Hello everyone :). Here is a map that I was working on for some time a while back, but I stopped making maps for a long time. So now I'm back and I've started to work on it again. (yay!) Anyway the map is called Koyote Village, it's a small asian themed village with two bases, a snipers tower, and various other buildings. It's still very much a work in progress so I'm not sure when I plan on releasing it, the buildings don't have textures yet, and the grass and cliff textures are subject to change.

Here's some renders.






And some ingame pictures, don't mind the brightness, all subject to change.






That's all for now, let me know what you all think. :D

ah, so this is what the pictures on your xfire are about.

lol Indeed they are.

good stuff, gonna take you a while with that.
the river running up out toward the back of the map, is that going towards where another village type area will be, to make the map mp?

Looks interesting. What kinds of weapons do you intend to include? Just vanilla Halo stuff? or custom?

The river flows from a waterfall, then into a small delta out into the sea.

Even though the cliffs and terrain is quite simple, I really like the flow of your topology. Great work, keep it coming.

Mostly vanilla weapons, but I may add some others, such as a carbine, since I'm using elite bipeds

okay sounds spot on to me.
yoda there done a custom weapon tutorial from start to finish in case you plan on making new guns.

edit: okay i see you said vanilla
Edited by ally on Apr 15, 2013 at 12:18 AM

As you can see here, the base for each team is a 3 story bunker type building, the flaps over the windows offers some protection from high sniper fire and such.

but will it stop teams from over powering the base and just spamming the windows with grenades?

i must have spent almost a whole game earlier standing on a rock outside beavercreek base
just lobbing grenades into the base, hmmm i got kicked for some reason tho lol.

No more than the bloodgulch base gets spammed lol, although I plan on making a garage in the back of each base so that players can easily get out from the back, as well as the sides.

it's also pretty difficult to land a grenade in the top floor.
Edited by OoEWolf on Apr 15, 2013 at 12:29 AM

cool, a backup get out quick route sounds good, that should solve it.

chinese buildings seem to be very very detailed, i can only go by google images, but from what i can see there's a fair amount of work to be done on them.

goodluck :)

Most of the work left is finding bitmaps for them, If I had to make another chinese styled building from scratch again I probably wouldn't be able to get it ingame without having to redo the portals, which I probably will have to do anyway after I do exact portals. The first time I modeled them they were a considerable amount of poly, until I got them down to a reasonable amount.

I think you should add more details to the ground and cliffs.

Yeah I know the cliffs still need some work, and I may add some more variation in the ground.

Don't know if you need help, but I'd like to help. Asian themed architecture always interested me <3

Time for a quick update, haven't had much time to work on it, but I changed a bit.

First off, I added in a garage to the main bases.


Changed the ground textures, and cliffs. (some minor stretched uvs in the cliffs)


Added a new sky that I put together.


And that's it, all be working on it more whenever I get free time, suggestions welcomed.

Looking good.

Oh, I love this! Great work!

"Running around the beach, wish you were here!"

The sky actually looks great with the map.

Glad you like it.

Anything new on this?

Unfortunately I've been busy with various life stuff, so I haven't been able to work on anything, but as soon as I get my time freed up I'll get back to it.