Oh, so you guys do know how to do some stuff.

What I sent you could be done server side, but the ground hemi is client I think.  I used Keren because I couldn't find Mersa Martruth's night coding in the GPO.  I didn't look too hard though.  It had storm stuff in the tmp con.

I don't think it's the water that is off.  It seems that everything beyond the combat zone has a weird glow.  maybe that's a setting to be changed or can be fixed by a proper alt ground hemi.  Check out the larger map.  I think it has some water in the combat zone.

If you find Mersa's code, swap it out and have a look.  Eppeldorf 32 has easy to find code at the bottom of it's GPO too.

Edit*  push mode is in the mapdata py.  Check out Bastogne as it has 64 and 32 push code.  You can edit this in notepad too but you have to be much more exact in your syntax.  Just copy well.

I haven't written a tutorial yet but here are some rough samples:http://www.mediafire.com/download/3lj1dn9fdeyf44q/CreteNightLevels.zip
Put these GlobalPlayObjects cons in your crete_1941\server.zip\GameModes\gpm_cq  32 and 16 folders, only one in each.  Remember that path you will use it alot later.

Oh, and backup your crete_1941 folder before starting.

I have included what I believe to be Jimi's basic idea that just uses the current 32 level layout.



This is an idea that I talked about just to show you that you are not limited to working with what is already there.  It's not better just a different idea.


The minimaps don't show it but I used Keren's night sky.  The lack of vehicles at the mains is of course not final.

All of this was done by editing those files in notepad.  No modding or using the BF2editor was necessary, though it might be for the final polish.  Have a look at those files in notepad and try to figure out the logic.  Experiment a little.  Then you will be ready when I get around to doing the tutorial.

A simple option is to put an Allied main on the East side H7 or G7, then turn the lights out.  They'll need lots of vehicles.  You could move the Axis main to A7 or A8, or let them paradrop at night(which might be more successful), or make it a cap out.  5 flag, full size cap-outs aren't too bad.

64p, 32p, and 16p are just suggestions as far as multiplayer goes.  Really its 3 variations of the same map.  We can leave the 64 as is but make a 32 that's playable by 64+ people

I like this idea.  The Crete smalls rarely get played because they cap out too easily.  In general, cap out maps need some push code to make it more challenging, like Bastogne 32, or just always have some kind of uncappable mains.

just to make new players go away and piss people like you off.

Certainly seems to be your mission.   
Why don't you just ask the other Devs to shut these forums down?  Or have you already?

More suppression would be great.  It takes away the edge from the low-ping twitch monkeys.  It is so disheartening to sneak up on a guy, would him, then watch him do some strange break-dancing and head shoot you with a pistol.

One of the reasons we have only one populated server is that ping really matters in this mod.  That's why you have a European community and a dwindling NA community that rarely mixes.  It's hardly a factor in PR where you routinely have Korean, Brazilian, and Russian squads on the same servers with Brits and Yanks.

Well, here's the to do list:

Alam Halfa 32
Bardia 32
Battle of Brest 32
Falaise Pocket 32
Fall of Tobruk 32
Gazala 32
Gold Beach 16
Gold Beach 32
Hurtgen Forest 16
Hurtgen Forest 32
Lebisey 32
Meuse River 1944 16
Meuse river 1944 32
Omaha Beach 32
Operation Cobra 16
Operation Cobra 32
Operation Hyacinth 32
Operation Luttich 32
Operation Totalize 16
Operation Totalize 32
Pointe du Hoc 16
Port-en-Bessin 32
Purple Heart Lane 32
Ramelle-Neuville 16
Ramelle_Neuville 32
Sidi Bou Zid 16
Sidi Bou Zid 32
Breakthrough at Saint-Lo 1944 16
St Vith 16
St Vith 32
Battle for Sfakia 32
Villers Bocage 16
Vossenack 32

I'm currently busy making such maps for our upcoming Community Map Pack and other custom stuff, but I will try to knock some of these out in my spare time.  Please claim some of these projects yourself and do them.  If you think you can't learn, send me your ideas.  Draw minimaps or whatever.

If the community could come up with new layer ideas on a map to map basis (like this thread here) and if the devs like one or think it's easy enough to implement, they could put it in.

There really is no excuse for every map not having the maximum numbers of layers.  For the most part it just requires some editing of the GlobalPlayObjects.con to redraw combat zones and move the flags and assets around.  Yes you could spend lots of time to get the 32 and 16 really really right, but that's what updates are for and there is no test like a public play to fine tune them.

I've done a lot of this with custom maps recently.  I'd be happy to try to implement anybody's idea.  I also encourage anybody to try to teach themselves how to do it.  It's fairly self explanatory, just be sure to make back-ups.