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[Hijinks_The_Turtle]

Very interesting!  I really like the look of Illal, it looks great!  We need more of this!

[erathic]

made a super short animation, playing / learning with AE
Happy holidays !

[SandSpider]

WOW, AWESOME!!!!! Me love it long time!

How, when, where!

Edited by SandSpider, December 30 2013 - 05:02 PM.

[SandSpider]

Another view of Illal. Closer this time so you can see the detail a bit better.

[SandSpider]

A nice view of Illal's moon Fennon, with Illal in the background. The lights from Fennon's only city of Kalisar can be seen well.

[Teljaxx]

Oh SandSpider, I love the way you moon me.

[SandSpider]

LOL..........we need to talk

[Magnolia1038]

More brilliant work, keep it coming guys

[SandSpider]

For some reason, I have started work on a map of Illal that is twice the resolution of the last one I made. I want the maps to be up to the standard as the game. This means redoing everything and adding far more detail than is already there. This may take me a while

[erathic]

That would be really awesome man !! thanks for the hard work and good luck !!

[SandSpider]

Would it be possible to get a bit of feedback from my fellow artists_

I'm thinking that some of the features are way too big, like the cities, the mines and definitely Crion island, which is currently about the size of Australia.

What do you guys and girls think_ any help would be very much appreciated.

[Hijinks_The_Turtle]

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What do you mean_  Like in-game_ Or in your art_ By the way, Fennon looks like a pretty cool place to have battles on!  Is it an actual moon of Illal or something you made_

[LordTemujin]

I love those animated images, and the stills of the spread of corruption looks fuzzy bunny badass! good work

[SandSpider]

I made up Fennon. All we know, is that Illal has a moon.

In the real Kepler 11 system, where Hawken is based, the sixth planet is a lot bigger than Earth. So what I did was split the size and mass into two, making Illal just a bit bigger than Earth and making it's moon closer in size to Mars.

This also gives more options for the moon to have an atmosphere and a city for the people who were evacuated from Illal to go to. It also makes it possible to have a large UTA base of operations to manage the quarantine from.

[SandSpider]

Hijinks_The_Turtle, on January 03 2014 - 04:53 PM, said:

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What do you mean_  Like in-game_ Or in your art_ By the way, Fennon looks like a pretty cool place to have battles on!  Is it an actual moon of Illal or something you made_

Just in my artwork.

[Hijinks_The_Turtle]

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Oh, okay.  Well... from my limited knowledge, the places where we fight suggest that we see just small fractions of what the places actually are.  I've seen the backgrounds in the maps and they all show that the cities are extremely expansive (remember, we are sitting in mechs so if we looked at the city in human POV, it'd look far bigger.  

So It's not wrong to say that some cities are the size of good ol' Australia.  Also, keep in mind that this all takes place in the future!  It's not surprising to see urban areas that big, I mean look at Coruscant from Star Wars!  Even the Halo franchise (especially the book Contact Harvest) shows that cities like Chicago in the future would take up the whole midwest region.   Just something for you to note on.  (Wow I just realized how much of a total geek I am when it comes to Sci-Fi..... XD)

Edited by Hijinks_The_Turtle, January 04 2014 - 11:18 AM.

[SandSpider]

Cool, thanks for the feedback

[SandSpider]

Ok, as promised, here are the new Ultra high definition maps, all made from scratch, except for the cloud map.

As you can see, I've changed a lot of the features. I did this to make it look more like a real planet. I thought that the other maps were a bit to arranged and less natural looking.

Just in case you are interested;

I used Google Earth for most of the textures. For the landmasses I took textures mainly from North and South America, Spain, Greece and the Middle East. For the cities, I used New York, LA and Tokyo.

Crion Island is made from New York, Sentium is Tokyo and Prosk is LA..

I also made a new texture for the Giga Structure which I overlaid on the landscape.

Be warned, these are very big; even though they are JPEGs, they are 9600 x 4800 pixels, and around 5mb's large.This is the maximum size I can make them, as my laptop can't handle anything bigger.

I hope you like.

First is a smaller map to show the new locations of the game maps.



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Edited by SandSpider, January 12 2014 - 05:55 PM.

[erathic]

WOW Ultra High Definition Awesomeness ! Impressive work ! THANKS !

[Aregon]

DAMNIT! Stop stealing info from my pad! We used to bloody work for the same guy, remember_