Posted by: tsassi2
Nice work, but aren't the mountain tops a bit too high or are they really supposed to look like that?They're a little exaggerated. This is my first time playing around with heightmaps (you basically paint in white-grey-black values to determine height, so it can be quite difficult). I've gathered a better way of doing it and should refine it better soon enough. I was mostly just wanting to throw together a video to test how it would look.Nonetheless, I like the way you demonstrated the size of the map with the Warthog model. What did you base it on anyway? As far as I know we only have the number 40,000 that could be anything.Honestly? I just scaled it manually and guessed. I figure that the 1-40000 is in metres, though. That would put the mountain at about 10 km (6.2 miles) width and 8 km (5 miles) breadth. Seems accurate to me.
It could be in yards, but I highly doubt that for two reasons: metres tend to be the "futuristic" measuring scale, and if it were in yards, we wouldn't likely get such an accurately round number. I don't think it's in centimetres and I don't think it's in miles or kilometres, so the only thing that makes sense is to say that it's in a metric scale of metres.
I'm definitely going to be a little off, but I'll calculate it properly when I'm doing my proper scaling ideas. The Warthog is 3.2 metres in length, so for scaling purposes, that'll do nicely.
Posted by: Spartan 90210
Nice work as always. Leave it to SonicJohn to take on a lolhueg ambitious art project. Now get to work on Elysia!Haha, yes, leave it to me. And yes, yes, Spar, I'm working on Elysia as we speak. All these lines of dialogue and storyboards aren't going to write themselves ;)
Posted by: Nzero zero3
Any of you guys think 'Destiny' is the same project as Blizzard's 'Titan'?As mentioned by many others, I certainly don't believe so. Bungie's project's codename is "Tiger" and Blizzard's codename is "Titan". I believe they're entirely different projects. Blizzard have, however, offered to help Bungie out with anything they may need assistance with, but I believe that's on more of a chummy "Hey-can-I-help?" level than an actual collaboration.
Posted by: TwiggyShip
OP, are you an Ashes to Ashes fan, by any chance?I've never watched it since I tend not to keep up with shows (I'm busy doing crazay projects like this), but I probably would be if I saw it. Why d'you ask?
Posted by: Nzero zero3
Two huge planets. Two huge races.
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Combines Xbox720, PS3 and PC players. (consoles connecting to PC servers LOL- I'm not sure of the capabilities, but they can't be too far off)I made another thread a while ago you might be interested in. Ignore the "Aerospace" stuff and just replace it with "big server things".
Posted by: Xd00999
I like step 3.1 a lot, but where is step 3? Also, why is the mountain so steep near the top?Heh, as I mentioned, I'm getting to it. The shape is definitely entirely off from what it would be. It's too rounded instead of sloping too, so I need to make the darker values slope closer to the steep sections if I'm going to get that nice incline that we're used to in mountains.
I've been caught off-guard with life-happenings. Was looking after my grandmother whilst my grandfather was in hospital with cancer, so fun things like this have been taking a backburner. I'll be getting to it soon though, don't worry!
Thanks for staying interested. I'm looking forward to getting back on track with this project soon. If anyone finds anymore pieces of the map, or hints from Bungie, send them my way. I'll be looking out for them too :)
[Edited on 12.19.2011 4:46 AM PST]