New Map: DistrictWar v2

[Frostregen]

West<->East mirrored 28x20 map.
Balanced for:
1vs1
2vs2
4vs4
7vs7

Metal is at 2.1 per spot (square yellow thingies).
Made with KaiserJ's Tileset, SME and Gimp.

http://springfiles.com/2325

[knorke]

cool, another map based on that tilesetthing.
but won't this play very similiar to the speedmetalvariants?

[Beherith]

I like it, though it needs better water and lighting settings.
Also, you can disable rendering of whole waterplane outside map on bumpwater by removing the waterplanecolor smd tag.

[Forboding Angel]

Knorke, these aren't metal maps. They're city maps. Huge difference.

And yar, I agree with behe, kill the waterplane color, and give the water a transparent murky (greenish?) look and it will be instantly 50x better.

[Frostregen]

I thought of making the water/sky darker, more like black. Is this what you think?
(+removing waterplanecolor)

EDIT: Hmm, green. I'll look into it.

[Forboding Angel]

Nah the sky is fine, jsut kill the water plane color

Also, set your fog distance to 0.6, atm it's non-existent, which looks really really ugly.

One last thing, the sea floor needs texture, and the blue on the sides of the ramps and stuff doesn't look super great.

[Frostregen]

I made some dirt/rubble sea-bottom texture at first.
But after toying with watercolor I think it looks best,
if you just barely can not see the ground at all (adds illusion of unlimited depth). What do you think?

Removed Image.

[Otherside]

you need to tinker with the bump water settings (uses different tags than other water settings)

[Frostregen]

Hmm, the only settings which do not disable other effects seem to be wavesize/speed. Those look ok imho.

Anyway, I reduced the green tint (it is still there), and changed fog color to black. This way it better fits the desolated dark city theme.


Moved images into first post.

[Forboding Angel]

looks 100% kickass frost. Nice work!

[Otherside]

this new surge of maps makes me feel like playing spring again.

Even though springs mapping format could be way better the sheer quantity + quality of maps spring has is imo unrivaled by any other rts.

[Beherith]

Water is looking much better now, even the sky seems more fitting. Good job!

[Frostregen]

Thx :)
(also for your constructive hints :))

uploaded v2

[imbaczek]

this looks waaaaay better than v1, good work.

[KaiserJ]

this will play like a charm with evo.

the smd on v2 looks amazing, good work!

one kinda funky thing... the "batteries" and those other little buildings, they look a bit soft and squishy... im guessing this was because there wasn't enough heightmap information for them in that file i sent... is there anything i can do to give you tiles with more heightmap resolution for those in specific?

i suppose the buildings also could be scaled up to take up a 2x2 tile instead of a 1x1... this requires more experimentation to be sure.

every other tile looks pro; i can't wait to give this new SME version a try.

[Frostregen]

Thx :)

The squishy look is exactly the result of those selective-blurring issues I told you about

The 2x2 tiles already exist within the 128x128 tileset. (This map uses the 64x64 set.) And yes, they look better

[Warlord Zsinj]

zwzsg got the water tones just right for industrial maps with his port of Core Prime Industrial Area, I think.

[Forboding Angel]

Agreed WJ, and yes, this looks like sex

[Frostregen]

Water settings from Core Prime (greenish glow near surface) are not possible without making the sea-floor visible.
Basically you:
-Make the water-base color green
-Use Water absorb to make it even more green and darker as it gets deeper
-use waterMinColor to keep the extreme green near the surface.

What I need would be:
green->"normal" water color->pitch black

Since my map only features a small amount of ramps, it would not add much anyway, just sacrificing the depth look. (Smooth land-water transitions are needed to show the green-surface effect. It looks best if this green border runs around the whole water-body. ->Useful for in-map water bodies only)

[hunterw]

this water is pretty green

[WATER]
{
WaterSurfaceColor=0.7 0.64 0.86;
WaterPlaneColor=
WaterBaseColor=0.80 1 1;
WaterAbsorb=0.024 0.0040 0.0095;
WaterMinColor=0 0.05 0.05;
}

for waterplane color be sure to use the exact same as fog color