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isaiah40 wrote:New version, hopefully it is less cluttered looking. I am currently working on the color scheme. I am working on doing the colors for each region. The Southwest bonus is done and I am working on New England.
Interstates have been reduced, along with the circles and stars. The circles are currently at 18x18, the smallest I can go on them.
machrs wrote:COOL MAP!!! if you could it would be great to get alaska and Hawaii in the map as well... maybe a sub map!!! keep up the great work!!
isaiah40 wrote:Just to let everyone know, I'm still working on this. Working on fitting in a mini-map and so forth, so I can possibly work in Alaska and Hawaii, since what is a MEGA USA Map without our 49th and 50th states?
koontz1973 wrote:isaiah40 wrote:Just to let everyone know, I'm still working on this. Working on fitting in a mini-map and so forth, so I can possibly work in Alaska and Hawaii, since what is a MEGA USA Map without our 49th and 50th states?
This is good news all round.
But I reckon when this is done, I will have to play it on my TV as my monitor is pretty small.
It does NOT need to follow the style exactly to a T, but it DOES need to carry the flavor of the PACK. Just so that it is obvious that they ARE related to each other.natty_dread wrote:Yeah... the current map pack doesn't look too good either. But since those aren't likely to be changed, and this one still can be... I see no reason to restrict the style of this map to some arbitrary specifications.
porkenbeans wrote:desaturate the colors of the land and lighten and brighten the roads. This should help out in your quest to declutter. Also sense your circles and stars are over the top of the roads mostly, it would be appropriate to drop shadow them as well.
natty_dread wrote:I was wrong
porkenbeans wrote:it DOES need to carry the flavor of the PACK. Just so that it is obvious that they ARE related to each other.
natty_dread wrote:porkenbeans wrote:it DOES need to carry the flavor of the PACK. Just so that it is obvious that they ARE related to each other.
No, it actually doesn't. There's not a single good reason why it should.
natty_dread wrote:I was wrong
gimil wrote:natty_dread wrote:porkenbeans wrote:it DOES need to carry the flavor of the PACK. Just so that it is obvious that they ARE related to each other.
No, it actually doesn't. There's not a single good reason why it should.
It doesn't have to, but I think that is what isaiah40 is aiming for. Is it not?
gimil wrote:natty_dread wrote:porkenbeans wrote:it DOES need to carry the flavor of the PACK. Just so that it is obvious that they ARE related to each other.
No, it actually doesn't. There's not a single good reason why it should.
It doesn't have to, but I think that is what isaiah40 is aiming for. Is it not?
natty_dread wrote:And why is that? You can have a spiritual successor to those maps, in theme, gameplay etc. Why should you imitate a graphical style that is entirely wrong for a project of this caliber just to make the map "fit in" to some arbitrary definitions?
The USA map pack was made ages ago, and if it were made today it would probably look very different (and it'd be on a different site, heh heh ) so why should isaiah try to imitate those old maps when the style clearly isn't working for this map?
natty_dread wrote:I was wrong
natty_dread wrote:gimil wrote:natty_dread wrote:porkenbeans wrote:it DOES need to carry the flavor of the PACK. Just so that it is obvious that they ARE related to each other.
No, it actually doesn't. There's not a single good reason why it should.
It doesn't have to, but I think that is what isaiah40 is aiming for. Is it not?
And why is that? You can have a spiritual successor to those maps, in theme, gameplay etc. Why should you imitate a graphical style that is entirely wrong for a project of this caliber just to make the map "fit in" to some arbitrary definitions?
The USA map pack was made ages ago, and if it were made today it would probably look very different (and it'd be on a different site, heh heh ) so why should isaiah try to imitate those old maps when the style clearly isn't working for this map?
natty_dread wrote:gimil wrote:natty_dread wrote:porkenbeans wrote:it DOES need to carry the flavor of the PACK. Just so that it is obvious that they ARE related to each other.
No, it actually doesn't. There's not a single good reason why it should.
It doesn't have to, but I think that is what isaiah40 is aiming for. Is it not?
And why is that? You can have a spiritual successor to those maps, in theme, gameplay etc. Why should you imitate a graphical style that is entirely wrong for a project of this caliber just to make the map "fit in" to some arbitrary definitions?
The USA map pack was made ages ago, and if it were made today it would probably look very different (and it'd be on a different site, heh heh ) so why should isaiah try to imitate those old maps when the style clearly isn't working for this map?
gimil wrote:I didn't say he had to. What I said was that is what isaiah40 is aiming for. It is his map and I believe he is aiming for that particular graphics style (with Widowmakers blessing). It is his map and if that is what he wants to do, then that is what he want to do.
koontz1973 wrote:natty_dread asked for one good reason - how about continuity. Changing them so much as it would be unrecognisable, you end up with just another USA map, just bigger.
isaiah40 wrote:This again. After my many talks with WM, we came to the agreement that it would be done in basically the same style and theme, with basically the same bonus structure. So, if people want this to continue then this is what is going to happen, this WILL be done as close to the SAME style and theme as the USA map pack as I can get it! If not then I will be forced to stop development of this map, because I WILL NOT break my agreement with WM on it, PERIOD, END OF DISCUSSION!
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