Pls take a look at A very detailed map, fantastic landscape

[Sahnindula]

Heya all
Take a look at this upcoming map and tell me what you think.
Its a very detailed map, build your city from the high grounds with alpine landscape and down to the valley with apple , olive and orange trees.

Pictures here http://steamcommunity.com/id/ecania/screenshots

 

[muttonnoir]

The section illustrated is excellent- would be great to see the entire map

 

[Azurespecter]

I love the detail! Those mountains in the background with farmlands up front reminds me of my own hometown in Utah!

 

[Sahnindula]

Thanks a lot guys, there are a ton of hours to make this map, every detail is handpainted and it is a fantasy landscape made up by me.
Im located in sweden, so its not very flat where I live.
The map is not ready yet, it will be soon.
I will announce the map here and on simtropolis when its up on steam.

 

[Sahnindula]

Here are some more pictures, making progress.

 

[The-Eradicator]

Nice, but people who play vanilla like me should forget it

 

[Sahnindula]

You dont need a ton of mods and assets to play this map, you going to need network extensions and unlimited tree mod and a bunch of trees from workshop and a theme.
Also this map you can play on 9 tiles if you want too, or with 25 tile mod. I dont think any of those will slow down your computer.
Why not try it out and see how it goes.

 

[The-Eradicator]

I play 100% vanilla. It's a choice... I've had too many problems with mods

 

[Sahnindula]

ok , aye its a choice.

 

[muttonnoir]

The screen shots really do look fantastic. Appreciate all the hard work and creativity- looks like a real labour of love

 

[Sahnindula]

The screen shots really do look fantastic. Appreciate all the hard work and creativity- looks like a real labour of love

Thanks, map is almost ready now, have some checking left to do and some small areas to paint.
Here are some ingame screens, those before was from editor, those gives a better view how it gonna look.

 

[MotownCountry]

wow, i really wanna try out this map!

 

[Sahnindula]

wow, i really wanna try out this map!

Thanks MotownCountry, map will be released in a few days if I dont run in to problems, I will announce the release here on the forum, so check in here in the weekend.

 

[joewagner501]

I'm looking forward to trying this one out as well. Looks beautiful.

 

[Sahnindula]

I'm looking forward to trying this one out as well. Looks beautiful.

Map is on Steam now, but its a bunch of trees to download, so i did a collection for the stuff the map need, all trees are not necessary, but you get more detailed map if you grab all the trees.
Happy building everyone if you dare to build a city on the landscape / Sahn - Ecania

Link - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=749073974&searchtext=

Please, push the vote button if you like the map, gets more visible for others later on if you vote.
PS: another map in production, its the same theme, but will be pretty flat for all builders that want more flat maps with a great background, will post screens on this forum and simtropolis when I have something to show.

 

[akeela84]

I like your map look's really awesome.. but I would need to download 18 assets for the map to be looking so awesome? :O

 

[Sahnindula]

I like your map look's really awesome.. but I would need to download 18 assets for the map to be looking so awesome? :O

I can see that many thinks its to much to download, download a few and load the map, and see how it looks, and use the LUT in the description and adjust the light if needed.
Most trees on the map is from vanilla game
Next map with same theme, im not going to use so many trees, learned the lesson.

Apple, orange and olive trees are only used on some of the fields.
Also banana plants but little used on some other spots too.
Bushes are very little used.
Yellow flowers, most on some fields.
Also know that trees doesent take so much memory like a bigger building does.

 

[joewagner501]

I already had about half the assets so it wasn't a big deal for me. Looking forward to playing on the map this weekend. Thanks for uploading it.

 

[Sahnindula]

Map is going to be deleted in a couple of days, due to unpopularity, seems to be a failure to make a map with so many assets to download.

 

[Chyll]

Map is going to be deleted in a couple of days, due to unpopularity, seems to be a failure to make a map with so many assets to download.

Don't over react and let the partial negativity get to you.
There are people that will enjoy it and depriving them of the opportunity to appreciate your work would be unfortunate.

On the other hand, you have learned a valuable lesson to take into you next map attempt to get a similar quality with more control on asset/mod requirements.