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Quote from DecafDiamond»

I'm not too sure about that either. But I made this one area. It's a heavy work in progress as I started it last night. Here it is I guess:

I will also try and find better places for the torches. That will probably mean more structures.

I can't see anything on this screenshot. :/ Too dark.

In about 40min I'll be .

If you haven't done so yet and plan on watching: http://strawpoll.me/4582536

Hope to see you there!

Quote from _Krose_»

Brief update:

I am 2/3 of the way through the Bedrock Block dungeon. After it's complete, the Emerald and Diamond block dungeons are all that stand between you and your Descent into Darkness! mwahahahaha

Cool! Do you plan a release during summer ?

Alright!

For the most part I am done with the core of this area, I gotta say I think it turned out better than I thought.

My concept for the area is a ruined village:

Let me know how it looks and suggestions!

Is it to dark?

I just need to add some foliage, spawn, spawners, and loot...

I would like to know first how this looks...

EDIT: Forgot to mention, to make the area dark I put a bedrock ceiling at y =256, but you can see it :/

Any way to keep this dark and not see a giant rectangle in the sky?

Quote from DongerKong»

NEI works for 1.8 if I'm not mistaken. Either that or ingame NBT.

Nice progress on the intersection BTW!

OK thanks, that's helpful.

Thanks!

Quote from _Krose_»

Brief update:

I am 2/3 of the way through the Bedrock Block dungeon. After it's complete, the Emerald and Diamond block dungeons are all that stand between you and your Descent into Darkness! mwahahahaha

WHAT????

I had no idea you were that close!

Seriously, that's crazy. Looking forward to it so much!!!

Quote from ViCABO»

I see you've made a very large area and has failed to fill the whole. You need a lot of practice. My question is, because you write from an account called MinecraftCTMmaps and do not know very well how to map CTM?

Thanks for the encouragement

Indeed yes I need practice mapping...

I plan to fill the empty areas with foliage of some kind

I have played lots of CTM maps so I have an idea on how to map but I am more of experimenting than anything, in fact my whole map will probably be one giant experiment...

What do you advise I do?

Quote from MinecraftCTMMaps»

EDIT: Forgot to mention, to make the area dark I put a bedrock ceiling at y =256, but you can see it :/

Any way to keep this dark and not see a giant rectangle in the sky?

You could just do /gamerule daynightcycle false then set the time to 18000, that makes it eternal night. If you don't want eternal night time, since this is the first dungeon, you could make it so when you place the white wool the darkness fades away.

Other than that, bedrock ceiling or world painter clouds are the only thing I can think of.

The village has this ruined feel, but the ground posses a more synthetic, plastic-y kinda vibe. I suggest you forgo all this stained clay stuff and go for a grittier block as your main ground layer. Like dirt, soulsand and speckled stained clay, or maybe patches of it stained clay. its hard to know before the foliage is in. But the lime green sucks for your theme in my opinion.

You really needed to add more height variation in. I might have made the water fall path toward a lake sized mass of water in the middle of the area. Just to fill in that empty space.

Quote from Caecilleus»

You could just do /gamerule daynightcycle false then set the time to 18000, that makes it eternal night. If you don't want eternal night time, since this is the first dungeon, you could make it so when you place the white wool the darkness fades away.

Other than that, bedrock ceiling or world painter clouds are the only thing I can think of.

The village has this ruined feel, but the ground posses a more synthetic, plastic-y kinda vibe. I suggest you forgo all this stained clay stuff and go for a grittier block as your main ground layer. Like dirt, soulsand and speckled stained clay, or maybe patches of it stained clay. its hard to know before the foliage is in. But the lime green sucks for your theme in my opinion.

You really needed to add more height variation in. I might have made the water fall path toward a lake sized mass of water in the middle of the area. Just to fill in that empty space.

Yea, I'm changing the ground blocks... they look more radioactive to me

Ima play around with blocks until I get a block group I like

The village looks more eerie when the darkness is on it, I'll keep the ceiling then...

I'll add a couple hills to the ground and as for the walls well the cliffs don't have glowstone which is why you can't see any height variation, I can fix that

After I put in your suggestions, ima start on loot, spawners, and foliage.....

Quote from ViCABO»

I advise you to first of all learn how to terraform natural and good areas. (But you never start making a map without a good idea in the head as is the area). I have not tried you to stimulate wrong, you just have clearly expressed my vision of your area as you put pictures. The area was nice, too rectangular and too empty too. I myself took me about 6 months to learn basic techniques and improve much to believe me prepared for the challenge that are make a CTM map with a serious quality.

The rectangle look was a bad mistake on my part, but I am honestly to far to fix it so :/

and also as we speak I am actually filling in the empty areas right now. I can't guarantee I'll fill in every little block but of course I am trying my best.

My aim of this map is not to make one of quality, it's to practice making a CTM map in the first place, and make one with at least decent quality, in my opinion despite the fact that I accidently made it rectangular I think I did alright... I think I can at least make a mini-CTM out of this.

Although I am itching to get started on a 16-block. Your right, I need to practice terraforming and I think I am going to do that through 4 wool maps. I notice with CTM you can't just search on youtube for tutorials, it really comes out of practice.

Indeed I should probably not release what I am making right now, but honestly I am doing this for both people to play on and feedback. Like right now I am literally getting tons of feedback that's handy, I mean my area is at least a little natural looking, though I am still adding stuff to it.

Quote from Fangride»

Been noticing a couple people uploading images directly to the forums as attachments - might be better to use imgur.com. It's a great image host, will make it easier for you to use again on a thread, and also allows you to directly embed the image into your post! So just more of a reminder/PSA.

k den

Help:

Since no one could see the screenie here's a close-up:

Hopefully you guys can see it this time =D

Quote from ViCABO»

i can see the darkness of ur zone xD

NOOO By having a dark area I can't show it off D=

Quote from DecafDiamond»

NOOO By having a dark area I can't show it off D=

You could have a dark picture then one with night vision maybe...

Quote from DecafDiamond»

Since no one could see the screenie here's a close-up:

*dark picture of darkness*

Hopefully you guys can see it this time =D

What I see is the path made from hay bales. That'll be a lot of food for the player...

How does this look to you guys, this is an experiment I am trying for terraforming:

Yes I am aware the ground is flat and no variation but that's not my focus with this expiriment

Quote from AcaranDeahtstorm»

It depends on what you're looking for. The skyline is flat once again but I like the shape for the most part. Maybe try to smooth out some of the random block clutter where there are just 1 lone blocks or holes in the wall.

I was aiming for a natural look, the skyline is supposed to be flat because again that wasn't my focus,

So where do you suggest I hit the erode brush at? I'm guessing at the random one block holes and lone blocks if I am correct?

Quote from _Krose_»

Does anyone know of a bonemeal filter for McEdit? If it doesn't exist, it would be amazing if someone would make it :3 A bonemeal filter would be immensely useful for lazy mapmakers such as myself who want to get the perfect tree. The ability to grow a sapling in McEdit, undo and redo etc, would make tree placement much more pleasant. At the moment, I have to enter the game and McEdit back and forth. Meh!

Also, screenie:

Looks amazing Krose. How always!