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drogyn1701
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Let's leave the doom and gloom behind and talk about something positive. We're a bunch of highly creative people and let's share some of that creativity.
What is the best map you've ever created in the Foundry?
What do you like about it? Can you share some of your process in making it? What challenges did you face while making it? Did you use any objects in unusual ways? If you were to make it again, would you do anything different?
And don't hesitate to post some screenshots!
Also if you would like and are willing, we could also share maps for other authors to use. On the Purity series I recreated maps initially made by Cerberusfilms and Kirkfat, and on my latest mission "Cold Winds" I used a technique to create a cool Jeffries tube that Greendragoon came up with.
What is the best map you've ever created in the Foundry?
What do you like about it? Can you share some of your process in making it? What challenges did you face while making it? Did you use any objects in unusual ways? If you were to make it again, would you do anything different?
And don't hesitate to post some screenshots!
Also if you would like and are willing, we could also share maps for other authors to use. On the Purity series I recreated maps initially made by Cerberusfilms and Kirkfat, and on my latest mission "Cold Winds" I used a technique to create a cool Jeffries tube that Greendragoon came up with.
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My character Tsin'xing
Either the caves in "Depths of Nukara Prime" or the Ruins in Prime Race Pt1
I had a lot of fun thinking up the characters and filling up Risa and finding creative ways to make a mission. One of the mission was to find a way to disrupt the Ferengi bar. The ferengi bar owner was setting up a display of glasses into a pyramid and you could run through it to complete the mission.
I spent a long while getting it right then the foundry bugged out and started making duplicate maps, misplacing objects and I hit the cap for placing objects and characters. I just said **** it and pushed it out to get it done after realising the limitations.
Later on when the Summer event arrived I found it interesting that it and my Risa looked similar ... that is, only the placement of the resort on the map and the Risan corvette and my Klingon restaurant.
I'll post pics when the servers back online.
It took a lot of time to fit all the pieces in, maxing out the objects both building and NPC/mob-wise on a single map. (and still didn't fill in all the gaps or have all the people I wanted - lol).
Is it perfect? No. But it's as close as I could come to an actual city that looked something like the 'persian' flavor portrayed in the TOS episode "A Wolf in the Fold".
And I don't think it turned out badly at all considering the 'cookie-cutter' building footprints I had to use over a map that is half water (because there is no true 'blank' map in the Foundry). :P
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My second favorite would be the starship crash site from Part 1.
My favorite map has to be the Cait ground map in Perfection, part 2.
My character Tsin'xing
Are you sure you aren't a Cryptic dev map maker?
I wish.
One was my Gigantic Borg "Transformer" robot in ABI - Artificial Borg Intelligence
It was the longest time-absorbing creation on a ground map as everything had to be stacked without a 3D view (back and forth) It is as tall as a large building.
http://s1140.photobucket.com/user/Duke-of-Rock/media/trans2.jpg.html?sort=3&o=46
My proudest creation was when I built my "rebuilt" Argus Array map
in the Spawn of Medusa series.
(It was built before we had the graphics of the TW gates, so it was
a lot of back and forth positioning dots from the older foundry days)
http://s1140.photobucket.com/user/Duke-of-Rock/media/screenshot_2011-09-07-19-50-43.jpg.html?sort=3&o=120
I never seemed to do anything small, lol
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I always really liked that Argus Array.
"Ghosts of War, Part II", Map 6: The 2012 remaster features my first attempt at a triggered SFX set-piece (the bombing of the S.S. Fleming).
"Ghosts of War, Part V", Map 4: The Battle of Club 47. 'Nuff said. (Just remastered this mission, too, though it's still in testing.)
"Ghosts of War, Part V", Map 5: Earth space under phase shift (using the Blue Devidian sky layer). Map 2 is the same setting and design, but Map 5 also features an epic space battle. In the remaster, I moved the satellites into an angular orbit around Earth so that the first one is a short distance from Spacedock, which required no small amount of 3D trigonometry to pull off.
"Valley of the Shadow I", Map 2: The Nivay IV capital city, or rather what passes for one after the Romulan Star Empire destroyed it decades ago. An Imperial compound along the ocean, walled off from the shantytown where the conquered natives live in squalor. I'll be reusing this one in "Valley of the Shadow III", which I hope to have done sometime this spring.
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It debuted in Spawn of Medusa IV, which
thankfully has been fixed with the help of Brandon, Mr. D'Angelo, Geko,
and the Cryptic team.
It also appears in my Argus Array Defense mission, but it is a tough battle
mission with only a small story, so it doesn't have the features and effects
I had in the Medusa mission.
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It does look cool. You could play catan on that thing!
