Author Topic: Heavy Metal Map Mayhem (Read 92944 times)

DarkISI · « **on:** 27 January 2011, 15:55:08 »

I'm unsure if it belongs here or in the Fan Art forum or somewhere else.... but in the end, they are terrain ;)

I created a lot of maps with it over the years and I will post a few of them whenever I feel like it. Usually they are sets with multiple maps.
Be aware, that I made up my own pallet - you need it to use the files (or they will look somewhat strange ;))

Pallet 1.4

Index:

Map Set 1 (Beach):

3x3 Maps
Download Beach

DarkISI · « **Reply #1 on:** 27 January 2011, 15:56:31 »

Map Set 2 (Comstar Depot):

2x2 Maps
Download Comstar Depot

DarkISI · « **Reply #2 on:** 27 January 2011, 15:58:39 »

Map Set 3 (City)

3x4 Maps
Download City

DarkISI · « **Reply #3 on:** 27 January 2011, 16:01:23 »

Map Set 4 (Stadtgebiet)
Yeah, it's a German name :P

2x1 Maps
Download Stadtgebiet

DarkISI · « **Reply #4 on:** 27 January 2011, 16:04:04 »

Map Set 5 (Schlucht)

1x2 Maps
Download Schlucht

That's it for today. More, when I feel like it ;)

Davout73 · « **Reply #5 on:** 27 January 2011, 16:08:17 »

I wish MegaMek could use these, they are very cool.

Nice work!

Davout73

DarkISI · « **Reply #6 on:** 27 January 2011, 16:16:48 »

Thanks :)

Yeah, it would be great to use them in MM. At some point I thought about creating them in MM, but then I noticed that I created over a hundred maps.... then I got veeeeery lazy ;)

I printed a few of them to use them at home or while away on conventions. That's always nice, too.

scatcat · « **Reply #7 on:** 27 January 2011, 16:25:14 »

awesome! Looking forward to adding them all to my HM Map repertoire.

DarkISI · « **Reply #8 on:** 28 January 2011, 03:51:59 »

Map Set 6 (Grasland)

2x2 Maps
Download Grasland

DarkISI · « **Reply #9 on:** 28 January 2011, 03:53:04 »

Map Set 7 (Auf und Ab)

2x2 Maps
Download Auf und Ab

DarkISI · « **Reply #10 on:** 28 January 2011, 03:54:01 »

Map Set 8 (Munitionsfabrik)

2x2 Maps
Download Munitionsfabrik

Doug Glendower · « **Reply #11 on:** 28 January 2011, 03:54:22 »

Gorgeous. Wish I had a way to print them out.

DarkISI · « **Reply #12 on:** 28 January 2011, 03:55:05 »

Map Set 9 (Trainingsgelände)

2x2 Maps
Download Trainingsgelände

DarkISI · « **Reply #13 on:** 28 January 2011, 03:56:17 »

Map Set 10 (Landezone)

2x2 Maps
Download Landezone

DarkISI · « **Reply #14 on:** 28 January 2011, 03:57:43 »

Quote from: Doug Glendower on 28 January 2011, 03:54:22

Gorgeous. Wish I had a way to print them out.

Thank you :)

Personally I simply use my printer to print the maps on A4 sheets and then I glue them together. It's a lot of work, but still cheaper than going to a copy shop ;)

wolftech · « **Reply #15 on:** 28 January 2011, 07:38:55 »

Nice Maps... Thanks a lot!

markhall · « **Reply #16 on:** 28 January 2011, 07:56:31 »

Wow.
Very impressive work.

May direct our map printer towards this thread.

Davion_Boy_74 · « **Reply #17 on:** 29 January 2011, 02:40:38 »

Thank You for sharing such Great maps [rockon] [notworthy] [notworthy], I look forward to more (I hope with out sounding rude).

Dave.

