Spring RTS Engine

This my first map Death Valley (size 16x16) , its over the 10Mb upload limit so some help with that would be appreciated.

Also I will take comments on game play and balance and update it as required.

u cant use shaded textures for a groundplane imo


but nice for your first map

I think it looks good. but I wish it was bigger.

aTTacK wrote:u cant use shaded textures for a groundplane imo


but nice for your first map

Yes you can... but it kind of ruin's proper shading if you do...

Is there anywhere to build? The ground looks very bumpy.

Limited build space for large structures is a feature of this map, mostly because is build on a real height map of a real place.

http://www.dia-faszination-natur.de/ima ... -point.jpg


I put some extra shading into the texture map as I wanted a high sun but that made the map look rather flat. I have lost count of the number of times I have rendered and coverted this map, including overlaying a satelite picture, I thought it looked better this way. If storm or Gnome will get in touch I can sort out the upload, its not huge ~22Mb you can try it for yourselves then we can discuss the game play issues.

need hovering buildings :))

22 MEG!?!?!?!?!??!?!? AHHHGggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

aGorm

Haha, aGorm, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Oh come on... I can make a 24x24 map thats only 5 meg with a sky box.... why cant everyone else...

aGorm

aGorm wrote:Oh come on... I can make a 24x24 map thats only 5 meg with a sky box.... why cant everyone else...

I have been working on the texturing method, so the next version will be better and smaller. It will also have a bit more buildable land.

aGorm wrote:Oh come on... I can make a 24x24 map thats only 5 meg with a sky box.... why cant everyone else...

aGorm

Thats cause your maps are texturally bland relative to ones like this.

But his maps generally play better than the straight-from-satellite textures, and they look good as they are - I think the near-photo realistic maps look a bit out of place, especially up against the low-poly TA stuff.

It's a difficult compromise; often the best looking maps have the worst gameplay. On the one hand you have people like Paulo putting out maps which don't look too crash hot, but have excellent pre-planned gameplay, and then you have extremely realistic maps such as this one, or some of mother's maps, which often look fantastic, but don't always play that well (like the lack of building areas issue in this map).

I'd have to say aGorm, and perhaps zwzsg are probably doing the best so far in terms of balancing gameplay and looks...

in all honesty I have harldly made any maps for this version of spring, Im doing lots of test maps with new features and stuff.

However I'm now determind to do CorePyramid again, with all the gr8 new stuff, and I bet I can get it down to 5 megs! Despite the fact it will look sooo good and you'll all be drooling over it. I promise.

(And yes... the current maps I've done are a bit bland but they still look good, thats being smart)

aGorm

as long as you make it bigger! =) remake kingofthehill PLEASE (with slightly lower m in the middle) your maps rock! :D

The new version of Death Valley will soon be ready,

New features and improvements include;

New textures - looks much better.
2 more start points - for bigger teams or different strategies.
New Metal map - to make the new start points viable.
Various tweaks - the stuff I cant remember just now.
Smaller - No no its still 16x16 but now its <10Mb YEAH!

Nice!! Glad to hear it. Time for some seriose fraggin...

aGorm

Some screens from the new version.









FU link coming soon.

Here! http://fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=1536

Mmm, nice. I like the seperation between the mountain region and the valley/river region. Hopefully players are forced to duke it out among both areas with clever metal and geo placement...