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Development => Mapping => Map Graveyard => Topic started by: jitspoe on April 13, 2007, 07:38:53 PM
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I was looking at castle pictures for Clipz and saw one that was just to irresistible to pass up trying to make. I don't know how far I'll go with this -- it's really messy because of all the angles. I gave up using any sensible grid size and threw most of my other mapping practices out the window in order to be able to somewhat reproduce it.
Photo: http://www.bestbrasov.ro/sc2006/images/bran-castle-large.jpg
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very cool Jitspoe, I'm not nitpicking but I am curious, are you going to reproduce that roof texture from the pic?
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Ooh...cool looking, you gotta make that huge pot thing man...and the roof texture would be great, it wouldn't match up with the pic too well without it.
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that excrement is gonna look fly, once all the corners are smoothed and you use hr4 textures, will look beautiful...
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darn jitspoe looks nice...
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lol...
it is nice jitspoe just you need to finish it cause that so far looks killer.
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another map jitspoe will never finish
Most likely. :) Maps are a lot more fun to start than they are to finish. I don't really have any plans for for what I'd actually do with this. I don't know what it would be good for gameplay wise -- basic deathmatch, I guess.
After searching around for more pictures of the castle, I discovered that Dracula's castle was loosely based on it. Apparently several Dracula movies were filmed there. I might have to see about watching them for reference material.
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Have you done any other work on this since the screenshots? I found the floor plan if it helps, and I'd like to see this map finished.
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Have you done any other work on this since the screenshots? I found the floor plan if it helps, and I'd like to see this map finished.
Nice, where's that at?
And no, I haven't.
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http://www.brancastlemuseum.ro/galery/y1.jpg
it's just a floor plan, but good for the layout, you know?
I really like this map, you ought to finish it
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That layout would perfectly match to a DM map.
I'm gonna vote for finishing this map on the 2007 Vote Thread!!!
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Ooh, that is pretty helpful. 4 is the area I started working on. The stairway at the top of the layout would be just to the right of the first screenshot I posted.
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Wow, that's just plain amazing. Nice job so far, jitspoe.
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Maybe this will get you back in the mood?
Taken from a hi-res shot of Bran Castle.
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Those grass blades are bigger than the shingles. :D
Been pretty busy with other stuff, so I don't know when I'll get back to it.
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nice jits, i like it ...............now get back to it!!!! really cool dude
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lol.
anything more?
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Come oooonnnn Jits you've got to finish this one.
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wooooooow dude i just noticed. you used giant pebbles to make stones in your first screenie
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Bump. jitspoe, you still got this?
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I probably have it somewhere, but there's not much to it. I really need to implement a new map format to pull something like this off well. I've also taken a bunch of photos of tudor style architecture in France for inspiration/reference. Maybe some day I'll make a full map like this.
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That would be very cool. I like the way how you detail your maps ;)
A new mapformat would be nice, too.
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Do you mean a complete new map format or an existing one (like the one from q3 for example)?
Before you start to implement that, you maybe should talk with some good mappers, ask what they want and look what could be possible. That new map format should be for the next ?? years, so it need to be very good.