River Scene

[Moderator]

13:48, 27th Aug 2008
Septimus: Not ready for approval yet.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/796404-post5.html

 

[Jeral]

I need more events, does anyone have some ideas for things that could happen, if I use them than I will give you credits on the loading page.

 

[Viper0wnz]

No offense but, that was really boring. Nothing happened except for rain and a occasional unit walking from the river to the woods. This needs some action. I like the camera view and the terrain (waterfall). Good jobs on that part.

 

[Jeral]

Still in beta like i said, but I am adding wolves, maybe a minor battle, and maybe some meteors.

PLEASE! GIVE ME IDEAS!

 

[Septimus]

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1) Terrain - Bad (2)
2) Trigger - Bad (2)
3) Minor Error - Bad (2)
4) Major Error - Average (3)
5) Replay Value - Bad (2)
6) Fun factor/gameplay - Bad (2)
7) Use of imported material -
8) Single player - Bad (2)
9) AI support -
10) Camera -
11) Originality -
12) File Size - Excellent (5)
13) Internet/LAN Friendly -
14) Balancing -
15) Packaging - Average (3)
16) Credits -
17) Storyline -
18) Theme -
19) Protection - Excellent (5)
20) Quality - Bad (2)
21) Description/Information/Detail - Average (3)
22) Hiveworkshop rules & regulation - Bad (2)
23) Game Mode -
24) Function -
25) Unit Placement - Bad (2)

Total Accumulation Point : 37/70 * 100 + (-14) (Review) = 38.85

[+] -
[!] -
[-] - This screensaver have no victory condition.
[-] - Camera stay lock at the same position all the time.
[-] - The waterfall look very bad.

Review : Ok, before the cinematic begin. You should create a dialog button that indicate a user how long do they want to view this cinematic. 1 min ? 3 min ? 5 min ? or 30 min ?

If you look at our computer screensaver, you would notice it have some sort of function like wait XXX min before activate screensaver.

Without the victory condition, the cinematic not only repeat. But, user have to press alt+f4 to quit which I consider it as major bug. I cannot approve this map due to this condition.

And the waterfall look bad, if you view the waterfall carefully. You would notice the lack of destructible/doodad on it. Try do some research about terraining, you would notice a few excellent waterfall scenery.

The river also lack of certain destructible/doodad as well.

Another -14 point for this map.

Awful: 1-10
Unacceptable : 11-30
Lacking : 31-49
Useful : 50-69
Recommend : 70-90
Highly Recommend : 91-100
Director Cut : 101-105
Sub-Zero : 106+

Score - 38/100
Rating - 2/5
Condition - Bad
Status - Pending (Suspend)
Review - 1

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[Thunderbuff246]

Ok just a tip:

Make things happen at random times... not in order...
Add a few more doodads its rather boring at the moment.
There are a few things u could add

Possibilities:
A stag and a smaller deer walk up to the water for a drink... a hunter slowely approaches behind the trees and fires at one of the deer killing one...

You could also do something with undead... A caravan of undead wade through the water if there are any bodies around have a few ghouls cannabalize or have a meatwagon collect the corpses...

You could also make seasons... have the screen dim... and change the trees to Lorderean fall... or something...

Could have a few human peasants wander in and construct a scout tower...

just a few ideas...

 

[Jeral]

Thanks for the Ideas thunder, i'll give you credit for them. Seasons would be excellent, havent quite figured out how to randomize events yet but that is kind of important, BTW, is it allowed or even possible to bump maps?

 

[Jeral]

fixed set order of events, and am now working on cameras and more events.

 

[Septimus]

Please do not double post in under 48 hours.

 

[shaun]

well first off i thought: wtf, no cinematic mode, ain't it a cinematic?

but then i noticed what an awesome three dimentional feeling this gives to a cinematic, if u can click every unit in a scene but you can not interfere (well in ur cinematic one can)

so ur cinematic is unfortunatly rather cheap - but u gave me an awesome idea what i love you for

 

[deepstrasz]

How can this be considered a screensaver?