[benjcallaghan]

I recently completed maps for each of the three Buried Takish'Hiz dungeons that are currently available on Live servers. In the next GU, there will be a new contested dungeon based on the Buried Takish'Hiz design. This dungeon is already available on the Beta server. I've been poking around there to see how much of the map can be reused from the first three dungeons. I've attached a rough draft of what the entire contested dungeon would look like on one canvas.

Within this mega-map, the blue sections represent areas that are present in the new contested dungeon, but not in the original maps. The right-most blue section is two rooms physically attached to the Well map. The left-most is two rooms (upper and lower floors of the same room) that is physically disconnected from all other regions. The central and largest is a brand new area physically attached to the Cavern map. These three regions will need to be sketched and mapped, possibly altering the existing images of two maps.

I have also tested the existing maps (as separate images, just like on live) in-game on Beta. Most the maps work perfectly for the new zone, but there is an alignment issue in the red section, known as the Branching Gateway. The player icon is offset slightly from the map, often standing outside the walls, as if the Zone Rect for that map wasn't quite accurate. I have confirmed that no such issues exist within the Foundation of Knowledge zone I used to originally make that map. However, there are no alignment issues in the green sections, which are part of the same image. The map as-is is functional and will still be better than nothing, but I'd like to fix it (preferably before Beta ends).

I would appreciate any advice on how to fix the issues listed above, how to expedite the map-making process, or whether the three new sections should be their own map images.