Not sure on what board my problem fits best, but...
I got the idea of making a new sort of map that relies heavily on lightning. What I wanted to do was create a map where the lightning was so dark that you virtually can't see anything. Then I would give the player a hellion (or any other unit with a lamp on him) that emits a large beam of light, and the map would basically be the hellion driving around in the dark, trying to get from point A to point B. Which would be tough if you can't see any terrain past the 10 yards in front of your unit.
My problem is that trying to play with the lightning is biting off more than I can chew, I found. There's literally a gazillion lightning options and I can't really get them to work the way I want them too. I figured that putting the Exposure option all the way down makes my map dark, but this seems to make literally EVERYTHING dark. Even lights I place down don't show. And then there's the problem of my Hellion itself being dark, even with a working light next to him.
If it's even possible, what lightning settings do I need to use to make a map that
A) is so dark you can't distinguish the terrain, but
B) is perfectly fine lighted in places where lights are actually around (at my hellion, near lampposts, etc) and
C) manages to actually keep my hellion lighted normally as well.
Additionally, I haven't worked out yet how to attach a lightning source to my hellion - any information on this would be appreciated as well.
Say what you want, but that is one MANLY explosion. If you were to say that explosion isn't manly, a tattoo'd hand with a leather sleeve would probably come right out of the monitor and punch you in the face.
Terraining for Dummies 1.0: All you need to know about terraining
Introduction
Greetings everyone! My name is Mozared and I was asked by payne007 to participate in his terraining thread over at the StarEdit Network (SEN). In response, I told him I'd do a general tutorial on terraining as a whole. One aimed at the people who open a map, stare at the empty patch of sand and ask themselves "Great, now what should I do to make this cool?". This is going to be a paradoxally detailed explanation of the general idea of terraining.
For some of my work, you can currently look here (or here for some of my older Warcraft 3 stuff), and you'll see more of my work popping up as the beta plays out and Starcraft 2 is actually released.
Before I start off, let me note three things;
You're always welcome to send me a PM if you have questions, comments or have anything to say.
If you end up liking my tutorial and want to show grattitude, then post me your terrain creations. There is nothing more rewarding for me than to look at a terrain someone has made and being able to go "I helped that guy creating this".
The process of terraining I am going to describe up next is by no means 'law'. It is the way I do things, but if you have your own way of creating order and keeping track of things - as long as it works, that's fine too. Nobody who doesn't follow my 'line of work' is 'wrong' or such.
With that in mind, let's get started with...
Layer 0,5: Understanding the Wheel
The other kind of storming: pre-initial brainstorming
Before you actually touch that brush tool, there are a lot of things to consider. First of all, if you haven't already done so, you need to determine what map you are going to make. Is it going to be a melee map? In that case, your terrain needs to be balanced from the get-go. Are you going for an AoS-style map? You'll need balance as well, but it isn't as dominant as in melee maps. Are you making a story/campaign map? Balance isn't as much of an issue here, as the player will be fighting the AI and most of the balance will be done in the data and trigger editors. The easiest pick here, if you're a new galaxy editor who wants to get into terraining, is to make a terrain showcase first. That way you can ignore all forms of 'balance' and can basically place stuff wherever you want without causing imbalances.
First of all, decide what map you're going with. If this is your first time doing any sort of terraining, I recommend going for a showcase to give yourself an easy time. Note that if you are doing a map that requires any sort of balance, it might be a good idea to draw the map first. On your mobile phone, a piece of paper, paint, photoshop - whatever floats your boat. As long as you have a bit of a 'minimap' you can glance back at reminding you where Base A is located and where exactly that creep area was again. For a showcase, this isn't as important.
Your Toolcase
One more boring thing to mention before we get to work: your toolcase. I will not explain every single function the terrain brush has as that should point itself out, but I will touch on a couple of smaller things you need to know.
Textures: First of all, under the texture palette, you will mostly be using the 'add texture' function. Note that you can shape the brush in an endless amount of different ways, but in most cases the standard brush you get will be fine. If you want or need to mix up textures a bit, then your best bet will generally be to fill up the area with the 'dominant' texture, and then use the 'noise' brush to paint a different texture 'over' it. As you'll make more and more terrains, you'll get a better feeling for when to use the sliders yourself - don't worry about that just yet. The same thing goes for the Smudge & Blur Textures - you'll only use those in extreme cases to get very very specific effects. Don't worry about this just yet.
