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[Spahbod]

Another map using the random biome system. I am not satisfied with it though and I am looking for your ideas and suggestions to make this better.
Players start in "wholes" in the mountains connected to each other by some roads. There is also a larger valley in the middle of the map. It is overall a very hard map lacking both building space and resources.



I took screenshots from the different stages of design. Some might find them interesting (including myself). But it isn't easy to upload them all so I created this short clip from the images.

Link to download the clip

I'm looking forward into your suggestions to make this better.

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•  canyon.zip   4.18K   32 downloads

[wraitii]

The players' starting zones are too spherical. Make them a bit more jagged (a setting of about 0.05 gives good results and you can keep the whole thing pretty spherical). Perhaps you should consider a different terrain for the bottom of the canyon, even when there are no roads (something more dry, or more lush). Perhaps adding a bit of variety in the heights of the canyon sides, and by adding rocks for beautification on the sides, it'd look more natural.

[Mythos_Ruler]

Make the highlands polar or alpine, and the valleys a tropic biome, like the Pubjab map, and you can call this 'Shangri La" or Shambala.

[Spahbod]

Updated the map. It now has less "dead" places.Greatly increased the quality.

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[Spahbod]

Newest (and probably last) version. Needs a modified randombiome.js which is included in the download. I liked it as it is both very random and playable. Added treasures to the center of the map. Fixed many issues.



I'd be glad if someone posts a screenshot with high quality graphics.

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•  canyon.zip   7.19K   32 downloads

[ribez]

Spahbod, on 15 March 2012 - 01:32 PM, said:

Newest (and probably last) version. Needs a modified randombiome.js which is included in the download. I liked it as it is both very random and playable. Added treasures to the center of the map. Fixed many issues.

Canyon.JPG

I'd be glad if someone posts a screenshot with high quality graphics.

seems very good

looking your picture, maybe the roads are too large, but i want to test it in game when alpha 9 will be released

[Spahbod]

ribez, on 15 March 2012 - 03:10 PM, said:

seems very good

looking your picture, maybe the roads are too large, but i want to test it in game when alpha 9 will be released

Sorry. It is not going to be released in Alpha 9.

[Pureon]

Nice layout and biome work, i like this one a lot. I'm still not a fan of how the RMS maps deal with texture blending, even though I know there's not much that can be done at this point.

[Mythos_Ruler]

This could be the basis for a new "Neareastern Badlands" map.

[Spahbod]

Yeah. I was also thinking about that.

[Mythos_Ruler]

Spahbod, on 15 March 2012 - 05:44 PM, said:

Yeah. I was also thinking about that.

I'd still like to have some custom rock formations made for that map.

[Pureon]

Spahbod, on 15 March 2012 - 01:32 PM, said:

Needs a modified randombiome.js

May I ask why it needs a modified version?

[Spahbod]

Pureon, on 15 March 2012 - 06:01 PM, said:

May I ask why it needs a modified version?

Because it uses biome specific tree actors for the top of the hills. I added them into the file for this and any future "generic" map that may need them.

[Pureon]

Spahbod, on 15 March 2012 - 06:19 PM, said:

Because it uses biome specific tree actors for the top of the hills. I added them into the file for this and any future "generic" map that may need them.

Ah good, so you're going to make the modified randombiome.js official.

BTW I played a match against qBot on Canyon and the map works very nicely