I didnt know that  Just keep in mind that a normandy map probably wont be included in a fh2 release since we have more than enough now. Otherwise nattys advice is great.

People ,especialy those from the beta team, all suggestions and opinions are just as good. This guy put a lot of effort into making these, I will delete all non-constructive and spam/flame posts from now on.

Yes good suggestion, we are discussing this in dev forum at the moment.

The BF2 engine was built to handle viewdistances from 150-600m, totalize is not the fastest running map in the mod and we had to work really hard to get that viewdistance to work in a normandy enviroment. For example there are no villages or towns on that map (600m, same as gazala and el alamein). We would of course love to have 3000m viewdistance like in BC2, but that game has been optimized a lot compared to bf2 also supports quad cores etc. With longer viewdistances there is also problems with lowdetail mip mapping and tiling in bf2.

But for the future we will most likely focus more on maps that have the longer viewdistance 400-600m, than 150-300m which is the most common in normandy maps.

Unfortunately I cannot reveal, you will see this map, altough in a totally different shape in the future.

The Hammer editor is all about optimization, draw distances, and visleafs, something I have always been curious about with regards to BF/FH type maps.  With 64P servers and so much potentially going on at once, what are the key factors relating to map making to keep client framerates at decent levels?

A normal bf2 level has a drawdistance between 130-600, City / village dense forest maps 130-300, open maps with smaller number of objects 300-600, you can debug your level and measure drawcalls and track performance drops with the debugger (bf2_r.exe) , type renderer.drawfps 1 and renderer.drawgraphs 1 and it will display bottlenecks.

I am somewhat new around here (although played a lot of FH1) so any help and advice would be most appreciated.  I am going to go and start reading tutorials found in these forums, and hope I can use some of what I have learned with other editors to help speed up the learning process.

Thank you in advance.

Good luck!

Try running the editor in win98/me compability mode and apply the splines, remember dto switch back to win xp compability mode when youre gonna map for real.

The python/kit limiting is currently broken will be fixed in server patch.