Terrain Ideas

[Bob27]

raging, I came up with a couple ideas of terrains you could make for Pirates Tag every couple of versions, to make it more interesting and different.

1. A ship, would be a lot of work to get the pathing and all that right, and to make it look good, but I reckon if done properly that could look good.
2. A Port or Town, just something like that for people to run around in.
3. Maybe a cave or something like that with heaps of gold in it, like the one of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Well thats some ideas I have at the moment, tell me what you think of them. And if anyone else has any ideas about a new terrain that could be used for Pirates Tag, then feel free to post here in this thread.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Thanks a lot for the ideas Bob! +rep.

I especially like the ship and cave one, they gave me some ideas for something I could do. If I did a ship I could then add a cannon or something that you can activate and shoot with, that could be fun!

I am just bad at getting a picture in my head on how it should be formed, if anybody could come with drawings of how they think a ship terrain should be formed or any other terrains then do post them. The maximum size should sort of be like how the current island is in size now.

Do come with more ideas people, +rep to anything usefull!

 

[Bob27]

Glad that you liked the ideas

For the Ship terrain, I think the idea of a canon is a great idea, and as for the structure of the ship, I will see if I can come up with a nice structure, and then I will post it here.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Sounds good. Just a quick paint sketch will do fine, nothing too fancy is needed

 

[Mini-Me]

How about a palm tree shaped island? That would propably look nice.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Yeah perhaps, but what would some of the special things for the island be? Like a ship would have fireable cannons, what could this island have?

+rep for suggestion!

 

[Bob27]

Ok, had a go at it, failed miserably. Can't really design a ship I think would look good and be good for a tag map. And as for a palm tree island, you probably wouldn't need anything like fireable cannons, because the terrain itself would be enough of a challenge to people, because of the strange shape.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Ah well, you tried, thanks!

And yes, perhaps I wouldn't need anything, but still, some small feature is always fun. Just a usable gadget somehow, such as cannons.

 

[NoNZealot]

Hmm a pirate bay may help you like it was in Caribbean pirates the harbour of Singapore. Some dark ships and old wreckages can do a good look with some gray or black fogs as well and some sewers perhaps?

 

[Parrothead]

Sorry for the small pic (paint was acting up). Basicly, it is a bunch of tables connected to looks like a ship deck. Oversized flags to make it looks more realistic. Wooden gates on the edges of the boat to close it up and a little dolphan statue at the tip of the boat for a nice affect . You could also make cannons on it and make them shoot out items every once in a while

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

It looks nice Parrothead, thanks. Though if I were to make a ship I would probably do it with the ship doodad pack that was recently released, still, thanks for your time and effort, +rep!

NoNZealot - Hmm, a pirate bay you say, I can't really remember how it looks like in the movies. Could you draw something up?

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

Maybe make it so theres high\low tides, so if the games taking to long the tide will slowly come up makeing it so the maps smaller.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Very good idea, very Bomberman like, but how on earth would I accomplish that? I have absolutely no clue!

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

Ive never played bomberman, lol.

Pathing blockers can be created\moved\removed my triggers, and you can use water falls to make it look right. Or riseing water. (Icecriwn glacier > cinmatic)

I think if you make the whole map water and rise land up (not clifts) then you can use triggers to do a terrian deformation to turn it into water...

It would be pretty hard probably though...

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Ah yes, terrain deformation, forgot about that, thanks... And I don't use any cliffs at all so it should be no problem.

This shouldn't be too hard, but I don't know if I will actually make it, at least not for now, but people are always free to make their own versions of Pirate Tag if they wish to do so.

 

[NoNZealot]

" Could you draw something up " Does this mean make a map or make a image file? I can make both but my terrain skills on my map is not good

 

[Parrothead]

I think it can be whatever

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Draw something up, terrain something up, whatever you prefer. If terrained it should just be openable in the normal WE without the use of any gadgets.

 

[NoNZealot]

Heres the map

Ok here is the map for your terrain ideas. Let me say that my terrain skills are not the best so this is just to make somethings flash up in your mind . Anyway....

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Thanks! I will check this out soon and come with my review of your work

+rep to both of you 2 for support!