Textures 2: One additional note here - sometimes, because of the way the cliff pathing works with the texture brush, you'll find yourself being unable to texture the side of specific cliffs. If you run into this problem, use the 'replace texture' function, and replace the dirt on the cliff edge with whatever texture you want. This function ignores the normal pathing requirements and allows you to circumvent this odd cliff-texturing problem.
Height & Water: Height and Water in the Galaxy Editor work in a way that might seem strange at first - you have to place the water down at a specific height, and it will start showing up when you use the 'lower' button under height to lower the terrain under the water. When the 'Add Water' button is pushed, a huge button saying 'edit water' will also pop up on the side of your screen, allowing you to change about a gazillion features your water has. Most of these are never used, but 'height' is the one you'll have to fiddle with to get a working river and the pie-charts you see when you scroll down allow you to change the direction the water flows in, which can also be helpful in some situations (you don't want rivers to flow upstream, into your waterfalls).
Cliffs: Just one thing I want to say here: If you're looking to combine man-made and natural cliffs, click Tools > Brush > Allow Cliff Merging, or just press Shift+I. Don't fret if your cliff merge looks dreadful, there are doodad-pillars made just for the purpose of hiding these areas.
Doodads: What you need to know here is mostly the hotkeys. Control+Left Click makes a doodad face the direction you clicked. The + key on your numpad makes a doodad larger while the - key makes it smaller. Another option is to select a doodad by either double clicking it or selecting it and pressing enter, and then manually adjusting the size. Page up raises a doodad while Page down lowers it, and the , and . (or < and >) keys allow you to scroll through variations variations of a doodad (different types of trees, for example). While placing a doodad, hold shift to turn the placing requirements off, allowing you to place the doodad wherever you want. This function will be crucial right from the start, if you want to make any sort of decent terrain. It is also required to place doodads on low (inaccessible) terrain.
With all that handled, we've finally finished the boring stuff, hoozah! Time to move on to the actual terraining.
Layer 1: Stop! Basics-time.
Cliff Blicchard
To start off, the most important basic of pretty much every map is it's cliffs. You'll want to lower the cliffs where you planned your valleys, and raise cliffs where you've planned plateaus or mountains. If you've decided to go with a map that requires balance, then for now, ensure that you mirror the map as good as possible. Make sure that every area you plan to be a 'base' is about the same size, and that the ramps are the same size as well. If you do everything right, you'll end up with a really basic terrain looking similar to this picture that was taken from an AoS-style map I've been working on:
Doowhat? Also, height.
The next step, once the basic terrain has been laid out, is to limit movement in the places where cliffs aren't used. For most maps, this usually means you fill up the area with a jungle, mountainous area, forest or even skycrapers, for urban terrain. For example, the doodad "Rock (Giant)" makes for a great way to make mountains and allows you to 'direct' mountanous areas altogether. Here is another picture from the same map that shows how I used height variation and 'mazing' with the doodads to make an area look mountainous. Note that the 'dead ends' can be used for anything - in this AoS map, they are used to put creeps in, but depending on the type of map you're making, anything can be done with them.
I'd texture your map
The next and last step for this layer, is putting textures on your map. In my case, I used a lot of rocky terrain combined with "Mar Sara Black Rock" and "Mar Sara Dirt Cracked" to make the mountainous area work. In your case, what you should do depends on your map. Make a system for yourself. For example, what I like to do on melee maps on the Bel'shir (Jungle) tileset, is combine all sorts of grass except 'Shrub', and save the shrub to make a 'line' underneath the mineral line. There is no logic to why this works, but as long as it looks nice, you've hit bullseye.
With the drawing all set, it's time to put in the colours. Lets move on to...
Layer 2: Adding colour.
This Layer is by far the shortest to describe, but I can guarantee you that this is where you'll spend most of your time in, on an average map. It requires you to go over your entire map, and basically pretty everything up. Add some smaller rocks near mountainous areas, ensure trees in a forest are difference sizes (if you're trying to make your map absolutely perfect), turn plants in desert areas into the direction of water (note that this doesn't work with normal physics; trees generally grow near water but towards the sun - it just still looks nice), add a couple of random rocks to tighten pathways... anything that fills up the terrain, but fits, really. For my terrain, this translated into adding additional rocks, fiddling with the textures some more, creating dunes in the 'desert' to the west of my mountains, and adding some lone cacti.
