After a years hiatus, I decided to make a new map instead of just talking about one. I present emp_blackmountain, a map centered around the titular black (in parts) mountain (or volcano, but its dead at the moment) at its center. In layout, it resembles (or will resemble, once I finish the brushwork) an inverted cyclopean, with a great big bloody mountain in place of a lake. It is, as I have before stated, very work in progress, but I felt it neccessary to share considering the dire lack of any actual mapping going on in this forum as of late. The skybox hills are fugly, I know. I messed up the texture scaling on them, and they are only placeholder anyway. And now, for PICTURES: If I release this and it is well liked enough, I may make a version in which the volcano is erupting.
Looks great(wonder how many fps I lose like your other maps) do you have a lay out or top down pic? also do those shooting stars move in the sky? they look pretty cool
fps is okay at the moment, I haven't finished optimising (or adding props hurr) yet, but it is still considerably higher than my other maps (I learned how to optimise during that year's hiatus) and is fairly constant regardless of where you look. Top down view will come later, once I've finished (or started) the various buildings and stuff I have planned.
Holy fuck. Omni I was expecting like slaughtered when you told me about this in terms of graphics. This is fucking beautiful.
Wow I wish I wasn't trash at displacements, which is why I don't do natural mapping, I only do artificial stuff. Good job I wish to see the end product/playabe version.
You know, he did this in the space of about 1/2 days after I destroyed him (again) on some zero hour mod and he liked the map. Anyway, you have 1 week until I'm back to finish it, fag.
Do us all a favor, and stick the base of that satellite dish antenna under the ground. You know, the part that has unbelievably shitty and annoying hitboxes? Yeah just leave that under the displacement and the rest will look fine without it.
Firstly, cheers for all the kind words guys. secondly, (current) OVERVIEW PIC: As I said, very WIP, I'm still deliberating over what to put in the south east and north west corners. I'm thinking some kinda geothermal power station (or at least a cool structure with lots of pipes ect) in the south, and a small military base in the north. Ref layout isn't set in stone either, feel free to make better suggestions.
Update After spending a couple of days mentally berating myself for not doing anything aside from mentally berating myself for doing nothing, I spent another day making the geothermal power station I considered earlier in this thread. The brushwork isn't stellar, and the interiors need a lot of love, but I'll consider it passable for now. Cooling towers Pipes. Pipes everywhere. Some random interior that looks almost like it has a purpose. I roughened up some of the terrain around the crater by request A screenshot of the crater, complete with bubbling water, steam, basalt and ref point. The map is about two thirds done now. I need to finish up the power station, then start on the military base I had planned for the other unoccupied corner, as well as the listening posts on top of the mountain. After that, its just tidying up.
