Deralia

Crisis averted, thanks to RD.

- Ewok

Here are some new shots of the map. The Harbour shots are very wip. The boat is incomplete, going to add sails that flap around and stuff. Still going to add lights that are on in some of the house windows later.

As for the lighting as fetter and Zaphod said. I have improved it. It's been darkened and there's more contrast. The light_environment has more of a blue-ish hue like the sky, you can mainly notice it on the beacon itself. Unfortunately, I've been screwing around with my brightness and gamma settings because mine on MS were set to full everything, so some shots I think my appear very dark, but hey, it's night time.

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The beacon's fade is gone now, now it just has a normal glow with some sparkly effect stuff which is pretty cool in-game.

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The Blacksmith now has items lying on his table with a hammer on the anvil and stuff. The area was a little dark so I added a lantern. There's also thatch roofing over the place as was suggest by Tayl0r.

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Shot of the docks as it currently stands. The best thing about this area imo is the ambient sounds when running around, you hear like a wind as you walk through the tunnels leading to the docks and as you approach the ship / boat you hear creaking of wood and stuff. Very cool.

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Later.

- Ewok

Although it actually may seem big, it actually isn't. There's not too many actual indoor shops because the r_speeds would be nuts if alot of those building had insides. But so far there's a BlackSmith, a small Tavern / Inn with two rooms + bar area, oh and a barracks that you can enter, as well as a Church / Temple and then there's going to be a side street grocer, then the harbour area.

The game has stamina, so yeah, you right, it would suck to run around at earlier levels and run out of stamina to a slow crawl. And again you right in saying that it's mainly no action, a place where you can buy and sell goods etc... Like you said.

Tomorrow I guess I'll post the overheadshot, just want to see what the people actually think of the map as it stands. But not many people are actually criting or even commenting good or bad on the map at all. So I don't know. I just know I like it heh, as with a few other people...

- Ewok

Time to pimp updated shots again. Same areas as usual just with improvements. Since this is a WIP forum.

LOOK the litt0l windows are alit with life!!!! Yeah, more ambience and more detail. You can see the side street grocers dig on the street there.

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It's still actually brighter in-game, screen capturing is a little f0rked. Good enuff though ~

- Ewok

To be frank, that's because it's meant to be a city. Not a little village. I wouldn't put a beacon and various other things if it was meant to be a small village, roads would be more narrrow too.

This is more of a well structured, human capitol. Not something that's really grownen from a couple plebs building rubbish like squatters. There are actually height differences, but most things follow an actual floor size, ie. floors are usually a standard size. So if something is tall, it's most likely 2 - 3 floors high. To keep it realistic, since this is meant to be a quite well built civilization.

As for the whole 90 degree thing, I've take that in consideration, probably do that to some of the buildings (not many) just to help pull off an effect. Thanks for the advice.

- Ewok

I can try that more compact effect, which would require quite abit of shuffling and some serious brush movement, but it wasn't kinda what I was going for in this map. The road fits wagons to go both ways, kinda essential I think. Very comfortable size for many players to run around togther, something like Ungarn I don't see working here. To me the roads feel quite comfortable. I could be wrong, so guess it's up to what other people say. But remember this is meant to be a capitol. More City or Town than Village. And thanks heh.

- Ewok