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I read the adventure today. Layout was overall pretty good - and the interior art was excellent!
Not sure that I can use the adventure in current form for my existing campaign, but I'll be following it along. I won't say more about it so as not to ruin the plot for any players.
The use of Dundjiini maps was appreciated. I'd suggest including the .dja as well as the .bmp in the .rar file. For those of us with Dundjiini, it makes it that much easier to modify for our own purposes.
Overall, it's a nice start. We need more of this. Dungeon is not going to do it for us - and KoD is not enough to keep us going. A core group of people e-publishing community adventures is necessary, in my opinion, to keep this whole train rollin along...
I'll let you know what I think after I've had a chance to check it out.
If you're having trouble opening what's inside the .RAR file, well... can't help...
-TRRW
I can't get the .RAR map file to open. Any suggestions?
I believe Stuffit Expander can handle .RAR files. WinZip might not, although I haven't had to try it. What application do you typically use to open archived files?
Cheers,
Cam
I believe Stuffit Expander can handle .RAR files. WinZip might not, although I haven't had to try it. What application do you typically use to open archived files?
Apparently nothing, for I've never dealt with .RAR files before.
I'll try WinZip first...then those other two.
Thanks.
Hey, I like the map at the end. What program was used to make it?
It looks like the work of Dijinni to me. Link to Dijinni
/looks for brimstone's rock
then again, i spend a great deal of time with my computer, and rars are the only compression anyone uses anymore. winzip won't cut it, and winrar is better by far anyway. it will handle all compression types.
you've never dealt with rars before?
/looks for brimstone's rock
/shows Tal the rock...it says "Congress" on it
Come on now...I work for a company owned by Boeing that works for the Federal Government, we don't exactly get the money to be "modern" over here. :D
btw, happy birthday, bro =)
Hey, thanks Tal!
As for the rar. We went for it because zip was only compressing the maps to 6mb or something, and that is very large for most people. You need WinRar 2.9 or later. You can use WinRar to open (and create) .ZIPs and it has a similar UI to WinZip. IMHO, there's no reason to use WinZIP at all, if you have WinRar. You can download the latest version here: http://www.rarlabs.com and http://www.win-rar.com.
Like Robert mentioned (and Sean but with mistaken spelling ;), the maps were indeed created with Dundjinni (http://www.dundjinni.com/). It's very simple to use but unfortunately it's JAVA-based making it excruciatingly slow at times (most of the times, even).
Robert, thanks for the idea to release the Dundjinni source maps; we'll probably release them as a separate download though.
And a big happy birthday to you Tobin!
Thanks!
Robert, thanks for the idea to release the Dundjinni source maps; we'll probably release them as a separate download though.
Those maps are beautiful! Again...I've never heard of Dundjinni before. Don't get me wrong, I love CC2...but Dundjinni blows it away in the aesthetic propterties department. Very cool.