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Title: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: BBQsam on July 26, 2018, 02:32:48 PM
Get in MA ASAP   we have a NEW map!
Title: Re: NEW MA MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Vraciu on July 26, 2018, 02:36:26 PM
UH OH.  I'M OMW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    :bolt:
Title: Re: NEW MA MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Wiley on July 26, 2018, 02:42:46 PM
Screenshot before it gets rolled by the day crew?

Wiley.
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: The Fugitive on July 26, 2018, 03:34:38 PM
Its Bustr's new one, "Rift Valley"
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Wiley on July 26, 2018, 03:35:36 PM
Ah. Thanks.  There *might* happen to be a pic or two on the board. :devil

Wiley.
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: The Fugitive on July 26, 2018, 03:36:41 PM
Ah. Thanks.  There *might* happen to be a pic or two on the board. :devil

Wiley.

 :neener:
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: BBQsam on July 26, 2018, 03:39:19 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/PEI7vaD.png)
 :D
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: mERv on July 26, 2018, 03:47:24 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/PEI7vaD.png)
 :D
Lies! Deception! Everyday more lies!!!  :x
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: BBQsam on July 26, 2018, 03:57:21 PM
Ah. Thanks.  There *might* happen to be a pic or two on the board. :devil

Wiley.

Someone please post a link or a pic here if the new map.
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: waystin2 on July 26, 2018, 04:00:31 PM
Congrats Bustr.  I know how much work you have put into this one!
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Devil 505 on July 26, 2018, 04:11:40 PM
Congrats Bustr.  I know how much work you have put into this one!

Yes indeed.

Thanks Bustr.

 :salute
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Greebo on July 26, 2018, 04:27:41 PM
Well done Bustr, its a beautiful map. Thanks for all your hard work.
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: AKQwik on July 26, 2018, 04:30:12 PM
(http://arabian-knights.org/forum/download/file.php?id=2185)
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: rvflyer on July 26, 2018, 04:35:39 PM
Is there some secret code to log into this newmap? I get kicked out saying server not responding. :noid

(http://arabian-knights.org/forum/download/file.php?id=2185)
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Shuffler on July 26, 2018, 04:37:59 PM
Well done Bustr. I hope to see it soon.
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: bustr on July 26, 2018, 04:45:01 PM
Just left the arena, common guys capture some feilds so you can experience all the other micro terrain I put in for GVs and the scaled topography from the air. The center pond is so small you can spit on the other two CV if you just run a course out into the center. It's only 2:30pm pacific, the night crew will be in shortly.

People keep asking where the trains and convoys are. All trains are running in the giant strat complex. The convoys are on the road system I put in to each country. Both are constantly running down a 10mile segment that takes 10 minutes. You will have to figure at the feilds which road is the supply convoy road and which is a dummy road.
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Mano on July 26, 2018, 04:59:39 PM
Thanks for your hard work Bustr.

 :salute
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!! GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: DubiousKB on July 26, 2018, 05:20:56 PM
Bustr can come out of the programming dungeon! How's the light of day treating that piggy-skin?  :)

Can't wait to check it out sir; and you won't hear me complain about it, even WHEN the terrain killz me.  :salute
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: DmonSlyr on July 26, 2018, 11:08:48 PM
Looks like a fun map!

Hitech! Y'all need to post this map on the front page!!!
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: save on July 27, 2018, 03:24:54 AM
Good map !
WTG Bustr
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: The Fugitive on July 27, 2018, 08:26:41 AM
Looks like a fun map!

Hitech! Y'all need to post this map on the front page!!!

...... and all social media accounts!
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: TWCAxew on July 27, 2018, 08:43:02 AM
Looks like a fun map!

Hitech! Y'all need to post this map on the front page!!!

These kinda things need to be hyped up through all possible mediums. Like flippz did on FB I find it odd that HTC doesn't do this on there own. Maybe give a media student an internship so he/she can promote the game trough these kinda channels. So it doesn't add to the workload.

DutchVII
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: BOBO on July 27, 2018, 08:43:25 AM
Looks fantastic, but  I won't be flying much until you guys are done running your Philadelphia experiments. :bolt:
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: DubiousKB on July 27, 2018, 09:54:12 AM
Flew it last night, but them bish/knights didn't want to share...  I didn't putter around the map as much as I would have liked but what I did see was nice.

