jtr7 on 22/9/2007 at 09:38

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Hello, fellow taffers!

This is a request for help. Not "HELLLP!!" Just...help...to speed things along for a special Maps section of the Encyclopædia of the Thief Universe (ETU).

These are NOT to be another set of walk-through/loot-through maps!:D

If any experienced DromEdeers or--especially--T3Ed'ers could take some time make screenies of a map for the cause...well...we'll figure out some way to celebrate our mutual achievements. :)

I'll keep working away at these these as long as I'm able. Your help will allow us to not only see the light at the end of the tunnel, but get us through that fargin' tunnel and fully into the light.

Here's an example of what I need. Phase I: The image below (TMA, Running Interference, the Manor of Lord & Lady Rumford) began as a dozen screenshots of DromEd (all taken one after the other without zooming in and out) stitched together in MS Paint. I only left Terrain and Objects unFiltered. I find the objects helpful during the "eyeballing" stages of Phases I and II. The Area brushes and "Me Only" function have been extremely helpful. Careful creation of new Area brushes will come in handy in making cross-sections, as the veteran Editors know.

So...a completed Phase I image is a cross-section of the building(s), based on the floors of the building(s) and using the in-game maps as a guide. The in-game maps are often helpful for determining how much to try to fit on one "page"--one image file--where applicable, as some missions have useless or abstract, or no maps. Multiple pages are good, especially if they CAN be stitched together without resizing. The walls are simply the lines of the screenshots, turned black, and filled in. The image I made has not been resized from the screenshots. We need it large for the labels we'll be using. No lossy compression formats, please. Upload it to mediafire, or someplace where I can simply download from.

This is the nearly completed Phase II map for the basement/ground level. I won't ask anybody to go this far, Phase I is fine.
(http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=xyyonzyyy0n&thumb=5)

Phase III will be revealed when the ETU is eventually released. The sooner we can get these done, the better. ;)

As we all know, T3Ed's a different animal. Advice is greatly appreciated, as I emphasize, to speed things up! I'll need to know where the objects are, including all game text and conversation markers, however that may be done.

Thanks to anybody who can do at least one complete mission for the ETU. Good advice is a welcome alternative!

Special thanks to Sxerks for getting me moving along with DromEd for this!

I will be starting Thief Gold: Training: Keepers' Compound next.
All three floors of the Rumfords' are just about ready for Phase III.

jtr7 on 23/9/2007 at 03:47

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Thanks Sxerks! I'd snatched up the versions you'd posted in the Mapping out The City thread, but these're cool, too.



Yeah, thanks. Making crap up for space-filler. Hoping I'll get some concepts nailed down soon before I move on to the next maps. I couldn't remember if the ratio was 1.5 DU to 1 Foot, or 1 DU to 1.5 Feet...but it was neither.:rolleyes: :laff: But these are just incomplete Phase II, whew!:sweat:

Corrected!

theBlackman on 23/9/2007 at 06:25

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File for T3 gives me a "Not found". Any ideas?

adonly on 23/9/2007 at 08:43

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use gif or png format, both are lossless

jtr7 on 26/9/2007 at 05:34

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Sadly, the T3 maps are the ones I could use the most.

Hey Sxerks! I'm using your *.psd's, but not for this particular Phase of this project! Thank you. If it's any consolation....

ALSO, I went to the link you gave in the Mapping out The City thread with all the *.psd's. I was able to download three of the TDS files and the other four pretended to download, going through the whole process, but leaving a 0 kb placeholder.
I was able to get:
T3_castle.psd
T3_Inn.psd
T3_keeper_C.psd