MAPS FOR STRATS, UH, STRAT-MAPS?

[Aye aye Captain]

Since Halo2 I've been interested in drawing up top down map views of the Halo maps. When I heard news about Halo3 I put my project on hold. I'm looking for some people interested in helping with creating these maps and possibly coding some type of application or web based utility (flash) for use with strategy. Think of it as an interactive chalkboard with more detail rather than x's and o's.

So what I plan on doing is creating a rough drawing of each beta map using illustrator for practice and then when halo 3 is released, using a custom game type, like oddball, something with a distance meter measure thing, to create a more to scale recreation of each map. For example, put the ball on the one side of a hallway, and walk to the other, and then using the distance from the ball as a reading of measurement.

BTW, I was planning this to be XGC use only. Just so we have an upper hand on the competition. All those interested contact me or reply.

 

[XGC DAMNATION]

thats a good idea, pity im no good with that stuff

 

[JLuch25]

captain that sounds very sick i would def like 2 help even though im not that good with some of that stuff but i would love to help any other way so keep on talking about and post more ideas and it would be cool if u just posted ur gamertag ... so we could talk or something

 

[Aye aye Captain]

My gamertag is: Aye aye Captain

I wanted to use the maps primarily for planning strategy and naming locations rather than the obvious "by rockets" locations... Also I thought it would be cool to come up with a way for people to make their own strategies and "plays" using the maps through some type of flash application or web based flash utility. Another option im considering is using a thing called groupboard. Basically groupboard is a java based chat applet where you can type and draw. The drawing background can be changed to anything so theroretically, we could put a map on the background and draw arrows and such to show where players would be moving or located and what their roles are for specific game types or whatever. At the very least, XGC members can open a map in MS Paint and draw on them to show their strategy ideas. First things first. We need to draw the maps. I plan on doing this with illustrator for ease of use since vectors can be resized and all that fun stuff. Things that others can do to aid me in the process is A) Find a Superbounce in a custom game so aerial screenshots can be taken. (After Halo 3 release) B) Review the process I'm making to find any errors I've made on the maps. C) Come up with original and GAME WINNING strategies we can use to demo what can be done with our maps.

XGC would benefit tremendously from this. All leaders of squads/sections can name locations how they want or we can all agree on the same naming scheme. Any ideas on how to make this idea more of a reality please post.

Jluch where in PA are you located... I'm in columbia county

 

[JLuch25]

Captain i actually just looked colubia county up on google earth and im not that far from u im about 15 mins from Pittsburgh .... getting back to the topic i could def try to come up with some strats for the maps when they come out and also the super bounces too so im gonna send u a friend request 2night so we can talk ..... and if i dont get to sendin u one cause im gonnan be studyin 4 finals send me one and ill def accept ....XGC WARR1OR.....theres a 1 for the I.