I think once you'll finish the map, you could update your server which would require to make a quick update in the mods of the server maybe?

And the players would have to download the mod before joining

But I might be just making some stuff up lol

[heady mural]

that sounds about right

def would be something id have to dicuss with the owner

but it is a possibility

[iron atlas]

Yup

Is the server big by any chance?

[heady mural]

its a pretty large server

decent player count most times

[iron atlas]

That's cool

Them I think a lot of the players would enjoy more areas to loot and survive in

[heady mural]

forsure

[iron atlas]

Yup

[heady mural]

inside of gunstore

[heady mural]

we had a very sucessful pvp event on the server

I am now building more

[heady mural]

this most recent one ive leaned way more into vines/overlays

it turned out very well

[iron atlas]

You're good at this

Did you start mapping by any chance btw?

[heady mural]

Not yet I usually play b42 and switch back to do this for a little bit

[slow night]

how od you make maps in pz?

[heady mural]

you have to download the map tools

[slow night]

ah i see

[heady mural]

i havent done any mapmaking yet so idk all the specifics

I build this ingame

[heady mural]

the old town areas along with the new ones are getting a glow up

cars outside buildings

grass

aswell as other small details