.:New Map:. Martian BattleGrounds

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 05 Aug 2006, 09:50

You know that retexture that you nocked so hard? I had 1 bumpmap set incorrectly. 1. I made this climate to sate the lusts of OTA nostalgists.

1 hawt sex looking map for the small price of 14 megs. Enjoy.

Map Download:
http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ms0019 ... 1.sd7.html

http://www.unknown-files.net/browse.php?dlid=1505

Screens:
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i92/F ... een214.jpg

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i92/F ... een213.jpg

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i92/F ... een212.jpg

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i92/F ... artian.jpg

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 05 Aug 2006, 17:36

comments? suggestions?

AF · Post by AF » 05 Aug 2006, 18:37

Those walls just dotn look natural.

In real life you'd expect like the redder ground to go up the side somewhat then trail off as the rock outcropped, yet it looks more like there's a distinct line between the ground and the outcrop.

And that default pink sky is juse eeuurrgghh, make it orange and cloudless.

imo The OTA mars texture would look better if it where remade to look liek an rusty red whakamungatiri or whatever the name of that map is that you did a test version for the SM3 format combined with a new feature for those plants (the yellow texture on that reddish backgroudn si hideous), and an bronze smog

GrOuNd_ZeRo · Post by **GrOuNd_ZeRo** » 05 Aug 2006, 20:26

Regardless if it's a realistic texture or not, it does look really cool and captures that old OTA feel.

Awesome stuff.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 05 Aug 2006, 20:43

What GC said, to put it simply.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 05 Aug 2006, 20:44

Really nice texture, great job forboding angel!

Only the rocks could do with a retexture.... i couldn't find anything more to complain....

Perhaps you can do a v2 of redtriangle now (with fixed texture on the rocks, and the other things i mentioned in that thread )

hrmph · Post by **hrmph** » 05 Aug 2006, 21:04

Looks great, one bump map makes a big difference. BTW you should use unknown-files it is less lagged.

mufdvr222 · Post by **mufdvr222** » 06 Aug 2006, 00:44

Very nice

knorke · Post by **knorke** » 06 Aug 2006, 01:12

Hm, i dunno.
Its a brown landscape with brown mountains, brown rocks and yellow-brown plants..but then again, never liked the brown tileset in TA either.
Sure, its supposed to be some desert but I think it should look less repetive. Some craters or areas with sand would be nice.
Also it seems as if all hills have the same height...

I've not yet downloaded it but the layout remindes me of Altored_Divide, when played topVSbottom there are this two team-areads, the ground inbetween controlled by artillery.
When all 4 chokepoints are fortified, how do you want to attack?

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 06 Aug 2006, 07:45

knorke wrote:Hm, i dunno.
Its a brown landscape with brown mountains, brown rocks and yellow-brown plants..but then again, never liked the brown tileset in TA either.
Sure, its supposed to be some desert but I think it should look less repetive. Some craters or areas with sand would be nice.
Also it seems as if all hills have the same height...

I've not yet downloaded it but the layout remindes me of Altored_Divide, when played topVSbottom there are this two team-areads, the ground inbetween controlled by artillery.
When all 4 chokepoints are fortified, how do you want to attack?

Ok, for future referance. Martian is derived from the word mars.

All the hills do not have the same height. Not even close.

The map is on unknown files. First time I ever used it. I like the site.

Ishach · Post by **Ishach** » 06 Aug 2006, 08:54

I played this map yesterday when Forboding Angel was testing it.

Personally I thought the metal was a bit high, and the chokpoints a bit tight.

But those happen to also be the attributes of the most popular maps.

One feature I did like is that build space is at a premium, so even though the middle has no metal it does have the largest flat area to build on

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 06 Aug 2006, 09:31

ok I understand the chokepoint comments... But, the kbots can Easily make it up to the tops of all the hills and over them, therefore I really don't see it as an issue.

Sure it would be nice to use the paths through, but you can always go Over the hill, as opposed to altored divide where the paths through are the only way to get to point b.

Molloy · Post by **Molloy** » 06 Aug 2006, 13:38

The Mars and Lava tilesets were always pretty hideous. I don't think we get that nostalic about them.

Nice map.

knorke · Post by **knorke** » 06 Aug 2006, 15:46

Ok, for future referance. Martian is derived from the word mars.

So, why are there plants and clouds

About the hills, on the screenshots they looked very similiar and steep.
I guess I'll have to play some games on the map.

BigSteve · Post by **BigSteve** » 06 Aug 2006, 23:43

Not bad FA, I like it although its a little porcy, its definately a map for kbots ^^ or the URC, the ridges on top o fthe hills arent wide enough to place 12 defences on (AA) thats my only real gripe otherwise its cool

bamb · Post by **bamb** » 07 Aug 2006, 00:43

mars does have some clouds btw. :)

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 07 Aug 2006, 01:49

knorke wrote:
Ok, for future referance. Martian is derived from the word mars.
So, why are there plants and clouds
About the hills, on the screenshots they looked very similiar and steep.
I guess I'll have to play some games on the map.

Did you ever play ota??? Cause you're asking me some really stupid questions... If you never played ota then that would explain a lot.

KlavoHunter · Post by **KlavoHunter** » 07 Aug 2006, 03:18

Cannot download map.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 07 Aug 2006, 10:09

Forboding Angel wrote:
knorke wrote:
Ok, for future referance. Martian is derived from the word mars.
So, why are there plants and clouds
About the hills, on the screenshots they looked very similiar and steep.
I guess I'll have to play some games on the map.
Did you ever play ota??? Cause you're asking me some really stupid questions... If you never played ota then that would explain a lot.

I played a fair bit of OTA, but apparently not enough to know what you're talking about...

knorke · Post by **knorke** » 07 Aug 2006, 16:12

I think he wants to say that the plants I "complained" about were already features in TA?
My 486-pc with 66mhz couldnt run TA but we played it on a friends computer but we prefered C&C because of a nicer singleplayer campaign.
my graphiccard isnt working at the moment so i still cant play spring to test the map :/
I just said that the map appeared very monotonous to me and brown didnt seem very mars-like to me.

KlavoHunter:
download works for me (?)

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.:New Map:. Martian BattleGrounds

.:New Map:. Martian BattleGrounds