Castle Terrain

[demonsofdante]

A WIP for the Fortress contest. I started this yesterday due to an overload of homework over the past few days. I'm hoping i can finish it in time for the contest but if not thats cool.


Its just the gate and part of the front wall, nowhere near done.

Edit: Woot i got it!

 

[Darkey]

Use the Attachment button. Make sure it's JPEG.

 

[Rui]

Or JPG. If not just use Imageshack, Photobucket or anything else to directly show it.

 

[demonsofdante]

Nevermind, got it

 

[operator]

Great models

 

[Chaos]

A WIP for the Fortress contest. I started this yesterday due to an overload of homework over the past few days. I'm hoping i can finish it in time for the contest but if not thats cool.


Its just the gate and part of the front wall, nowhere near done.

I hope you do not break any rules with these models, cause they aren't in World Editor and I can not link to the page to DL these extra models, do not know why, yet. (EDIT: I give in the web adress of wc3campaigns, than my browser loads for a few seconds, and than it stops ... with white screen ... and this isn't the only page I can not visit, there are otherones as well ...)

Looks nice so far, not much to see at the moment ...

Chaos

 

[Ham Ham]

Good, but this appears unplayable.
3/5

PS: Add some doodads (trees, rocks, plants) This is a lot empty =(.

 

[Chaos]

Good, but this appears unplayable.
3/5

PS: Add some doodads (trees, rocks, plants) This is a lot empty =(.

IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE PLAYABLE, you read "rules", or do you just post here and there ... and it's a WIP, so of course there are sings missing ...

Chaos

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Yes i dont hope you use models because otherwise ur screwed ..
By rules aye! not by me! xD
..
Well im impressed ..

 

[HappyTauren]

wow... how many doodads are there? very good, it probably took alot of work

 

[demonsofdante]

Lmao. I whole heartedly assure you these are not custom models.
Walls and roof are made of column angle double doodads sized, colored, and slanted at angles to produce the desired effect.


So far this map could be playable with the use of elevators. (Simply have them at a set height and that will be the units height, like a section of normal tile, they're just very laggy unless you remove the skins. A problem i had in a previous fortress attempt where all the walls and stairs were made out of elevators, i had to make them skinless so my computer would not lag and when i loaded the skins for photos it took about 15 minutes, not a good idea.)


And of course to remind, this is very much so a WIP. This is just the front archway and wall, i have had no desires or attempts to add anything else until i get these parts finished.


At this rate the mass of homework i have over the next week i probably wont finish this in time for the contest, but i will finish it nonetheless

 

[HappyTauren]

this could never be playable, see doodad amount, it would lag like hell

 

[demonsofdante]

Oh hehe yeah thats always my main problem. That portion is about 1500 doodads (The roof is the main reason for this) I was just thinking pathable =D

 

[HappyTauren]

1500?! lol, i use 250 per block of 32X32 and my terrain still looks good

 

[demonsofdante]

I overcompensate. Oh and 1500 w/ the new roof section i added. What doodad limit again? and what is it with WEU?

 

[HappyTauren]

weu is world editer unlimited, third party program that replaces world editor, and doodad limit is limit of doodads you are able to use per map, so if you pass it you cant save map, but use we no-limits so you can save map without errors, and there is thread how to hack we unlimited somewhere, new thread...

 

[demonsofdante]

No as in what is the number amount? i know what doodad limit is

 

[Dr Super Good]

The picture looks nice but I recomend you take it with AA turned on since it would improve how it looks.

Anyway you can see the limate under object manager (the one that gives all map info).

Its 8000 or 6000 about.

 

[brad.dude03]

Very nice, I can see how it woulfn't be playable, but since it's just for show it's definetly very awesome Amazing how you did it all without custom models I can't wait to see it when it's finished

 

[demonsofdante]

Well i just got loaded down with homework to do over the next week so no way im finishing this by the contest deadline. (Everyone else is probably breathing a sigh of relief im sure xD)


However i will finish this as i am very proud of what i've done so far and i will attach the map file in case anyone wants to see what doodads i used and what i did to them for this.

 

[Dalaran_Guard]

I have to say, I am very impressed. Wish you could have finished it for the competition. Anyway, good work...

 

[dylan101]

With the new patch, you CAN NOT bypass the doodad limit, which really sucks. I hope you will be able to finish it.

 

[HappyTauren]

you can, via hacking grimoire, there is thread about this on campaigns... you have to search for "1.21" there and you will find that thread

 

[dylan101]

Where can I find grimoire? I can't find it on google or on these forums. :/