Level Design RO-WinterManor1941

[Commissar{SK}]

A map based in the winter of 1941 but not on any particular historical event.

Beta 4: http://www.maporchestra.com/downloads/p13_sectionid/23/p13_fileid/164


-Soviets attack
-limited SMGs (two per side)
-limited grenades (given only to the submachinegunner on each team)
-MG-34 is the only MG available to the Germans (early war)

 

[Feldwebel Crin]

The last screen makes the house look a bit small. Is it up to scale?

 

[Commissar{SK}]

The last screen makes the house look a bit small. Is it up to scale?

Yeah, its a small house and the JU-52 is gigantic. The static meshes for the windows and doors, ect still have DrawScales of 1-1-1. Mabye manor is a stretch, but there is still plenty of room to fight as theres an attic and basement. I'm playtesting within the clan at the moment.

 

[Commissar{SK}]

All doors (apart from the one unhinged leaning against the wall) are movers and the glass windows break. The window sills are all MG friendly.

 

[Darkseed]

The outside looks very fake imho, I can't really put my finger on what it is but it just doesn't look real. Also, what's with the oversized suns and moons everyone seem to be using in their maps (including some official ones, like krasnyi)? It just looks silly to be honest.

 

[DeV]

I have to agree with darkseed on the outside. It might be the lighting causing this, because it kind of looks like a nightskybox on a daytime lighting. The inside however looks nice, looks like a house that was actually lived in. However the stairs look stupid though. No real house would have built-in stairs that have no railings but just a gaping hole (3rd picture in your last post). Keep it up though

 

[Commissar{SK}]

I have to agree with darkseed on the outside. It might be the lighting causing this, because it kind of looks like a nightskybox on a daytime lighting. The inside however looks nice, looks like a house that was actually lived in. However the stairs look stupid though. No real house would have built-in stairs that have no railings but just a gaping hole (3rd picture in your last post). Keep it up though

The new lighting with a more blueish tinge.

As for the stairs, I am aware of that problem, but I'm not sure what I'll do before I release it. As far as I can tell, I don't see any banister static meshes.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

it looks good, but im gonna ditto DeV here
try to do something if at all possible with the floor thickness on the second floor, or at least do something to distract the viewers attention from it (refrence 3rd photo last post).
other than that, keep up the good work man

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

the lighting looks much better

but EEEEK the moon is an EGG

 

[Britney Federline]

Don't forget Poland, i.e. dirty up the ground around the house, by showing driveways, footpaths, bushes, refuse piles, etc., which affect the snow even if they're under a few inches of it.

The plane looks awesome.

 

[Commissar{SK}]

The new stairs area.

 

[veryhungryhobo]

Lower the lighting a bit. The blueish tint does look good. What is the obj of the map. capture the house?

 

[myzko]

The area outside the house looks flat and emty!

 

[Commissar{SK}]

The area outside the house looks flat and emty!

True, but adding a bunch of static meshes and stuff tends to give away the illusion that snow has fallen. I have however added a path since the last screen.

 

[Monkwarrior]

-limited SMGs (two per side)
-limited grenades (given only to one submachinegunner per team)

Interesting design decisions, this will be a map for hero's
I will certainly play it.

Greetingz, Monk.

 

[Drude]

I would like to see map like this with russians having T34/76 and germans PZ III.

 

[Commissar{SK}]

I would like to see map like this with russians having T34/76 and germans PZ III.

I've also thought about vehicles but decided against it at least for now because:

1. It would be an incredible pain in the ass to navigate the trees (since they can't be knocked down).

2. Since the map is focused on a capturing a house, tanks would naturally be shelling the crap out of it, and it wouldn't feel right without destructable terrain IMHO. Perhaps a T-60 since it doesn't have HE shells, but then I would have to give the Germans a means of defense...

 

[DirtyRat]

looks really interesting - the outside brightness should definately be reduced a bit, perhaps you could add some point lighting from fires or lanterns to make it more atmospheric.

 

[Commissar{SK}]

Interesting design decisions, this will be a map for hero's
I will certainly play it.

Greetingz, Monk.

Its a small map, so I'd like to see grenade spamming limited. I may eventually change that a bit, depending on how well Russians fare against capping the house with the limitations.

 

[Commissar{SK}]

looks really interesting - the outside brightness should definately be reduced a bit, perhaps you could add some point lighting from fires or lanterns to make it more atmospheric.

Lanterns sound like a good idea. I will definately look into that. As for fire, I personally dislike the effect in the UT engine, it looks too fake IMHO.