 

[FamousPker49]

What about a whole underwater themed pirate tag, like KKRP's terrain
Here
I think if that could be accomplished, it would be very sweet, but I would have no idea how to accomplish that, I know the rays of 'sunlight' are actually rays of moonlight, but I am not sure how he created the underwater haze
Maybe, you could have a begining cinematic that shows like all the villagers trapped on a ship, when it suddenly sinks, and then everything is underwater

 

[NoNZealot]

Yay I'll be glad if you like that .

 

[FamousPker49]

Here I just did something quick, I am not very good with terrain but this was my idea
EDIT: I experimented with some different effects, with the Outland Wind (Heavy), it looked like there is a heavy water current and the sand is sort of blowing, also the Dalaran Dungeon Blue Fog looks good

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Thanks for the input famouspker49, I will check both yours and NoNZealot's maps out soon!

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Maybe you should make the map in the shape of skull and crossbones? Maybe 2 Cutlasses overcrossing? 2 Cutlasses overcrossing with an eyepatch either side?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Nahh, I don't think that would look very good in natural terrain. But thanks for the suggestion anyhow.

 

[FamousPker49]

Well, I hope you enjoy my terrain, because I like it lol, and I think it would be a little different and new for pirate tag

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I am rather busy and would like to use some time to review so haven't looked yet but once I am finnished with my big school project tommorow I will have time to look at both yours and NoNZealot's terrains!

 

[NoNZealot]

" Big school project " Just wondering what grade? University? ( I hope I'm not annoying :x)

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Buisness/trading School (or something like that in English), last year.

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

Heres some random island ideas. I think it should be, kind of, like elim tourament, were you can choose differnt islands.


For the three small islands at the top left, I was going to make it so you can travel between the islands like this: You step in the circle of power, and a trigger hides your unit and the boat goes to the other side, were you are moved to and reappear, and the boat stays there so you can go back over.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Some sort of island transputation thing might be cool. But I don't know about the whole elim tournament way of having levels to choose from, it would add a lot of size and the map should stay low-size kilobyte wise as it is meant to be quick to start a game on BNet.

 

[FamousPker49]

I don't know if you have looked yet, but I think that nonzealots terrain is a little too cluttery, although it would be a decent pirate harbor, I think it wouldn't be very good for a pirate tag map, I tryed keeping mine fairly simple, and not too many objects in the way, except for the ship, I haven't looked at heretodlstuff's though, so I cannot say, that is just my personal opinion

 

[NoNZealot]

Yea mines is meant to be a little island in the game.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I haven't looked yet, I am a bit busy, but just got holidays for 1½ week so I should soon find time. The terrains should be mainly simplistic, as objects will make your characters stop with the current walk system and too much objects clutters up playable game place in a way I don't like.

The more terrain ideas that you guys have got the better, even though I may only use 1-2 of your guys ideas it will all have been a help for me during development of the next terrain!

 

[Zarakk]

I was going to suggest something like the idea famouspker49 had, (he beat me to it) but I was having an idea before that I never did anything about which is that, one part is that you dive into the water and you do a small part of the tag down there, which is solved with the transparent blue screen fade, and camera bounds to the under water part, then when you go up the water part could get fogged and the screen turned normal...
That's just an idea, I don't know if you are still working on this or anything // Best Regard, Zarakk

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Still working on it, thanks for the suggestion, +rep!

 

[NoNZealot]

I can't wait. I need screens to get satisfied O_O

 

[nightelf_frenzy]

hey guys i think there should be 4 courner islands and a little like, bunch of small ones in middle each corner island has a different terrain on it eg blitch light grass dark grass and desert.
the middle islands should be like the deserted islands with like 1-2 palm trees and a bit of flowers and thats my suggestion thanks for listening to it

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Thanks for the idea, nightelf_frenzy, I'll think about it.

 

[Gausslander]

Why don't you put in some circling sharks and ships in the water, and some cannon doodads. That'll look great for this settings.

 

[Nudl9]

Maybe you could have an island formed as a O with kraken in the middle of it or maybe 2 ships with boarding bridges to each other!