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i know this may be nitpicking but would it be possible to see more 1v1 maps? Playing the same maps over and over tends to get a little boring. Calderis, Green Tooth Gorge, and Leviathan Hive seem to be the only one's people play. Fedrid Folly was an excellent map and i wouldn't mind even seeing some remakes of Calderis Refinery. But more maps is good in general, and 3v3's are always a blast!

Jarilo's Forge is being added in 2.2, which is an excellent 1v1 map.

Max and I are the only ones working on maps at the moment I think, and neiither of us are 1v1 players. Not all that appealing to spend many, many hours building something that you won't use yourself. The aim to to build maps that will scale from 1v1 up to 3v3 as Max is attempting now (like Calderis Refinery), but it's quite a difficult thing to do convincingly without just copying Calderis' "star" layout. Nothing wrong with that though, it's a good basis for a layout.

Hossa,

okay guys, thx 4 the feedback and stuff.

As a small present I give u Valhalla Oilfield Version 1.5 (just changed the minimaps [the ones u see while loading and the map selection mini mini map]) - to keep the minimap look in line with the relic maps and well the other maps I've made.

-> Download link for Valhalla Oilfield Version 1.5<-

Due to some feedback I ve changed the light intensity on Valhalla Oilfield and i also added some more splines => Version 1.6

-> Download link for Valhalla Oilfield Version 1.6<-

I've also made an update to Argent Shelf Redux because Indrid wanted it. All I did was to replace the shot block ruin with something that also shot blocks but now everyone can see that they cant shot through that new object.

I wont post that link here, but ill send it to Lulgrim so he might add it in time.

hey, um, im not to sure where to put this exactly, but a lot of the maps that get loaded up whenever i play have black glitchy textures everywhere, and occasionally, there is a buzzy bright white overlaid on top of certain areas. Does anyone here have any idea of what has gone wrong?

Major Richard Sharpe wrote:hey, um, im not to sure where to put this exactly, but a lot of the maps that get loaded up whenever i play have black glitchy textures everywhere, and occasionally, there is a buzzy bright white overlaid on top of certain areas. Does anyone here have any idea of what has gone wrong?

Could it be that something is wrong with ur graphics card?

yes, ive suspected that, i researched that it is one of two options, my manually overclocked card is screwing something over, or DOW2 really hates driver forced settings.

do you take requests max power. I love Tiber Outpost but in all reality its a pretty big map. I was wondering if you could perhaps make a version in which the retreat and just the map in general isnt so huge. I love the 3 diff settings bottom middle and top for varied attacks and flanking possibilities.

if thats not possible and i understand!

alright, still not working, the problem resolves if i zoom in, or move the camera to certain angles

the problem seems most bad on tartarus harbour for some reason, on the other maps, i only get texture disfiguration if the camera goes to a certain point (nearly off map)

Major Richard Sharpe wrote:the problem seems most bad on tartarus harbour for some reason, on the other maps, i only get texture disfiguration if the camera goes to a certain point (nearly off map)

sorry can't help u there, but u might ask someone who knows more about pcs than me.

Gorilla wrote:do you take requests max power. I love Tiber Outpost but in all reality its a pretty big map. I was wondering if you could perhaps make a version in which the retreat and just the map in general isnt so huge. I love the 3 diff settings bottom middle and top for varied attacks and flanking possibilities.

if thats not possible and i understand!

I kinda do take requests, the problem right now is that im a. already working on a new map which will be called "meridian high city" and it might take like maybe 1 month maybe even longer to finish that map, and b. im off to Italy in about 1 1/2 week spending some qualitiy time there.

So, yeah I could and prolly will work on that map request of yours eventually, but it might take some time.

BTW. some more teaser pics:

Update: the problem seems to be resolved. At current investigation, the issue seems to be the beta 326 driver from Nvidia. i forced it back to 320, and everything is now fine and dandy.

It.. looks.. BEAUTIFUL.

Reminds me of an Imperial Warship, floating in Space, somehow.

Hugh,

Garzweiler Mine - Version 1.9 is up

-> Download link for Garzweiler Mine Version 1.9<-

Also some screens from a small project I did for Indrid

To have certain units face off against each other? :p

Reminds me of the Star Wars arena, but then again all arenas kind have the same vibe. Also, thanks for the new shiny maps, your contributions are appreciated, and they're fun to play.

About Valhalla Oildfield, we played a 3v3 where at one point everyone crashed getting the Relic crash report, not 100% sure what it was but that happened when i had my battlewagon rolling on alot of units during a big fight in the middle.

Ace of Swords wrote:About Valhalla Oildfield, we played a 3v3 where at one point everyone crashed getting the Relic crash report, not 100% sure what it was but that happened when i had my battlewagon rolling on alot of units during a big fight in the middle.

Ah, eh, yes...I have no clue, you know it could have been the map, could have been the fact that u are playing a beta.

I mean yes, its bad that it happend, but what should I change? I don't know what caused the crash, but I doubt that it was the map.

Well u could try and recreate the incidence, if it crashes again, come back to me and give me some feedback.

