Red Alert 3

Article and information

Please submit your map's here so that all the maps submitted for this competition is in 1 place.
If you have any questions at any given point, feel free to reach out to the other judges or myself.

I can be found here, or on Discord
Edvin#2274



Updated: The results are in, link to the article is bellow:

Results

This post has been edited by cwedvin: Feb 13 2023, 14:40 PM

The prize for this event has been bumped up by 15$ for a total of 55$ now. Good Luck everyone!

Cold Snap



Features & info:

• Very large map. Largest that WB supports (750² units)
• Semi-symmetrical design
• Multiple ways in and out of bases
• Physically accurate terrain (based on a mountainous area of Colorado)
• Completed from scratch start-to-finish in only 4 days
• Custom camera settings to avoid clipping and visible frustum culling
• Over 3000 manually placed trees
• GenEvo volume texture LUT + custom bloom settings
• Lots of appropriate soundscapes scattered throughout the map (birds, wind, etc)
• Tech structures: 4 oil derricks
• Civilian buildings: 14 garrisonable
• I also included a No Superweapon and "HiPerf" (cheap) variants

Quirks:

• Some rocks and trees lack z-depth due to lack of normal maps(?). Basically, they are visible through fog and mist.
• The "hot spring' model at the centre of the map is internally programmed to disappear after 1 minute. I wrote a custom script to fix this, however there may be slight visual glitches because of the way I wrote the fix.
• I manually painted Impassable terrain over the entire mountain ranges, but I might have missed some spots. If you notice any weird pathing issues, let me know.
• Map uses a lot of AmbientFX entities and as such requires a half-decent PC to run. I tested on my old GTX 1050ti and it runs fine, but anything older than probably a 600 series nVidia card might struggle.
• "Map Cliff Textures" tool is broken in GenEvo Worldbuilder. This meant that I was unable to automatically texture any part of the map and had to do it all by hand.

Screenshots:



Have fun and stay warm, Commander!

EDIT: Thanks to Kyle, Cloud & Windows98 for their feedback and pointing out some bugs

EDIT2: Apologies for making such a long post. Images now hidden to reduce post height.

This post has been edited by Jenkins87: Dec 15 2022, 20:42 PM

Fucking chad

Thanks Khay

Cold Snap

UPDATE 16th Dec: Added many more details, fixed lowspec versions.



This post has been edited by Jenkins87: Dec 15 2022, 20:40 PM

This is my map:

- Name: Frostpunk Valleys
- Size: 555x505
- Type: Industrial Winter

	_GenEvo__Frostpunk_Valleys.zip
	Size: 1.63mb
	Number of downloads: 20
	Player Name	Side	Team

Screenshots:

Map: Avalanche Assault
Author: Blues
Size: 520x470
Player(s): 4

	_GenEvo__Avalanche_Assault_Final.zip
	Size: 2.41mb
	Number of downloads: 24
	Player Name	Side	Team

Map Briefing:

Welcome back General

A small outpost has experienced a snowstorm throughout the night, this outpost is located on top of the mountain and supplies the electricity needed for a secret black site facility on the foot of the mountain. A report from our lookout posts describes suspicious activities around the area during the storm. We have lost contact with them for now. The storm has partially resided and the area is now more manageable to manoeuvre. Becareful as we have no intel on the structural integrity of any remaining facilities.

Good Luck General.



This post has been edited by Bluess: Dec 18 2022, 10:35 AM

My final edit before the competition closes!

See attached file.

Changes:

- Added map-wide snowfall
- Compiled map

Notes:
In order to see the snowfall, you will need to download the map and install it yourself.
Compiled maps will not transfer via lobby/MP joining. If you attempt to do this, you and other players will likely get out of sync.