W-DayZ Terrain WIP

[EloTheMan]

Currently working on the terrain for my project, a Warcraft version of Dayz. I'm not aiming for the typical apocalypse city style nor the Wc3 classic pathing style and environment standards. The map is going to be completely open for exploration and should be more "realistically" formed than most Wc3 maps. DayZ terrain is a bit special.

So basically; feedback, criticism and suggestions wanted.
Some Hivers has already helped me in the project thread to improve the project and I hope to gain some more here.

The Oil Platform.

Updated Version, with game view perspective.

Its gonna be a loot area mainly with a few zombies inhabiting it.

Forest terrain v2

Second version of my forest terrain, changed the grass to an animated one and the grassy dirt tile is now beneath the trees. Gonna tweak the size and tinting color of the grass soon. The location is between a road and a hill side.

(In Game) Bandit Camp

I will have maybe 2 more camps on the map, they will inhabit bandits so they are a bit harder to gain loot from but they will be more rewarding.

I also made a custom skin for the Tent model to fit in more, I'm not gonna put down much time on it though but I am open for suggestions to make it better.

City: The Shop

Shops will contain various loot, from food to bandages and even ammunition.

Note: I forgot to add pavements, not so happy about redesigning the city streets. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

 

[EmoBrother]

@ EloTheMan, forest terrain pics looked good.For the first pic looks better than the forest terrain.I suggest you to make some blood (color must be dark red not fresh red)effects for the first pic

EDIT :
Rate : 73/100
Awards a rep @.@

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Add some blood\more corpses and red fog.

 

[Strydhaizer]

Forest terrain is too flat. Must have little raises and try adding more something like cliffs. ^^

And why theres bones and corpses in the oil platform?

 

[EmoBrother]

^ I guess its something like Resident Evils.

 

[EloTheMan]

It is a zombie map but its not going to be like Resident Evil, DayZ is more like Zombie land where humans are more threatening than zombies and its a constant search for food and supplies. The terrain style of the original mod/game is simply a normal civilization + some rioting/zombies and that is what I am aiming at.

To do list:
More Blood'nGore
More elevation

 

[PROXY]

The terrain's too flat, the grass doodads are ugly (use some from the UTM), and it looks kinda.. unrealisitic. Add more variaton, you know, check some forest pics on google to get what I mean.

I also really don't get why you place the grass doodads on the tile with few grass and NO grass doodads on the fully grass tile

 

[EloTheMan]

I also really don't get why you place the grass doodads on the tile with few grass and NO grass doodads on the fully grass tile

Experimentation.

Guess I'll reshape the forest again and look for a new grass model.

 

[EloTheMan]

I've updated the main post with the new forest terrain.

I'm using a mix of shrub and animated grass models. I'm a bit skeptical if the end result will work well on older computers since animated grass tend to cause the fps to drop on weaker systems.

 

[Strydhaizer]

I would suggest to use dungeon/mossy rocks ^_^ Not bad

 

[MasterTrainer]

Nice set of terrains! At first when I saw the corpse at the Oil platform, I thought it was just a wrong placement of doodads, but then I found out it was a for a zombie-play based map.

Good job on making these, I hope you show us more!

 

[EmoBrother]

Updates for the forest are better
Hopes to see the zombies in your screenshots soon ^^

 

[EloTheMan]

I would suggest to use dungeon/mossy rocks ^_^ Not bad

Thanks
Do you mean the tile or the rock doodad?

Nice set of terrains! At first when I saw the corpse at the Oil platform, I thought it was just a wrong placement of doodads, but then I found out it was a for a zombie-play based map.

Good job on making these, I hope you show us more!

I definitively will, I got some other neat stuff in progress around the map that I'll show when they are somewhat complete.

Updates for the forest are better
Hopes to see the zombies in your screenshots soon ^^

Still looking for a appropriate zombie model, I'm thinking about using the Wc3 standard with custom skin or a completely new one. Decisions decisions...

 

[PROXY]

Still, the grass doodads makes few sense, it's a stranglethorn/jungle grass, kinda doesn't fit in a forest.

 

[MasterTrainer]

I look forward to future updates!

How I wish you can share the map with us all.

 

[EloTheMan]

I look forward to future updates!

How I wish you can share the map with us all.

Once this project is finished, or even if it doesn't, I plan on releasing the terrain as a template. The gameplay concept is new and untested so there is a chance that it does not become a success.

 

[MasterTrainer]

Do you want some testers?

Because I'm totally free right now.

 

[EloTheMan]

Do you want some testers?

Because I'm totally free right now.

Even the Alpha test version is months away at the moment. I have some barriers to climb over first before I can get a playable version out of this but I'm hoping to finish the terrain this summer and get a test version up before the end of 2013.

 

[MasterTrainer]

I see. Understood.

I wish you the best of luck with the Alpha and it's succeeding versions!

 

[EloTheMan]

Update

Added a In Game picture from the northern Bandit Camp. I also made a custom skin for the Tent model to make it fit in more to the Modern Warfare style I'm using.
Its not the best quality but it works in my eyes and if there are any suggestions for improving it I would appreciate it.

Also a first picture from City, showing a main looting area; Shop.
Problem is that I forgot about adding in pavements in the City...

 

[MasterTrainer]

^ Cool. Where is it?

 

[EloTheMan]

Its in the main post.