Map-making Contest by Daskew and Guro

Saw those big LOTR maps, I used to make them too for role-play server. I'm working on my project, a big detailed beautiful island for sandbox/role-play purposes. I will finish it tomorrow, 87% is done, only a fun little part and the east coast is under construction.
http://s18.postimg.org/5j9wx0u61/Sanaria.png

 

>Contest Update<

Well over 30 reviews have been made so far and the leader-board post is in it's lag leg before it's done.

@kodysch has been recruited to help finish some of the commentaries as @Guro is out of action for a couple of weeks.

He has the writing skills that would charm the fur off a polar bear, so his input is very welcome

...Meanwhile I wonder what everyone thinks about my crazy-ass map I made a little while ago and some people managed to play...

Captivated - by @daskew87


-What do we all think?

LETS DEBATE!

Don't be nasty

 

I remember this one . I was alone on the map makers corner and decided to try to get to the bottom of the map as knight, while I was doing so I thought that this map would go great in a mini game where you get to the bottom or climb to the top before something kills you or whatever. It was fun... but it is not a map that would go good for CTF.

--- Double Post Merged, Jan 4, 2015, Original Post Date: Jan 4, 2015 ---

Well, maybe it would fit better in CTF if the flags were right next to each other, So it is a race to get to the bottom. As of now some flags are far apart and that makes for some weird game-play.

 

Weeeelll, since you asked nicely

It would be a great map as minigame, as Jacob(ffsff) said above. I played this on MMC server. It's REALLY fun.

 

That map brought me to tears with pure fury. I remember clearly falling over and over again, unable to successfully navigate to the bottom of the map for the final flag. Ragequitted so fucking hard, I hope you're proud of yourself.

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Surprisingly not. Knight just glides slowly down, archer falls and you can't swing well on that map.

 

Pheeew I did it... I spent more time on this than I would like to admit. Damn it was so annoying to place all the stone. Well, after tiring hours, here is my 2200x300 role-play map: Sanaria

It has a lot of detail, you have to download it and zoom in to see it all. I include the file too, I think it's so big it loses some pixel quality.
Oh and you can use it anyhow, this is for the community.

 

It is always fun to go into sandbox and explore big maps. Thanks for this post!

 

Map Contest ftw. Also, that map is gigantic >w> would really want to play on it, especially love the diversity in terrain (it has oceans, lakes, mountains, ravines, caves, ruins? and a bunch of other stuff) It's nice to look at.

7/10 would eat for diner.

 

Definitely playing this in Sandbox.

 

Thanks everyone. Be careful if you try it, it will take a while to load in. You will spawn in water, unless you add spawns which will most likely end up in crash.
I tried to load it in but my old laptop can't handle it. After 30 second loading I had less than 1 fps then I got disconnected.

 

There is a water glitch at the bottom right, the water does not touch the ground completely. Also, where the fish were spawned, there is no water.

 

Oh thank you for that. It is because paint is buggy and sometimes the colors have wrong value. I will fix it tomorrow and test the whole map.

 

I use paint.NET, it works very well with pixel anything

 

I was able to run it in a cropped version. Everything was fine for me and the values are correct.
Are you sure you have a PNG version? That is the only way it will work, JPEG ruins it.
If yes, then the map dimension could be too big, or too much fish is in there. But I have never heard of this, and I had run similar sized maps before smoothly.
Sorry for that, but I don't know what could be wrong.

 

It is a .png file that I took from your post, I'm guessing that this problem is there because of the fish. But I also see one block of water on the right side that sticks up out of the main body, maybe this is hard on the game as the water has to update to the sides, I don't know... just a guess.

--- Double Post Merged, Jan 6, 2015, Original Post Date: Jan 6, 2015 ---

Nah, the one water block does not do anything

--- Double Post Merged, Jan 6, 2015 ---

I have run some tests on the water and it seems that if you use a sponge, the water will not update. And also, the water will start to update again at a certain point. I figure that this is happening because of the size of this map.



The red is the water that will not update
Darker red is the non-updating water with a dirt backwall


Hope this helps! (somehow)

 

@Geti

 

Well I guess that answers this problem