Late XGM New Year

[Lexandritte]

In Communist Soviet Russia, we celebrate the New Year by making a fancy cinematic map by whole community for whole community. I'm little late with screens of that, but that's no trouble, since we celebrate New Year again on 13th of January.

The terrain was actually done by me (with help of infamous oGre_), models were sent by users, and then coded by administration to run around, play snowballs, and drink heavily.

Before coding and filling with models:





In-game screens, with some late changes by third hands:




The link to the actual map on XGM for those unscared by cyrillic.
The page: http://xgm.ru/maps.php?id=4256
Download link: http://xgm.ru/maps.php?do=download&id=4256&h=ee67

P.S. Map uses some unusual coding and may or may not open.

 

[Celaquil]

Nice terrains.

I probably like the 8th one the best, it's a damn good looking frozen waterfall.

 

[L2love]

This is actually tempting me to make a cinematic for ever holiday will I will try on next holiday. Also very sad its not in English =[.

EDIT I thought this was going to be more cinematic like with a story pretty awesome btw nj =].

 

[Nan0]

I rlly like this map, gj, LLlypuK)
But this map isn"t work on my War, so i have not seen myself =\

 

[Deolrin]

Lol, awesome. I like most of the screenshots.


Btw, I'm in the credits, hehehe.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Could you do the end product capture with a fraps-like program, so we can enjoy watching it in .avi?

 

[Nan0]

Mechanical Man, it is easer to download map, and see it)

 

[Mechanical Man]

Not really, avi file is easier to download and open it in media player or similar program. WC3 map must be downloaded, put in proper folder, then run warcraft, find the map and waiting it to load. And you can't even pause, rewind, go to specific frame, if you have to interrupt your view or rewatch particulary interesting part.

 

[Insincerity]

I am... as always... extremely jealous of your models ._.

 

[Lexandritte]

Actually, it's not really a liner cinematic. There's whole bunch of cameras between which you can fly, and action does not stop. So making a video of that would be problematic.

 

[sadvisor]

Great map, great job. Don't wait for a movie, download and test the map. It really worths the time.

 

[AKAIMAX]

Hey, i signed up for XGM and I couldn't find the doodads you used for the buildings. And deleting and testing each import in that map would take much too long. Could you please send me the model pack for the buildings?

 

[Lexandritte]

Doodads were made solely for the map, and the map is not protected. At least when I was finishing it it wasn't.

If it's not protected just export it, if it is... Can't help you there at the moment.

 

[AKAIMAX]

its not protected but there are tons and tons of different models. I don't know if you have a seprate folder or something with the models but if you do, that would be helpful cause the entire map is filled with imports and sorting that out would just take a loong time.

 

[Lexandritte]

Look up the model names in object editor, the buildings ones should have the same tag, like [newyear] or something.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

uhhhh.. english translation by any chance ?

 

[Lexandritte]

Nnnno. Unfortunately, no. There's not much to translate anyway - Cyrillic nicknames overhead are untranslatable and text down at the bottom is mostly thanks and acknowledgments.

P.S. All building models names start with xgm2010_ . Look up the textures they use in any model editing program like MdlVis, this little quest makes you feel real bad-ass mapmaker =)

 

[AKAIMAX]

LOL ok. Thanks Lexandrite. I got the models from the building. Really amazing models.