...aaand working on another fc3 custom map (xbox)

[Shilka]

I'm currently working on my new map 'Azura'. It's a fair sized map again with both outside and cave areas. There will be 3 main areas; a tightly built rakyat village, a mining company with attached miners town, and a cavernous dome with collapsed ceiling holding a temple ruin

So far I've done the mining company buildings, prepped the caves and outside natural surroundings, made the ruin and just started working on the rakyat village. No detailing done yet;

Here's the ruins, the main objects are in place now, no detailing yet;

I'm currently working on the rakyat village, but not happy so far so I'm going to redo part of it today, and add more;

That's it so far, hope to be updating soon

 

[Shilka]

Finished the rakyat village, without detailing that is, tore half of what I had down first because it wasn't meeting expectations. It was quite a challenge with the village being wedged in between the rocks and the winding road, being on uneven terrain and adding to that it has a pipeline running through it. Took me around 7 hours, must admit my head was spinning at the end, puzzling with so many loose pieces.
The whole village is lifted off the ground with walkways inbetween, and it has a really tight feel, though there is room for detailing. It seems like locked up from it's surroundings from ground level, but theres a total of 6 ways to get into the village, including from a nearby cave and through houses. Here's the pics, I'll take a break right now

 

[Shilka]

Allright, I finished the map, so here's a bunch of screenshots. First one is still from during development, rest has been taken ingame on the release version.
I really enjoyed being able to play it with around 10 people yesterday, thanks to ShinyTapestry71 for getting an almost full lobby of mapmakers together to play eachothers maps, best 4 hours of custom map private games I ever had in this game!

 

[Engnr]

That is looking really good sir.

 

[Shilka]

Well thank you sir.

It's real good fun to play around with this game editor, there's no comparing to the messing I did with battlecraft and the likes a decade ago. There's such stunning scenes you can make, and with a little extra attention the gameplay on it as great too. Downside is I lose so many hours of sleep getting this stuff done, I think I easily poored 70+ hours in this map...

Response of the public is great though, I have people I don't know messaging me on xbox live saying how much they like the map, really rewarding and inspiring me to make more heh.

 

[Engnr]

I have no doubt about the time sink. I look at maps and I see what it takes to go into developing a map, at least some of it according to layman's terms. Ton of work!

 

[Shilka]

Someone was nice enough to make a short tour vid of my map;

[video=youtube;8pnqfaIDGEY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pnqfaIDGEY[/video]