If you're doing pathways or large open areas, make sure you have what I like to called "focal points" for your terrain. If your jungle looks the same all over the place, it generally gets boring. Add an oasis-like puddle of water. A big rock surrounded by moss. A vine-clad aeon-old temple wall. Whatever you do, make sure you draw the attention of the player to one specific point, and surround it with a jungle that 'looks the same everywhere'.
Layer 3: A little bit of pink heeeeere ...
The third layer is generally where your creativity comes out best. I want you to go to the map you're working on right now, and zoom so far in that you're basically looking at your map from a first-person point of view. Now, you're going to find additions to make. A loose brick here (in a city), plants for natural areas, vines hanging from cliffs, and all that good stuff, like my favourite Starcraft commentator usually says. For my mountainous area, that translated into this.
A *lot* of stuff in this layer can be done with the doodads we already have, and you can get yourself even more options by grabbing normal doodads and making them smaller. Note that you can get extremely creative here, and (definitely for terrain showcases) can use all sorts of small/large doodads to build other stuff. A plank is not just a plank if you can turn twenty of them into a rope ladder. Go loose.
Layer 3,5: YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
This 'layer' really just means the finalization of the terrain part of your map. For non-showcase maps, you'll generally want your terrain to be walkable. Which is what we use the pathing tool for. Make use of W and shift+D to turn water and doodads on and off, and use the "no ground" function to remove pathing from rivers and mountainous areas not created with cliffs. Note that a lot of doodads (namely the "Rock (Giant)" one) do not have an innate pathing layer, which is why you manually need to paint the pathing underneath them.
For areas you really can't get right with pathing, there is the 'pathing blocker' doodad, though you'll generally just want to save this for use with triggers (you place them in an area that's supposed to be unaccessible at the start, then remove them with triggers to make the area accessible lateron). There is also a no-flight zone option, which you'll want to use at places with high mountains. Unless of course, you want your flying units to fly through the mountains.
Extroduction
And that brings me to the end of my little tutorial. You now have a map with a perfectly fine good looking and completely walkable terrain. Time to send it on to that nerd-guy in your team who does this weird thing called 'script writing', or something. Artistic value - check! I hope I helped you along, and I hope the first bit of my tutorial wasn't too tiresome and boring to read.
mozared, when you say i should start adding more detail to the city, what did you have in mind? i already have benches, lights, and crates scattered around.. what other doodads could make the terrain feel more like a city.
What I mean by this is: zoom your camera in until you're basically at first-person view, and look around your streets. Try and add little things - all sorts of details you won't consciously notice unless you look for them. This can be anything. A loose brick. A bin. A bit of moss on the side of a specific part of cliff. It's where you get creative. I can't give you a 'go-to' guide of how to do things like this as I reckon you need to do it mostly on feeling, but I'll give you one tip: play with the doodad size modifiers. Grab random doodads, place them, and make them tiny. See what they resemble, and how you can use them to add detail.
And you're welcome, I hope this works out, definitely like what you've done so far =)
Before I say anything else, I need to point out to you that bridges as they are currently in the editor do not work. Units can not move over them. You'll want to keep this in mind.
yeahp, i know the dirt texture looks horrible in a urban city environment, but i'm having trouble getting the concrete textures to work on my bel shir tileset.
I know you already did this right, but I'm posting it anyway as a general hint: Map > Map Textures > Modify > Double click "Textures - Blend".
Your problem seems odd, though - you implemented the texture correctly (and stuck to the 8 texture maximum), but it just doesn't show when you lay it down.
I tried replacing your Korhal 3 texture with the Korhal 2 texture but still got weird errors - I managed to get some of it on the map by using the 'replace texture' function and replacing normal dirt with Korhal 2, but it ended up being really blocky and didn't blend well. I think the problem simply is that Korhal doesn't mix with any other textures yet, because of the editor being beta and all. Try if you can find some city textures from other tilesets?
As for your city, I took a look in the editor and to me it seems like the basics are all set. You simply need to fix that texture problem and then start adding real detail to the city. Perhaps you can fill the southern side up with more skyscrapers (or at least do something to surround that lonely peninsula), but I really think you're stuck until you can start working on the real details, for which you need the texture problem fixed.
