New World map for WTP Options

[Sir-Kill]

here is the final render of the world map v. 1

Click here for homepage click the 'View Large World Map' link to see a bigger image but you will either have to play the game or mod for wtp to see all the details that I have put in there

Some stats:
rendered in 3ds max7 w/o any post work
psp8 to create the textures
full image 8000x6336
Mos size 61.9mb
vertex count 36781
poly count 32999
triangle count 72660
texture/maps used 179
different elements 34
rendering time about 1 1/2 hrs.
start/end time Mar 17 2006 - Dec 6 2006
263 days worked, conservative estimate hours worked per day 5 = 1315 hrs

Crazy or dedicated??

this has been a learning experience for me. There has been 2 versions created but half way through the first I had to start over since my computer is a hunk of junk and I created too many polys for this computer to handle thus the restart.

This post has been edited by Sir-Kill: Dec 7 2006, 11:30 PM

[Sir-Kill]

I have been debating on this request I cant put my finger on why I have to say no but I do sorry.
to Valiant, I am not sure that it would be very usable to you being a very low poly model it is kind of exact to this application alone. I think I have moved almost every other vertex and turned half the faces. one more reason it has took me so long.

to K'aeloree, how I did it was using Valiant's tutorial on iwd snowy areas (the modeling part) but replacing nurbs with planes since the former uses too many polys and I do not care for the controls of nurbs. even with using planes the first model used around 1,000,000 polys and it took me about 3-10 seconds just to move one vertex

anyway I used a plane with about 10 - 10 L & H segments. then selecting certain polys I used tessellate where I needed more details mainly the mountains, rivers& lakes, and shore then repeat, repeat, repeat. this way the bottom of the ocean only has a couple 100 polys instead of 1000's. this gave me a rough amount of polys.
using the cut tool and insert vertex adding more where I needed. since tessellate would not work anymore after the displace modifier was added permanently.

texturing/mapping is where I made up for the lack of polys mainland is made up of 6-8 gradient maps with a lot of mix mapping. lakes rivers and lava I used bitmaps and opacity maps.
well pic's are worth 1000 words and I have babbled long enough.
camera1_wireframe
camera2_lit_and_smooth&highlight

This post has been edited by Sir-Kill: Dec 9 2006, 12:26 PM