how did you guys make the background??

Truth · Post by **Truth** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 12:28 am

how was the background to this game made?
the background with all the fighting and all that...

jaymanxyz · Post by **jaymanxyz** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 1:52 am

Hello. I don't know anything about making or coding maps, but I thought I would share what I know with you.

The background is called the "shellmap" and the RA shellmap is known as the "desert-shellmap." You can explore the files at OpenRA>mods>ra>maps>desert-shellmap. You'll need a special text editor though, like Notepad++.

Maybe that will give you an idea about what goes in to making the shellmap. Hope this little bit of information helps!

Aaron_Lloyd · Post by **Aaron_Lloyd** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 2:46 am

What ever happened to the temperate shellmap? I miss having a bit of variety going on in the background while I waited in the lobby. :p

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 8:06 am

See https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/tree/b ... t-shellmap for the scripts that run it.

Post by **abcdefg30** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 10:30 am

Basically you can have every map as shellmap (and also more than one shellmap, the game auto chooses one of the available ones).
You need to define "Visibility: Shellmap" in "map.yaml" (the default is "Visibility: Lobby").

Post by **Scott_NZ** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 8:52 am

Aaron_Lloyd wrote: ↑What ever happened to the temperate shellmap? I miss having a bit of variety going on in the background while I waited in the lobby. :p

Nothing wrong with variety but it was decided that it wasn't actually very good so it was removed.

SoScared · Post by **SoScared** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:13 pm

Scott_NZ wrote: ↑Nothing wrong with variety but it was decided that it wasn't actually very good so it was removed.

Oh you mean the Artillery fire + tank fire + exploding buildings + cruiser fire + chrono + triple nuke, all happening in the time-span of about 5 seconds? LOL good old times - "Time to play some OpenRA. Better turn down the volume a bit."

kesman · Post by **kesman** » Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:26 pm

Not really related to the topic, but do you think there's any way to somehow make this a windows screensaver?

camundahl · Post by **camundahl** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:55 pm

kesman wrote: ↑Not really related to the topic, but do you think there's any way to somehow make this a windows screensaver?

That would be awesome! Even random AI matches as a screensaver would be awesome.