Assault on Europa (6) *56k warning*

[SchizoBadger]

Well, I have been messing around making this map for about a week now. Basically the story about this map is a space hulk (chunks of the titan spread around the map) crash landed on Europa (or some other iceworld) which was laden with Chaos forces. The Chaos bases are heavily cratered and feature your usual Chaos taint, blood, rotting corpses, and all that nice stuff. The center and majority of the map is a frozen wasteland with a scattering of desecrated corpse piles with Chaos tainting. Then the other side is an Imperial base with that cool Psyker-powered wall surrounding it. This base features a fuel waste pit complete with pipes, oil ponds, and plenty of fires, a landing pad with light beacons and Valkyries, a vehicle production section with a few Mech Factories and a Mars Pattern Command, and a, at this time, undecided area I have not made yet. I am nearing completion, for the most part and still need to fill in the void of the middle which can, in some spots, be completely white. Here is "some" pictures I took of it. :up:
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Errr... wow, more than I thought. Well anyway, that should give you a good rundown of the map, and if that did not, then nothing will! If you look at some of the images, especially the marines sitting on pews looking at a cage, or the cultists dissecting corpses, you may notice the small details. I try to personalize the maps as much as I can, like the giant Dune map I made with the firing squad and the hiding horror in an alleyway. Also, I took a few interpretations from the novel Storm of Iron with the Chaos bases, for example, the Defiler in a bent-up cage, where demon engines were chained up to keep them from going psycho killing everything in the area. Hopefully I will have this done by next week.

[newghost]

wow thats alot of pink...

[Adonis]

It's Lavender. Trust me on this. My girlfriend doesn't let me forget.

[SchizoBadger]

Hehe, well it is suppose to be violet, in the early stages of developing the map, I thought it would look different to have the sunlight be in the ultra-violet spectrum. I could change it, I just think it makes it look kind of eerie and cold. Perhaps an incoming warpstorm?

[newghost]

make it purple maybe?

[Adonis]

In that case, you should put up the background that has the warp storm in the sky. It would be weird if the backgroud cities are all white, but the map is violet from the warp storm.

[ThetaOrion]

I kind of like it as it is, because it's totally different.

[Hands_of_Fate]

That's because it totally pin... purpl... lavender.
Yeah. That's a whole lot of different.

I don't like that particular colour range on a map simply because it usually appears in the form of a big firckem question mark inside a big fricken circle. I do seem to have an allergic reaction to those.

[FIG]

It looks awesome, the attention to detail is admirable. Only thing I would change is the white skybox. Alter it in photoshop and make it that same Lavender/light purple we see on the snow and add that cool Warp Storm in the sky. Cant wait to play this map and more maps need to switch up the colors the way this one is. Mapmakers need to give us red planets, orange planets, puke green planets, yellow planets, blue planets, purple planets, black planets, you get the idea. By the way, I see some soldiers running into a portal. Does that portal actually work? It would be awesome if someone could figure out a way to make it so that the portals hook up from one side of a map to another to transport units. The A.I. skirmish team could probably figure it out.

[SchizoBadger]

Sorry about no updates or anything at all, I was really busy with other stuff. I am working on the map now, hopefully get it done soon. As for the skyline, I have no idea how to change anything on it and I don't have Photoshop (have GIMP). Unfortunately, I will be releasing it with the sky how it is, unless some one wants to make a violet tinted skyline for me. I will get a link as soon as I get this done.

[SchizoBadger]

Here is an update on what I have done since yesterday:
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So okay, I have been messing around with decals a bit. I made some Chaosy ones to make Chaosy places Chaosy and I tried to make sewage, but it turned out wrong. I added a large blasted out sewage pipe which guys and even ultimate units can go through, as well as a ruined building in the center of the map with an IG last stand. I also walled off sections to make the sewage pipe route seem more viable. I worked on making some IG last stands around and it looks like some good carnage took place. Also made a building in the IG base that people can walk through and I am planning to make a large residential area in the one corner that is empty right now right next to the grease pit (those Imperials know how to set up a proper city! :tooth: ) As I got working on this again, I noticed this map may take a while longer, hopefully it will be done in a week or two. :bandit:

[Aralez]

Not bad, judging by the screenies (understatement) :) The minimap needs a bit of work, though.