Modding War3DII

[Badger]

Nice article there bedbug, can't wait to get into modding now

What is the size of the maps that come with War3DII? What limits are there atm?

And are those ships merely decorations, or will they actually fight?

Great prospect!

cheers

badger

[Von_Clausewitz]

Most importantly, will we have a napoleonic mod done fairly soon after the games' release? Because i frankly cannot wait to play a napoleonic battle with this engine.

The map in one of the screenshots looks huge/huge/huge which makes my mouth water at the prospects of a big strategical and tactical battle.
We could have la belle alliance, hougoumont, plancenoit and papelotte on the same waterloo map. Oh the prospects........

VC

[Jim]

In terms of map size, there is a balance between size and detail. The GB maps are about 2.5 miles square because that is about as big as we can have with the large amount of detail needed to match historical reality. Bigger maps are possible within the game, but they must have reduced amounts of fences, crops, trees etc to avoid bringing the game to a halt. We haven't pushed the envelope to see how far it can go as yet with simple maps. There are scaling issues that need to be dealt with as well to make it all work as it should.

-Jim