Hey fellas,

I just stumbled ober this. Great stuff, I like this.

We're competing in a TR ladder for CoD4 and 5. I would like to use this tool for discussing these tactics there aswell but we play on custom maps most of the time.

Any chance you guys will add customs too?

Greetings,
Remington

This could be very difficult as there are so many custom maps out there, and I highly doubt it but speak to Support or Submit a RFC and see how you go.

Hi,

I cannot speak for the developers, however there is a workaround for using custom maps with TactisBoard, without having a released Tactics Pack.

If you can aquire the map overheads/screenshots for the selected custom maps which you wish to work with, they can then be uploaded to your TacticsBoard (Must be .jpg image files).

To do this, login to your board as an admin, then go to the "Admin" menu, and "Upload Canvas Image." Browse to your map image, and upload it. To load it, now go to "File" and then "Load Canvas." Now you can select the map image you have just uploaded, and work on it and save it with your tactics just like it was part of a Tactics Pack.

If you require any assistance with this, please do not hesitate to ask.





Regards

You can get this by either putting it on ur server and speccing out and then you can screenshot it, and load it under custom image. Or you can contact the developer and ask for the compass image, and then load that up.

Just to add to what Maca said, you could go into the game press ESC (or whatever you use as pause) and it has a very small mini map. If you take a screeny of it via F12, Xfire etc. , then save the picture to your computer (if you used xfire via xfire webby). Once you have done this if you sign up to Photobucket for free image hosting you can crop the image etc to just the mini map.

Let me or someone else know if you need any assistance

Thanks for your responses guys.

I'll set up a dedicated server on my machine and will jump into it. I guess with /noclip 1 I should get nice overhead maps aswell.

If I can't get it to work, I'll let you know.


Greetings,

Remington

kewl, if u want it polishing up abit then ping the jpg over to us and i'll get our artists to look at it.

I tried the first map already and it loaded it up. But it didn't fully show it, since it was too big, I think.

What are the seizes of the pics you use actually?

I dont know the actual sizes, but, just to check, you did try zooming right out yeah? (I dont mean to insult your intelligence!)

(Go to the "View" menu, and just continually zoom out).





Regards

Default canvas picture sizes are w854 x h534

Thanks for the help.

I tried to zoom out, but due to my pic having different proportions it just gave me results I wasn't too happy with (too small or edges cut off).

I'll try it with the original canvas seize and tell you how it worked.

you can resize with irfan view which you can download for free here:

www.irfanview.com/

I'm working with painting programs quite often, so that is no biggie.



Well... looks like it works! (This is the CoD4 custom map Balakan btw). I just loaded that up and randomly put on some stuff for my clanmates to show how it works.


This is really great guys, I really love this tool!

Well done mate, we knew it would work, but good to see people using it for custom maps none the less. By the way, im a mapper also. Add my xfire: SammyR28 and check out my CS_office cod4 conversion map.

excellent, u'll be pleased to know we are working on a way u can bring up your tacticsboard in game!....stay tuned..