Spring RTS Engine

Ok here you go this is my seconed map Ancient Arena hope you like it. You can download it from here http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=1715[/img]

That. Looks. Amazing.

Dunno how well it would play though, people might be to buzy drooling over the map.

Inovative.

Maelstrom wrote:That. Looks. Amazing.

Dunno how well it would play though, people might be to buzy drooling over the map.

I think you might be going overboard a little there. It's certainly a bit different from anything we've seen layout-wise, and the lighting is nice (too many maps use shadow settings that are far too light IMO), the morning/evening feel really looks good on it.

That said, the texture is bland in my opinion. You can see he's tried something with the tops and bottoms of the walls there, but it really kind of looks unnatural. It'd probably look better of the entire wall was solidly colored with that dark brown tone. I'm also not sure about those spiky hills between the apparent base locations, though I'm sure they're to prevent building up there. Again, however, I do not believe it looks very nice; Look at mufdvr's rendition of The Pass for good looking yet effective build-blocking mountains.

From a gameplay perspective, it certainly could be interesting--you could easily line up shots into the middle from the sides, and high trajectory would probably work nicely for neighbor shelling. The map might be a bit porc-y, but I can't really comment on that fully without playing it first. It certainly looks like games would get a bit more drawn out on this map, though, especially if any aircraft restrictions were in place. The glaring gameplay issue I can see is that area behind the corner base in the screenshot--it looks like it's rather flat, and buildable. I believe that should consist of those building-blocking mountains so any corner players can't have an advantage over edge players in terms of build space available.

Just my two cents from looking at the screenshots.

the texture is definitly lacking, pretty nice tho. There may be alot of crashing problems, depending on how high those middle parts are, if they are right at the top and something large explodes spring can have problems.

I notice the actual ground is extremly flat (outside of the walls) - will it stay that flat, or is the terrain soft?

Great Map!!

one complain the metalextractor radius is too small...

This map is cool, the only thing that comes to mind when looking at the first screenshot is that the sun should align more with the shadows. Then the sun would shine through the two pillars perfectly; reminds me of the sunrise shining through stonehenge.

Working on some new textures, and seeing about adding features like rocks or somthing, also going to get the light coming from the correct direction. The edges of the map are under water so in the screen shots it looks flat. v2 should be done soon (maby 1-2 days) thank you all for the advice and ideas