blade2k5's Real World+Fantasy Maps

[blade2k5]

Here's the northern half of Oahu to compliment the Pearl Harbor map   Both maps will be uploaded as is sometime tomorrow or Monday

Here is a SC4TF overview look....


And the Region Census view.....I dispensed of opening all the 'water only' tiles


Hope you like and thanks for dropping by

[bat]

Great work on that new map there with wonderful small "mountains"!!!

[blade2k5]

Great work on that new map there with wonderful small "mountains"!!!

Thanks.

Ok, just finished uploading 4 new maps, Pearl Harbor [full], Oahu North, San Antonio 2 and San Diego North.  Go here to view them

Pearl Harbor:



Oahu North:



San Diego North



San Antonio 2



Another Hawaiian island is coming up next, a 12x10 of the entire island.  Details and pics coming soon   Jacksonville Florida is also on the docket....

[dedgren]

I could spend hours looking at this page of this thread alone, Blade- these are stunning maps, and each would be a great basis for an SC4 region.

Excellent work, my friend!


David

[threestooges]

I really need to start browsing these threads more often. These maps are amazng. I'm looking forward to the full version of Oahu. I also love the Santa Barbara map. I went to high school there (Santa Barbara HS) and lived on the Mesa as well. Great job with the map, and the history lesson was great too. Excellent work.

[blade2k5]

I really need to start browsing these threads more often. These maps are amazng. I'm looking forward to the full version of Oahu. I also love the Santa Barbara map. I went to high school there (Santa Barbara HS) and lived on the Mesa as well. Great job with the map, and the history lesson was great too. Excellent work.

What year did you graduate? I graduated from SB in '83 and lived on Murrell Rd. on the Mesa on the other side of Cliff Dr. from Monroe Elementry, another school I attended .  Used to surf at Henry's Beach almost daily and used to climb Gibraltar Rock quite often when the opportunity came.

[bat]

Those 4 maps are looking really great! Wonderful work on these new maps...



btw, my 6000th posts with the do-not-increase-the-post-counter posts

[blade2k5]

It's me again with another completed Hawaiian map, only this time, you get the entire island on one map .  This monster is a 12x10 lrg tile map and took me over 2.5 hours to open up all 120 tiles to get that nice lookin' rendered look   So far, I have 6 of the 7 islands ready to be 'rendered' with only the Big Island left to finish yet.  That, I'm afraid will be a monstrous map that will have to be broken down into smaller more manageable maps.

Without any further delays with unnecessary ramblings, here is the first of the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai:



This will be uploaded later on today or tonight   Thanks for dropping by and please come again

[Pat]

holllly cow there troy looking real sweet map of Kauai!!!!

[blade2k5]

Thanks Pat

Ok, I thought I'd post the projects that I'm currently working on, or going to be working on very soon as sort of a teaser and heads up on what to expect down the road.

Finished Projects:
1. Jacksonville Florida [9x5 / 36km x 20km]
2. Kauai Hawaii  [12x10 / 48km x 40km]
3. Kahoolawe Hawaii [5x4 / 20km x 16km]
4. Lanai Hawaii  [7x6 / 28km x 24km]

Current Projects being worked on:
1. Molokai Hawaii  [16x6 / 64km x 24km]
2. Nihau Hawaii  [5x8 / 20km x 32km]
3. Maui Hawaii  [18x13 / 72km x 52km]
4. Oahu Hawaii  [16x13 / 64km x 52km]

Upcoming Projects in no particular order:
01. Big Island Hawaii
02. Albuquerque New Mexico
03. Amarillo Texas
04. Dallas/Fort Worth Teaxs
05. El Paso Texas
06. Flagstaff Arizona
07. Fresno California
08. Houston/Galveston Texas
09. Lake Tahoe
10. Sacramento California
11. San Diego Metro area
12. Parts of China
13. Indonesia [entire island chain DEM data dl'd]
14. Parts of Africa
16. Japan [entire Japan DEM data dl'd]
17. the Caribbean
18. Australia [entire continent DEM data dl'd]
19. British Isles [entire BI DEM data dl'd]
20. Amazon River
21. parts of Brazil
22. Central America [entire CA DEM data dl'd]
23. Baja California [entire BC DEM data dl'd]
24. Straight of Gibralter
25. parts of south-east Asia
26. Kilamanjaro

That's what's on tap for the next couple of months, if it takes me that long to finish all those

[Ennedi]

These are really fantastic maps! 
Looking at their proportions I suppose they will be very playable too 

And your whole project is really ambitious, I'm very curious of your next creations!

Adam

[blade2k5]

Thanks Ennedi   They are pretty playable, just doesn't look like they are until you getter a closer look in game.  Some of the monstrous maps listed in my previous post will be broken down into mini-map paks for the faint of heart for upload along with the giant sized monstrosities

Heblem created a monster when he taught me how to convert DEM data to 16-bit grayscale......Once you get the hang of it, it's a snap to pop these maps out like they're on an assembly line   The tedious part is opening all the tiles in-game to get the Region Census views.

[Pat]

LoL there troy it seems as you are the map making monster now lol....  I cant wait to see these maps come to fruit and how they turn out!!!

[blade2k5]

 That would be me....a lean, map-making machine

[Pat]

yes you are and a darn good one at that too!!! 

[Heblem]

Blade wow, thats way too many maps there!! if you wih i could help you with some of these like the Japan one, im not sure how you gonna do it  Excellent work"!

[blade2k5]

thats way too many maps there!! if you wish i could help you with some of these like the Japan one, im not sure how you gonna do it

Believe me when I tell you, I can do it   I've done 10 maps over the past 3 days, four of them uploaded yesterday with two of the remaining 6 being uploaded tonight.  The rest will uploaded in batches of 2's or 3's [depending how many maps are waiting for upload], once a week .

[blade2k5]

Both the Jacksonville FL and Kauai Hawaii maps have been uploaded

Jacksonville SC4TF Overview:


Jacksonville Region Census view:


Kauai Region Census view:

[blade2k5]

Update time on the Hawaiian Islands project.  I have completed four more of the islands, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai and Nihau.  Kahoolawe and Lanai will be uploaded this Sunday or Monday [Aug 24-25] and Molokai and Nihau will follow a week later.  Now onto the pretty pictures

Kahoolawe:
Map size is 5x4 lrg tiles



Lanai:
Map size is 7x6 lrg tiles



Molokai:
Map size is 16x6 lrg tiles



Nihau:
Map size is 5x8 lrg tiles

[threestooges]

Wow, you've been busy, and again they look great.

What year did you graduate? I graduated from SB in '83 and lived on Murrell Rd. on the Mesa on the other side of Cliff Dr. from Monroe Elementry, another school I attended .  Used to surf at Henry's Beach almost daily and used to climb Gibraltar Rock quite often when the opportunity came.

I lived on Terrace Rd (just across Cliff from San Rafael Dr.). I graduated '03. I only attended high school at SBHS from Sophomore year on up (just moved there then). I surf a longboard (10'0") so Henry's wasn't exactly the best beach, but they let dogs down there so I can't complain. I'd go for bike rides over into Montecito and Summerland every once in a while though. Good times there. Not a bad place to live at all. Again, great work.