Spacescape in Warcraft III

Yep, i've gone and made a Spacescape. This is for a playable map, of which i'm not releasing any details just yet. But whadda ya think? All the stars + planets are at differing heights from each other too, tho its hard to see that in this SS. Suggestions? Comments? Critiques?



Heres another picture.

Wow o_O

That look incredible. And the map is playable too!

BTW, what on the mass of land in the middle of your abyss? Also, howow did you do the stars?

Congrats

yeah that does look awsome also that mass of land in the center.....is it a space ship or sumthing?

Its a "Home System" the way the map works is that every player starts off with their own Home System, this is the only place where unit-producing buildings can be made. They vary in size and amount of planets, but when its all added up their pritty even. The Home System average is:
2 Barren Planets (10 supplies every 5 seconds.)
1 Ice Planet (10 supplies every 2.5 seconds.)
1 Verdant Planet (10 supplies every second.)
And 1 Medium Star (10 supplies every 2 seconds OR 10 energy every 2 seconds.)

Some systems have more planets and a Small Star instead of a medium one (Small Star is 10 supplies every 3 seconds OR 10 energy every 4 seconds.)

After that, its just open space. Open space contains Small Stars and Large Stars (10 gold every second OR 25 energy every second.) Each star has a few planets near it, i was gonna make them actually orbit, but that would complecate things too much.
Small Star (1 - 3 Barren Planets OR 1 Ice Planet)
Large Star (3 - 4 Verdant Planets OR 3 Verdant Planets, 1 - 2 Ice Planets)

To capture a planet or star, simply knock its hitpoints down to 1000 HP or below. I've fully customised the armor types and weapon types, their stuff can be seen below.

You may have noticed stars can also be used for energy. 2 races use energy, and when they capture a star instead of a Mineral Extractor being built near it, a Solar Powerplant or Wind Sail is built. As these racse cant get supplies from stars, their overall supply usage is less than that of other races, but most of their stuff requires energy. This makes stars (particulary large ones) alot more attractive than planets for those two races.

Another neat thing is the resource gathering. You start off with a prime building, 1 star and 1 planet under your control (sometimes more than 1 planet, depends on the system.) a few workers and a couple of basic ground troops. Every X seconds (X depends on planet\star type) a Cargo Ship (or Reflux Control if its energy) is created at the Planet or the Mineral Extractor\Powerplant\Wind Sail. Its an uncontrollable unit that promptly flies to your home base structure, when it arrives the resources are added to your stockpile. This allows people to "blockade" enemy systems and starve them of resources, neat huh?

How i made the little stars tho is a secret :P


Heres the Damage info.

that sounds so kool good job man

The best way to make stars - sprite model. Otherwise with standard WE it can be made by:
Abilities\Weapons\FarseerMissile\FarseerMissile.mdl
or
Abilities\Spells\Human\ManaFlare\ManaFlareTarget.mdl
Right?

Not hard to make but great ideas here.

or to make some good stars that twinkle: make a custom doodad starting with fire then change model to white glow!

But the stars are no custom models right?

Heh, all the land and the trees and stuff are... rather out of proportion with the planets and stars, not much you can do about that I suppose.

Other than that I think it's pretty impressive.

Since its for a multiplayer map, no there isnt :P

Yes the little stars are custom models, the farseer's projectile is too electricy, i got the feeling of tons of little sparks instead of stars when i looked at them :P

And if you thought there were no custom models, how the hell would i do the planets+stars so nicely without them O_o

I only asked for the tiny stars I knew that everything else was a custom model :)

Planets custom models of course.

custom tile skin for the little starts probably. i made a space tileset myself a while back :god_help_us:

or a custom skybox.