DarkISI · « **Reply #18 on:** 29 January 2011, 04:14:02 »

Why would that sound rude? :)
I will post more later or tomorrow. There are 14 sets left to go and once I find my HMMap CD I can install it and look if I have some maps left I did not previously prepare for being uploaded ;)

Davion_Boy_74 · « **Reply #19 on:** 29 January 2011, 04:28:38 »

Excellent [rockon], I must admit I have to redo alot of my own HMMaps as I suffered a loss of a external HD that had over 3 years of collected Battletech stuff, let alone all my custom HMMaps, a couple of years ago :'(.

Dave

DarkISI · « **Reply #20 on:** 29 January 2011, 04:34:24 »

Ouch. That's not so good. I had some HDD losses myself, but luckily I had backups for almost everything. Currently I hope I got every map transfered from my old computer to the new one, but I still have the old one lying around, so I can boot it up and look what I forgot to copy.

DarkISI · « **Reply #21 on:** 29 January 2011, 11:42:50 »

Map Set 11 (Hafen)

2x1
Download Hafen

DarkISI · « **Reply #22 on:** 29 January 2011, 11:43:49 »

Map Set 12 (Gefängnis)

2x2
Download Gefängnis

DarkISI · « **Reply #23 on:** 29 January 2011, 11:44:48 »

Map Set 13 (Überlandstraße)

1x2
Download Überlandstraße

DarkISI · « **Reply #24 on:** 29 January 2011, 11:45:56 »

Map Set 14 (Schlachtgebiet)

2x2
Download Schlachtgebiet

DarkISI · « **Reply #25 on:** 29 January 2011, 11:47:05 »

Map Set 15 (Fabrikgelände)

2x2
Download Fabrikgelände

DarkISI · « **Reply #26 on:** 31 January 2011, 11:32:50 »

Map Set 16 (Arena 2)

2x1
Download Arena 2

DarkISI · « **Reply #27 on:** 31 January 2011, 11:33:50 »

Map Set 17 (Arena 4)

2x2
Download Arena 4

DarkISI · « **Reply #28 on:** 31 January 2011, 11:34:54 »

Map Set 18 (Grasland 2)

2x2
Download Grasland 2

DarkISI · « **Reply #29 on:** 31 January 2011, 11:35:46 »

Map Set 19 (Eis)

2x1
Download Eis

DarkISI · « **Reply #30 on:** 31 January 2011, 11:37:30 »

Map Set 20 (Mond)

2x2
Download Mond

Kwic · « **Reply #31 on:** 31 January 2011, 12:20:59 »

very nice maps.

maybe one day MM will be able to import these.

DarkISI · « **Reply #32 on:** 31 January 2011, 15:16:58 »

Due to the very different way MM and HMP handle maps: No, this will most likely never happen.

Gunbunnie · « **Reply #33 on:** 08 February 2011, 09:32:30 »

Very nice maps, do Heavy Metal Map maker have the ability to make Planetary invasion maps?

Daryl

DarkISI · « **Reply #34 on:** 08 February 2011, 09:37:03 »

No, it does not. The concept of planetary invasion maps came long after HMM

Gunbunnie · « **Reply #35 on:** 08 February 2011, 12:32:04 »

Well darn....

Daryl

Medron Pryde · « **Reply #36 on:** 12 April 2011, 21:30:29 »

These are amazing. :)

DarkISI · « **Reply #37 on:** 13 April 2011, 14:12:43 »

Quote from: Medron Pryde on 12 April 2011, 21:30:29

These are amazing. :)

Thanks :)

DarkISI · « **Reply #38 on:** 13 April 2011, 14:14:21 »

Map Set 21 (Sand)

2x2
Download Sand

DarkISI · « **Reply #39 on:** 13 April 2011, 14:15:07 »

Map Set 22 (Wüste)

2x2
Download Wüste

DarkISI · « **Reply #40 on:** 13 April 2011, 14:16:04 »

Map Set 23 (2 Seen)

2x2
Download 2 Seen

rhino1085 · « **Reply #41 on:** 13 April 2011, 14:18:33 »

Great maps! If I wanted to try to recreate them for MM - what can I use to open them to look at as I use the MM map editor? I don't have HMM, so that's out.

