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    Klutz's Map Emporium

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Mapping
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    • BlossomedB Offline
      Blossomed
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      Looks amazing, great work! Can't wait for forest nothing among other amazing maps ❤ how is it coming along?

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      • CaptainKlutzC Offline
        CaptainKlutz @Blossomed
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        @blossomed Forest Nothing is already on the vault! It's seen quite a bit of FFA play.

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        • DoompantsD Offline
          Doompants
          last edited by Doompants

          Haha.. Jip called me out, but it's amazing how often our playgroup ends up with 7 people logged in. I'll be sure to try Seven Bay Reef next time it happens. Anyone else in the same boat, check out the 7 player version of Sung Island I did; "Seven Sons of Sung Island" 😉

          Have played Corina's Hourglass a bit too and liked it, so keep up the good work @CaptainKlutz

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          • DoompantsD Offline
            Doompants
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            @CaptainKlutz There we go! played Seven Bay Reef Phantom and had a great game.

            No gameplay issues at all. Everything's symmetrical, no pathing issues. Cliffs are well-demarcated. Plays a little mass-rich but that's fine. All in all, good map.

            The only issue is one of your decal settings. They seem VERY strange and I wonder if it was intentional or an error. Zoomed out, the erosion decals cast VERY strong shadows, and then as you zoom in, somewhere around 500-700, they all disappear! This is backwards from usual decal settings (where you see the decals zoomed in, but they fade out as you zoom out).

            Decals while zoomed out:
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            Same area zoomed in:
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            If you use the FAF editor, this can be controlled by the 'Cutoff distance' and 'Near Cutoff Distance' variables under decals. It looks like you have entered a value for 'near cutoff distance' (which you probably want to select the decal(s) and change that value to zero).

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            Aside from that one jarring graphic setting, the map was great. Let me know if you want to fix this, and I'll give a good vault review when it's done.

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            • DoompantsD Offline
              Doompants
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              Oops. Another thing -- One of our other players noted your oceans are very shallow. He had a pair of chicken bots and the water was only waist deep, so they were able to just walk around out there firing their main guns at everything. 🙂

              Might want to make the waters 10 or 15 units deeper out there to make it behave more like people expect.

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              • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                CaptainKlutz @Doompants
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                @doompants The decal behaviour is mostly intentional- supposed to give an 'epic feeling' when zoomed out and seeing tons of units moving over the detailed terrain, but when zoomed in, it disappears so building large bases, pathing, putting PD on cliffs etc. is not obstructed.
                I think what I'll do is split the decal into two with different cutoffs and reduce their intensities, so when zoomed out, it produces the current effect, and then when you zoom in, instead of disappearing, it will instead halve in intensity.
                I'll also look into the water issue.
                Thanks for your detailed feedback! Much appreciated

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                • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                  CaptainKlutz
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                  Concordance

                  A 20x20 designed to be an alternative to Bermuda Locket in high level play. Fixes a lot of the terrain issues and RNG drops that Bermuda has while offering a different but familiar overall mapfeel.
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                  Adaptive Fangtooth Islands

                  My entry to the Brigadier Fletcher mapping tournament. Inspired by the many flaws of my much older Mangrove Delta map and the need for a much better flowing island-based navy map for 4v4 than Point of Reach.
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                  Adaptive Violet Ridge

                  Inspired by a Mapgen map that Farms played on. I found the layout of the central plateau, only accessible by two ramps, very interesting, but the original map had a lot of flaws that required making a lot of adjustments.
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                  • IndexLibrorumI Offline
                    IndexLibrorum Global Moderator
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                    3 maps in as many weeks. Someone stop this man, he's out of control.

                    Good shit Klutz!

                    "Design is an iterative process. The required number of iterations is one more than the number you have currently done. This is true at any point in time."

                    See all my projects:

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                    • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                      CaptainKlutz @IndexLibrorum
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                      @indexlibrorum If you ignore the 7 month gap in posting 😂 thanks!

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                      • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                        CaptainKlutz
                        last edited by

                        Fixed the "double suns" lighting bug on Stickleback Ridge, and reworked the spawns of Tamara Pass, as well as uploading a draft of a new 1v1 map, Jacob's Ladder.

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                        • R Offline
                          Rama
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                          I downloaded some of your maps a long while back to test out with my mod. They were really nice maps! I see you made your maps open to being modified. Hope you don't mind if I make a few Survival versions, possibly, in the future. And hope to see more asynchronous maps! I love asynchronous maps and they work really well for survival play!

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                          • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                            CaptainKlutz @Rama
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                            @rama That's right! You're able to use any of my maps to create derivative works! All you have to do is credit me in the map description. And I'm glad to hear you like the asymmetric maps, I have a couple that I never finished that might be worth polishing up into a playable state.

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                            • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                              CaptainKlutz
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                              Go on, have another, because you've behaved so nicely.

                              Carbide Canyon

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                              • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                                CaptainKlutz
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                                How a map looks at the beginning of prototyping (about 2 hours in)
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                                Versus how it looks at the end of prototyping (about 4 hours of work later)
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                                • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                                  CaptainKlutz
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                                  Version 2 of Adaptive Tourmaline (still under heavy work) now on the FAF vault
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                                  • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                                    CaptainKlutz
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                                    Trying to make a red desert defrosting at the end of winter, what do you think?
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                                    • deletethisD Offline
                                      deletethis @CaptainKlutz
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                                      @captainklutz That looks delicious!

                                      Was it supposed to look delicious?

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                                      • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                                        CaptainKlutz
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                                        Hey everyone, new survival map now on the vault based on the Survival Genesis script.

                                        PushAndPull Survival

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                                        Push the enemies on the left and hold your position on the right. Supports 1-8 players. Mod compatible. Games last 15 minutes - 1 hour.

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                                        • nflandersN Offline
                                          nflanders
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                                          @CaptainKlutz Hi, please make a version of the Dual Gap map. Why another DualGap? Newbies < 1000 can't play anything else and therefore don't go to unfamiliar ones. (Astrocrater, this is not a map XD) I wish there was a map similar to DualGap but with some new ideas...

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                                          • CaptainKlutzC Offline
                                            CaptainKlutz @nflanders
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                                            @nflanders Very few people play dualgap clones in any meaningful quantity, the original is timeless for a reason. There are so many dualgap maps already that it would be a waste of my time compared to the number of players it would get. Even with this in mind, I only make maps I want to make, not what I think would be popular. While it's a fine map, I personally don't enjoy the gameplay dualgap enables and don't want to create something in that vein. And finally, I think creating a very derivative work would be disrespectful to the original author. Hope you understand. Thanks

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