Dark Riku wrote:To have certain units face off against each other? :p

Not sure if I'm allowed to tell u anything about Indrids project. So maybe it is going to be something like u asked, maybe not

MaxPower wrote:

Major Richard Sharpe wrote:the problem seems most bad on tartarus harbour for some reason, on the other maps, i only get texture disfiguration if the camera goes to a certain point (nearly off map)

sorry can't help u there, but u might ask someone who knows more about pcs than me.

Gorilla wrote:do you take requests max power. I love Tiber Outpost but in all reality its a pretty big map. I was wondering if you could perhaps make a version in which the retreat and just the map in general isnt so huge. I love the 3 diff settings bottom middle and top for varied attacks and flanking possibilities.

if thats not possible and i understand!

I kinda do take requests, the problem right now is that im a. already working on a new map which will be called "meridian high city" and it might take like maybe 1 month maybe even longer to finish that map, and b. im off to Italy in about 1 1/2 week spending some qualitiy time there.

So, yeah I could and prolly will work on that map request of yours eventually, but it might take some time.

BTW. some more teaser pics:

cool man i understand.

Didn't had tjat much time to work on the map, but I just wanted to show u the base area of player 1, tell me if u like it, if u would change something.

And again, if someone finds a bug or some imbalances with any of my maps let me know, and pls be constructive. Also remember that I don't have all day to work on the maps so if something might be to time consuming it prolly wont happen. Something like "remove all the walls in the mine area on Garzweiler mine", yeah thats prolly not gonna happen.

Anyways the pics:

Okay managed to work a bit on the map again.

i finished the contested power and req point on the bottom and the stuff in between.

Comments and ideas from u folks would be appreciated.



With the following picture story I'd like to give u a small insight about the map making process. Showing u some steps it takes to create a map or a part of map for that matter.


Okay this isnt exactly from scratch, already added some splines and done the most basic texture work-


Next I added some objects to test how it might look like.


Yeah those statues look mighty fine, but it still looks too clean and lifeless, hence i added some objects like benches and some rubble.


Now it was time to add like all the cover stuff and other random objects to give it a somewhat interesting appearance. Like that little "park" thingy.


After that I added all different layers of textures to give it that destroyed look of the og cap spire.


We are nearly done, just added a couple of splats (yeah indrid think i have something like a splat fetish but hey):twisted:


Last but not least I adjusted the atmosphere settings to emulate the looks of cap spire, et voila we are done.

That wasnt so hard, now if everyone has a question concerning the topic map making ask me and I might be able to help u.

Found some snowy tileset pipes left on Ulthane by sheer chance when getting a pic of an issue with Noise Marines:

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Near north VP.

Indrid wrote:Found some snowy tileset pipes left on Ulthane by sheer chance when getting a pic of an issue with Noise Marines:

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Near north VP.

K, thx, updated the map, i.e. removed those old remnants from argent shelf. Also fixed some splats that looked kinda low res.

Hiho,

back from the dead and while im also working on Meridean High City, I also updated tartarus again. Giving it a somewhat darker feeling, also added some "spline streets".






Over and out.

Greetings,

yes I'm still working on Meridian High City hence I made some more WIP-Shots of Meridian High City. Right now, I'd say it will take me about 2 - 3 weeks to finish the map. Afterwards im open for requests.

Anyways the WIP.

Looks very nice, can't wait to play this map.

Hiho,

just wanted to let u know that I finished working on Meridian High City:

Download link:

-> Download link for Meridian High City Version 1.0<-

I'll create a bigger post tomorrow, with all those little pics and stuff.

(6p)Meridian High City - Version 1.2
by Max Power



-> Download link for Meridian High City Version 1.2<-


Background

No Background this time, it's afterall just a city spire.

Layout

Nearly like "Calderis Refinery", but with the looks (i.e. tile sets, splats and splines) of "Capital Spire"

Design

The map is a cross between the "Calderis Refinery" layout and the overall look of "Captial Spire" (one of my favorite maps from DoW 2. The Idea behind this particular map was to be able to create basically a 3on3 map that can be changed to a 2on2 map fairly easily, much like all the Calderis Refinery iterations.

I'll make said 2on2 version coming next week, which means that it should take make about 1 - 2 weeks to finish that version and afterwards I'll make yet another 3on3 Map in the vein of "Judgment of Carrion".


Changelog/History

1.0

• release of version 1.0 of Meridian High City

1.1

• fixed some weird pathing issues
• removed 1 requisition point that wasnt part of the map

1.2

• fixed an oversight on my end where players could move units into certain areas and get stuck there

Ze Pics

Natural VP



Contested VP


Natural req points



Natural power points





Contested power/req points



Contested req points



Some random stuff







Btw. give me feedback about the map, problems, bugs, anything that helps to improve it.

Max Power

PS: I hope u enjoy the map as much as I did while I was working on it.

Well you better get a lobby together then.
And may I suggest you put the pics in a spoiler or something?
So it doesn't have to load ALLLL them pics when you wanna see the thread ^^