Hi, I am curious about some infos to help for a possible map layout design. I had seen those infos somewhere before but can't recall where. Can anyone point me ?

- maximum map size

- siege active range : what's the radius of the attack range

- command chair range : what's the radius of the chair that allows building of equipements like IP or any other ones that have to be in the chair's range

- hive sizes

- hive healing range

- hive range similar to the chair : does such a thing exist ?

- min height/width of corridors for :
--- light marines
--- heavy marines
--- aliens level 1,2,3,4 & 5
--- marine equipement
--- alien equipement

- crouch/jump heights for marines & aliens

- height/width of a ressource tower (marine/alien)

- distance covered by a 30 sec rush done by marines and aliens : how far can they travel at max speed at map start for a 30 sec run

- max height/depth of floor for commander view

- average floor height (coordinate) for the normal commander view height

- max width viewable from a commander view at normal distance : what size would a room be to completly fit in the commander view at an average floor height

- max distance of a trown grenade (hand and GL)

- range of invisibility shield of a sensory

- working range of an observatory

- max shooting range of an ofense tower

- max healing range of a defense tower


If I have other questions, I'll add them via a reply (a bit late now). Making a map has been in my mind for a while. I just have to have time to do it.

Oh yea and what is the maximum WAD size of custom textures besides the NS ones ?

- maximum map size: 8192x8192x8129(x,y,z) (its the grid that is shown in hammer)

- siege active range : 1100

- command chair range : 400

- hive sizes hive itself 256x256x256 (tentacles on top make it 320 high)

- hive healing range:500

- hive range: this is set by the mapper default is 2000 units

- min height/width of corridors for :
ns has three possible clipping hulls. for players they are
32 32 72 - standing marine, couched onos, standing fade
64 64 108, standing onos
32 32 36skulk, lerk, gorge, crouched marine, crouched fade
to accomidate a player teh clipping hull must be able to fit down the hall way. ttheoretically a marine can walk in a 33 unit wide hallway, but it will be nearly impossible to enter.

- crouch/jump heights see previous or do you mean this

- height/width of a ressource tower (marine/alien). seems to be about the size of a standing marine, for eitehr team should be an area at least 128x128 to allow players to run around it

- 30 sec rush: an onos moves 7200(as does a fade), a lerk moves 5250, a gorge 5100, and skulk 8700. marines, i dont know

- max height/depth of comm view: this can be set in the info_mapinfo entity i assume values larger than the hammer grid are excluded, see first post (-4096 , 4096)

- average floor height (coordinate) for the normal commander view height: defaults to zero is entirely based on teh map in question is set in info_mapinfo entity

- max width view: to variable to give you a good answer entirely based upon mappers choice and individaul prefrences.

- range of invisibility shield of a sensory:750 (you must be with in range for 3 seconds)

- working range of an observatory 800 units

- max healing range of a defense tower: 400(also for movement chamber to give adreniline)
maximum WAD size :no max on size of the wad however the used textured must be below 4.0 megabytes to be oficial

statistics from the new manual

mapping info can be found in much greater depth in the FAQ

also, search is your best friend for mapping problems. wheee