New Map: Ancient Cities (tentative title)

[Manias]

After much work, my epic map (as referenced in my signature) is ready to be officially unveiled. While in terms of actual land area it is about 2/3 finished, a majority of the work I have put in thus far has been on the cities, and thus it is not far from completion. Feedback before I submit it to S2 is greatly appreciated.

General Idea: Two ancient cities in the mountains look down upon a dreaded scar surrounded by a desolate and mountainous wasteland (think of the cinematic)

Mini-Map:
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/2144/shot0025ub8.jpg

Heightmap:
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8...ightmapat1.jpg

Strategy: All I want to say in regards to this is that the main expansion for each team is their ancient city. These should be held at all costs because they provide high ground advantage in two directions, and if you lose your city the other team has a second major access point to your base that is sheltered and on even ground. Other than that the map is fairly straight forward.


Screenshots:

Grassy Areas:





Screenshots of Ancient Cities in next two posts

Map Download:

In order to truly experience the atmosphere and scope of my map (in particular the cities) I have uploaded the map in its current state. The music that is included is A_New_Earth from Savage 1, which is what I am going with for now (it seems to fit the map). You will need to start the game (as opposed to run around in warm-up) to experience the map with the music, so simply type startgame in the console (ctrl+F8) once you have it running.


WIKI:
http://www.savage2guide.com/index.php/Ancientcities

-Manias

[Manias]

Ancient Human City:




Please note, the screenshots do not give you a good sense of the scale of the cities. For that you need to download the map and run around.

edit: just realized I removed the paint tool shading when i redid the color of the ground in the human city so ignore that.

[Manias]

Ancient Beast City:



and two more human city shots

[TruSt]

the map is awesome ... . neither s2client nor the editor can open the map

[Elchuchu]

Hurry up and finish it nig

[Valkyrie]

Looks promising. Lemme know when its done I'll throw it on the server for some play testing.

[Manias]

TruSt, extract it into your /savage 2/game/maps folder then open up the game and click the "local" button in the game lobby. Click "create game" and then select the map from the list an you should be good to go. I tested what I hosted myself.

[KillerDynamo]

the cities have a nice "twilight princess/hyrule frozen in time" feel, I love it. Although having a lot of colored people and buildings running around inside might seem a little weird, but probably not.

[TruSt]

manias: nope , thought i´m siily ?

server full

[Manias]

Well I have no idea what the problem could be then TruSt. You could check the worldconfig file inside the map to see what the min and max players are, but it works fine for me so I don't know what to tell you.