Another relatively small theme this week - next week something more interesting and large. This week's theme is going to be "Nostalgia". What does this mean? Simple: as per a suggestion by Scrinking, I'd like you all to recreate the first terrain you have ever made. If you don't remember what that was, just pick a terrain as far back as you can remember. This can include stuff you made in, for example, the WarCraft 3 editor, as long as your recreation is in the Galaxy Editor. Since your first terrain probably looked terrible (mine did, anyway), try and see if you can make a good-looking version now of what you were trying to do back then.
Oh god... you mean back in WC3 editor times? Man, last time I booted that editor up and looked at the terrains I made back in the early - mid 2000's, I nearly belched. Well, if I can I'll certainly contribute to this WTE.
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The only thing I remember when I first opened the editor in the beta phase, I made it crash with a minimap ping that had no wait so it was constantly trying to ping, so fast that it froze. There was no terrain involved though as I just wanted to see the triggers and be able to do "something".
Then, if I don't remember any early terrain I made, and that I made no map at all in the W3 editor...I guess I could go with the SC1's editor... but, my first terrain was about 2004-5, maybe? God, that's a long time ago. I still have some freaking old map. (Just checked) The oldest map I have is from 2007. At this time, I was able to do something "fine" with the editor. Of course it was shit, but still... I had 14 years old? OMG. In 2008 I made a melee map that I named the Protoss homeworld which was really really awesome. I don't know if it was balanced at all, but the computers on this map were 10 times harder. Since then until about 2010 (when SC2 came out) I kept making maps, use map settings mostly. Defence map of all kinds. But even then, there was a time lapse where I couldn't play SC2 cause I had trouble with my comp so I used another comp with SC1. I played a bunch of games, watched many 1v1 obs (goshh there are still some freaking good players) and I kept making maps of course. I finally discovered the lastest pieces that I didn't know about such as modifying the Storm damage, upg for building armor and static defence and worker upg, and changing the game animation speed to x2 or x4. (Btw, a Vulture with Iron Truster (upg to go faster) on x4 speed... is SOO FAST omg, or the Zergling, it's freaking hilarous to see). Basicly I would say that I know the SC1 editor at 99%. The 1% is the little things that you always can discover that do not matters at all.
Anyway, all this to say that I don't remember my early terrains. All I know is that I had so much fun with SC1's editor...that I keep using it "often". I used it one time when I had not access to SC2 for a WTE. The result was nice considering it was SC1 haha! Well, I'll see what I can do for this week.
My "first map" would be some random generic long-forgotten plaything spawned from WC2.
The oldest map that I have any specific working memory of was in SC1. Probably around '99 or 2000. (I later started working on rebuilding it in WC3, but didn't get far.) I don't know if I still have the map anywhere, might have to go dredging the depths of the internet to see if some old map archive still has a copy to refresh my memory.
Yeah, my oldest memory that I could remember was a fortress I made in the brood war editor, I remember always loving making generic fortresses, though I remember this one because I actually made a game out of it and didn't just make a generic terrain for the fun of it. I am sure it was made around 2006 - 2007, it was a square fortress that had two entrances. Quite the bland fortress at that, wonder if I will be able to spice the idea up a bit.
I'm glad that I haven't destroyed too many things in my campaign. Mission1 cliffs are almost same as it was on september 2010. I started that map as Mar Sara, then I changed it to Tarsonis and then back to Mar Sara. It took really long time before I learned texturing at all. Actually my maps were 1 texture only for really long time so I tried to do some texturing at september 2010 but it felt too difficult so I gave up :) Terrbile lighting on that old picture - I didn't understand how base height system and fog work back then. Actually I started that map as 4 player melee map (look at minimap of old picture) and then decided to try a campaign and today almost 3 years later I'm still improving my campaign and got feeling that I have learned only basics of editor.
And here you go. I began to loose inspiration near the end after finishing the walls and was not sure how to fill the fortress out further so I called myself finished. It is a large fortress so I will post the map if you want to take a closer look or want to try and fill it out yourself.
IMO my warcraft III terrains are lost and have no room for improvement anyway (based off memory). I will try to remake my "char" thingymagig that I did for my first WTE ever.
I am sure it is deceptively simple. I personally like the mood that the contrast creates. The slight reflection of the water for the "leak" of the water is a cool effect as well. Just out of curiosity any particular reason you chose to use a bird's eye view instead of the first person view in the first picture?
Weekly Terraining Exercise #129
Hey folks!
Another relatively small theme this week - next week something more interesting and large. This week's theme is going to be "Nostalgia". What does this mean? Simple: as per a suggestion by Scrinking, I'd like you all to recreate the first terrain you have ever made. If you don't remember what that was, just pick a terrain as far back as you can remember. This can include stuff you made in, for example, the WarCraft 3 editor, as long as your recreation is in the Galaxy Editor. Since your first terrain probably looked terrible (mine did, anyway), try and see if you can make a good-looking version now of what you were trying to do back then.