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Those who played my debut mission: A Time to Search know I rolled up my sleeves and started withbig ambitions. As a Priority one reviewer said each map feels like a different location. I am most proud of the holo chess table created when costume import allowed all kinds of npc tricks and The cloud city exterior inspired by the TOS episode: The cloud miners.
Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
Biggest challenge building that map was the unwanted remainders of the building sides I used for it's walling. I had to painfully map out where the type3 walls would go to ensure it resembled the feel of the bottom of a large chamber construct. Since the room was smaller points of view allowed the player to see the other side of the walls which broke the illusion so I had to set another boundry of walls that would go much taller, blackened by the night sky to camouflage them and I'd have to say it worked out pretty well.
Hippie john helped make sure this wasn't destroyed:
http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx22/Zaqal/RomBridgePreview1.png
http://s1347.photobucket.com/user/AdmiralVoporak/media/STO%20screenshots/screenshot_2013-12-15-21-36-14_zps9ce06727.jpg.html?sort=3&o=6
The map is actually Memory Alpha space. I have the player fly into Time's Eye (the rift seen in my sig), and as they do the system essentially despawns and the nebula clouds and stuff spawn, giving the illusion of actually crossing over into interdimensional space. It was hard to set the triggers right and not put too many effects so as to blow a graphics card, but it came out nicely. Once spawned, it had the first Eye that the player entered, a nebula cloud 'room', a few ships inside the 'room', and another Eye on the exit end (seen in the pic). The area was also surrounded by invisible walls so you can't leave the 'room'.
I also recreated it for the mission Time's Eye, but altered it a bit. In this one, the triggers happen the same way, but I restructured the 'room' so that it was a more linear path to the exit end. Partway into it, the player runs across a trigger and a third Eye appears in front of their ship.
Also some neat triggerwork with spawning the first enemy group (greendragoon helped me a lot with that), as well as a couple of reskins that I think turned out very well (Remans -> Tzenkethi, Terran Empire -> Ferengi).
— Sabaton, "Great War"
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In the first maps, it's just a diplomatic minigame, trying to convince this people to join the Feds.
The city look like that, seen from a small pyramid building. On map 3, the pyramid is twice this size, and I added a building on top of it, it's really big. NPCS will come, to make it alive. We can already see the arena, the embassies, the market, and the transporter building.
There is also an arena I've built. So far, no NPCs (the map is all white, I can't place them except by adding them, loading the map, checking their place... it's too painful). But they'll come.
And this is how it looks like from the ground (the city itself is "in the sky" as a matter of speaking). The tube things are supposed to be "fast lane" for vehicle travel. The map itself is the jungle from Alpha. I needed a jungle, and building it from scratch would have probably been impossible. Either not enough assets, or an assets cap too low. Or both, most likely.
I don't have screens for the 3rd maps, which is basically the bad guys come and you help defend the city (because they also try to kill you, prime directive and all that). It's another part of the city, with fightings, explosions, and building being destroyed in front of you (explosion triggered, on the same time, the building is hidden, debris appear). I try to make it feel like a dirty urban fight, where people fight for their home.
I will try and post some pics later.
I loved your Borg map with the changeling Borg in Worst of both worlds.
TRIBBLE Hydra! Hail Janeway!
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http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx26/revo_2010/screenshot_2013-06-22-09-10-44_zps4cbf34a1.jpg
The sphere builder city is here.
http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx26/revo_2010/screenshot_2014-01-31-23-20-19_zpsd3a29a3f.jpg
http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx26/revo_2010/screenshot_2014-01-31-23-16-02_zps762dea03.jpg
http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx26/revo_2010/screenshot_2014-01-31-23-17-48_zps616dac26.jpg
http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx26/revo_2010/screenshot_2014-01-31-23-20-09_zps0a88321a.jpg
http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx26/revo_2010/screenshot_2014-01-31-23-16-38_zps874dd763.jpg
The ICAI Interior from Computer's Son and Computer's Daughter.
It's a stock map, with only a few bits of things for flair and boxes for texture, so, compared to the stuff shared here it is like... nothing. But, what I am proud of it for is the design part.
For reference, I made this map when you could not de-spawn contacts or mobs. And yet, I wanted to be able to have the player(s) move through this while still feeling like it progressed.
Furthermore, the nature of the missions and their dual perspectives mean this is the one map that exists co-currently with both Federation and Klingon Captains. I mean I made it in a way so that both Captains can be on this map, cross paths, and literally only have a door in between them as you look at the mission as a whole where the story is involved.
And I pulled it off. With the side rooms, the little places the Captains interact with and the people they encounter. It was a simple map in the sense of what I created, but, how I used it and the design involved in the movements of the story and the players, I am really proud of that. It actually flows and doesn't feel forced. Considering it a single map between both missions, it is the one map I am the most proud of.
Ok, got some screenies.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
My character Tsin'xing