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

[Rabain]

We've decided for the initial release to go with the large worldmap.

The size of the worldmap in the download will be neglible as the download will be massive anyway due to all the areas included.

We hope the large worldmap won't be put too much strain on players pc's and may, at a later date, release a lite worldmap at the smaller size.


@Valiant - thats not a bad idea about the IWD 1 icons.

We had toyed with using minimalistic icons like the ones used in the Total War series worldmap. (Rome and Medieval 2.) Or at least I had toyed with that idea, the only drawback is that the icons are not unique to a particular place, though I suppose the place names are on the Worldmap anyway. See pics:

http://www.blackwyrmlair.net/~rabain/WTP/0001.png
http://www.blackwyrmlair.net/~rabain/WTP/0002.png
http://www.blackwyrmlair.net/~rabain/WTP/0003.png

All suggestions are welcome.