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Offline Citabria

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My new updated Main Arena
« on: May 16, 2012, 08:21:06 AM »
At the moment I am hand detailing 512 square miles of a main arena terrain patterns with rivers, roads, mountains, farms, forests, deserts etc. multiple players are hounding me to get in game. yes it has a desert MTO areas and majority ETO areas all on one map. and it uses only default terrain textures and 0 custom objects or settings... frankly I am impressed with the results so far with the amount of variety and asthetic quality of it. but packing in details like this is worse than any skin project I have ever done in terms of shear mind numbing volume of area to be worked on.

























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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2012, 08:31:21 AM »
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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2012, 09:07:08 AM »
Looking great Fester.
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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2012, 09:11:23 AM »
At the moment I am hand detailing 512 square miles of a main arena terrain patterns with rivers, roads, mountains, farms, forests, deserts etc. multiple players are hounding me to get in game. yes it has a desert MTO areas and majority ETO areas all on one map. and it uses only default terrain textures and 0 custom objects or settings... frankly I am impressed with the results so far with the amount of variety and asthetic quality of it. but packing in details like this is worse than any skin project I have ever done in terms of shear mind numbing volume of area to be worked on.

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Some may remember festerMa from ah1. I hope to submit it soon.

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I would like to request a set of three small islands in a group on your new map, two of which have an air base, and the biggest one's airbase is also a port.  Please? :)

Oh, and I would like to request some trees arranged on one of the three islands, so they spell "Midway" when seen from the sky.    :D

Is such a thing even possible?   :headscratch:

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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2012, 09:16:13 AM »
outstanding job fester,   

I've been tinkering with the TE myself recently and have an entirely different outlook and respect for anyone who makes a MA map, even when i'm flying around now I can see exactly how much the creator has done with elevations / tile transitions.   

Hopefully HTC can fix the CBM bug ASAP as it is holding me back a little.   
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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2012, 09:17:03 AM »
 That is very good work. Not that it will matter to me since I have all my graphics turned off so I have frame rate enough to play. All terrain looks like a drunken 2nd graders made them with finger paint on a moonless night to me anyway lol.

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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2012, 09:23:47 AM »
THATS NOT GOOD ENOUGH DR> BRIA! YOU MUST DO MOAR AND MAEK EET BETTER!!! MOAR LOVE< MOAR STUFFZ< MOAR MOAR MOAR MOAR!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2012, 09:25:58 AM »
 Very nice work Fester,I really like the layout of the GV base with the trees!

  Might make for some nice ambush spots to defend the base from.




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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2012, 10:47:20 AM »
good work, awesome, such improvement of the game shouldn't come from the players.
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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2012, 11:40:33 AM »
To be honest noir, there is only so much HTC can do since they are making money off this deal. If they were all single, had no hobbies or ways to spend money other then housing and the basic nessesities and all the money went back into the game it surely would *not* need any community input.

But there you have it :P

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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2012, 12:18:57 PM »
looks great but what about the sheep/ :D
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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #11 on: May 16, 2012, 12:23:48 PM »
Map is lookin awsome.  Making me want to come back to the game quicker...lol.
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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2012, 12:59:21 PM »
very nice Fester.  You show some islands in there...but do not see them on the map on the clipboard you have pulled up.  Are the islands in the extreme corners of the map with the large land mass centered?

....and yes, I very much miss FesterMA...

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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2012, 01:04:43 PM »
EPIC Fester keep it up!  :aok    :salute
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Re: My new updated Main Arena
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2012, 01:05:56 PM »
Looks terrific!  :rock :salute

One thing, though: It seems like it's quite difficult to land on the fields judging by the screenshots. Not one single "...landed succesfully" message visible...
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