C-21 Dragon I'm back, with possibly my best map ever! This is a remake of the C-21 Dragon gunship from James Cameron's Avatar movie. On Sandbox, in the blocked-off laser field. It's only going to be an aesthetic map, so I can get maximum objects and budget for the best possible remake. It's hovering above a small base, which is still being worked on (only one building now, will add more stuff). I plan to make a detailed interior and exterior, and covered with turrets in the right places. I expect this map to be released sometime in mid to late summer. Map photo: On the ground is a building, similar to the link buildings in the floating mountains of Pandora. I plan to expand this into a compound. In the air is the base of the Dragon. You can see the twin hatches where the Amp suits deploy, and I'm standing in the place where the twin cockpits will come out. The Dragon's armaments will be: Machine gun turret x4 Warthog turret x3 Assorted Missile Pods, Rocket Launchers, Sniper Rifles, etc. Possibly Scorpion x2 Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
you could make it playable, give the smurfs banshees and possibly wraiths, with some other weapons and make it infection or something
I wouldn't count on making it non-playable and purely aesthetic. My new map, Reach with the massive covenant ship spent probably 2/3 of the objects but Phenom and I were still able to throw a custom gametype together out of it even when there were only 7-8 objects. Is this map budget glitched? I don't think the ship looks too big right now personally, will you make it any bigger?
Don't worry, I still have to add the side armor, the twin cockpits, the aft cabin with twin turrets, the large intakes and fans, etc. It will be HUGE (that's what she said)! And I don't plan in turing it into a plyable map because 1: I want to do an insanely good remake, with an extensive base and everything, and 2: The Dragon is heavily armed. Any attacking forces would be destroyed by it's guns before they got halfway across the map.
And that is why you must make us some blue dudes. That is a pretty daunting ship to make. I hope you get it done!
If you still have to make almost all of it like you say, then why are you showing us just a few blocks that are a complete understatement of the entire map. Anyways if it were not on the main level of sandbox, you could turn it into an air assault map using only a few objects more than what is given in the stacked map.
this looks likes its gonna be SICK! the front of the ship looks to big though. in the picture in Avatar theirs only 2 windows things at the front.
I know this is just a few blocks, I just wanted you guys to know what's coming. Also, this is preview no. 1 out of three. Next one will have most of the shell done, last will be right before release. Also, if it was an air assault map, I couldn't build an RDA base beneath the ship, and those few objects could be crucial. Besides, it's more of a challenge forging in open air than putting it on an invisible floor. Like I said in my post, I still have to add the dual cockpits. Inside the gunship, from the movie, you could see the main hangar and a small control room (the bit where I'm standing) where Sully blew the hole in the armor and killed a computer controller. Anyway, the twin cockpits and heavy machine gun turret are attached to the front of this control room. I just haven't added them yet.
Im somewhat curious as to how this is going to turn out. I really hope you do amazingly, however i agree with Rifte that this could easily be turned into game as well, which would make it twice as awesomesauce. Speaking of, does that star adder in your sig have anything to do with Mech Assault???
Why, yes it does! I'm trying to get both of these maps finished before Halo Reach, the C-21 Dragon and the Assault-class Star Adder mech.