Bz 1.5 Maps

[HughManatee]

Does anyone know whether someone is putting together a map pack ,for Bz 1.5? I found out (the hard way) that some of the previously made map packs (for 1.4) do bad things to Bz 1.5. I've been able to find quite a few maps individually, but a pack installer would be nice. One map I haven't found anywhere is IO. This is the small world DM map. Does anyone know where I can download it? ,

Thanks,

HughManatee

[Ultraken]

What maps fail with the latest version of 1.5?

[hitchcockgreen]

I'd be curious to know which ones fail, as well.
If they do fail at all, what types of maps are they? Custom? IA?

[Ultraken]

Several IA maps failed in 1.5 because the testing build catches a lot of things that the 1.4 final build lets slide. For example, Europa Bridge contained so many objects that it ran up against the entity limit once combat started. I raised the limit to give weapons, ordnance, and explosions some breathing room and it ran fine after that. (I can't raise the game object limit without changing the game object handle format, and doing that would be far too risky.)

[hitchcockgreen]

I assumed it would be custom assets that were the stopgap in some IA maps. I can't see basic DM/STRAT maps doing it...just mod maps or IA maps.

[HughManatee]

I've been pulling map packs from the below link and installing them. I haven't had any game stability trouble installing individual maps one at a time manually, just with the map pack installs.

http://www.battlezone.furion-gaming.com/mappack.html

I've put 3 on and have had varying amounts of trouble with them. Right now, I don't have any map packs installed in 1.5 as I've seen a general increase in lockups. The ones that are definitely causing me problems are:

BZF mappack 2 - lockups

Katz mappack 3 - Katz hacked the install to show that goofy icon of his every time you change a screen in the game... very annoying (I always knew there was a reason I didn't like that guy!). This map pack also seems to affect game stability (periodically dumps out of the game completely and into Windows with pack installed).

BZF 1 mappack: seems OK mostly - but a couple lockups (game freezes) with it installed.

I've gone to just manual map installations. I've only installed DM maps so far (about 10-12) with no stability problems. I wasn't able to run mapadder on my 64 bit Win 7 machine, so I've just been doing the installs manually.

I can't point to any specific maps as a problem as all my manual adds so far have been OK. There's something buried in at least some of the map packs that is causing a problem. I'll update this as I run into more problems. I may have another go at the map packs but I'll save complete copies of the 1.5 files before I do this again.

FYI: The following maps seem to run OK, but don't display map overview pics when selected in the launch screen:

battlefld (DM)
Drive In (DM)
High Road (ST)

[hitchcockgreen]

I followed the link and found a couple mappacks I haven't seen before and one or two I haven't seen in a long time (RacerX's for example!)

I'll probably extract them and look at the maps individually. I'm guessing that anything that attempts to change the shell or if it's a map with a lot of custom units/weapons - which may be the cause of the problems.