Hillel submitted a new map: Skyline Canvas - Night time urban city skybox canvas ready to forge on. You're welcome. Read more about this map...
This is pretty cool. I can imagine many people using this for making Hotels, penthouses, etc. Thanks for finding this.
Just out of curiosity, what about Halo isn't working for you? What type of map are you thinking of doing with it. I'm thinking about possibly doing some co-forging with someone who is good with "New Mombasa/Alexandria" theme/style maps.
well the xbox live servers are messed up. at least they were half hour ago gonna check now. i am going to make a map for slayer, and i plan to do something i have never seen before and will not be sharing any of that information until my map is done.
The fact that you had to ask makes it even more worth the trouble for figuring out how to do it. It's the Eden map. There is actually much more forgeable area on this, but it can be tricky to locate and if you get away from the canvas I laid down, you'll have a "floating skyscraper" in view. Never the less, to my surprise, there is enough space all together to make large BTB maps if you wanted. This is probably going to be my most favorite place to forge maps and I can't wait to see what the good forgers out there are gonna do with it. I've always wished we had a night time forge canvas to work with, and although Glacier does, that still limits to snow maps. This one is gonna be almost perfect for those who want an urban/city themed map at a night time skyline setting without having to do it completely indoors or with any weird effects or filters. The the skybox is gorgeous and it's inspired me to try and do some "New Alexandria/Noctus" style maps kinda like "Boardwalk" and "Beachhead" on Reach.
You're welcome dude. It is very tricky. I'll be impressed if anyone else figures out how to do it. Make something awesome one it!
My gamer tag is "Beshem Yeshua" --- Double Post Merged, Jan 15, 2016 --- What mind of map and why do you think it might not support it?
How good is the lighting out here? Is it glitchy like Empire's skybox? Is fog possible (I'm guessing not since it's not a canvas map)?
I actually like the lighting a lot. It's dark for a good night time theme, but the blocks don't look too dark that it makes the details and paths washout in the dark parts. The fog option is there but it didn't seem to work, but I'm actually ok with that because I would personally never use it on this map, as I wouldn't necessarily want anything obstructing the view of the skybox. The filters do work however and I've found several of them that can make up for not being able to generate map lighting. Forge lighting still works though and you can always brighten up your map that way if needed. I would rather have it dark and the option to lighten because there really isn't a way to darken outdoor parts of your maps. It does seem like when you look up towards the moon and then back down the lighting auto adjusts slightly, but it's subtle and I don't find it to be problematic. I'm currently working on a "BOARDWALK" remix style map on it and so far I'm very happy with the looks of this canvas. As I said, this is probably gonna be one of my favorite places to forge.
This is super cool dude. Thank you! I haven't looked at forging on any of the dev maps, besides the limitation you listed above, are there any limitations? Like the total number of pieces available?