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Hey, downloaded this great pack, made a map, yet I don't see any speedball advertisements, could you provide a link to some images for in-game promo? Also, I having a difficulties in raising up the speedball at a set height, any work-around to raising it to a custom height with nothing underneath it.

kadaz wrote:I don't see any speedball advertisements, could you provide a link to some images for in-game promo?

i don't really understand what you want me to do
if you need images you can just shoot them yourself
there's no in-game promo running for speedball currently

kadaz wrote:Also, I having a difficulties in raising up the speedball at a set height, any work-around to raising it to a custom height with nothing underneath it.

you don't have to place the ball onto the map, instead you place a ball goal at which the ball will spawn during the match

oh I meant for the banner..

You see I don't know what a ball goal is.. is that the object ball, yet there is two of them..

Also I mean in reference to an in-game picture saying SPEED BALL.. do you have some ads
already made up, so I can put it on the banner? Probably if I dl one of your maps and edit
the file, I could get the url placecard.

Hope that explains it for you.

kadaz wrote:You see I don't know what a ball goal is.. is that the object ball, yet there is two of them..

The goal that steeffeen is talking about is this block :

I think that it can be any "goal" block. This one is 1-2-6.

Then after, you click on the little wreck tool in the top left corner of the screen to set it as where the ball will be

Oh boy, this is going to be complicated.. nah..

Look, if Iam doing this correct, there has to be two goals yah?

So I have one on either side.. and I need to place the ball in the middle so that when the game starts, everyone runs to the middle, grabs the ball and takes to the goal post.. so in the block file list.. there is two actual items that are soccer balls. and if you select them and place them on the map, they are visible soccer ball items.

You need 2 goal, 2 spawns (I think that you can have more, not sure of this one) and a goal where the ball will spawn (as showed in my screenshot).

For the ball that you're talking about, it's an object that you can place, but that will not have any effect on the gameplay. It will only be a kind of decoration.

The real ball that player will play with will spawn automatically on the goal designated for it.
I hope that we're understanding each other

I'm sorry Kadaz, I thought you had actually used the Map Editor before, I would have answered a bit earlier if I would have known...

When you need to know which blocks you need to include in the map you should read the Rules of the Maptype. I have a quick guide for you on that:

1. Switch into block properties mode. In this mode every block with special properties will be highlighted in green.

2. Click on one of the highlighted blocks.

3. Read the Rules.

This works with every Maptype. Here you have an image with the three steps. You can also see all the required blocks on it.


As you can see on the image, there are (at least) 2 spawns and exactly 3 goals (or finishes, as the ediotr calls them)/checkpoints in this Maptype of which the third one is the Ball Spawn.

The Ball in game will be spawned by the Gamemode-script and cannot be placed in the editor. The objects you're talking about are only for decoration.

Great advice guys, yet thou I just was wondering about the ball placement, seeing it was a block item, so it needs to be another goal to activate the ball, good I'll have to try that setup, again thanks for the info, talk to you tomorrow.

Whenever I start the Speedball Title, I just see the Maniaplanet Menu Background, but not the Main Menu of the Title.
I can only quit the Title with ESC, but there is no Menu, no Buttons, just nothing, so I can not play Speedball.
It seems that the Menu is not loaded, but I have no idea, why this happens.
Would anyone be so kind and help me?

redownload it from speedball manialink.