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Erom · Post by **Erom** » 14 Jun 2006, 19:49

OK, I'm calling this good enough for the first release. Thanks to smoth for the detailtex trick. Thanks to FA for the kickass map tutorial.

DL: Thanks FU!

Crossfire
8x6 1v1 map

Glamor shots:

Base-

Bridge-

Minimap:

Left v. Right, 3 land bridges between sides, two paths for hover/amphib (one through each lake). Pretty easy to reach from one cliff to the other with artillery.

I messed up the FU upload slightly (No minimap- how do you do that, anyway?) but it is in fact uploaded and playable.

AF · Post by AF » 14 Jun 2006, 20:36

It looks veyr ncie in the thumbnail but if it looked that detailed when at 1:1 res then it'd be brilliant!!

^^ Nice one for a first try

Fat Zombie · Post by **Fat Zombie** » 14 Jun 2006, 21:09

That's something we need for Spring; useable terrain objects, like bridges and things. Can we have destroyable props, like buildings, yet?

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 14 Jun 2006, 22:04

From what we can see the heightmap looks very nice. I think the texture can use more work but as you said it is a WIP.

Can we get a shot of the minimap so we can better see the layout?

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 14 Jun 2006, 22:44

smoth wrote:From what we can see the heightmap looks very nice. I think the texture can use more work but as you said it is a WIP.

Can we get a shot of the minimap so we can better see the layout?

Quite nice!

Erom · Post by **Erom** » 15 Jun 2006, 01:04

Sure.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 15 Jun 2006, 01:24

I was just thinking, while you can't make a bridge out of an object... you can maker guard rails.. just make a nunch of T shaped objects allon the sides of the bridges... they would be reclaimable so it make's something to fight for the middle for... or just make them worthless to reclaim...

TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT (bunch of tees strung together looks like one long line with supprts.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 15 Jun 2006, 03:43

That would require a new type of feature

esteroth12 · Post by **esteroth12** » 15 Jun 2006, 04:00

yay, a map that hovers/amphibs are useful on!

mufdvr222 · Post by **mufdvr222** » 15 Jun 2006, 05:13

esteroth12 wrote:yay, a map that hovers/amphibs are useful on!

There are maps that support hovers and amphibs.

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 15 Jun 2006, 05:48

Looks kinda choke point-y

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 15 Jun 2006, 06:29

Das Bruce wrote:Looks kinda choke point-y

Don't we love those?

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 15 Jun 2006, 06:30

neddiedrow wrote:
Das Bruce wrote:Looks kinda choke point-y
Don't we love those?

they pass in and out of fashion.

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 15 Jun 2006, 07:10

You need chockepoints, but it should be better than just three bridges down the middle.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 15 Jun 2006, 07:11

Hmm, I like the newer bridge texture. If you can try and either get rid of the detail texture. It will either dirty up your map or make your texture look worse.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 15 Jun 2006, 08:16

also, raise the height of the sun, it is causing some odd shadowing on the terrain and makes the terrain look a little ugly in spots.

Raisint the sun height will fix that.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 15 Jun 2006, 08:53

11112 of the map forum bwa ha ha!

Bear in mind bruce that there appear to be shallow areas in between the bridges.

Erom · Post by **Erom** » 15 Jun 2006, 14:43

Yeah, it's over choked. Playtesting showed that pretty clearly. The one good bit is that you can use artillery from your cliff to knock down any static defenses on the oposite side. HLTs get dead, alot, but the bridges still tend to clog up. Either way, I don't really want to go back to heightmap a third time, so I think I'm chalking it up to First Map, and hopefully the next one will be better.

I'll polish up the texture, add some vegetation and metal spots, and probably get it done tonight.

I'll try to remove the detailtex, its messing a lot up.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 15 Jun 2006, 19:08

Look at the latest map by Mr. D: here. It has the detail texture removed.

Rayden · Post by **Rayden** » 15 Jun 2006, 22:07

Finally another nice choke point battlemap :)

Spring RTS Engine

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