Mega City 3 --- An urban combat focused terrain

[accuracythruvolume 547]

Mega City 3*

* All your frames are belong to me.

Steam Link for evaluation:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2709383687

 

 

After doing some faction mods I decided to learn how to make a terrain for the armaverse.   But what kind of terrain to make?   We've already got plenty of deserts, jungles, forests, etc...  Hmmm what is something that that arma does not have much of......   💡

Urban combat.   Plenty of vast expanses out there, but not a lot of really big cities.   So I decided to try for a big city... a... mega city  🌇

 

Therefore this project was started.   Based off a certain comic you may have heard of, the goal of this terrain is to bring a focus on urban combat.    Will the arma engine be able to handle a large urban terrain without chugging into a slideshow?   Let's find out!!

 

This project is in the early WIP stage.   This thread will serve to show off it's features as they are added.  

 

Planned terrain features:

 

* The Mega City (duh)   A roughly 8x8km urban area.

 

... sooo your doing a 8x8 terrain that is one big city?

Nope!  Well yes, but no. The terrain is actually 20x20km  and also will feature other urban combat areas:

 

* A old destroyed city remnants

* A large shanty town colony

* A 3.1 km long runway.  Now you'll be able to land even the largest bird with ease!

* Various smaller points of interest around the map

 

Terrain outside of the Mega City is still in flux.  The terrain of the city itself is largely flat.  In order to reinforce the planned nature of the city, it is divided into sectors that are split by a freeway grid system.

 

 

 

What lurks inside the walls of the Mega City?

 

 

Here's a sat capture of the Mega city area to show the freeway layout.  Yes, those gridlines are in square kilometers.

 

At the bottom of the above image is the airfield, showing the large runways.

 

 

 

 

 

This is also a call to arms for any building makers out there.  Anyone that would like to make some big blocky concrete structures, please hit me up.

We'll see where this goes!

 

[opteryx 1562]

Interesting. What are you going for, a Judge Dredd type of thing?

[accuracythruvolume 547]

100% 

[EO 11275]

Sounds interesting man, hitting that follow button.

[accuracythruvolume 547]

EO,   This is the terrain that we discussed awhile back that uses your Sullen Skies config as its base.  Should help provide the grim mood.    

[LykosMactire 298]

I have a strange feeling i will be seeing a lot of 40k themed missions with this also. It is a really interesting idea and cant wait to see it!

[accuracythruvolume 547]

A 40k mission would be a glorious mess in a huge urban environment, no?

 

I recently found an old post  HERE  that talked about some of the hidden runway lights objects.   If anyone has been looking for them I found:

 

Land_runway_edgelight

Land_runway_edgelight_blue_F

Land_Flush_Light_yellow_F

Land_Flush_Light_green_F

Land_Flush_Light_red_F

 

And you can use this handy command in eden (go to tools, debug window) as posted in the thread linked above to spawn them:

 

create3DENEntity  
[  
    "Object",  
    "Land_runway_edgelight",  
    screenToWorld [0.5,0.5]  
];

 

I looked up airport lighting standards to dress up the airfield.

Here's some images of the runway after messing with lights:

 

 

Coming in looking East

 

West View

 

Another View

 

On the ground in the pitch black.   Will have to add some ambient lighting....

 

 

Dusk view

 

[LykosMactire 298]

Just a suggestion, as it is something i see in some Scifi megacities or megacities in general is a park area. If not that is fine, just think it would be cool for a "Capital park" or something like that

[accuracythruvolume 547]

There is a plan for something to that effect in a "rich sector".   Mansions with their greenery and the like.

[accuracythruvolume 547]

Started plunking down some of the neighborhood structures.   Got inspiration to do Old town, an old fortress that was rebuilt into an amusement park, now just another residential section of the Mega City.

 

Overhead view.  Started putting a road system in.

 

 

 

Castle with triple layered defenses.

 

 

[Gunter Severloh 4052]

Jesus  Christ! (no religious pun intended) thats mega alright, makes my Desert Ops Run Arena look like a kid's playhouse

in someone's backyard, 😄

Of course yours is an actual map, still thats crazy huge, nice work, very creative of you.