Perhaps, if you need to fill up more space, you can build some kind of 'power station' near the edge of the city and run powerlines all through the place to connect everything.
Seems obvious then? Player 0 is 'gaia' and behaves completely different from all other players by default. Simply grab another player (12, 6, 1 for all I care) and use that for your creepiness. I also think that neutral units are automatically 'rescueable' by moving up close to them.
What Mokse said really is the most important thing at this stadium. Just add some citylike textures and get rid of the dirt. Even if you're saving the textures for last, you'll immediatly notice a huge difference here, I'm convinced.
Aside from that, I already like what you've done, but you simply need to start 'filling it in'. Which is another reason why you should do the textures - once you get those right, you'll have more clarity on what is supposed to be park, rooftop, street, etc. Which then allows you to use doodads to make those areas work well. A couple of trees for park areas, lampposts for streets, and as for rooftops - go crazy on buildings. If you just fill those high ground areas up with building doodads you'll create a pretty cluttered sky-scraper futuristic-like feeling which I reckon will work pretty well for your map.
Then, when you've done all that, you can work on the uber-uber details. As in a loose brick here, a rack of weapons there, perhaps a 'helipad' on one of your scyscrapers... This is basically where you add the 'life' to your city and bring your terrain up from 'good' to 'goddamn awesome'.
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Would it be possible to achieve this effect through a modified fog of war?
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@Pandonetho: Go
That might also have just been a beta-editor thing. That said, I *am* getting curious as to the real product now.
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@Pandonetho: Go
I definitely reckon they will at least add bridges that connect cliffs and can be walked upon. Warcraft 3 had this support, why wouldn't Starcraft?
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Not sure on what board my problem fits best, but...
I got the idea of making a new sort of map that relies heavily on lightning. What I wanted to do was create a map where the lightning was so dark that you virtually can't see anything. Then I would give the player a hellion (or any other unit with a lamp on him) that emits a large beam of light, and the map would basically be the hellion driving around in the dark, trying to get from point A to point B. Which would be tough if you can't see any terrain past the 10 yards in front of your unit.
My problem is that trying to play with the lightning is biting off more than I can chew, I found. There's literally a gazillion lightning options and I can't really get them to work the way I want them too. I figured that putting the Exposure option all the way down makes my map dark, but this seems to make literally EVERYTHING dark. Even lights I place down don't show. And then there's the problem of my Hellion itself being dark, even with a working light next to him.
If it's even possible, what lightning settings do I need to use to make a map that
Additionally, I haven't worked out yet how to attach a lightning source to my hellion - any information on this would be appreciated as well.
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@payne007: Go
All updated and done. Should be less typing errors and more clarity in it too now.
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I'm not sure if this works for units, but as a short-hand solution:
Have you tried holding shift while placing them to turn off the placing requirements?
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Say what you want, but that is one MANLY explosion. If you were to say that explosion isn't manly, a tattoo'd hand with a leather sleeve would probably come right out of the monitor and punch you in the face.
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Terraining for Dummies 1.0: All you need to know about terraining
Introduction
Greetings everyone! My name is Mozared and I was asked by payne007 to participate in his terraining thread over at the StarEdit Network (SEN). In response, I told him I'd do a general tutorial on terraining as a whole. One aimed at the people who open a map, stare at the empty patch of sand and ask themselves "Great, now what should I do to make this cool?". This is going to be a paradoxally detailed explanation of the general idea of terraining.
For some of my work, you can currently look here (or here for some of my older Warcraft 3 stuff), and you'll see more of my work popping up as the beta plays out and Starcraft 2 is actually released.
Before I start off, let me note three things;
With that in mind, let's get started with...
Layer 0,5: Understanding the Wheel
The other kind of storming: pre-initial brainstorming
Before you actually touch that brush tool, there are a lot of things to consider. First of all, if you haven't already done so, you need to determine what map you are going to make. Is it going to be a melee map? In that case, your terrain needs to be balanced from the get-go. Are you going for an AoS-style map? You'll need balance as well, but it isn't as dominant as in melee maps. Are you making a story/campaign map? Balance isn't as much of an issue here, as the player will be fighting the AI and most of the balance will be done in the data and trigger editors. The easiest pick here, if you're a new galaxy editor who wants to get into terraining, is to make a terrain showcase first. That way you can ignore all forms of 'balance' and can basically place stuff wherever you want without causing imbalances.