Anyone else have any stutter issues though? I experienced it only once so coulda been the inter-nets..

<S> Bustr, Looks great!
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Shuffler on July 27, 2018, 12:11:10 PM
I have seen some reports of a faint bacon smell on the terrain.... hmmmm

 :devil
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: bustr on July 27, 2018, 12:32:39 PM
I have faith Hitech will get the current issues fixed with the terrain and then you guys can expand your captured territories and run into the rest of what I did to the terrain.
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Biggamer on July 27, 2018, 12:49:21 PM
i really like how all the strats are back close together  :aok
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Dundee on July 27, 2018, 03:11:00 PM
i really like how all the strats are back close together  :aok

It seem like a good map, I did some filming to study it more
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: BOBO on July 27, 2018, 08:49:01 PM
It seem like a good map, I did some filming to study it more

Me too.  Did your film viewer play it?
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: 1stpar3 on July 28, 2018, 01:28:13 AM
Me too.  Did your film viewer play it?
Mine did...for about 6 minutes. Terrain was ALL JACKED up(when it was playing), the trees-clutter were floating above the surface, with large squares showing up under the floating trees. Looked like water under that, almost like the trees and terrain details were reflections  :uhoh Tried the film 10 times at different times and always crashed at 6 min 34 sec into play back :uhoh Nvidia Shadow Play filmed it just fine though
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: Shuffler on July 28, 2018, 08:07:39 AM
Mine did...for about 6 minutes. Terrain was ALL JACKED up(when it was playing), the trees-clutter were floating above the surface, with large squares showing up under the floating trees. Looked like water under that, almost like the trees and terrain details were reflections  :uhoh Tried the film 10 times at different times and always crashed at 6 min 34 sec into play back :uhoh Nvidia Shadow Play filmed it just fine though

I really like the shadow play feature.
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: DmonSlyr on August 10, 2018, 10:58:20 AM
Played on the map last night!

Had a really great time. Great CV fights. Fights on all 3 sides of the map. Wasn't too big and bases werent too far.  There was  an area for all 3 sides to fight each other without it being a furball island. 

Got about 20 kills in 2 hours.

I think it's a good one!

Nice job Bustr!  :aok
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: DurrD on August 10, 2018, 03:11:05 PM
I like this new map a lot.  I too saw some of the minor graphical glitches, but it was only occasional, and not disruptive at all.  Gameplay-wise though, this map seems to work really really well for a variety of play styles.  Thumbs up!
Title: Re: NEW-----MA-----MAP!!!!______________GET IN HERE!!!!!!!
Post by: bustr on August 10, 2018, 04:41:51 PM
Two years of listening, watching, and experiments across the first two terrains I submitted.

Please don't make me watch anymore Mario Brothers versus the Keystone cops with shotguns videos from the competition's tank arenas. I watched too many just to look at their terrains at the tank combat micro level. They may have incredible graphics but the game play is greiferastic kiddy time becasue two sides are "forced" at each other who for the most part are not playing a tank game as a WW2 recreation SIMM. Our tank game needed realistic terrain scaled to a tanker's perspective which the competition excels at. That adds about a month or so onto the build process on top of the months creating topographically themed and scaled terrain for the air combat players to fly over.

I'm hoping AH terrain builders will follow suit with scaling terrain from the local micro 6mile diameter around feilds to the macro level as part of a unified theme. The competition has been doing that all along as a product standard to compete for our community's customers. They could not compete with our numbers at one time so our terrains could be a tad rough, Greebo began stepping outside of that and inspired me that it was possible to go farther. Our numbers today and the expectations of newer customers require some amount of graphics quality to compete with the competition's tiny but realistic looking terrains.

Riftval was my experiment to see if it can be done with the tools, trees\clutter tiles and terrain polygon limitations Hitech gives us. It can be done but, it won't matter what program or method you use to get a landmass into the AH terrain editor. The hard part is making it look as real as possible and play well from the micro terrain for tanks, to the macro terrain for airplanes flying over it. That took my building the first two MA terrains from scratch using only the AH terrain editor so I could eventually create riftval.

Without numbers to keep customers distracted, they will pay attention to what their surroundings look like and how that makes them feel about being in our game.