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/
Awesome idea ! I will try to do something I did back in world editor but it may not look perfect ^^
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Curse PremiumOh god... you mean back in WC3 editor times? Man, last time I booted that editor up and looked at the terrains I made back in the early - mid 2000's, I nearly belched. Well, if I can I'll certainly contribute to this WTE.
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Curse PremiumThe only thing I remember when I first opened the editor in the beta phase, I made it crash with a minimap ping that had no wait so it was constantly trying to ping, so fast that it froze. There was no terrain involved though as I just wanted to see the triggers and be able to do "something".
Then, if I don't remember any early terrain I made, and that I made no map at all in the W3 editor...I guess I could go with the SC1's editor... but, my first terrain was about 2004-5, maybe? God, that's a long time ago. I still have some freaking old map. (Just checked) The oldest map I have is from 2007. At this time, I was able to do something "fine" with the editor. Of course it was shit, but still... I had 14 years old? OMG. In 2008 I made a melee map that I named the Protoss homeworld which was really really awesome. I don't know if it was balanced at all, but the computers on this map were 10 times harder. Since then until about 2010 (when SC2 came out) I kept making maps, use map settings mostly. Defence map of all kinds. But even then, there was a time lapse where I couldn't play SC2 cause I had trouble with my comp so I used another comp with SC1. I played a bunch of games, watched many 1v1 obs (goshh there are still some freaking good players) and I kept making maps of course. I finally discovered the lastest pieces that I didn't know about such as modifying the Storm damage, upg for building armor and static defence and worker upg, and changing the game animation speed to x2 or x4. (Btw, a Vulture with Iron Truster (upg to go faster) on x4 speed... is SOO FAST omg, or the Zergling, it's freaking hilarous to see). Basicly I would say that I know the SC1 editor at 99%. The 1% is the little things that you always can discover that do not matters at all.
Anyway, all this to say that I don't remember my early terrains. All I know is that I had so much fun with SC1's editor...that I keep using it "often". I used it one time when I had not access to SC2 for a WTE. The result was nice considering it was SC1 haha! Well, I'll see what I can do for this week.
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My "first map" would be some random generic long-forgotten plaything spawned from WC2.
The oldest map that I have any specific working memory of was in SC1. Probably around '99 or 2000. (I later started working on rebuilding it in WC3, but didn't get far.) I don't know if I still have the map anywhere, might have to go dredging the depths of the internet to see if some old map archive still has a copy to refresh my memory.
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Curse PremiumWe should all do a dedicate terraining for SC1 :D
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Yeah, my oldest memory that I could remember was a fortress I made in the brood war editor, I remember always loving making generic fortresses, though I remember this one because I actually made a game out of it and didn't just make a generic terrain for the fun of it. I am sure it was made around 2006 - 2007, it was a square fortress that had two entrances. Quite the bland fortress at that, wonder if I will be able to spice the idea up a bit.
Anything allowed from non-Blizz games (*cough C&C Generals cough*)?
I think I still have the first map I made for it somewhere.
I'm glad that I haven't destroyed too many things in my campaign. Mission1 cliffs are almost same as it was on september 2010. I started that map as Mar Sara, then I changed it to Tarsonis and then back to Mar Sara. It took really long time before I learned texturing at all. Actually my maps were 1 texture only for really long time so I tried to do some texturing at september 2010 but it felt too difficult so I gave up :) Terrbile lighting on that old picture - I didn't understand how base height system and fog work back then. Actually I started that map as 4 player melee map (look at minimap of old picture) and then decided to try a campaign and today almost 3 years later I'm still improving my campaign and got feeling that I have learned only basics of editor.
Good memories!
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Nice topic but I have only ever had time to make two terrains and in hindsight the first is bin fodder at best.
Contribute to the wiki (Wiki button at top of page) Considered easy altering of the unit textures?
https://www.sc2mapster.com/forums/resources/tutorials/179654-data-actor-events-message-texture-select-by-id
https://media.forgecdn.net/attachments/187/40/Screenshot2011-04-17_09_16_21.jpg
I am not complete mine yet, but I created something I thought was badass :D so I guess you can take this as a sneak peek of the fortress.
And here you go. I began to loose inspiration near the end after finishing the walls and was not sure how to fill the fortress out further so I called myself finished. It is a large fortress so I will post the map if you want to take a closer look or want to try and fill it out yourself.
IMO my warcraft III terrains are lost and have no room for improvement anyway (based off memory). I will try to remake my "char" thingymagig that I did for my first WTE ever.
http://www.sc2mapster.com/media/attachments/11/957/Marines.PNG VS Attachment
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I am sure it is deceptively simple. I personally like the mood that the contrast creates. The slight reflection of the water for the "leak" of the water is a cool effect as well. Just out of curiosity any particular reason you chose to use a bird's eye view instead of the first person view in the first picture?
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Birds eye view looked better.
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I would have to agree :)