First of all, decide what map you're going with. If this is your first time doing any sort of terraining, I recommend going for a showcase to give yourself an easy time. Note that if you are doing a map that requires any sort of balance, it might be a good idea to draw the map first. On your mobile phone, a piece of paper, paint, photoshop - whatever floats your boat. As long as you have a bit of a 'minimap' you can glance back at reminding you where Base A is located and where exactly that creep area was again. For a showcase, this isn't as important.
Your Toolcase
One more boring thing to mention before we get to work: your toolcase. I will not explain every single function the terrain brush has as that should point itself out, but I will touch on a couple of smaller things you need to know.
With all that handled, we've finally finished the boring stuff, hoozah! Time to move on to the actual terraining.
Layer 1: Stop! Basics-time.
Cliff Blicchard
To start off, the most important basic of pretty much every map is it's cliffs. You'll want to lower the cliffs where you planned your valleys, and raise cliffs where you've planned plateaus or mountains. If you've decided to go with a map that requires balance, then for now, ensure that you mirror the map as good as possible. Make sure that every area you plan to be a 'base' is about the same size, and that the ramps are the same size as well. If you do everything right, you'll end up with a really basic terrain looking similar to this picture that was taken from an AoS-style map I've been working on:
Doowhat? Also, height.
The next step, once the basic terrain has been laid out, is to limit movement in the places where cliffs aren't used. For most maps, this usually means you fill up the area with a jungle, mountainous area, forest or even skycrapers, for urban terrain. For example, the doodad "Rock (Giant)" makes for a great way to make mountains and allows you to 'direct' mountanous areas altogether. Here is another picture from the same map that shows how I used height variation and 'mazing' with the doodads to make an area look mountainous. Note that the 'dead ends' can be used for anything - in this AoS map, they are used to put creeps in, but depending on the type of map you're making, anything can be done with them.
I'd texture your map
The next and last step for this layer, is putting textures on your map. In my case, I used a lot of rocky terrain combined with "Mar Sara Black Rock" and "Mar Sara Dirt Cracked" to make the mountainous area work. In your case, what you should do depends on your map. Make a system for yourself. For example, what I like to do on melee maps on the Bel'shir (Jungle) tileset, is combine all sorts of grass except 'Shrub', and save the shrub to make a 'line' underneath the mineral line. There is no logic to why this works, but as long as it looks nice, you've hit bullseye.
With the drawing all set, it's time to put in the colours. Lets move on to...
Layer 2: Adding colour.
This Layer is by far the shortest to describe, but I can guarantee you that this is where you'll spend most of your time in, on an average map. It requires you to go over your entire map, and basically pretty everything up. Add some smaller rocks near mountainous areas, ensure trees in a forest are difference sizes (if you're trying to make your map absolutely perfect), turn plants in desert areas into the direction of water (note that this doesn't work with normal physics; trees generally grow near water but towards the sun - it just still looks nice), add a couple of random rocks to tighten pathways... anything that fills up the terrain, but fits, really. For my terrain, this translated into adding additional rocks, fiddling with the textures some more, creating dunes in the 'desert' to the west of my mountains, and adding some lone cacti.
If you're doing pathways or large open areas, make sure you have what I like to called "focal points" for your terrain. If your jungle looks the same all over the place, it generally gets boring. Add an oasis-like puddle of water. A big rock surrounded by moss. A vine-clad aeon-old temple wall. Whatever you do, make sure you draw the attention of the player to one specific point, and surround it with a jungle that 'looks the same everywhere'.
Layer 3: A little bit of pink heeeeere ...
The third layer is generally where your creativity comes out best. I want you to go to the map you're working on right now, and zoom so far in that you're basically looking at your map from a first-person point of view. Now, you're going to find additions to make. A loose brick here (in a city), plants for natural areas, vines hanging from cliffs, and all that good stuff, like my favourite Starcraft commentator usually says. For my mountainous area, that translated into this.
A *lot* of stuff in this layer can be done with the doodads we already have, and you can get yourself even more options by grabbing normal doodads and making them smaller. Note that you can get extremely creative here, and (definitely for terrain showcases) can use all sorts of small/large doodads to build other stuff. A plank is not just a plank if you can turn twenty of them into a rope ladder. Go loose.
