The Atoll is a 20 x 20 island complete with docks, ships, a small town, and lots of places to explore. You'll also find two cave entrances (one is hard to find), a campsite on the beach, and more.
Some technical notes:
The trees in this area are not locked down nor are they blocked with the walkmesh cutter. They are not locked because I didn't want to die of old age before I was done. They are not cuttered because there are many places that you will want to go that would simply not be possible if they were. You'll see.
If you see something you don't like jump into the toolset and slice, dice, and chop to your hearts content.
Thanks for the good advice, generous comments, and votes. This area did take a long time. It sat half finished for several months because of personal issues I had to deal with but, I finally finished it. It is on the heavy side to say the least and there are some aspects of it that I would like to have improved upon, but as you say it was getting heavy.
SGK73, that is a very good suggestion with regard to the cliffs and I will keep it in mind in my next area, thanks.
Thenine, the area is yours to use as you like. See if you can find skull island. You'll know it when you see it.
Over_my_head, wow! I don't know what to say. Thanks for the compliments. I am very pleased that you like it. It makes all the work worth it when someone enjoys what you have done.
sincerrly,
Ninthletter _________________________ The toolset has gotten much better.
Posted by over_my_head at 2007-08-15 03:48:38 Voted 10.00 on 08/15/07
Geeesh, I can not imagine the time you had to put in this to realize this area. It is absolutely a masterpiece, and I have thus far never enjoyed roaming around an area as yours. The scenes were fabulous, the view around every corner, the distances. Everything was captured so perfectly, that I am just knocked out by the beauty of it. I have enjoyed your other works so far, but this one really surpasses them all. The only downside is that it is a but on the really heavy side. It was doable, but had to turn my shadows to low, else I would be lagging all the time.
I am really going to use this area in my PW, as it is one that can't be missed. I have always loved to play Final Fantasy, well when I wandered around between those palm trees gazing over the vast ocean I really had the exact feeling like when playing FF. Thank you again for such a piece of art, and I hope this will be introduced into the Hall of Fame.
Great work, I hope you don't mind me having this be semi-overrun with zombies in my mod.
I'll be back to vote once I downloaded the area and try it out a little.
-Peace out
Posted by SGK73 at 2007-08-15 00:14:30 Voted 8.00 on 08/15/07
Really good area, good use of trees and undergrowth. The only thing is the path around the isle, perhaps it should not be paved all around or atleast only a small paved path. Some texture streaking on the cliffs but that's almost unavoidable. One tip is to not raise the entire cliff but take it in stages at about 8-10 units and run a large smooth brush over it at really low pressure or light hand if you use a pen. On such a large map a few more tiles to build the cliff face would'nt matter much but make it look alot better.
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