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Weekly Terraining Exercise #124

Hello again folks!

Another monday means another WTE. This week we'll have a simple theme to understand, but harder to make work: "Dual Wielding". What is meant by this? Simple, there is but one restriction: in your map, you use 4 textures from tileset X, and 4 from tileset Y. It's up to you which two tilesets those are, as long as there's two of them and an equal amount of textures from each is used.

Good luck, and have fun!

The Global Information/Idea thread for Terraining Exercises can be found here:
http://forums.sc2mapster.com/development/terrain/14658-terraining-exercises-global-information-idea-thread/

@DrSuperEvil: Go

I specifically didn't. If someone wants to combine a desert with a snow planet, I'm interested to see in how he'll manage - but on the flipside, I'm also very interested to see how space station A looks as a whole when complimented with some of the textures from station B. It might be easier to pull off, but it doesn't hamper creativity and instantly creates entirely new styles of space stations.

Can we do tri wielding? 4 for tileset X, 2 for Y, and 2 from Z? No? Fine. Here. Take it and leave.

• sobs in corner*

This uses: -Haven Dirt -Haven Grass -Haven Grass Rocky -Haven Rock Rough -Kaldir Ice Cracked -Kaldir Snow Powdered -Kaldir Snow Icy -Kaldir Ice Light

Note: The lower terrain is a lake. The upper area is supposed to be a farm.

I like your concept; it's like a winter version of Haven. It's not very clear that the lower ground is supposed to be a frozen lake, though. I'm having a hard time seeing how you could improve it. normally I'd tell you to use the ice waves, but they really only work in a really cold environment. Try a pure ice texture with only a couple of those small snow mountain doodads?

Hmmm, the arch structure is a bit repetitive, but I like your thinking. Try using several really large (broad) arches instead of a lot of smaller ones, perhaps?

I'm liking it a lot more now, it really feels more like a proper ship. My one comment on the ship still would be that you can 'stretch' it out a little bit more. Right now your ship, when looked at from the top down, is shaped like an "o", while I think it would look better if shaped more ovally, like an "0".

Nice winter there, indeed like Haven winter, also awesome ship!

Maybe it could launch Protoss Scouts... like a big Protoss aircraft carrier with a power field generator under it to warp in a ground force.

@Cacho56: Go

Amazing job, the ship now looks more like a protoss mothership, cause at first it looked like some old submarine from the early 20th century with the cabin. It even looked like a ship made from scrap, now it looks like a real ship!

The interior is awesome, 'welcome to the protoss world', and the main cabin, perfect!