im gonnna begin creating a huge map.the first part will basicly be a  big town with wilderniss around,an waistland to the north and an gigantic dongeon with powerfull enemies.the  town will have apartments u can rent and each month(real life time) u will have to pat a certain amount of coins.then it will have houses in the town witch u can buy for an large amount of money.it will have an big multi quest witch teh gigantic dongeon will be part of....it will be like an underworld.then there will be an holy guild.it will have an port with will be later used to travel to other cities.there will be laws and if u break some u will get arrested by the guards and thrown in my home made jail with an torture pit or u can fight teh guards and have youre own wanted poster(once pvp is enabled u will be attacked in teh towns u are wanted in).there will be an mage tower,ranging training senter and melee training center.u can do a quest witch will let u join the guard and yes....u do get payment once u join the guard.there will be a few more things(ps.u will need to go to the captain of the guard every week to get youre payment.

I hope that is a huge collection of maps not just one big map, all maps must be 24*24 .

Good luck with your project.

 

thx tehill...btw...how do you think i should make poeple buy the houses?

Naomeire has probably done the most experimenting with apartments/houses, you should talk to her.
You might have to learn a little Lua scripting.

Eh... i think Lua scripting is a must in your case . I might note that for your maps, you should do a spell check for the dialogue and map names (for instance... "dungeon" instead of dongeon. It's probably a typo anyway). I would also suggest to get in the real time loop (instant messaging of some sort: IRC, a skype chatroom maybe...) and have others give you tips. The forums help, but real-time is better.

Cheers,
Unislash

ok unislash...ile get a dictunary(i just know i didnt type it right) cuz im not that good at engish...im gonna go search for a mapmaking giude here cuz i cant figure out how to make an ogre be a bartender or how to do scripts right.

I was thinking more along the lines of an electronic spell checker (Microsoft Word has one). Don't take it offensively if i give you spelling fixes; i do it for MT all the time. Good Luck

Cheers,
Unislash

hmmm if ya hardly know somethin dutoit then youll gotta learn many days to figure all of this cause scriptin and everyithin is not just you say in scrpit : Mob goes here and kills this and returns back lol

Yes, map making is really heavy... You'll be learning at least 1-3 months until you make a good map..

If you make mobs, first put spawn point where you want the mob, and then click on mob in arches, you still need to be on spawn point though and then you click "add inv" Then mob have a spawn point. It was my first mistake in map making... I didn't put any spawn points...

Then scripting is really hard.

Make sure you'll put connections right, sometimes you need connection sensor too. Then make sure you'll test each map out, so it won't have any bugs.

If you need some help, leave me PM on forums, or on this topic.

One of these days i plan to make a video tutorial for the beginning of mapping. To me, a video that fully explains why we do things would be so much more of a help than a bunch of text that flows extremely fast for a newbie to comprehend... The only problem is the whole space issue....

Unislash

i started yesterday and i did 2 maps...how do i connect 2 maps.

(ps.how do i post a pic of a map on the furoms)

For a video by Unislash on how to connect maps:
http://www.daimonin.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=3243&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

thx tehill

im gonna add an castle with me in it...u can also chalange me to a dual and if u win u get cool reward(the npc me!)and an hall of fame with stuff liek statues of mithtoen,the devs and the map wizards(i wonder if i must put an statue for ratix???)

my heAD HURTS :x
can somebody plz giv me links to mapmaker guides.