Drawing Request

[teh.fellow]

Hey guys,
We came up with a nice mapsystem idea for our project “Gaias Retaliation”.
Basicly this system shows up a more detailed map of our World of Gaias Retaliation then the normal minimap.

This means we would need a picture of the world in the bird eye view (not a screenshot) drawed by you.

at the end the user would press on his map button for example and the full screen map (picture) of our world would turn on.

It would be possibel to expand this system maybe, for example with a sign where the player is at the moment and so on.


We dont have the possibility to draw a picture of it, we would like you to support us with this system .

I hope there are some people which are interested, it would be important for us, we would use that picture also for the loading screen credits ingame and on the loadingscreen would be guaranteed.



some examples i found maybe a good inspiration:

Map examples

It would be up to you how this picture would be done.

 

[Newominus]

What DOES the entire area of Gaias look like?

 

[karland90]

not that im am going to do it (probably), but if you want the map to have real proportions then the screenshot of the real birdeye view (from world editor with game view settings) should be used as a layer under the picture (map) being drawn.

 

[Deolrin]

Yeah, like Karland said, providing a bird's eye view of the map in World Editor and then drawing on it will be the best and most accurate option.

 

[teh.fellow]

Yep you'r right thx,

THis is just the landscape which is playable, with out the dungeons.

The screenshots are with out doodads because we have over 22 000 this gives me graphic bugs while i want to do screens.

bird eye screen

and the bird eye screenshot with a short explanation for you, just for understanding

explanation screen

anyway if some one is interested in helping us with this we can talk about details.

 

[karland90]

btw the w3 world editor has a useful thing (maybe it was advanced options?) named "view entire map" so you the camera will be exactly at 90degrees from the map-plane.

anyway a lot better than before
and good luck with this ^^

 

[teh.fellow]

ye thx,
but i guess you can see more of the playable terrain if you dont see the entire map it's 480x480.

 

[RED BARON]

Ye thx.
But I guess you can see more of the playable terrain if you don't see the entire map it's 480x480.

I might be able to help you out - consider if you wish for it then post a request in my other thread with exact details for me to be reminded about it. Also need some information of what exactly you want shown on it, as your examples is rather inconsistent.

 

[Newominus]

Theres still a lot of open sea in your map.

 

[teh.fellow]

I made a next picture with the landscape of unknown lands im not 100 % sure about but it could look a bit like in the gothic 3 map with unknown land ?

unknown lands

And im not sure about which and how much informations could be displayed on the map it's pretty big and vague to show every singel name and way? you could also do the picture a bit nearer, so that the borders of the shown playabel region would fit in the picture.

I could say now make it like this and bla bla but i thought also to give the one who is willing to do it a bit tolerance. maybe more fun for him.