Sect of the Holy Mother

Well it isn't really that fast, I just forgot to update my siggy. And yes I read your review and thank you for the tip.

My biggest problem now is that I can't create good terrain at the place where the House of Dusk and the army of Red Stone will meet because it needs to be a wide field with no or very little doodads. The only thing I can do is make the terrain a little lumpy and add 3-4 tile variations. Any tips?

Well if it's gonna be a battlefield then you can't do much in there expect use much of tile variatons as possible and maybe some small rocks and stuff like that. Well if he main point there is war at that scene then many won't be able to see much of the terrain anyway, cause of the large armies :o

Yeah, I guess that's about it. I only hope I don't get a moderator that degrades my map because of a 2 minute long scene :P

Originally Posted by CMarket

Wait, you don't think you need too, or you don't think you watched the latest part?

Ohfine, I *want* to not need to then.


Allthough the whole theme of the storyline is...ehh... they are still interesting in some ways.
Only thing that makes me not sure is:
"[-] The final ending of this cinematic seem to contain some XXX part which is not a good thing especially there is some minor playing warcraft as well. But of well, at least it is censored"

I still sort of don't understand you, but if I understood correctly you don't want to watch it. Of course fell free to do what you want, but I believe that it will entertain you.

Yeah and the sentence isn't even vulgar or anything. Sure enough the mod, Septimus, degraded my map which lasts around 30 minutes(1800 seconds) because of a 2 second non-vulgar sentence(which means he degraded my map by 20% because of a part that is 0.11% of my whole cinematic).


Coming out on the 14th(Maybe 15th) of July

P.S. This wont be the loading screen since I like to keep consistent and because none of my previous SotHM had a loading screen, neither will this one.

Just like a poster for a movie!

But maybe it would be good if you got a loading screen anyway? It looks more proffesionall if you do.

I don't know...I want to, but I also want to keep consistent, which is why I never changed the minimap preview. Hmm...I don't know. The fact of the matter is that I will take about two weeks, when I finish the Sect of the Holy Mother, to fix all the spelling errors in the cinematics, as well as add more camera movement for parts 1,2 and 3, and then I'll probably add the loading screens. Hmm...I just don't know...Any thoughts?

I think larger image that you use for minimap would be good for loading screen because it fits good to all parts of cinematic. And if you are going to put all maps in one champaign than we will not be able to see minimap anyway.

EDIT:
So how long will it take to make part 8? Part 7 ended in a place that annoyingly screams for more :D
And what exactly will be your next project?

Hmm...I guess you could expect part 8 around the start of August. As for my next project, I don't want to give any spoilers yet. When I do half of the first part of my next project I'll make a trailer and submit it on youtube and then post the link here, but don't expect anything before September.

I am proud :) Too bad some noob felt the need to ruin my perfect score by submitting a grade of 1! :(

EDIT:
I agree that something should be done about it, but I can't really bother Ralle anytime soon because I already bored him with the 4/5 problem regarding the 6th part(at least my rating was changed to 5/5 :))

The second reason why I am posting this post is because I want to share something with you. I started this about two weeks ago, but when my system crashed it got deleted and now I made it again. It is a map of the world where the story of the Sect of the Holy Mother(and my next project) is situated.



Note that I didn't add anything not mentioned in the story(except the name of the islands in the middle of the sea). As the story moves along I will add new towns, mountains, rivers and so on.

Im very impressed CMarket! Why would you need a guy to do a map for you?

But unfortunatly, some things dont make sense. Like:

Raindrop Mountain is where Nikola was in chapter 5 (Leaving it), and Black Riverside in chapter 6. But Black Riverside is north of Raindrop Mountain and he was traveling to Red Stone at that point wasnt he?

The land Braintree just sounds wierd! I would suggest changing it to something like Branteer or something else.

You also sad you didnt add anything not related to the story but the lands around like Arabel, Residor, Belsom and a few others. But this those not really have anything to do with the map, its just something I've pointed out.

Other than that is looks nice like hell except a few more towns here and there would be nice. As well as rivers and mountains and forests! Give more work on it and this map should be ready for showtime!

Well Arabel is mentioned in part VII when William explains where the stompers originate from. As for Black Riverside when the cult was destroyed Richard and Karolina were on the side of the mountain closer to Red Stone and Nikola was on the opposite side. He went up, or in the map's case West so that he could go around the mountain and through Miridin's Forest. I guess I could change the name Braintree, but the word is not supposed to mean Brain + tree, it's just a random name I used(I think there is a town in England called Braintree). Residor and Belsom are also mentioned in part V when Admiral Chronicle is talking about how he has been in the war against these two counties. I added the countries(note: countries, not counties) Ristix, Ornusager and Licentia because I didn't want to end up with two islands(Arabel and the other with all the counties).

Impressive map. But compass looks a bit funny. Usually North direction is pointed up.

Yes, well I wanted it to be more Wow like(The two "continents", one left, one right. If I put north up I would have to rotate it so it would look like Europe and Africa.

Drawing map like this doesn't change that it's like Europe and Africa if you ask me. But I'm still impressed about your work so it doesn't mater to me.

Don't you think that making it look like Warcraft world will make everyone think about it like they think about warcraft? If I understand everything right than world you are making is inhabited only by humans unlike Warcfat world.

I am currently blocked at one part of the Sect of the Holy Mother 8. It is supposed to be a short(1-3 minutes) battle scene where Nikola fights five demonic humanoids that carry a sword, 3 of them being in front of him and 2 of them behind him. To the left and right is small pit.

Since this really isn't a major battle and is more of a "filler" I want you to come up with a scenario on how Nikola should fight these 5 demons. I don't want a map with triggers or anything, just a summary of how the battle should go. You can give the demons any fire based spell such as Breath of Fire, shockwave, etc.

MOST IMPORTANT - Do not post your summaries here!!! Send them to me via pm and I'll have a look at them.

Even though I have an ok idea on what should be done, I want you to pm me your ideas and see if they are better. The owners of the best 2-3 ideas will get +rep, and the one I choose to be in the Sect of the Holy Mother 8 will get +rep twice and his name will be mentioned in the credits as well.

So remember, don't post your ideas here and make sure you make a detailed summary(not something like: "I think he should blink and kill 2 guys then blink back and kill 1 more then push the two remaining into the pits"). I want as much detail as possible. Imagine that you watched an epic battle scene in a movie and you want to explain it to me so that I can visualize it exactly like in the movie even though I didn't watch it.

Oh, note that you don't have to include the pits in the combat scene.