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| Arrakis: Tears of Shai Hulud (1.0) - File Description |
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Note: Well, here is a new map I made in the Dune universe. In Arrakis (6), I was pondering how I could incorporate a sandworm into the map, and in this map, I not only put a worm in, I made it so you can run on top of it and inside it (eww). I also wanted the map to be assymmetric, so I made one side Fremen with rocky natural formations, and a Harkonnen side which is industrial and has slaves and huge pipe networks. I am not sure if I balanced it good enough for both sides but if anyone has any complaints, I will change it in another version.
I also thought it would be interesting to have the Hakonnen side have defense turrets and soldiers. Of course they are all neutral. Sometimes the imperial guard troops look like they have had too much caffeine and will spasm at anyone who comes near, also the bolter turrets will stare suspiciously at anything that walks, drives, or stomps by. I made some really steep dunes for vehicle ramping action and they seem to work well.It may play kind of slowly, I did my best to improve performance, though it may play slightly jittery. I hope you enjoy it, I have been working on this for a week and I have spent many hours on it!
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| Arrakis: Tears of Shai Hulud (1.0) - User Comments |
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Total comments: 12 | Last comment: 02-23-2010 at 08:46
redeemed74
From:  (Xenia, Ohio)
Joined: June 7th, 2008
Posts: 286 | Great job on this, what detail! I appreciate how much work you put into the custom decals and the highly innovative height map. You certainly get a 10/10 from me! I hope some screenshots are coming soon, if you need help with this I would be happy to take some for you. Thanks for giving us another awesome map!  |
Skinnie
From: 
Joined: February 9th, 2009
Posts: 169 | Well, despite of some missing objects and selectable neutral units I like it.
I laughed hard on Thing, that actually separates map in a half... Slaugandwor sandword, hehe, very original. 9/10 from me. |
redeemed74
From: (Xenia, Ohio)
Joined: June 7th, 2008
Posts: 286 | I took a bunch of screeenshots and put them into a zip folder and have made them temporarily available here:
[url=http://www.snapdrive.net/files/573283/Dune_Pics.zip]Arrakis Screenshots[url]
If the developer wants to he can pick from any of these and work it out with FileFront to get them posted, or a staff member is welcome to post any that look good enough. Once screenshots are posted I plan to remove this link since I can't keep them here forever.  |
redeemed74
From: (Xenia, Ohio)
Joined: June 7th, 2008
Posts: 286 | It would at least be nice to have a "preview post" option on these comment forums, not to mention an "edit" option! Anyway, my UBB code didn't work so well and let my post that link again and hope for the best:
Arrakis Screenshots |
JaguarLord
Joined: May 28th, 2007
Posts: 67 | cool map even if some object are missing (hablock_03) and replace by pink cube and that the impass map would need some polishing. good work and a real effortin purpose design for the arkonen part of the map.
good job. 7/10.
major problem is that two strategic on the back of the worm can't be reach because of impass map blocking. this gives an ege for race taht can teleport ot jump. ig and nec here can't even think about capturing these points.
JL |
dreadlord12 (Staff)
Joined: September 24th, 2006
Posts: 115 | Just a heads up, this is an old file from 2006 that was accidentally removed. File has been re-uploaded and screenshots will be added shortly. |
JaguarLord
Joined: May 28th, 2007
Posts: 67 | that's why things are missing i guess, must have been made under WA map editor. |
redeemed74
From: (Xenia, Ohio)
Joined: June 7th, 2008
Posts: 286 | Good point, JaguarLord, this perhaps needs a bit of touch up to be better compatiible with Dark Crusade and Soulstorm, which most people are using nowdays. I see those pink boxes for "habblock_03" and I'd be willing to give it a once-over to remove those and correct the impass issues you raised. There actually is a very narrow trail that makes them accessible, but only very small units like guardsmen could make it. It should be widened to two spaces width, even on corners, to allow Ogryns and the like to make it. Since the developer truly is unknown I guess it belongs to the community so there shouldn't be a problem in doing an upgrade? I think it is a rather original map and is worth the effort. |
redeemed74
From: (Xenia, Ohio)
Joined: June 7th, 2008
Posts: 286 | Well, here is an interesting discovery! In the texture file I found a signature, "D. Badger". I checked around and found that Demonic Badger made a lot of maps and B&B's, including a scenario of Arrakis:
http://dawnofwar.filefront.com/file/Arrakis;39165
There are many very distinct similarities between these and I don't think there can be any doubt that this current one is of his creation. I attempted to send him an email through these comment pages, at the minimum hoping that he can be credited for all his work. If he wants to adjust it to correct the issues that JaguarLord has raised that's great, otherwise I'm still happy to do it with his permission. So I'll give him a chance to respond and see what his take is on it, and if he has vanished into cyberspace then perhaps in a week or two I will just send in the update and see what happens. |
JaguarLord
Joined: May 28th, 2007
Posts: 67 | Quote:
. I used the same textures that I used for Arrakis: Tears of Shai-Hulud (8) so the spice looks like spice
the evidence was in the file intro text.
imo releasing a corected version won't do harm. |
redeemed74
From: (Xenia, Ohio)
Joined: June 7th, 2008
Posts: 286 | Ok, here is the map udate with a minimal amount of changes:
http://www.snapdrive.net/files/573283/Arrakis_Tears_of_Shai-Hulud_2.0.zip
1. Incompatible entities removed
2. narrow walkways opened to permit larger squads and small vehicles
3. Install path changed from W40K to DXP2
JL, would you like to give this another check over to see if there is anything else that should be changed before posting? |
JaguarLord
Joined: May 28th, 2007
Posts: 67 | i have faith in your mapping skills, i bet it is flawless now |
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