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    Samadhi's Maps

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    • SamadhiS Offline
      Samadhi
      last edited by Samadhi

      Hi all, here I will present some of my maps. My design philosophy can be summarized in a couple words: simplicity, clarity and to be playable with many different strategies. I fell in love with this game almost 10 years ago because of the distinct feel to it. Supreme Commander is more of a sandbox game than a classic RTS but the biggest appeal to me was always the opportunity to play on huge maps. Naturally, these are the type of maps I mostly create. I hope you like them and maybe play them someday.

      My maps follow a naming pattern:

      WorldSet is the overall arch, followed by a category name followed by the actual name.

      I will start with my latest map from the WorldSet series

      WorldSet Gap of the Antilles
      6 vs 6 player
      20 x 16 km

      gapoftheantilles_header2.jpg

      gapoftheantilles_header.jpg

      It is heavily inspired by the playstyle of the famous Dual Gap Series. But to make it more interesting there are some key enhancements. North side there are mountain ranges where you can reach bases from the other side. So dont neglect them.

      gapoftheantilles_closeup_2.jpg

      gapoftheantilles_closeup_3.jpg

      gapoftheantilles_closeup_4.jpg

      The ocean is big and there are several islands which can be destroyed only from T2 ships onwards. You have to chose, expand quick, defend heavily and use your resources to fortify. Or let the others expand and use your scarce resources to build an army to overrun these islands later and make the investments your opponents made obsolete and level the playing field this way.

      gapoftheantilles_closeup_8.jpg

      gapoftheantilles_closeup_5.jpg

      Most islands are reachable only via a flying unit. Drop your boys quick.

      gapoftheantilles_closeup_73.jpg

      Mapping Tools:
      FAF Map Editor (thx @ozonex and the other contributors)
      Photoshop

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      • SamadhiS Offline
        Samadhi @Samadhi
        last edited by Samadhi

        WorldSet North Pole
        6 vs 6 player
        20 x 20 km

        northpole_header_1.jpg

        This map is inspired by the Azimuthal projection method. I opened up QGIS, a powerful open source software to work with GIS data. Then I downloaded earth data from naturalearthdata.com and projected the world coastline in the Azimuth equidistand projection. After that I played around in Photoshop to get a good and most important, playable angle. I redrew everything per hand in the FAF Map Editor from @ozonex (best thing ever!). Had a blast playing around with different lightning and soft texture fading. I wanted to have a sunset feel to this map with a smooth salmon colored theme.

        As with most of my maps it's a huge multiplayer map of 20x20 km - mirrored to be as much balanced as it can get. The players spawn in a left-right setting from top to bottom. Nobody can really hide behind other players, everybody is kind of a front player on this map.

        To prevent that everybody rushes mid without an alternative option in hand there is not much reclaim in the middle of the map rather more mexes. After studying a couple replays from good players I reduced the mex count in the middle and now it seems to be balanced. There is a choice now - rush mid and fortify, or stay at home and attack later with a bigger army to prevent your opponents to get back their expansion investments.

        The mex count is inspired from the famous map Setons Clutch. Everybody starts by being surrounded from 4 mexes. Every player has 3 extra expansion zones. Two with 3 mexes coverable with a single T3 shield to prevent simple raids later on and one expansion with also 3 mexes but placed in a line like a pearl string. So in total 13 mexes. The rest are sprinkled around the map.

        mexes.jpg

        For maximum playability I chose to make the map as flat as possible. My design philosophy demands that if there are mountains they need to serve a purpose for the player not only for aesthetic reasons. In the early versions of this map there even were the Alps but it turned out they changed the playability to the worse so I had to flatten them. Clean, simple, easy for the computer and easy to build structures were my goals. Players should use their brain power more for tactics and strategy rather to think about "where to build this factory or that artillery".

        I hope you like it and maybe play it someday. Until now i got only positive feedback even from stronger players but I am always open to constructive critic. There is a player (don't know if he wants to be named here) which pitched me an awesome idea about reclaimable and regrowing ice shields in the arctic circle. Maybe I will come back to it later when I figured how this can be implemented. In the meanwhile, enjoy some of the pictures below.

        WorldSet_North_Pole_Header_2.jpg

        Europe

        North_Pole_Close_Up_8.jpg

        North_Pole_Close_Up_1.jpg

        Greece (mirrored)

        North_Pole_Close_Up_10.jpg

        The north-south string of commanders are eying to the middle. The Greenlands are important so dont let your opponents conquer them for free.

        North_Pole_Close_Up_11.jpg

        Greenland

        North_Pole_Close_Up_9.jpg

        North_Pole_Close_Up_2.jpg

        North_Pole_Close_Up_4.jpg

        Yuzhny Island and Severny Island (mirrored)

        North_Pole_Close_Up_3.jpg

        East Siberian Mountains

        North_Pole_Close_Up_5.jpg

        Atlas Mountains

        North_Pole_Close_Up_7.jpg

        Mapping tools
        FAF Map Editor ( @ozonex )
        QGIS
        Photoshop

        Mapping resources
        Natural Earth Data
        Wikipedia
        Google Maps

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        • SamadhiS Offline
          Samadhi @Samadhi
          last edited by Samadhi

          WorldSet War Bridge
          7 vs 7 player
          20 x 10 km

          War_Bridge_Header_1.jpg

          This map is one of my "War Series" maps. It's a multiplayer battle arena style map like Dual Gap. This map features 7 bases behind mountains accessible only through small areas between them, the two different lakes or via air.

          The most important physical features are 2 land bridges, thats were the name "War Bridge" comes from. In the north two players walk through a door like gap marked with pillars which opens up to a big plane with ponds and lakes. The same setup is found at the southern side of the map.

          Behind these 4 frontal players are 3 support bases which can chose between specializing in air cover and/or navy. A landlocked ocean sized lake is found in the middle of this map. Be careful, there are certain spots where players can drop and build hidden bases behind enemy lines to build a surprise army flanking inside enemy territory.

          All this territory is complimented with a lot of flat top mountains to build radar, anti air turrets or even small bases where players can spam artillery. This map is meant to appeal to Dual Gap players or players wanting to mix up their Setons Clutch repertoire.

          War_Bridge_Header_2.jpg

          As with all of my maps I wanted to keep it simple and max out on the playability side of things. There are 3 distinct heights, the flat lands and two different heights at the mountains. The top and niche like areas.

          So - download this map - open up a lobby, beam down to this planet, build a base, conquer the middle, build a lot of boom boom sticks and pew pew lasers and throw them at your opponents. Can you be victorious?

          Close Ups:

          War_Bridge_CloseUp6.jpg

          War_Bridge_CloseUp5.jpg

          War_Bridge_CloseUp3.jpg

          War_Bridge_CloseUp2.jpg

          War_Bridge_CloseUp1.jpg

          War_Bridge_CloseUp4.jpg

          Mapping tools
          FAF Map Editor (@ozonex)
          Photoshop

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