Profile of Srinidhalaya

Some SPLATS, can be used as a spline, or have identical spline materials which work better. You can use the colorize -> alpha to paint transparency at certain spots along the spline, such as the edge's. By default, the spline will have gradient 0%-100% alpha at the ends, for blending.

That will most likely be the best solution for your question.

Make the splts "on snow" option, and the splines not.

That should work. If not, say they spines need to be "on snow" elsewhere, you could always paint the splines transparent where the splats are, using the alpha tool in the spline tool tab.

From my experience, there are a couple of things that make or break a map.

1. It must be pretty. This, in my opinion, will break a map no matter how balanced it is. If it is just painted textures, and no splats, or detail objects, or just doesn't look natural or realistic, it will not be well received. The same thing goes for the mini map, and the splash screens. This is one area, where a book IS judged by its cover, as well as the first two pages. In the end, it should look as professional looking as possible. I cannot stress this enough.

2. While looks are number 1, a great looking map with balance issues wont play over so well, for obvious reasons. But, overall opinion does seem to lead towards competitive design based on Flanks. There is a Coop vs AI crowd, and while choke point maps are well received, they usually are done so silently, but vocally opposed by the competitive crowd as unbalanced.



Sarantini is a very talented mapper, and nailed it with the question of width. Smaller is better. Another thing to consider, balance is usually built around symmetry, and it can be difficult to make a symmetric river look realistic. You most certainly have a challenge, as many have made river maps, and making it unique will be the most difficult part of all.

Just remember, the exact placement of different scripts may make or break the script. The majority of script problems is incorrect placement, or missing command characters.

You should have all the lights you want turned on, inside the Entity Group named "eg_lamps".

If you are adding this ontop of your blizzard script, try this.

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import("ScarUtil.scar")
import("Systems/BlizzardMulitplayer.scar")

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-- [[ ONINIT ]]
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function OnInit()

EGroup_SetAnimatorState(eg_lamps, "Light_State", "On")
EGroup_SetAnimatorState(eg_lamps, "Light", "On")

MP_BlizzardInit("data:art/scenarios/presets/atmosphere/DLC/mp_don_river_01_blizzard.aps" ,"data:art/scenarios/presets/atmosphere/DLC/mp_don_river_01.aps", nil, nil, true, nil)

end

Scar_AddInit(OnInit)

If you still have problems, let me know.