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Post by JohnDeere318 on May 12, 2017 21:12:42 GMT -6
Hello everyone, I have taken the courage to start map editing! And it is not fun! LOL, but I am managing. Anyway, I am deleting fields and combining fields to make them larger and more Big Bud compatible. "Why would you do this instead of just plowing a field and removing trees?" Well, it's a PITA to remove trees, a PITA to plow, etc. etc. This is so much easier than wasting time doing that. I have successfully combined fields 15 and 14 together to make them one large field. I am going to start making 7,8, 9 together into one whole field. I will also start putting field 1 and 4 together to make them larger. My hopes for this map is to make it a little more similar to Iowa's field sizes. In real life, North West Texas' fields are about the same size as Iowa's fields, maybe larger than Iowa's, but that map makes my game laggy. Here is a screenshot to get you excited: I hope I am not giving too much away at this point. Oh well. I hope this will pass for consoles if I upload this to ModHub.
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Post by canadafarms on May 12, 2017 22:44:47 GMT -6
I Soooooo envy you PC guys for things like this!!!!! You are right on the money about it being a PITA to cut down the trees and plow because that is exactly what I am doing right now. Are you going to edit the terrain at all? Between fields 14 and 15 is kind of rough where the road is and that's the only complaint I have with merging fields, there may be other places too but that's the one I can think of at this time. I am glad you are eager to share this with us console folks but I read somewhere that Giants won't allow an edited version of one of their stock maps to be uploaded for consoles. This may be total bogus because I have not read the uploading rules myself, either way keep doing what you are doing and all the best of luck to you!
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Post by JohnDeere318 on May 13, 2017 22:28:33 GMT -6
Thanks man! I will try to flatten out those rough spots between field 14 and 15. Yeah I hope they will let me release it to consoles, this might make a few console players happy who are not wanting to make the fields large by cutting down trees and plowing.
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Post by canadafarms on May 14, 2017 9:16:05 GMT -6
I hope they would let you upload this JD, I would love to have this version. I was working on doing some of these things myself and it is so time consuming! I merged 16,17 and 18 and all was going well, I decided to get rid of a couple trees in the yard. I wanted to cut the big tree down by the fuel tank because I thought this might be a good place to put a placeable workshop, so I did and it fell right on the tank..... ok, I couldn't get it off with any machines, I then took the chainsaw to it to cut it into smaller pieces...... that did not go well for me, for some reason after I cut the bottom off the top had no more collisions! I could drive through it like it wasn't even there, but it was still there! Now it's on top of the tank sticking out onto the road, I can't do anything with it and it just looks stupid! Of course I didn't save before I did this and would have lost a good chunk of my progress....I was so mad that I deleted the save Now it looks like there could be an update to the map with some of the issues that are showing up so I am going to stick with AO for now....
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Post by cr41g on May 15, 2017 6:15:41 GMT -6
if you build it... they will come.... I do have one request though... it is of course up to you.
Other than the farm house and the silo storage... no barns no buildings... gives people the chance to build and layout the farm their own way using placeables... but regardless if you get a map to Giants for console I would download that in an instant
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Post by cr41g on May 15, 2017 6:18:27 GMT -6
also as canadafarms said... I envy the PC guys for being able to do this... map generation would be the only reason I would PC this game.. and I would probably spend more time doing it then actually playing
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Post by canadafarms on May 15, 2017 7:43:14 GMT -6
if you build it... they will come.... I do have one request though... it is of course up to you. Other than the farm house and the silo storage... no barns no buildings... gives people the chance to build and layout the farm their own way using placeables... but regardless if you get a map to Giants for console I would download that in an instant Yes this would be awesome, the only other thing you would have to leave is the straw/hay barn sell point and the chickens. Having everything else gone would be great, lots of room to really make it your own.
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Post by JohnDeere318 on May 15, 2017 10:36:48 GMT -6
I was actually considering that, just remove most of the building at main farm to be able to customize it. Tonight I will start doing that, for some reason, I can't get to load now. I don't know how to edit the fields you own and how to make fields sizes, etc.
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Post by JohnDeere318 on May 26, 2017 7:22:06 GMT -6
Well guys, slight change of plans, I will be editing Rbk_3's edit instead. His version looked a lot better, especially at the farm area. I will try to get back on it and upload it to see what happens. Of course, I will have to get Rbk_3's permission to upload it, since it is his version.
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Post by canadafarms on May 26, 2017 7:28:39 GMT -6
Yeah what he did with the yard and the selling points looked really good. Unfortunately I will likely never play it but oh well.
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Post by cr41g on May 29, 2017 10:54:44 GMT -6
where can I see this version ?
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Post by canadafarms on May 30, 2017 7:02:52 GMT -6
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Post by cr41g on May 30, 2017 7:48:39 GMT -6
thanks canadafarms....it does look nice... love those storage bins... looks like a sweet job.
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