Spring RTS Engine

A stripped down version of my unreleased Clover Isle map. Beware the seas of deadly acid, for they shall render your units inoperative.

Size: 10 x 10
Metal: High
Style: Hand & Filter
File Size: ~3 MB









Get it here; http://spring.unknown-files.net/file/35 ... sle_Basic/

sweet! a st patricks day themed map!

seriously though, looks great

Thanks, PL!

do hovers take acid damage?

looking good, your mapping skills a progressing nicely :)

completely hand-done map texture? how long did that take

the pinstriping is a real shame though

Hovers do not take acid damage; hand & filter, but mostly hand - took too long I suppose - at least this time I didn't do the hand part in MS Paint; Yeah, no idea how to get rid of the pinstripes.

me either and its really chappin my ass, so im gonna go bump my pinstriping thread

also, you should go get l3dt or terragen for texturing ftw

I have l3dt, but I've not been convinced that springing for the cost is worth is yet. Besides, I need to make texture sets before it will be useful anyway - I have some climates from Quanto and Forboding, but I find that original material calls me...

I love Acid !

gj

neddiedrow wrote:I have l3dt, but I've not been convinced that springing for the cost is worth is yet. Besides, I need to make texture sets before it will be useful anyway - I have some climates from Quanto and Forboding, but I find that original material calls me...

climates for l3dt are really mainly just slope tolerances. there's not that much to them, just modify one to suit your needs. they also contain the scalar quantities for how tall your bumps on your normal maps are, so you need to tweak all of those for your textures.

remember, always render with light set where you want it to be and with detail cranked to the max (duh), but never render the light with water, since spring will do that for you. let those normal maps do their work, they look really really good if you have the right detail texture.

you can just drop an email to aaron and ask for a temporary key. i think they last a month. if you get hooked you'll probably need it for longer than that

as for the textures themselves, try http://www.filterforge.com

Love it. Small filesize, good concept, some personality, and doesn't look like it was spat out immaculate from a terrain generator. Beautiful. But I haven't had a chance to play it, so I'll reserve final judgement. How big are those metal sources. Any geos?

Metal sources are 1.1 or there about, not too high, pretty middle of the road. For a map this size, however, there are a lot of them. No geothermals are present, though in the advanced version, I'm considering replacing the metal spot capping the hill with a geothermal.

neddiedrow wrote:Metal sources are 1.1 or there about, not too high, pretty middle of the road. For a map this size, however, there are a lot of them. No geothermals are present, though in the advanced version, I'm considering replacing the metal spot capping the hill with a geothermal.

Sweet merciful crap, that would be horrifying with a Core cannon-geo on it.

Precisely. It would increase the incentive for the hill in E&E, AA/BA/CA/XTA/TA, SWS and s44 - and nobody would ever let a foe hold it for long.