AboutFrankie B. Expertise I can answer any question in the Command and Conquer series including Red Alert 2, my main expertise is the missions. If you have a problem, then tell me which game it is the mission level and the problem you are havingI shall do my best to help you with the best possible score too. I will get back to the person within 2 days maximum.
Experience Have been playing the Command and Conquer series and other strategy games for as long as I could remember. Always have been an excellent strategist, I'm not the best, but I am quite efficient. As mentioned my expertise is all the command and conquer games, including expansion packs.
Question I'm not sure if you'd be knowledgable about this but maybe you could help me use the beta copy of the world builder that came with the command and conquer generals pack? I would just like to prepare a world to have skirmishes in and don't know how to. Also it doesn't seem to let me scroll when I am designing stuff.
Answer Ok I'll try my best to answer this one
The world builder is probably the hardest thing to use in Generals. There's 2 way to learn how to work it: Find tutorials on websites or experiment with the different tools on a blank map (That's what I did) but there is still times where you'll need tutorials (eg, adding AI). Stay calm when using it, it's not as easy as you think and still is in beta version. On some computers, WB is bound to crash every 20 minutes or so, so save often.
The very first tool you'll need to get used to is the heigth, mound and dig tools, these are the three brushes on the top toolbar (Generaly, everything you need it there except on.
Height: Makes terrian level to a prefered height
Mound: Raises the terrain
Dig: Lowers the terrain
Pay attention to the options box as they contain things that maybe useful. Lowering the ground to a certain height will result in water. These tools can make mountains, cliffs and rivers.
The next thing you'll need to know would be how to change/add different textures of the terrains (Grass, cement, rocks) These are the checker board things and the paint bucket. Put your mouse over these things to look at what they can do. They work just like any drawing program (eg photoshop) with the auto edge out and the blend tool being the blur tool
The Place Objects tool (Three arrows) should be simple enough to understand, they generaly places everything except roads and bridges.
The roads tool should be fairly obviouse, the make the roads and bridges. just drag them like you what you would do drawing a straight line in any program. Each end of a single strip of road can join to another make a curve at that specific points, but they don't join to bridges.
The Grove tool is a very helpful tool espacially when you want 5 trees to be ranbomly placed on a certain selected area.
Then add scorchmarks and fence tool is fairly obvious. The add scorchmarks tool works like the add objects tool and the fence works like the road tool
After that is done, skip a couple of tools and go to the way points tool. Pop a waypoint down on where you want a player to start and use the dropdown box on the options box to select Player_#_Start with '#' being the player number
hope this helps somewhat, all it is practice, practice, practice!