 

 

 

[accuracythruvolume 547]

If you look above in the first post you'll see the size of Old Town sitting in the middle of the Mega City.  That should help show the scale of the monstrosity of a city that I'm going for. 

[accuracythruvolume 547]

The freeway system is lower in elevation to give the city some extra verticality.  The highway will be set between constructs to lend a "canyon" like feel.  Also in the lore the poorest residents live along the highway (also along  the city wall).

 

Here's a sample of what the freeway system will look like.

 

Looking down on the freeway:

 

At ground level:

 

Artificial canyon feel:

 

 

This will also create a physically separated space between the sectors.

** But but but, I only see a single two way set of lanes!  That's not mega city unless it's 57 lanes each direction! **

 

Well I'd prefer to make a massive highway system, But I also am trying to make this also work with Arma's AI.  So it's a tradeoff.  Also the bridges that are across the city would condense the lanes down anyway.  So far in my tests the AI can drive across the bridges.

[LykosMactire 298]

Man I cant wait to charge through this in a warhound class titan purging heretics- i mean what?

[x3kj 1247]

On 10/10/2020 at 3:44 PM, accuracythruvolume said:

Started plunking down some of the neighborhood structures.   Got inspiration to do Old town, an old fortress that was rebuilt into an amusement park, now just another residential section of the Mega City.

Amusement park? In a Mega City? Sounds way too utopian for my liking 😄 Nono, we no space for pleasentries in Dystopia Prime -  must cram everything with hab blocks and corporate buildings and fill the gaps with slums and garbage

Looking forward to it, i'm most curious how it will run and how AI suitable it will turn out.

[accuracythruvolume 547]

Started working on the city layout.  The lower section that is split by the river is the industrial section of the city, therefore it will be a maze of factories and industrial fortitude.

A few pics.   No road system proper laid down yet.  This is in sector 40.

 

 

 

[accuracythruvolume 547]

Sector 40 main buildings pass completed.  Fine detail bits will be added later.  Next is to add the roads for the area....

 

[accuracythruvolume 547]

Sector 40 now has proper roads...

 

 

 

Mass work done on the heightfield of the map.   Not all of the map is the city.    The Northwest is a vast encroaching desert area...

 

 

Scouting the city wall... with some of the industrial buildings beyond visible...

 

[opteryx 1562]

Looking good. Would be nice with some large custom structures that are futuristic brutalism.

By the way, how's performance so far? I'm building a large urban map that will feature mostly custom assets so this would be a nice reference on how performance handles.

[accuracythruvolume 547]

Did a test with what was done so far on a dedicated server with about eight players and no issues with FPS at all with what the map has at this time.  Already CQB hell 🤕

[accuracythruvolume 547]

I do really really want to get some crude blocky concrete custom buildings in but I don't have that in my skill set yet.  All free time is being poured into making the city right now.  Right now the goal is to populate at least the industrial zone and then toss in on steam as a WIP release for people to mess with.  Still lots of little flaws that need to be addressed first.

[accuracythruvolume 547]

Did some work on a residential sector to see what it would look like.

 

 

 

[Valken 622]

Amazing. Will you create the iconic  huge 200 floor tower from Dredd 2012?

 

 

 

[accuracythruvolume 547]

Would in a second if I knew how to make and import custom buildings   

[Valken 622]

I was thinking you can do it by using the attach command and stick a bunch of buildings together to create it. There were two major parts to this scene:

 

The square inner hallways to each other, some with gatland guns depending on the floors, and floors with "rooms" above and below it as per the shootout scene.

 

Then connect it all with stairs. Up to 200 floors per the movie. 😄

 

There is an online MP server, ESCAPE FROM HELL, that created enemy bases by stacking buildings on top of each other. They were like 50 stories tall or so and worked.

 

Or you can ask TURFY on STEAM WORKSHOP if he can make one. He made a ton of compositions that were enormous and could give some advice. I am not sure if he is on these forums.