Moonlight Temple

[Lexandritte]

This is a map which I made for the terrain duel against infamous oGre_ on the arena floor of XGM (his work is in neighbor thread http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/terrain-board-267/refuge-ruins-163309/). Not sure who wins yet, but hopes are high =)

Inspired by the Prince of Persia mostly, with some Night Elf influence.

One downside of the map is 25k props over 64*64 terrain... And hellowa lags.

Edit: You may now have a look at the map itself, it's up in the Hive's base -- http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/maps-564/moonlight-temple-163312/

Edit: Changed to attachments for Keiji's sake.

 

[ShadowFlare]

Hey, damn your good. Would you be interested in joining any projects to help terrain?

 

[Lexandritte]

I am quite occupied in the project myself. Here's the screens thread -- http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/terrain-board-267/between-worlds-138238/

 

[ShadowFlare]

Damn.

 

[Celaquil]

Love the waterfall in the second pic. But for fucks sake Lexandritte, start ATTACHING your pictures I'm damn tired of always being re-directed to imageshack with your shots.

Appart from the sexy waterfall, it looks good, you've done better though. Those rocks dont looks too good scaled at that size, seems rather stretched.

 

[mango]

gasp. wow.

the waterfall and pools are gorgeous. Some of the placement of the arches on the structure itself seems strange at times, but it's still VERY well done. I love it

 

[Piwlady]

Really good as usual

 

[Lexandritte]

Love the waterfall in the second pic. But for fucks sake Lexandritte, start ATTACHING your pictures I'm damn tired of always being re-directed to imageshack with your shots.

Appart from the sexy waterfall, it looks good, you've done better though. Those rocks dont looks too good scaled at that size, seems rather stretched.

I was kicked hard a few times for attaching them at the XGM =\ We have the "use least as possible site space" policy.

 

[Celaquil]

Hah, as far as I know that isnt the case around here. Simply redirect them to me if they try kicking you here

 

[Megafyr]

Damn, easy to see you put a lot of effort in it! I aswell love the waterfall. The structures you made are also lovely. For critisism, I'm not really sure what to say. I have an idea though. Maybe, to make more variation in the trees, you could use tinted deathwood trees as trunks, instead of world trees. But, whatever you prefer, really. Looks cool right now too!

 

[Azurot]

I demand apprenticeship naow!! :S
Good work. :/ not much else to say about this spectacle.

 

[Spoontoobig]

This is 2nd best terrain I ever seen ... +REP!

 

[krisserz]

It looks great...

 

[Oziris]

Wow, outstanding! The waterfall is well made. +Rep

 

[Lambdadelta]

How do you work with that? Do you even lag at all?

It looks amazing regardless.

 

[warman45]

here's how you fix the lag. you unplug you're computer, take out your trusty 12 guage ...skip ahead to part where you buy supercomputer... just a thought, i have seen that level of detail on X-Box games, and I have seen X-Box games on the PC (original) and so i was just wondering... why does this level of detail lag warcraft?

 

[Lexandritte]

Too. Much. Stuff. Warcraft engine is not suited for optimizing all of it. Basically each doodad is hellowa polygons, and there's hellowa doodads which makes hellowa hellowa polygons to count whenever you rotate the camera.

 

[warman45]

i get that, i was just wondering why warcraft is so allergic to doodads in this quantity, even ported X-Box games don't lag as much, wich confuses me. even with hellowa hellowa polygons (i can't imagine X-Box games having LESS polygons than warcraft models)

 

[fladdermasken]

Bit off-topic, but what sky should I use if I want a clear night sky to add stars too?

 

[madcd]

its just how wc3 renders its just not streamlines and not efficient. they never built the engine to support masses of high poly and res stuff, but getting back to the map i really like it though it dose feel a bit cluster fucked at point and I'm not keen on those trees but other wise i really like it