DarkISI · « **Reply #42 on:** 13 April 2011, 14:20:01 »

Map Set 24-26 (Straßengitter 1 - 3)

They are switching from level -1 to level +1

1
Download Straßengitter 1

1
Download Straßengitter 2

1
Download Straßengitter 3

DarkISI · « **Reply #43 on:** 13 April 2011, 14:21:27 »

Quote from: rhino1085 on 13 April 2011, 14:18:33

Great maps! If I wanted to try to recreate them for MM - what can I use to open them to look at as I use the MM map editor? I don't have HMM, so that's out.

You would have to create them from the ground up. MM can't read the HMMap files since they handle their data extremely different.
But should you do it anyway please post them here :))

DarkISI · « **Reply #44 on:** 17 April 2011, 06:48:59 »

Since you all seem to like the maps, I have created to more sets (up till now all the maps here were old ones)

Map Set 27 (Canyon)

2x2
Download Canyon

DarkISI · « **Reply #45 on:** 17 April 2011, 06:49:54 »

Map Set 28 (Drachentanz)

2x2
Download Drachentanz

DarkISI · « **Reply #46 on:** 19 April 2011, 13:24:29 »

Map Set 29 (Flughafen)

3x3
Download Flughafen

As a bonus, here is how they look in MM (the MM files are included in the rar-file).

DarkISI · « **Reply #47 on:** 21 April 2011, 04:55:15 »

I noticed, the scenario maps had numbers as their name instead of their names. That was caused by the fact that I originally created them for a campaign and they were numbered to fit the different scenarios. I changed that now, so that the current archives contain correctly named files.
That was especially confusing with Grasland and Grasland 2 since Grasland had a numeric name and Grasland 2 was named Grasland... [metalhealth] fixed that

DarkISI · « **Reply #48 on:** 03 May 2011, 12:37:36 »

Map Set 30 (Volcano)

After creating this map set I noticed that it would be impossible, to do it MM without looking totally stupid. So I emailed Rick Raisley about it and asked him, if we could use the background image for MM - and he said yes. As a result, the next MM release will have a volcano theme included and this map set. Nevertheless I decided not to include the MM files for the maps here, because they wouldn't work on the current releases and will be included in the next release anyway.

2x2
Download Volcano

DarkISI · « **Reply #49 on:** 15 May 2011, 06:14:06 »

Map Set 31 (Omen)

2x1
Download Omen

Davion_Boy_74 · « **Reply #50 on:** 15 May 2011, 06:30:48 »

Link not working for download 31 (Omen) as of Sunday 15th May @ 12:30pm (gmt).

Thank you for all the Great Maps btw [rockon] [notworthy].

Dave.

DarkISI · « **Reply #51 on:** 15 May 2011, 06:33:49 »

Oops. :-[

Fixed that.

Davion_Boy_74 · « **Reply #52 on:** 15 May 2011, 06:58:54 »

Thanks, Now that's what I call Good Service. [rockon]

Dave.

sfsct · « **Reply #53 on:** 15 May 2011, 10:36:35 »

Is there someone you can send these files to and get them printed out on nice large lamented vinyl map sheets?

DarkISI · « **Reply #54 on:** 15 May 2011, 10:42:07 »

You would have to open the files in HMMap and create a jpg file from there. Then you can send them to any copy shop to get them printed.

keisukekun · « **Reply #55 on:** 16 June 2011, 01:35:31 »

Anyone know if a place like kinkos or something will print these out on a single ssheet?

DarkISI · « **Reply #56 on:** 16 June 2011, 01:53:31 »

If you save the maps as jpg files, I can't see a reason why they shouldn't. My local copy shops can do it.

