[FS] A City Consumed (2-4)

Ixith · Last edited by Ixith on Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:05 am; edited 1 time in total

so....here's a map for you all to enjoy once your hangover is over...

EDIT: Forgot to remove the reveal map trigger that we typically use for pic taking without the shroud. Went and took the trigger out and re-uploaded...sorry about that. (Though i suppose anyone with finalsun could just easily go in and click disable or remove it themselves or even in notepad they could do that) Thanks ionstorm66 for letting me know.

Map Info:
Name: A City Consumed (2-4)
Map Maker: Ixith
Map Size: 100x100
Players: 2-4
Theatre: Temperate
Info: This city doomed by the tiberium that surrounds it has made for the perfect spot to harvest the plentiful tiberium.
The region is great for 2v2 battles or free for all. There is plenty of build room for full tech battles and should be more than enough tiberium to make your armies rich. There are quite a few triggers put into the map such as day/night loops, evacuation for the civilians, and various other stuff concerning tiberium life.

Story: The City once known as Strishnin suddenly found itself closed in by tiberium. In fear they turned to GDI for help. Now, as commanders of both GDI and Nod reach the city limits, GDI is sending out evacuation transports for the civilians left alive. The only path left for this is city is to be consumed by tiberium and war.

Pics: (now in higher resolution...so bigger...)

the mini map

a random area just on the edge of a start location

a tiberium pit

the vein hole area

the ion storm lighting...

A City Consumed (2-4).zip

Description:

map 28 without the reveal all trigger. lol sorry

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Kalistia Crestland (2)
In Soviet Russia, grass grows on tiberium!

Lord Unforgiven · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:54 am Post subject:

The tiberium crystals/fona/lifeforms are perfect: excellent lighting in these patches, natural hills, random patches. The triggers also sound promising.

The last screenshot, however, is a bit too bright.

I really like this map!

Volgin · Commander **Joined**: 07 Mar 2009

Dude. You're like the only mapper who's managed to make unittem stuff NOT look like shit while using bizarre lighting. What is your trick? Its amazing. No, really, it is. Every map with fancy lighting has the unittem stuff looking BAD, but the artillery looks like it fits in PERFECTLY with the green!

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Tony · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:04 am Post subject:

Everything looks great so far, another superb map.

ionstorm66 · Civilian **Joined**: 24 Jun 2008

Very nice map. I love the timed meteor storms in the tib fields. You left the reveal map trigger on so my buddy and I had to play with fog of war on. 10/10

Ixith · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:14 am Post subject:

ionstorm66 wrote:

Very nice map. I love the timed meteor storms in the tib fields. You left the reveal map trigger on so my buddy and I had to play with fog of war on. 10/10

bah! i knew i was forgetting to do something! Thanks! i went and removed the trigger and re-uploaded it all. so now it shouldn't have it.

@volgin...well the arties stuck out a bit but i believe the following probably helped out with that:

Code:

[AudioVisual]
ExtraUnitLight=0
ExtraAircraftLight=0
ExtraInfantryLight=0

although when i went to look in the map file in wordpad for that i saw that somehow it got mixed in with the negative red lamp stuff. =/ i suppose it still all works though.
I believe the normal values used on those in the rules.ini file are 0.2.
the only other thing would be that my general ambient light setting isn't too high or low. (and I may have used the ground lighting which is essentially another ambient value)

that last ingame screen shot is the ion storm lighting at the highest part of the day/night loop. ion storm lighting generally turns all other invisible lamps to just normal light so that makes it seem even brighter.
I also found it harder to be picky about my lighting values now because i have this new laptop which has better contrast and brightness than my old PC monitor so i have to try to adjust to that.

anyways thanks for the comments guys. (PS don't forget about TiberianFuture's SP map he posted up. Wouldn't want that to get buried without it getting any attention)

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Kalistia Crestland (2)
In Soviet Russia, grass grows on tiberium!

Lord Unforgiven · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:43 pm Post subject:

Ixith wrote:

...that last ingame screen shot is the ion storm lighting at the highest part of the day/night loop. ion storm lighting generally turns all other invisible lamps to just normal light so that makes it seem even brighter...

Oh, I missed that. In that case the lighting is normal for the map conditions at that moment.