Moongate - [Playable Terrain/No Imports]

[Naze]

Hey all

I've been wanting to terrain playable stuff for a time...

And I made a melee map. I left the minimap on the screenshot, so you can see it.

 

[Gilles]

It's better than Blizzard, but still too much like theirs. I guess I'd like to see a more unique style of map. I made a melee map with a sort of dungeon, and bases that held two players.

For a good old fashioned melee map, it's pretty darn sexy.

Edit: I think that some of those shore lines need smoothing. They don't quite look right.

 

[Naze]

Thanks for the reply, Gilles.

The shores now are now corrected!

Also, I like the Blizzard style for melee maps. The greatest melee maps by them (considering balancing, strategy ad "construction") is the Lost Temple and the Hell Forge.

 

[~Void~]

Blizzard makes good terrains, I think. It's just when they made WC3 they didn't know the full potential, hence the sub-par terrains in maps and... GUI...

 

[Vicboy]

Blizzard makes good terrains, I think. It's just when they made WC3 they didn't know the full potential, hence the sub-par terrains in maps and... GUI...

GUI kicks ass... Without it, not much great maps would spawn...

 

[Gilles]

GUI kicks ass... Without it, not much great maps would spawn...

Yeah no. GUI is just a user friendly interface that hinders you. I'm glad it's there too, but most quality maps are made in JASS. Except EotA, it defies logic.

 

[Vicboy]

There are way more quality maps that have creators with no experience of jass at all...

Like Pass the Bomb, WWZ, Real Life for Morons...

 

[Just_Spectating]

Pretty funny that ive never heard any of those games in my life.

Trust them Vicboy, Jass is just superior.

 

[Vicboy]

So what? You've never heard of it, but a couple ten thousands of battle.net users do...

 

[Just_Spectating]

Trust them Vicboy, Jass is just superior.

Must i repeat myself?

 

[Vicboy]

Go repeat yourself, I don't see the point in doing so...

I don't see why you repeated it...

 

[Sabertooth]

Hey, go take it somewhere else instead of spammin' up /Naze's thread.

It does look nice for a melee map, man. Good job.

 

[X.e.r.e.X]

Yeah... stop this off-topic crap

Looks sexy for melee map, but you could use more tile variation

 

[~Void~]

There are way more quality maps that have creators with no experience of jass at all...

Like Pass the Bomb, WWZ, Real Life for Morons...

That stuff is different. Not good because of the triggers, but because of the concepts. Real life for Morons is... well not that good imho.

Just had to have the last word
Can we see the rest of the terrain?

 

[Naze]

Sure.

Also, you may notice that I was very lazy when making the map, and it is not detailed.

It was just for... huh... I wanted to make a melee/playable thing!

 

[NinjasDontFight]

Well in my opinion their bad. Not just that you didn't put any work into them. But it's really small, unless your just showing a playable map. Which is confusing why it's so small.

You should REALLY try to put effort, don't say you didn't put any effort. Because whether you did or not, it gives a bad immpression sometimes.

Playable maps are extremely easy to do anyways. What is this anyways?

 

[Naze]

Yes, I didn't really worked on that, I just wanted to make some cool temple thing to a melee map that can be used as a battlefield (just as Lost Temple's map).

But yes, I got what you said.

 

[Just_Spectating]

why is it called moongate?

 

[Naze]

I don't really know...

It remembered me the moongates of a game named Ultima Online (wich is basically a magical thing in the middle, with rocks around it.

I think I'll do something about it using the UTM.

_

 

[thedeathunterxx]

i like this alot. i really like the glow effect torches have at night

by the way, blizzard melle maps ( if you look closly at them ) have horrible terrains.
except the newest ones that are coming out of the patches.

why ? rocks floating on fuckin cliffs ... looks nasty.
doodads are most of the time very ugly and random.

the only reason blizzard melle looks GOOD is the way the tileset is layed out, and the
their waterfalls.
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sorry for the off topic.

when your done with this map, can we have it

 

[Eleandor]

There are way more quality maps that have creators with no experience of jass at all...

Like Pass the Bomb, WWZ, Real Life for Morons...

I only know WWZ, and no offence but I found it rather boring.

On topic: your tiling could be better IMO.

 

[Naze]

Yes, tiling could be better.

But hey, do you really want the map?

It isn't that good...

 

[thedeathunterxx]

does anyone understand? the tiling here is under water and desert.

it doesn't need more tiling.

though the best combo for desert tiling is OUT LAND SAND , and BARRENS SAND, both mix so well that is sillly.

i luv this map by the way, plus rep

 

[Naze]

Yes, underwater tile must be sand.

The only thing I can do there is to add rough dirt/dirt/grassy dirt in some very small areas.