M-Rex · « **Reply #57 on:** 17 June 2011, 13:55:54 »

I saw that someone prints these out on A4 sized paper and tapes them together. Does anyone know the actual cost of printing out a full-size map at Kinko's or somewhere equivalent?

keisukekun · « **Reply #58 on:** 17 June 2011, 17:22:59 »

Yeh be interested in cost of a full size maybe laminated. I just cant stand teh idea of a ream of papers I have to arrange

atlask · « **Reply #59 on:** 21 June 2011, 09:01:48 »

found this site a while back.. http://www.gamer-printshop.com cost for laminating 18 x 24 inches costs $4.50 per sheet but some of the links are down.. so can't find a cost for heavy metal maps.. but here is how maps need to be sent Use Standard CBT size, encoded as a JPG in default 171 dpi resolution. Print up to
four map design into a single large format color printed map. Just furnish us with
the JPG produced by the program.

they do price quotes as well..

DarkISI · « **Reply #60 on:** 02 July 2011, 05:50:59 »

Map Set 32 (Alien Invasion)

Crop Circles have been sighted. The invasion is coming

2x2
Download Alien Invasion

Ork777 · « **Reply #61 on:** 20 July 2011, 09:34:52 »

Many thanks to the author of cards. It is fine work!

Hersh67 · « **Reply #62 on:** 18 August 2011, 20:44:47 »

Quote from: DarkISI on 02 July 2011, 05:50:59

Map Set 32 (Alien Invasion)

Crop Circles have been sighted. The invasion is coming

2x2
Download Alien Invasion

You should have shaped them like some of the aliens from Space Invaders... ;D

Sartris · « **Reply #63 on:** 19 August 2011, 23:09:37 »

I get to see some awesome maps... and contextually learn a little German! ;D

DarkISI · « **Reply #64 on:** 20 August 2011, 03:10:50 »

Quote from: Sartris on 19 August 2011, 23:09:37

I get to see some awesome maps... and contextually learn a little German! ;D

I aim to please :D

lucho · « **Reply #65 on:** 24 September 2011, 17:38:32 »

Very nice work 8)

I have the HeavyMetal series, including HM Maps, but I rarely use it. One tip, if I can: it was mentioned that you can simply print the maps out on A4 sheets and tape them together instead of paying through the nose at some copy shop. You can use clear contact paper to make the maps more durable (this also works for the standard maps). Hope this helps :)

DarkISI · « **Reply #66 on:** 23 December 2012, 15:21:48 »

Map Set 33 (Herbstgemetzel)

For those of you, who don't speak German: Autumn Slaughter ;)

I know, we have winter (I actually have snow outside), but I still made an autumn map. Deal with it ;)

3x3 Maps
Download Herbstgemetzel

pensiveswetness · « **Reply #67 on:** 07 February 2013, 15:21:01 »

Quote from: Doug Glendower on 28 January 2011, 03:54:22

Gorgeous. Wish I had a way to print them out.

i wish my fiance's table was big enough for me to play on them (im restricted to 2x2 or 3x1) LOL

DarkISI · « **Reply #68 on:** 07 February 2013, 17:13:47 »

There are a lot of 2x2 sets here (3x1 though, I think ;) ), but you could also play with only parts of a set, or mix them :)

DarkISI · « **Reply #69 on:** 13 August 2017, 03:56:19 »

Minor update: I changed the hex borders on the Volcano map to white, so it is actually possible to figure out ranges. Downloadable file and image updated accordingly. So, if you have the old files: redownload and have fun. :)

Bolththrower · « **Reply #70 on:** 21 May 2022, 09:55:10 »

Are these still available somewhere? Most links seem to be dead.

DarkISI · « **Reply #71 on:** 21 May 2022, 10:08:44 »

Quote from: Bolththrower on 21 May 2022, 09:55:10

Are these still available somewhere? Most links seem to be dead.

They are available, but it seems like your browser doesn't handle Umlauts very well. I changed the URLs, should all be working now. If there are any more problems, let me know which map has issues so I can take a closer look. :)

Author Topic: Heavy Metal Map Mayhem (Read 92944 times)

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