yeah guys i'm still doing this though I didn't get to them before being sucked into finals week(s). I will be done with exam cram on the 16th so i can expect to start working on them after that.
Actually the last post where I said Oasis needs more room. It doesn't really. But there are uneven amount of gold mines on each side alot of the time. Is there a way to fix it?
Jerom wrote:Isnt the desert a harsher environment during day?
desert is harsh 24x7. you more likely to lose your life in a desert at night but you will suffer more during day because of heat(if uts a hot desert of course).
The map is done, just comment out treasures and replace the Jesuit natives for the mod.
Let me know if anything needs changing/fixing, would love feedback. (Let me know if you get lag issues with the cliffs. I tried a new approach to mountains that will hopefully be nicer (cake stacks) instead of a ball.) Let me know what you think/give feedback.
Still doing this stuff btw, it just takes (alot) longer.
Inspiration here
Something I found this morning: Performance on Cedar Forest especially near the mountain will be way better if you don't use the "amsterdam evening" lighting set. ("great plains" still looks good, though you lose some of the fog effect) Things with many facets (cliffs and hills with a lot of altitude variance) seem to cause lag issues when rendering lots of shadows from my personal experience.
pecelot wrote:Durokan , the map looks great for me, it's not laggy, though you can't upgrade the trading routes — I'm not sure if it's intentional
Lol rip, should be fixed now. (hopefully). TAD maps are supposed to have "water" traderoutes instead of "dirt" and I forgot to set it to that. Was not intentional.
If you don't want to redownload just CTRL F "dirt" and change both instances to "water"
Here is a teaser for the upcoming burial grounds map/progress I have
This is just the highest altitude section (more cliffs will be added), and while it doesn't 100% match the spec I think it's turning out well. The cliffs are super painstaking to do because I have to do each turn and corner individually, but it's gonna be super cool when it's done. This is just a piece of the coordinate code I'm doing for it if you guys are interested at all
I don't really know when it's going to be done but hopefully soon but who knows.
Ip Man, what do I do about the trees? I don't see them anywhere in the spec
Hey guys here are some of my ideas for upcoming water map "updates". These are ideas I had about changing some existing maps to be more fun and competitive for people who don't like water. Let me know what you think. The orange and yellow dots are one way teleporter and receiver nodes respectively. A black center means it is the sender node and a black outside means it is the receiver node. The resources are not balanced in the current maps, only placeholders. The maps with two town centers would ideally not start with two sets of villagers.
If you guys are inspired by anything in the following screenshot feel free to add or change to it. All of these won't be being made, they are just concepts and ideas and I wanted to see if any of them stand out
Hey @Durokan I just saw your post. The second Teaser picture looks very good. About trees, i am not sure. IS it possible to make the trees spawn randomly without interrupting the map layout and also maitainig a health number of trees for civs who might want to wall up and FF/FI vs agrresive civs ( brit/japan/port vs russia/india/aztec)
Hey Durokan, I got another map idea. I really appreciate all the maps you've done so far :).
Map Name: Sicily
Map Size/Player Count: It should scale Dynamically (it allows FFA, 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4. No OBS.)
Resources
Hunts: Medium amount of hunts, deers mainly.
Mines: About 3-4 mines per player, evenly distributed throughout the island.
Forests:Should have small clumps of trees. Not in large forests, just small groups (maybe 3-10?), but a good amount, so that there is enough wood for this map, for buildings and ships.
Herdables: Small amounts of cows/sheep throughout the island.
Treasures: No treasures. Identifying Features
Land layout: The map is based on the island of Sicily below Italy. It is mountainous and surrounded by water.
Cliffs: Mountains like the island of Sicily.
Water: The island is surrounded by water on all sides. Excellent fishing. There is no other islands or any parts of Italy on the map. Like the borneo map in aoe3 Traderoutes: It has a traderoute running from South to North on the Island. There are two sockets, one near the top, and one near the bottom.
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Hello everyone. This is my take on AOE_Fan's Bosphorus map from the KnB mod. All resources except fish have been redone and a heavily forested area on each side has been added, as well as trade routes. It is the first map I have posted here that features the teleporters I had mentioned in an earlier post.
The teleporters take the place of bridges or land that both boats and units can cross. The idea is that there should be a land bridge across for the two players but that boats are also capable of crossing through the strait. The two trade routes do not have their stagecoach upgrade linked but it is something I would consider changing.
Hope you all enjoy
teleportation does not always work on the EP due to something entirely out of my control
Hey guys, here is IP Man's request for a map similar to burial grounds. It isn't really possible to my knowledge to place the destructible walls as per the spec. The ones on Honshu Regicide are part of their own specific unit grouping made for Honshu specifically. Everything else should have made it in though. Let me know if anything needs changing or if you want me to attempt to make those walls out of trees.
Durokan wrote:Hello everyone. This is my take on AOE_Fan's Bosphorus map from the KnB mod. All resources except fish have been redone and a heavily forested area on each side has been added, as well as trade routes. It is the first map I have posted here that features the teleporters I had mentioned in an earlier post.
The teleporters take the place of bridges or land that both boats and units can cross. The idea is that there should be a land bridge across for the two players but that boats are also capable of crossing through the strait. The two trade routes do not have their stagecoach upgrade linked but it is something I would consider changing.
Hope you all enjoy
Sounds really neat, but could you skin it to make sense (i.e. tunnel or bridge)?
yeah sure it should be super easy, give me a minute. thanks for the bump. I can't test it but i'll upload it untested and test it when i get back to my room later this evening
Here is the Arkansas map with extra crates. It was pulled from the most recent EP update so the pictures will be broken on RE patch but it should load fine.
Here is the Arkansas map with extra crates. It was pulled from the most recent EP update so the pictures will be broken on RE patch but it should load fine.
cool thanks :) that should bring back some 'QS RANDOM BS WTF' to esoc games.
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