.:New Map:. Glacier Plateau [20x40] And [10x20] (Updated)

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 13 May 2006, 12:46

Ok, to describe this map is a bit hard to explain. First of all, it's farking HUGE.

(Updated to include "Tidewater Glacier, which is a 10x20 version of this map)

I designed it for 5 vs 5's, 8 patches per person giving 2.0 metal per mex early game. On a map this big I really didn't want to gimp the metal content.

5 geo's, 3 on the right side, 2 on the left.

Balance:

The right side has a Plateau, and less area overall to build, plus more ramps for amphibs to climb up. Also, the high Plateau is the highest point on the map.

The left side has 4 hills that are as high as the Plateaus, and more overall area to build. However, the ramps for the left side are MUCH larger and therefore easier to assualt using hovers or amphibs.

The only bad thing that I am seeing, is that the mipmap lines show up due to the fact thtat I had to convert the terrain to a jpeg on max quality to even get the compiler to run it.

BUT THE BEST PART OF ALL IS...

ONLY A 6 MEG DOWNLOAD!!!

I've been working on this all week and I'm tired now as it's 5 am, so without further adu...

Download Here (it's also in the map list):
http://fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=3185

My paltry screens don't even come close to showing off it's beauty...

Deathblane · Post by **Deathblane** » 13 May 2006, 15:40

Hmm, looks good. it's nice to have a larger range of mapo sizes to choose from.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 14 May 2006, 00:11

Hegihtmap, Water and metal maps don't seem to wrk for me on this map.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 14 May 2006, 00:13

Drone_Fragger wrote:Hegihtmap, Water and metal maps don't seem to wrk for me on this map.

huh?

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 14 May 2006, 00:33

Pusing f1 makes the heightmap not appear, The water looks like snow, and pushinf f4 does not bring up the metal map.

Andreask · Post by **Andreask** » 14 May 2006, 01:12

The drone is right, i just tried the map and the water was borked, the height map did not appear when called for and it has strange flickerings.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 14 May 2006, 01:23

Umm I don't have the F1 preoblem...

Water looks like water to me...

Andreask · Post by **Andreask** » 14 May 2006, 01:32

Well, try and download the version on FU, and test it.

Drone├é┬┤s version is borked, mine too, both from the same FU source.

Perhaps just re-uplaod your version.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 14 May 2006, 01:53

I always redownload my maps from FU after I upload them.

It's a spring bug BTW. It has nothing to do with the map itself. Spring has a lot of trouble with really big maps.

Check out altored earth for an example of what I mean, or check out the map "Epic".

I've known about this problem for quite some time. I believe that it actually has to do with your video card.

Mine is a geforce 5500fx, 256 ddr.

Andreask · Post by **Andreask** » 14 May 2006, 02:02

oh yes!

I just loaded up altored earth, and the water is white there too.

Also, this doesnt happen on battle holms for example or this map where you have 4 big islands and one commander statue in the middle of an ocean, the water displays just fine there.

My laptop uses an ATI mobility radeon 9600/700.

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 14 May 2006, 04:02

IIRC, Caydr's map Altored Earth has a warning in the description: "DO NOT PLAY WITH SHADOWS ENABLED"
Is that your problem, AF and DF?

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 14 May 2006, 04:43

Could you make some screens with units, so we can get a better sence of scale?

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 14 May 2006, 08:00

Zoombie wrote:Could you make some screens with units, so we can get a better sence of scale?

sure thing dude, I'll get ntai on it pronto :D

Oh btw, I forgot to mention, I'm also making a 20x10 of this map as well. Will be in the same archive.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 14 May 2006, 23:59

Updated

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 15 May 2006, 04:01

*sighs* now I have to expand into the rarely seen gunda aquatic branch..

Spring RTS Engine

.:New Map:. Glacier Plateau [20x40] And [10x20] (Updated)

.:New Map:. Glacier Plateau [20x40] And [10x20] (Updated)