New tournament map: Ganymede V1

[Beherith]

Fun 18*18 ccr style map. Mirrored for tourney play.
Made for 1v1 and large team games.
World machine+Carrara




http://www.springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=2323

[Das Bruce]

Looks kind of boring.

[MidKnight]

REQUEST: Run CCR's heightmap through Carrara with these settings.

[Neddie]

Why? We have a dozen CC and CCR. I want other space maps.

[hunterw]

looks like a bigger moonq20x...1v1 on 18x18?

[Neddie]

Hey, in CA you can do anything.

[Argh]

Good heightmap, non-obvious mirror, but the texture feels... IDK, something's missing (imo, of course).

Maybe treat the craters a bit more realistically, give them some color variation vs. higher zones (assuming we're talking an airless moon)? The places where the gray cuts the rust-red suddenly look a bit machine-made. Don't really want to get super-specific about it- it's a nicely-done concept, I like it overall, it just doesn't feel quite right yet.

[SirArtturi]

Cmon people? Compared to CCR it's far as being boring looking... You wanted big CCR and now you got it? Excuse me, but what did you expect if this doesn't feel right?

Moon maps ain't supposed to look vivid, right?
http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/07/ ... gal_c2.jpg

[Beherith]

Heres CCR ran through the same render:
Do what you want with it, Im not remaking ccr.

I feel the main lacking on ganymede is insufficient distortion of craters. They look too uniform.

WARNING! CLICKING ON PIC GIVES YOU FULL 22MB JPG.

[Beherith]

Hmm, added displacement makes it much nicer:


Compare to old one:


Only possible in a few clicks with world machine

[smoth]

cool

[1v0ry_k1ng]

cool, a 14x14 version would be good for 1v1

[Beherith]

New texture; anything else i should tweak?

[1v0ry_k1ng]

those crease lines look kinda artificial

[Beherith]

Something along these lines?

[Otherside]

bottom one looks awesome the crease lines did look a bit artificial

[MidKnight]

Bottom one indeed does look awesome. Nice job, best space map I've seen yet.

[Beherith]

Compare previous to: (disregard shadows being on in prev render, they have to be off for final)

[Beherith]

Bit less bumpiness on flats:

[Gota]

The less pronounced craters in red in the middle means the craters in the middle on which i pasted craters from Sir's picture of the moon.


IMO there are a bit too many of the big craters.
Its a bit confusing and the eye cant catch the terrain.
I think would be better if their amount was reduced.
I think if you add just a few,like 2 bigger shapes like the less pronounced craters jsut to draw the eye and allow the brain to easily remember the map's structure and divide it into subsections around certain objects.

The map looks too uniform and i think will suffer the same unplayability as other very nice maps such as sir artturi's green hilly map and eye of horus.

A map with a uniform color and many objectes and lines and a very packed with detail heightmap is hard to play...
There is another such map that doesnt get played althought it appears to be awesome.

the one Hunter made with the very elaborate heightmap filled with detail...