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Mapmaking in Elemental

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Mapmaking in Elemental

from JoeUser Forums

To recap:

Beta 1 (which is where we’re at right now) is where we play around with different game mechanics with the beta group on a cloth map.

Beta 2 is where we let people try this all out multiplayer.

Beta 3 is where we finally turn on the graphics engine to make it look like a game.

Beta 4 is where tactical battles get turned on

Beta 5 is the modding beta where we start to work with modders on tools and help on that prior to release.

Here’s a video of me playing with the map editor (which I mistakenly thought was going to be in beta 4 but it’s actually beta 5 that this gets put into the public beta).

What’s fun about the map making (at least for me) is how fun it is to just make maps.

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting KillzEmAllGod, reply 23
graphics don't look like much yet.

 

Yeah, it looks like someone made a map with etch-a-sketch and then hand drew some squggily lines on it to make mountains! LOLOLOL!OLOLOL!!11!LOL!1!@!11!

 

/sarcasim on an epic scale

Reply #27 from Stardock Forums Top

no wonder why they don't let frogboy do the graphics.

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Reply #28 from Elemental Forums Top

This should be pretty handy for making map graphics for Dominions :).

Reply #29 from Elemental Forums Top

The rives look...so unnatural...the water in the river dosent look realistic at all well this is a Beta so i guess you will fix it but seriusly the river needs to look more realistic at least so wene you connect the river to the sea it looks the same like same color of water since its light blue the river and the sea is greenish blue not light blue like the river

Reply #30 from Elemental Forums Top

Any news about opening map creation to modders through scripting (like Civ IV map scripts?)?