Maedhros_Feanor

Ok since no one except Halak posted on the other thread, im hoping having a thread with screenies and the storyline will maybe influence ppl to post on the other thread.

*This is not a continuation of the other thread. This is altogether on a separate topic of the game, while the other one was on getting a mapping team.*

Ok, well this is the story of the map (inspired by the dragon lance novels, its pretty much the same as any other storyline):

Since the breaking of the Unified Armies of Feanor and the Qualinesti elves, the people of Ansaron have fallen in disarray. The Seven brothers have broken into groups of three. One became a Knight of Solomania, and later the king of the Country, one became a great mage, and the other fell from the light and became a bandit. The elves are now isolated, and with out their vigilance the world has fallen to evil...

The map is a spawn based map with the following races:

Humans
Bandits
Demons
Dark Elves and Corrupt Ents
Elves and Allies
Goblins and Trolls
Draconians
ogres and Gnomes
Knights of Solomania
Undead
Orcs
Dwarfs

Attached Images

	Cene-Nature Base.bmp (2.67 MB, 19 views)
	Minor Orcalis Base.bmp (2.72 MB, 7 views)
	Dark Elf Base.bmp (2.76 MB, 6 views)
	Spiders.bmp (2.78 MB, 6 views)

Attached Files

	Cene-Nature Base.bmp_thumb (124.0 KB, 14 views)
	Minor Orcalis Base.bmp_thumb (145.1 KB, 13 views)
	Dark Elf Base.bmp_thumb (160.9 KB, 14 views)
	Spiders.bmp_thumb (156.1 KB, 13 views)

okper0205

well, if your doing lotr, why not just use the real names for the sons?

Maedhros_Feanor

Its not LOTR, and the names will actually be the real names. Its going to be based on mostly Dragon Lance lore. Guess there aren't a lot of ppl who read those novels here.

Halakbalakbalak

Hmm, If the whole map will look like that screenie then it will be intresting but you could probly do with more custome doodads...

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King Stubby

ok, have you even READ the books? Feanor is a LOTR guy, the UN or whatever didn't exist, and elves didn't turn into human knights! the only reason there was peace before the cataclysm is because istar was like Rome, and after that, there were giant weak lands that COULDN'T fight eachother. but then the dragons returned and a war happened. (which is when most of those races actually came into existence!) ogres and gnomes were on opposite sides of the war (only one lived in mount Nevermind) there were no orcs, and the dwarves were all holed up in their big mountain kingdom that was completely impenetrable, and according to the dwarven trilogy, they had massive gardens that could feed a million dwarves for their entire lives! there were no "ents" at all in the books, there were barely any undead at all (they only lived in one forest and never left the forest, because they couldn't) The demons just commanded the draconians, they didn't actually fight. There was only one dark elf ever mentioned in any of the books that i've read. (all but one trilogy) and dark elves weren't even a race, it's just a traitorous elf. I'll make a better list of races for you.

1. Solamnia
2. Dragons and Draconians
3. More Dragons and Draconians
4. Dwarves
5. The gnomes of Sancrist and the Kender of Kendermore
6. The Qualinesti and Kagonesti elves
7. The Silvanesti Elves
8. Barbarians
9. Ergoth
10. Central Ansalon Evil guys (Like sanction, Neraka, etc)
11. Mithas/Kothas/Karthay (minotaurs)
12. More Dragons and Draconians

PS: How loosely based was your idea?

Maedhros_Feanor

Very loose. I didnt want to go over the bother of making the whole map look exactly like ansalon, thats why I didnt call it was of Ansalon, instead wars of Ansaron. And I have read all of the books, and would be willing to make a map completely based on Ansalon, but I would need a partner.

King Stubby

I'm kind of busy, but I could be a great idea factory! :P

Maedhros_Feanor

More interested in a partner lol. Epic maps are hard to make solo, especially if ur lazy.

King Stubby

I know what you mean.

Halakbalakbalak

non-pro doodading senses tingling... a non-pro must be near >> <<<

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Maedhros_Feanor

Yes...well that doesnt help much. Im far from a pro. If u consider your self such a pro why not explain whats wrong with the bases?

MrOrange

Long story short, he can't.

Also terrain isn't that important. And I say that you're terrain is good enough.

Only if you are extreme good with terraining does it actually matter. Because anything lower is just a terrainer which you can find in almost any active WE forum.

Halakbalakbalak

You need to take away the pathing of all the doodads you use... make ttheir max size 100 and their minimum .01 then make the default rotation -1 so you can resize them and make them in different directions so they may be beautiful...

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Maedhros_Feanor

Well you need decent terrain, or no one will play your map. And im not claiming to be a great terrainer, im just tryin to make a decent map.

lol what do you want me to make beautiful? Some trees? Mushrooms perhaps? bodies on stakes? Those are the only real doodads there, and there isnt much you can do with those.

Halakbalakbalak

-.-... you definitely dont know how to doodad... you can easily make grand trees from bushes and a stake... you can easily make a castle from 3 different types of doodads... a wall end... a wall thats been scrunched up... and some human banners wich you raise into position.

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King Stubby

i sense one in the post right above me, i also sense that he should shut up about the world editor, because we've all seen you say that a million times

sebaudy

Yep Halak your kinda boring

Seb.

Maedhros_Feanor

Since its an epic size map I wouldn't have doodads to spare to make "grand trees", why waste 2 doodad spaces when you can use a single tree? In the posted screen shots, there is no base that needs a castle type building. They are supposed to be either natural bases and im trying to use as little doodads as possible. I could change the walls on the spider base, but I re did that base altogether. Why would I use human banners when there are no human bases posted in the screen shots? And If I don't know how to doodad for **** check out the map I was making before (its in this section called no real name yet-name needed). They were all WIP. I would be continuing that map but it got lost in my hard drive crash.

Halakbalakbalak

Dude, its obviouse you dont know the potential of just a friggin bush for doodading, you can have around 40k doodads if you know what to do, hell normaly I only need to place 10k doodads to make a good looking map.

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King Stubby

wow. thats ONLY 3500 over the normal max, talk about lag eh

sebaudy

How Can you put 40 000 Doodads...

Seb.

King_Leopold

well you can if you use no limits patches and want your map to only be able to be played on a super computer

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Nos-Feratu.

I like the screenshots, Feanor. It looks great.

Terraining really doesn't say all that much, but then again, what in a video game says all that much?

Maedhros_Feanor

Thanks everyone for the comments and stuff. Ima keep workin on this and ill put more screen shots when im done the terraining.

Hellshadowhound

You got a good map coming along but dont forget about BoN .