[WIP] Vindication

[Roostervier]

This is a work in progress, in very early stages. The name gets the thanks of Sunny, he's awesome with names =p. This map is made mostly to force the player into close quarters combat, save for a few areas.

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1192/00008fi7.jpg
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Most of the pics above are really old, I have added a cave, and I plan on adding forerunner bases, interiors, and more caves--maybe a network of them. Also, the top pictures were originally just used to give Sunny an idea of what the map was like for a name, not for this... I will get more pics =D.

My water shader thus far until bum has knife gets us the hawt one (I disabled animation for now):
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[jahrain]

Wow looks like a bitch to lightmap. Definitely needs more terrain mapping work. But that water looks awesome for stills! Send me those shaders when you get the chance. I'l see I can get it to animate properly.

[korori]

I want your water. LOL nice start of course add more detail. :)

[Roostervier]

Wow looks like a bitch to lightmap. Definitely needs more terrain mapping work. But that water looks awesome for stills!
I wants me some Real Time Refractions D:
Yes, I need to learn to properly map terrain, this will be a lesson for me. The lightmaps only take 3 hours on medium though, it isn't the worst.
Also, took me like, 2 hours to get the water looking decent, but about 1 hour and 10 minutes of that was loading sapien every time I changed it D:

[Elite Killa]

Look a bit plain. But it is a WIP after all.

I like the water shader though.

[megaxp]

LOOKS... Good Work ;P

[Ki11a_FTW]

send me the water PLEASE

map is also comin along nicely.. it has a lot of potencial (cant spell)

AIM me wen you have teh chance

[SuperSunny]

Super awesome work with the water :P

[Con]

Nice water, but the map really needs more work in the layout/detail/not-height-map-ish category.

[Roostervier]

Nice water, but the map really needs more work in the layout/detail/not-height-map-ish category.
I agree D: Could you talk to me on AIM about that sometime? You are good with level structure =p.

Also, for the water, all I've done so far is convert the cube map from Halos b30 water reflection and mess around with shader templates. If only I could get the animation and RTRefractions to work (correctly).

[soccerbummer1104]

hey, try vertex modeling. basically youy go into your top view, and make a topographic map with the verticies, outlining every 10 feelt of elevation. you do that for a rough sketch ofyour mode
then u connect the vericies how you want and raise the sections to the prefered height. you can then edit it further to make it look more realistic and add in holes, and caves and what not.

[Roostervier]

If this doesn't work out, I am completely fine with recreating the entire geometry, I've only spent 2 days on it (most of which was spent creating bitmaps, shaders, lighting, and my water).

[DominionOvrU]

hey, try vertex modeling. basically youy go into your top view, and make a topographic map with the verticies, outlining every 10 feelt of elevation. you do that for a rough sketch ofyour mode
then u connect the vericies how you want and raise the sections to the prefered height. you can then edit it further to make it look more realistic and add in holes, and caves and what not.

Call me the newb..but is this similar to spline modeling?..or different. Just curious im always looking for new modeling techniques.