Minihattan Island - A3

[Kaxii 11]

Yeah it is, he last post was only 6 days ago, the arma 2 thread is a lot mroe active though.

[mrchy 2]

hi bracer can you sign the chn urbanpack please for server because we activate the control signature against cheat etc..

[bracer 12]

Hey!

Yeah, I will check with Charon and get on it!

[bracer 12]

Something I've been wanting to add for a long time. Probably the second most important detail next to signs and neonlights.

[bad benson 1733]

looks fantastic!

[nikiforos 450]

Nice progress bracer :)

So parked cars will be a part of this map? I mean not removable?

[bracer 12]

No, the parked cars has to be added by the misson builder.

A simple template mission should be an easy fix.

[nikiforos 450]

Island will look great with some sewer smoke/gas : https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5mU6CA-anFABpXdONhYzhMmwoWVwc07Sb9yBwZ1Z0IaLkfjIS

[J. Schmidt 10]

@Bracer Looking very good, can't wait for your next release. (BTW when do you think we can meet up so I can give you the elevator Files?)

[bracer 12]

Some more wip shots:

[LykosMactire 298]

so what is the count of different building types you now have on this map?

[bracer 12]

Hey Angelwing!

I have around 21 custom buildings now.

Allthough a few needs alot of work still.

Recently I worked on unenterable buildings, some are copy-paste with different textures.

But they are made in such way that they can be piled on top of eachother and create different shaped skyscrapers.

Look at the second picture above and pay attention to the "mall"-building, it has those different unenterable, stackable buildings on top of it to create variation.

Cheers

[stephsen 79]

Hey bracer good work ,thats a really good spot for urban street battles ,what interests me is how work the KI at this place(waypoints etc.) ? give it many wallhacks ?

Greetz

[bracer 12]

Hey Stephsen!

The AI behaves quite good I think!

There is a few places where I havn't made the windows solid, but otherwise they do use the doors (the do go through the doors without opening them... but it's a config problem I believe).

If you place a waypoint from one street to another, the AI sometimes shortcut through the buildings and takes cover there, they can take position on the upper floors in some buildings.

Add some cars standing in the streets and you'll have very nice urban combat.

Cheers

[stephsen 79]

sounds good

[giorgygr 61]

the do go through the doors without opening them... but it's a config problem I believe

Although pretty obvious but.. doors does have "geometry" LOD?

I find it weird

[bracer 12]

Yes, they have. The player cannot walk through it.

I think it might be a config thingy, something like "actionbegin/end" or similar...

But it just gives me errors whenever I try adding it.

[bracer 12]

Finally Minihattan is nearing a new release!

It will be a few graphical improvements and a bunch of new buildings. The bigger part will be unenterable.

Currently I'm looking at how the buildings look at night time. I would like them to be slighly lit up to look alive.

I'm also looking for an easy way to make the terrain more interesting.

[stephsen 79]

nice to hear it ;)

[nikiforos 450]

Finally Minihattan is nearing a new release!

It will be a few graphical improvements and a bunch of new buildings. The bigger part will be unenterable.

Currently I'm looking at how the buildings look at night time. I would like them to be slighly lit up to look alive.

I'm also looking for an easy way to make the terrain more interesting.

It would be nice if you can show us some screenshots :)

[dcal 16]

Looking forward to the update bracer.

[bracer 12]

I can share a little video, it's recorded in Arma 2, but better than nothing I hope...

[dcal 16]

Wow!! This is really coming along nicely. Great work bracer. I am hoping that Bad Benson will port his Alienz mod over to A3 because this city map is just screaming for an intense alien invasion machinima.

[J. Schmidt 10]

I can't wait! Keep up the excellent work!

[redarmy 422]

Finally Minihattan is nearing a new release!

It will be a few graphical improvements and a bunch of new buildings. The bigger part will be unenterable.

Currently I'm looking at how the buildings look at night time. I would like them to be slighly lit up to look alive.

I'm also looking for an easy way to make the terrain more interesting.

Looks great!

How about adding in some ambience.Possible to create steam(smoke) from manhole covers/sidewalk?

Broken/burnt out police cars?

Garbage along street(set a scene like residents quickly fleed)

parking meters strown around?

Cant think of much else ambient,and either way mission makers can add these things in.

Great island,thinking of recreating ghost recon scenarios as this reminds me of GRAW2

NOT that you seem to need it mate,but if you need inspiration and ideas i suggest strongly you check out an old PS2 title by the name of FREEDOM FIGHTERS.

Set in manhattin,russian takeover(ura!)

Another way to go...militarize it in some areas with chainlink fence/barb wire/sandbags/checkpoints.

Satic ground to sky searchlights possible?

Soory if im thinking outside the scope of this map.Maybe just thinking aloud the possibilities;)

Again,mission maker can do all this but just sharing ideas.

Edited September 30, 2014 by redarmy