Alright guys, going to leave this topic here to update from time to time with some articles regarding what I'm doing to hopefully restore No Mans Land to a working condition, and then to expand upon it.
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Rubbing Off The Mud by Archimonday
It's been almost seven months now since I last saw any part of No Mans Land and its content, and five thousand miles from home the little projects I had going are now nonexistent. Upon returning from my training I had searched in vain for the old public release of NML, in hopes I might continue working on it in my spare time, but to my dismay a prompt on Gamefront informed me that new policy said that files which were not downloaded within a set period of time were deleted. Discouraged I moved on.
That was until last night, when a question about it in the General Discussion threw my gaze back on the old set of tweaked and modded files. Evidently somebody, somewhere, had done quite a bit of complaining to the old Filefront website, because all the files were now back and ready for download. I was excited, and quickly downloaded the old outdated public release, originally only intended to play one map.
To my dismay though the updates that have flooded Forgotten Hope 2 in my absence rendered the small modification useless. Crashes on every map were the norm. There is no need to threat however, No Mans Land still remains intact, and the few maps we had going for us are still ready to be fixed. However, which ones to save? Certainly we want the experience of both a large, and small map to test out the entirety of our efforts. Can both be achieved on the same ground? I believe so.
I remember mapping for Battlefield 1942, those were the golden days. Our clan fired out map packs, and I was even sucked onto the small team that turned out a map pack for Battlefield Pirates (another favorite mod of mine.) Battlefield 2 has, as of yet, really thrown me for a loop. I tried mapping about a year ago and found that I had little time to do so, and even then I knew very little of the Level Editor. Perhaps even less now. However, since I have returned from the blazing hot forests of Ft. Benning, GA. I've found a new understanding in some things I previously had none.
So whats the first thing I do? I open each map individually, replace flags, spawn points, and other like items. All in hopes that I can get one of the maps up and running on Forgotten Hope 2, and begin scratching off the mud left from almost a year in the trenches without use.
P.S. Administrators feel free to merge (or preferably) delete the old thread to tidy up a bit. This is where I'll be posting about anything I do for No Mans Land from now on.