That castle from "Where Eagles Dare"

[ShadowRunner]

You must have all seen the film? Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood are sent into Bavaria with a team of commandoes, their mission is "to rescue an allied general shot down" from Schloss Adler, Eagle Castle. In fact the "general" is a fake, it is a plot to get the Germans to reveal names of their own spies, and thus find out who in the allied intelligence team is a German spy.

Perhaps you remember the scene in the great hall of the castle, where Clint Eastwood smokes a cigar and shoots a leather clad German officer?



Sorry Tidus, I had to sit in your chair to take the screenshot...Well I made this room an FGS conference room. There is a section for captains, lieutenants, veterans, new members and missing in action. There will be the gravity-world.com banner and other FGS graphics... I tried to have a picture of our leader, IchoTolot, the one posted on GODZ where he is wearing a dog collar, would be a great portrait in the conference room lol, but GODZ site is down...

Other map features include

~ Airfield
~ Town with bar
~ Mountains with Tunnels
~ Secret Labs under the Castle with thermoptic camo laboratory
~ S9 style anti-sk spawnrooms
~ FGS information devices, retinal scanners give messages about gravity-world.com, altfire binding, FGS clan history, FGS current strength etc...
~ Cable car into Castle, other entrances too.
~ Obligatory radio room scene, as copied from the film in RTCW game.
~ FuhrPark vehicles...

Map will be released in playable test version today/tomorrow...
some probs after the 6mb stage as usual, gpf'd yesterday and today assertion failing, so twice reverting to back-up copy, it's painful having to do the same brushwork 3 or 4 times before the map is happy...
Here is the map in texture view, without any lighting... the map is quite dark overall, but well lit inside buildings...

It's almost two maps really, but concentrated vac rifle from the castle roofs could supress part of the airfield, I havent tested it for shock rifle range yet...
problem is... not including "missing in action" (Toss, Xikron, Dammit etc), we have 6 new members, 3 vets, 2 founders, 4 lieutenants, 3 captains, that requires an 18 slot server at least for us to all meet at the table... shot myself in the foot it seems...

anyway castle is a real life castle...

Orginal Name: Burg Hohenwerfen
Location: Austria (40 km in the south of Salzburg)

http://www.salzburger-saalachtal.com/de ... werfen.htm

[Kothar]

that is really cool shadow! i can't wait to play on it

[chin.democ.]

So it's ready for testing?

[Kuchcik]

looks very, very sexy. cant wait to play it.

can I get a pack of soy food in front of my chair? ;D

[FlyingGhostSpirit]

do i have a seat?
on the map I HOPE IT and i want a weed on it (joking)

[ShadowRunner]

yep should be up by Sunday...

Found an FGS banner called "We are your world with other eyes", it's pretty cool and have added to the map along with factory banners...

couldn't actually find a gravity-world.com banner... anyone got one?

Yep, your chair will be splattered with soy...

Khaamilus got a biocell, chinny got a dts, axis got a pistol but have no clue what that is in tnag, i got binoculars and medkit lol, the new members all got shock rifle and desks lol...

actually jack and bean are not in missing in action section, and roi I see only tech support not fight, so I count 16 active members.

[ShadowRunner]

OK the map is now 11mb.... woops :lol:

here's the thing...

The messerschmidt 109 fighter takes off and lands on the runway...

I cant get it to move directly from keyframe 7 (touchdown) to keyframe 0 (start of take-off), so it flies around the map twice... and also seems to pause between keyframes, so it seems to catapult when it takes off

http://www.badongo.com/file/8838382

uploading to server now... unfinished playable beta...

here is the texture pack...
http://www.badongo.com/file/8838438

[chin.democ.]

If I made a map in the SDk that was 11MB, I'd be waiting probably 20-25 minutes to rebuild geometry!

downloading now, thanks.

[IchoTolot]

.. "We are your world with other eyes"......

"We see your world with other eyes" :lol:

[ShadowRunner]

I never waited quite that long, but probably approaching that... although it's a 2.4 processor, i lost some ram so i have only 256ram, 20 hard drive and 60 data drive... this month I will add ram and a third large hard drive and soon after i will get a geforce or raedon card... see if it makes a difference.

"we SEE your world with other eyes" - yes got it...

thanks to all those that beta tested this map... especially Anihex and ChineseDemocracy, the map is so large you need a team of people...

[{E.D.H}{FPS}HDD21]

That map is awsome! I cant wait to see that!
Nice work!

[chin.democ.]

The distance between the castle and the town is huge, but looking at your blueprint posted it's only around half the length of the map, amazing, this map demands a full server, can't wait, great work, a benchmark in mapping.

[Kothar]

Where eagles dare is an Iron Maiden song. is it also a movie?


anyway it looks like a great map for a large fight or role playing great job shadow i can't wait to play it.

[ShadowRunner]

OK this is back on the server under a new name [FGS]Schloss_Adler. This is not final version and somehow I forgot to fix the skybox error, so looking behind the castle will cause some fps probs, until I fixed it...

Changes:

Added TNAG "new" weapons...

Added Portrait of IchoTolot in conference room.

I'm getting extremely good feedback so far, considering the size and lack of detail in some areas, the funniest comment so far:

why have u covered the hangars in grass?

guess he's never seen a military hanger before...

Still working on WW2 Fighter Plane to take off and land properly...
In 20 minutes there is no way I can check this map, plz report any bugs... Tnag "new" weapons are available now on the Amtrack map as well as this and the Airport map...

I counted 14 active personnel in the conference room

[Kothar]

lol im glad you think my comment was funny :P


i'll tell you abug THE MAP IS TOO AWESOME TO BE RUN ONLINE!!!

maybe not but do need to fix the server crashes from the map...