[Map] Dragons Mouth [scrapped]

[HughJass]

Tomato_With_A_Rifle:

This is omaha style, there will be little to no air assets

[R-DEV]fuzzhead:

Thanks fuzz, the carrier is actauly really far away and it takes some time to even get to the beach. I'll see if I can tuck the chinese main somewhere

[T]Terranova7

once again, I want this to be mechinized inf, not so much air assets

to everyone:

You need to understand why all those trees, lack of air trans, is all there:
This is a mech inf invasion. I want the fight to be at the beach, no 1337 ops going behind the beach


other then that, thanks everyone

[=Romagnolo=]

Little update


HughJass passed me back the map. I'm now working with vegetation and minor ajustments. Yesterday I worked a little over the paddies.

If you think the beach isn't enough, prepare to fight here:

[hall0]

Nice
Never saw these statics before, are they new?

[=Romagnolo=]

They are from Eve of Destruction mod and fit nicely witth the map.

[space]

Some of the eod statics are good, but a few are wank, especially the colours - be careful.
I personally wouldnt use any of the buildings in your screenshot, as I think it would look better with the stone houses, or shacks - thats just my opinion though - its your map!

[=Romagnolo=]

I think the same, but with the lighting they will look better.

[HughJass]

Some of the eod statics are good, but a few are wank, especially the colours - be careful.
I personally wouldnt use any of the buildings in your screenshot, as I think it would look better with the stone houses, or shacks - thats just my opinion though - its your map!

stone ones simply don't fit in the actual paddies. These are more like what we've seen from the pictures of the real place.

dont worry, lightmaps will change a lot for this map.

[HughJass]

Well I have good news and bad news. Good news is that I got the map working in game!! Yes I am quite excited because this is my first map

Bad news is that it lags horribly

After a couple tweaks on removing density from undergrowth/overgrowth, the map is playable at a mere 15-21 FPS. This is not good, but I am working on it.

The reason I have no screenshots today is because I don't want to show off a version of the map that might undergo some big changes. Once I get to a point I am happy with I will post pics, and even a download link.

Do they really have to be pine forrests?

Dont we have enough already?

There are some really nice birch trees in the files......

That was part of the problem once I removed birch trees (roma added them to the hills) and replaced them with the pines the lag droped a bit.

and off I go....

[Yeti Pilot]

ZOMG im dropping in the night raid

[HughJass]

Damn. Stuck with pine trees for a while.

There was some really nice different trees there, too. Different colours and sizes.

It would have looked amazing.

yeah, we REALLY need more custom overgrowth, I hope someone makes more.

[ice_killer]

mmm can use imo more under/overgrowth but it start loopking @ something

[HughJass]

mmm can use imo more under/overgrowth but it start loopking @ something

what? you can't see any undergrowth because the screenshots are taken from far up.

anyway I have good news, I have tweaked the map in to being playable! I will soon release the map after finishing up light maps (will take a while, sigh) env maps, do surrounding terrain, 'script' (more like learn) counter-attack mode for 64, and make a 32 version layout. Also follow rhinos tutorial on how to make a better minimap, mine looks like **** right now.

after that I am pretty much ready for bug reports and so on.

cheers~

[Teek]

If the map is called Dragons Mouth, then there must be a ton of theses.
Add some AAA guns in pits near the beach to dissuade the idea of Helis.

[=Romagnolo=]

Dragon's Mouth is an analogy to the place. Imagine you inside a dragon's mouth, is it a good place to be ? If you look the map from up, you will see the beach like a mouth and dragon is a reference to China.

But if you have a better name, tell us.

[=Romagnolo=]

Hey guys, I made a little teaser-video. I'll upload tomorrow and I expect have more opinions about our project.

Hugh has been doing an amazing job.

[00SoldierofFortune00]

It's like Normandy and Vietnam had a ******* love child. I really hope this map works out.


Advice would be to make some jungle environments surrounding the rice paddles so that it has even more of a Vietnam feel to it and that the US or Chinese could run out of the woods to the LZ when ambushed in the woods.



Major Advice: Make the actual Beach off limits to the Chinese so that they cannot go next to the water and camp it. It needs a dome of death. Make APCs unable to shoot at the infantry on the beach too or else it would be rape. This would force the Chinese to use their small arms and allow the US to at least get a good foothold on the beach. There needs to be some way to get a firebase up on the beaches too so that if the US is wiped out, they can at least spawn in and keep moving up the beaches until their firebase is destroyed by Chinese HAT.

[=Romagnolo=]

It's like Normandy and Vietnam had a ******* love child. I really hope this map works out.


Advice would be to make some jungle environments surrounding the rice paddles so that it has even more of a Vietnam feel to it and that the US or Chinese could run out of the woods to the LZ when ambushed in the woods.



Major Advice: Make the actual Beach off limits to the Chinese so that they cannot go next to the water and camp it. It needs a dome of death. Make APCs unable to shoot at the infantry on the beach too or else it would be rape. This would force the Chinese to use their small arms and allow the US to at least get a good foothold on the beach. There needs to be some way to get a firebase up on the beaches too so that if the US is wiped out, they can at least spawn in and keep moving up the beaches until their firebase is destroyed by Chinese HAT.

Ya, we too.

Dont worry, the chineses cant stay on the beachs flanks or in the beach area, the best places to be are in the bunkers or in the trenches.


As said, here is the video (sorry for the bad quality). Soundtrack chosen by HughJass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Ka2dAEYMU[/youtube]

[Pride]

wow, that really does look good.

I love the beach and defences, well thought out.

Now we can play the first mission from MOH:Frontline in PR, sweet