Posted December 26, 2012 (edited) Take a look at these:https://s3.amazonaws...lhost/ba21e.pnghttps://s3.amazonaws...lhost/b3e54.pnghttp://s3.amazonaws....lhost/7c7e7.pnghttps://s3.amazonaws...lhost/e2d9b.pnghttp://s3.amazonaws....lhost/0e5c9.pnghttp://wlhost.net/images/74fbb.pnghttp://www.wlhost.net/images/53a03.pnghttp://i1.minus.com/ibcAy5rVi2eClc.pngNotice how they are pretty much the same: The circle islands and all of them has those small craters in the middle, the jagged mountains, the few islands, the big crater in the middle of the map etc...And now this:http://s3.amazonaws....lhost/895c9.pngOf course that map was made by notch but its just so much better than all the curent ones. And im not talking about the map size or trying to be a fanboy but it has so much variety and all that. Independence is also a bit better but not much. Im getting tired of seeing pretty much the same maps. So rolf can we get more maps like chaos and less like the current ones even if they arent 4096x4096 Edited December 26, 2012 by atazs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 26, 2012 Release and Celeb have a little variation, but yeah mostly with these you can see the same outline being tweaked. It shouldn't be hard to have future maps styled into something vastly different (the most obvious being to drop the single-central landmass with corner islands). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 26, 2012 to be fair celebration is a pretty good map design Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 26, 2012 Aye Celeb impressed me when it opened, it differs largely because of it's waterway which splits the landmass. Most of the others are one central chunk with some outlying islands. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 26, 2012 Inde and Chaos are the best maps... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 26, 2012 I concur, Rolfmaps are getting worse and worse, I'ts not only the shape but also the slopes and land features that look more and more unnatural. I have no idea why he can't make maps like WIld or JKH anymore, the new ones are plain ugly, I mean MRH was a disaster and I'm glad it was closed.On the other Hand I would really love to see Land connections between maps, This could leave much more room for variation and would be rather cool. A system would be to create an 100 tile buffer zone between each map, where both ends of different maps look the same and you can't walk on them because you get teleported on the other side, fog would cover the edge of the map. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 26, 2012 i wish that the 3 home server maps would crash into elevation to make one massive map Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 26, 2012 Making maps is hard yo .... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 26, 2012 (edited) Don't challenge me:Edit: Made this map for a future WiB game i planned to run but I gave up :-S Edited December 26, 2012 by Iulianx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 26, 2012 my work blocks dropbox, will check once home lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 27, 2012 Being truly original when making maps: Harder than it seems. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 27, 2012 Yes, Notch maps were the best maps. I seem to recall a thread he made prior to when Gold 2 started up where he just posted map after map looking for feedback prior to generating JK Home (RIP) and what is now Chaos. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 27, 2012 Aeris, I have never seen that fragment of map up close ever xD, It was supposed to be a world map completely different to what we had up until now but if you look closely It still has all the continents just moved and shifted a bit :-S Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 28, 2012 Haha Yeah it's hard to come up with a map that doesn't look like anything we've already seen!Though it wouldn't hurt if there were some maps generated that weren't so mountaneous... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 28, 2012 How about a deli sized map made up of one huge mountain? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites