[World Building] Boakenfold Hill - And the 1600 ADT's

[Breakdawn]

Hello MMOwned.


My girlfriend and I just launched this new continent concept, for our server.

First we made over 1600 ADT's and replaced some old ADT's (took us 6 hours to write all the ADT Files. Then we drawed some concept maps to give us a hint of how exactly the world would be both mechanicly and virtually excellent. We found out that giving between 2-6 ADT's per zone was just about enough to make it look realistic (I'm talking about zone shifting from grasslands to for example, lava or something - It would look stupid with 1 ADT to each theme, it would be all smashed together)

Then we made a few city locations for the humans (we start with human areas because.. that's how we felt)

Then we spent about 40 minutes trying to take textures from different zones and make our own combination. In the following screenshots, some grizzly hills and howling fjord is mixed together. BUT the texture in the screenshots isn't how it's going to look at all, My gf has been working on some technique with shady textures etc so I hope she is able to make it look impressive.

We also used a new technique for a very decent moulding of landscape. ALL of these 1600 ADT's will be built for flying mounts. So no halfassed mountains with no texture (when we are done)

We have fenced 400 ADT's to open the server with 15th August and the last 1200 will come over time.

also new mounts will be added, enabling underwater area's (just like they want to enable in Cataclysm) We won't really run in any specific client, but players will need patch 3.3.3+ours, but chunks and server-side codes are getting worked on, so that we can import cataclysm textures etc to our 3.3.3 server. Because that would be pure awesomeness.

We are soon rebooting our forums But before we do that you will be able to see screenshots of the old content that we are going to either, release and let ppl enjoy, or just trash it :) (Most likely release it but it was built for phasing so most of the tree's etc in the pictures are NOT appearing on other servers )

Credits to:
World Builder: Amanda Rasmussen
Assistant World Builder: Kevin Pedersen
World Builder: Peter Søndergård

Exclusive credits to:
Cryects Tools
Nogg-It
Taliis

PS: The m2's (trees etc) in the pictures from noggit, as you see they for some reason do not follow in-game.. If you got a suggestion how to fix it please respond to this thread, if not then we will just spawn it server-side :) But would be easier if someone helped us :)


Forum Link: ec-community.darkbb.com

I will try and update this post, if the mod's agree to approve upcomming pictures :)

UPDATE

[Reflection]

Approved attachments and I've given you 7 rep to keep you going. Looks good so far. Try to work on the texturing of the roads a bit more, though.

[Breakdawn]

As stated in the textwall (lol) - The textures you see are NOT the ones you'll see when we are done, way more detailed texturing comming, but atm we are still working on moulding the landscapes


And thanks alot for the rep

[Mazzel]

Looks great so far, keep up the good work and I don't doubt you'll need your powerful dedi shortly after release.

Also +rep of course.

[Breakdawn]

We will open with some of the best host's on the market (as far as I have researched) who will host from 3 places in the world So I doubt (I really doubt) that we will have trouble with population at any time since the call-service thing on the website said they could host 46000 connections per server for gaming hosting, I'm not sure if that was with wow though But we will see

Thanks for rep and fine words. We May need some help from people such as suggestions from players PoV (What does players actually want?) so we can get the game mechanic-devs working instead of being four lazy asses so suggestions --> please go to our forums and tell us about your suggestions

Anyway I will be off, we are moving around in the "office" and building some computer "islands" for our IRL part of the company


EDIT: I tried to find a way to get our hand-drawed map concept on my pc.. ´but i need to buy a scanner in a couple of days But here is something i made in Paint.. Doesnt look exactly like it should..... But! It gives you an idea of what the first 16 ADT's will look like.

red dots = horde cities
blue dots = Alliance cities.

These 16/100 ADT's will cover mobs from lvl 1-20 the reason it's only 20 lvls is because of 2 factions sharing, so to have enough mobs .

The adt's between 16-45/100 will cover 20-30 but a far bigger area, with alot of very very exciting content.

Also everything will be moulded and textured, as we plan on allowing flying mounts

[dasde]

Good to have some screenshots to show us when you start out. Good luck with that

[Breakdawn]

Please Approve the picture in my comment above, it has a map of 16 ADT's in it

[alj03]

Look good Emillozdk. Keep up the great work, and may you finish it.

[Breakdawn]

@aljo03 --> I hope We finish it, because there's already alot of money involved

[Breakdawn]

Bump ------ I Want the picture in my comment approved so people can see the concept of this starting area

[I Hypnotoad I]

.. Must.. not.. say.. it..

ITS OVER 900.0!!!!!

On Topic: Damn man. One thousand six hundred adt files!?
For a suggestion: try blending your textures more. Solid textures look way to cartoony.

[Breakdawn]

read the text

[Breakdawn]

Some Updates if this works :P

[Sabelo]

Looks great watched the forum too :P...Very good idea, will take some time tho so I will check on the project from time to time

Keep on working.

[Shruik]

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