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[Gwy]

I like all this pictures. Great!

I wish you all virtues of a good programmer (endurance + 3)
to bring this rpg forward !
(...and maybe you come sometimes near to a demo...)

 

[X-OMG-X]

Really great terrain. I wonder how you can make the terrain fully playable without any camera clashes

 

[Sephalo]

Really great terrain. I wonder how you can make the terrain fully playable without any camera clashes

Transparant tree's. And well for the walls etc. Not really sure how we're going to fix that. We will deffo come with a good solution because we know a few solutions or well.. options. But we just gotta make some decisions.
Everything will eventually be fine

 

[Kingz]

You could: code a dynamic camera system, then you could check if a point which is located from unit - *camera distance* in *negative camera angle* and check if the Z of that location is bigger than some value, if it is rotate the camera?

At least for terrain that would work(example if Z of the location which we calculated earlier is 4-5 times bigger than Z of your unit's location).

Ask .Rain he may know what i am talking about a bit better.

EDIT:

I suggest you to get some custom tileset textures for brick/stone floors.

 

[Sephalo]

You could: code a dynamic camera system, then you could check if a point which is located from unit - *camera distance* in *negative camera angle* and check if the Z of that location is bigger than some value, if it is rotate the camera?

At least for terrain that would work(example if Z of the location which we calculated earlier is 4-5 times bigger than Z of your unit's location).

Ask .Rain he may know what i am talking about a bit better.

EDIT:

I suggest you to get some custom tileset textures for brick/stone floors.

Yeah well. We already spoke about it a while ago, RaiN was maybe going to make a camera system that checks if anything blocks the view and automatically zooms until it doesnt block anymore. We also had the option to get 2 different camera types and let players chose between them. Or maybe we could do both ><.

About the tileset textures. Yeah maybe, but it isn't really bothering me now. And most of the custom tiles don't really fit wc3 that much.

EDIT: And the Z value thing you're talking about is about the height of the terrain. But most of the sight blocking things are doodads

 

[Kingz]

Adding some dead pathing/sight blockers on those "big" doodadds can be used to simulate stuff in code.

Since you can only pick destructables/units in groups, you could check if there are some dead path/sight blockers near the camera point which automaticaly mean big baddass doodadds and shift the camera.

 

[RaiN.]

Right now most of out camera problems have to do with trees which we finaly found someone to edit and add a transparent animation for them. So right now we have a tree fading system which allows for good view. I havent got my camera blocked by walls or smt like that in none of all the tests i've did so I wont bother with that for now.

 

[Bloodemon]

i finaly finded the kind of terrain you are using but something is strange:how can units walk on the imported tiles????I tried but nothing.

 

[Sephalo]

i finaly finded the kind of terrain you are using but something is strange:how can units walk on the imported tiles????I tried but nothing.

 

[Bloodemon]

Thnx now i'm ready to terain

 

[Handycombinder]

Nice screens It just needs some more tile variation sometimes.

Btw, where did you get those World Tree models?

 

[Sephalo]

Nice screens It just needs some more tile variation sometimes.

Btw, where did you get those World Tree models?

They are from warcraft ofc.

 

[Kingz]

World Tree is a base on which you can add stuff from UTM to make it look like a great tree

 

[-Equalizer]

very nice terrain

 

[Sephalo]

very nice terrain

Great you like it

 

[Dylanyo123]

very interesting! I might keep with this project

 

[Szeiden]

And this is why Warcraft III is amazing. A map creator, not affiliated with Blizzard, can make a game that looks just like a standalone rpg by a AAA game developer from 9 or 10 years ago*... which was only a few years before WC3 was released. These terrains are stunning and the large variety/scale truly makes this look like a full-fledged rpg. We'll have to see about gameplay, but so far it looks great. Keep up the good work.

*This raises the question of why anyone would want to play this or any other wc3 rpg custom when there are so many modern rpgs with... infinitely better graphics. I can't really answer that except by simply stating that, for whatever reason, I am really looking forward to this map and have anjoined (wow, spelling fail, caught this as I was about to post it "ENJOYED") maps like this that have come before it. Keep up the impressive work.

 

[Sephalo]

*This raises the question of why anyone would want to play this or any other wc3 rpg custom when there are so many modern rpgs with... infinitely better graphics. I can't really answer that except by simply stating that, for whatever reason, I am really looking forward to this map and have anjoined (wow, spelling fail, caught this as I was about to post it "ENJOYED") maps like this that have come before it. Keep up the impressive work.

There most likely won't be many people that feel like playing a Wc3 RPG. I am one of those myself actually. It is just too great to be able to unleash the fantasies in your head to actually remake World of Warcraft***. I'm trying to say. I played rpg's like WoW, Warhammer and Aion and got inspired by those. Why not make my own rpg, its fun to make it its like writing a book or painting a picture. Making your own fantasy game is great. Part 2 is to actually let people play it, but for me part 1, making the game, is cool enough already to just give it a try.
For now this project is unfortunately paused until we find a new coder. I will be very busy with college next year but I really want to finish oakwood since it costed me so much time that it has to get finished, and i still love to work on it. But for now I can't do anything withoud a good scripter.

 

[White-Lion]

Well you could finish the terrain ^^
But that would certainly be a waste of time if you doesn't find a coder, which i really hope you do

 

[Miss_Foxy]

It looks really wonderful. Keep it up!

 

[Dr. House]

With that terrain im kinda the same like you with it i wana make it look advanced and not like a game terrain even when its playable so nice work on the terrain

 

[Miss_Foxy]

I'd really love to see how this Terrain would affect the gameplay
Keep up with the good work!

Here's a +Rep for your really attractive terrains

 

[The WoW Masta]

Awesome work! I Really like how you have created a vivid terrain without constantly spamming custom models and skins and instead, used your imagination and creativity to think up some outstanding ideas for the terrain!

Definitely something to look forward to

(Put me on the mailing list when its ready if that isn't too much of a hassle )

+Rep!

 

[Deathcom3s]

It's been a while since I last looked at this thread, and i must say that I am rather impressed with your progress!

 

[Sephalo]

Thanks guys.
I wish I could say there's still progress but unfortunately I still haven't found a scripter so for 2 months already nothing has happened to Oakwood.

 

[X-maul]

I realy like your terrain

QUSTION:
how do i create a bridge as you do? is it just elevators which have been raised to the desired hight?

 

[Znoopy]

I quite like the terrain, perhaps a bit too much shrubs at certain places, but still looks quite nice.
I really like how all the different areas work so smoothly together, like the undead and forest areas.

Great map, looking forward to it!

Btw, I assume you're using NewGen WE?

 

[eubz]

Woah, nice terrain. Good job for the terrainer. Realistic!!!

 

[Limitless]

omgomgomgomg this looks epic, when does it come out ??? :OOOO

 

[Sephalo]

Added some more recent screenshots.

 

[Gwy]

impressive again!!!!

 

[Wolfe]

Found these very random shots from when Teun and I were playing. Enjoy!

 

[Arcisal]

Look at that amount of skills.

Ohai Wolfe

 

[BLazeKraze]

Your terrain is goof enough but In my own opinion , using low quality models are not good for that rpg . Instead of using those doodads, why you don't use some hq models ? like b2m models . B2m doodads are so good for rpg style map , it may look adventurous .

 

[Sephalo]

Your terrain is goof enough but In my own opinion , using low quality models are not good for that rpg . Instead of using those doodads, why you don't use some hq models ? like b2m models . B2m doodads are so good for rpg style map , it may look adventurous .

it's not an rpg. It's an orpg.
This means that there's a limit to map size because it has to be played online.