Visiting the Kharaa homeworld
Hello there folks,To begin with, I love this game. I love the gameplay since NS1, the theme, the artwork, the soundtrack, the community. So at the moment it eats up a heavy chunk of my spare free time. And as I have other hobbies like drawing and 3D modeling, I thought why not combine that all in a map.
I already played around with the spark editor (with some minor differences, most editors work the same way anyway), and I am very capable of doing props and textures on my own. (At least, if I get them importet, haha.)
At the moment many community maps are growing, and most of them are really looking awesome.
But there are only two types of maps right now: remakes of NS1 maps and heavily Marine featured maps (like spacestations and -ships).
Nothing wrong about it, really not, but I wanted something moar. :D
So I decided to make somehow a map placed on a Kharaa homeworld planet. The map would feature some landscapes in a kind of open area.
But I am very aware of problems this might cause, gameplay- as well as technical-wise. So I will try my best to trick with the engine a bit.
Summit and Mineshaft are already showing, that you can create "open" and natural looking areas.
I didn't started yet to actually build the map itself, but started with a basic-map layout and some artwork to wrap my head around the look of the map.
Here is the first stuff. I would really like to hear your thoughts, especially about the layout, if this would work, and so on.
For those of you tl;dr:
Custom-map on Kharaa homeworld, any thoughts?
For your information: The map would be placed in a canyon. Marine-base spawns at the left side (north or south) in a human base. Caves are leading to open areas at the middle and the right side (where Aliens' Hive spawn north or south) In the upper left corner you can see the distibution of tech points and ressource points and the ways leading from one to the other.
Artwork for two places: hive location "woods" and "boneyard" in the middle.
I know, it is very ambitious, nuts and megalomaniac. Maybe I wont finish it. But I will have fun trying.
so long