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Wedge's Mapping Thread - What are YOU working on?
Wedge:
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http://forum.returntoblockland.com/dlm/viewFile.php?id=798
It's actually been over a year since I did any mapping. Anyway, I'm going out of town for a couple of days, I'll update the thread at the end of the week, hopefully with some screenshots of TDM Ocean Platforms 2 - now with less grass and sized to actually fit baseplates. I'm thinking of making the area 256x256, but if anyone has any other suggestions I'd be happy to try it out.
Wedge:
Sorry no update today. I came home tired and slept in, then got caught up experimenting with 123D, which you can read about in my thread. Now I need to go study for a history final. If anybody has a copy of my old ocean platforms map could you please PM it to me so I can reuse the textures? Otherwise I'll have to make new ones.
Packer:
Not exactly Blockland but relevant I suppose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrY33tD-f0Q
I've bee doing some recordings of me working on my demo reel, this is just a set of videos of the process of me working on making a level from scratch.
Derroith:
wait wait wait, the tankers are going to be blocko sized? That would be kind of cool, low lag maps with nearly no bricks would be nice.
Wedge:
--- Quote from: Derroith on May 19, 2011, 06:52:03 PM ---wait wait wait, the tankers are going to be blocko sized? That would be kind of cool, low lag maps with nearly no bricks would be nice.
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Yeah, they're scaled to about the size of a minifig. I use two scales when I work, human scale and minifig scale. Minifig scale basically means it's at actual size of the minifig, so if I modeled a house in this scale and you walked in it, a chair would be just big enough for a minifig to sit in and you could probably only fit a 2x2 or so in the chair. Human scale is our scale, so if I modeled a house and you walked in it you could probably put a couple baseplates on a chair.
This particular map is going to be at the scale of minifigs, so the tanks will be big because these are giant fuel tanks, about the size of half a grain silo, but they're not going to be human sized, where they'd be absolutely enormous and one tank would probably fill 3/4 of the map.
--- Quote from: Packer on May 19, 2011, 04:25:43 PM ---Not exactly Blockland but relevant I suppose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrY33tD-f0Q
I've bee doing some recordings of me working on my demo reel, this is just a set of videos of the process of me working on making a level from scratch.
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That's actually pretty cool, thanks for sharing. I thought it was interesting how you used the orange box for scale in the second video. Maybe I'll scan some of my sketches and record a video or two of me making a map. It's also interesting to see what things we do differently and what we do the same. I came from an engineering drafting background, and when I think about stuff in 3d it's probably a little different than someone who came from a game design background. I guess the most telling difference is that I'm more comfortable with solids than meshes.