Layer 3,5: YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
This 'layer' really just means the finalization of the terrain part of your map. For non-showcase maps, you'll generally want your terrain to be walkable. Which is what we use the pathing tool for. Make use of W and shift+D to turn water and doodads on and off, and use the "no ground" function to remove pathing from rivers and mountainous areas not created with cliffs. Note that a lot of doodads (namely the "Rock (Giant)" one) do not have an innate pathing layer, which is why you manually need to paint the pathing underneath them.
For areas you really can't get right with pathing, there is the 'pathing blocker' doodad, though you'll generally just want to save this for use with triggers (you place them in an area that's supposed to be unaccessible at the start, then remove them with triggers to make the area accessible lateron). There is also a no-flight zone option, which you'll want to use at places with high mountains. Unless of course, you want your flying units to fly through the mountains.
Extroduction
And that brings me to the end of my little tutorial. You now have a map with a perfectly fine good looking and completely walkable terrain. Time to send it on to that nerd-guy in your team who does this weird thing called 'script writing', or something. Artistic value - check! I hope I helped you along, and I hope the first bit of my tutorial wasn't too tiresome and boring to read.
Thanks for reading, and cheerio!
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What I mean by this is: zoom your camera in until you're basically at first-person view, and look around your streets. Try and add little things - all sorts of details you won't consciously notice unless you look for them. This can be anything. A loose brick. A bin. A bit of moss on the side of a specific part of cliff. It's where you get creative. I can't give you a 'go-to' guide of how to do things like this as I reckon you need to do it mostly on feeling, but I'll give you one tip: play with the doodad size modifiers. Grab random doodads, place them, and make them tiny. See what they resemble, and how you can use them to add detail.
And you're welcome, I hope this works out, definitely like what you've done so far =)
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Before I say anything else, I need to point out to you that bridges as they are currently in the editor do not work. Units can not move over them. You'll want to keep this in mind.
I know you already did this right, but I'm posting it anyway as a general hint: Map > Map Textures > Modify > Double click "Textures - Blend". Your problem seems odd, though - you implemented the texture correctly (and stuck to the 8 texture maximum), but it just doesn't show when you lay it down.
I tried replacing your Korhal 3 texture with the Korhal 2 texture but still got weird errors - I managed to get some of it on the map by using the 'replace texture' function and replacing normal dirt with Korhal 2, but it ended up being really blocky and didn't blend well. I think the problem simply is that Korhal doesn't mix with any other textures yet, because of the editor being beta and all. Try if you can find some city textures from other tilesets?
As for your city, I took a look in the editor and to me it seems like the basics are all set. You simply need to fix that texture problem and then start adding real detail to the city. Perhaps you can fill the southern side up with more skyscrapers (or at least do something to surround that lonely peninsula), but I really think you're stuck until you can start working on the real details, for which you need the texture problem fixed.
Perhaps, if you need to fill up more space, you can build some kind of 'power station' near the edge of the city and run powerlines all through the place to connect everything.
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Just wondering if you found someone yet? I might be interested in this but have to make up my mind, as there's so much stuff I still need to do.
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Seems obvious then? Player 0 is 'gaia' and behaves completely different from all other players by default. Simply grab another player (12, 6, 1 for all I care) and use that for your creepiness. I also think that neutral units are automatically 'rescueable' by moving up close to them.
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What Mokse said really is the most important thing at this stadium. Just add some citylike textures and get rid of the dirt. Even if you're saving the textures for last, you'll immediatly notice a huge difference here, I'm convinced.
Aside from that, I already like what you've done, but you simply need to start 'filling it in'. Which is another reason why you should do the textures - once you get those right, you'll have more clarity on what is supposed to be park, rooftop, street, etc. Which then allows you to use doodads to make those areas work well. A couple of trees for park areas, lampposts for streets, and as for rooftops - go crazy on buildings. If you just fill those high ground areas up with building doodads you'll create a pretty cluttered sky-scraper futuristic-like feeling which I reckon will work pretty well for your map.
Then, when you've done all that, you can work on the uber-uber details. As in a loose brick here, a rack of weapons there, perhaps a 'helipad' on one of your scyscrapers... This is basically where you add the 'life' to your city and bring your terrain up from 'good' to 'goddamn awesome'.
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@PrivateTickles: Go
Someone's been watching Day9 lately =P
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Looks nifty, though I reckon you should supply the photos you're trying to recreate for reference :)