SC Island

"Maybe you can use your lightsaber to cut those trees down and make a bridge."

Did you make this in blender or something?

4 hours ago, biggs said:

Did you make this in blender or something?

Yes, I basically rendered a high resolution heightmap and baked it onto a much less complex version of the terrain, then I exported it as .md3 and completed it in Radiant with palms and bushes.

4 hours ago, Ramikad said:

Yes, I basically rendered a high resolution heightmap and baked it onto a much less complex version of the terrain, then I exported it as .md3 and completed it in Radiant with palms and bushes.

awesome

Very nice! Would like to see what could be done with this if you had more time, or were able to make it larger, adding mountains, hills, cliffs, or other types of flora sprites.

Interesting concept of using 2d Sprites for LODs of the trees - on modern hardware, the pop-in and -out of these seems to cause more FPS drops than straight away rendering all trees at highest LOD using:
 

r_lodscale 20
r_lodbias 0 or -2

It gives a nice jungle impression. If you could update this map with a bit higher resolution terrain (using .map exporter from blender instead of .md3 with autoclipping) you can give this island a nice few animal / vehicle NPCs maybe?

Hope you can fix up some clip brushes for the trees eventually

Map got some crazy vibes due to the skyshader and water.

It is a neat concept however it feels like it is in it's concept stage rather than a completed map ready for submission to a competition. I hope to see improvements on the map in the future.