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Ettenrocal said:

The next scening contest could be castles with a more themed subject, or towns ! Making a more specific theme could be interesting cause fantasy castles or weird castles can always be more "impressive" than realistic castles ! Also it could be on another mod than native.

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It is called creativity. And it's something most people enjoy and appreciate.

When it comes to scening, in response to the idea that any contest would be useless because of the incoming release of Bannerlord, taking the focus away on "multi-use" scenes, and trying to focus on something that could be a one time use is a possible solution.

I think there's a fear that the work will be useless because there might not be a long term place for the scenes to be used in, but there's many scenes that are made (at least, I've made) for single use, focussed on a specific event.

So instead of multifuncional scenes, there could be something like a multiplayer event set up for scenes to be played in.
I know these contests havn't been multiplayer scene contests, but it could be a way to get it to work.

Any ETA on the next contest?

Akathir said:

Thank you and congratulations to the other contestants! This was a very close competition! My favourite was probably BeefBacon's Nordhaven, good atmosphere and realistic execution. SageMcQuincy didn't disappoint either, i always love to look at the architecture you create!

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Congratulations to you especially, when you uploaded I knew you'd win. Great and impressive work as always!

Forum username: SageMcQuincy
Scene name: The Monastery
Scene download link: https://mega.nz/#!2nRg3AZZ!G71kqolU5pxz31NCMRDcM7Y5urYpqqkM9US6K6MoNUg
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Hereby the third and last of my submissions.

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A church and monastery sit on a tiny island on the estuary of a river. The fortified cloisters, docks, courtyard and keep offer protection to those living inside, as well as offering a refuge for those who need it in times or war.

The interiors consist of a cloister garden, docks and cranes to get supplies in, a fortified gate and bridge to cross the water onto the island, a keep with chapter hall, dining and working space for the monks, storage room as well as sleeping quarters.



The view of the attackers.

The point of entry

The point of entry again, showing the bastion on the wall.

The point of view of the defenders.

The interior of the bastion.

The cloister gardens.

The cloister gardens, again.

The courtyard at the main gate, giving entrance to the keep.

A view from under the main gate.

Overview.

Overview.

Attackers storming the wall.

Up up up the ladder. (made extra wide because ranged unit clog is so annoying...)

The aftermath.

The gatehouse has fallen.

Rushing in to defend the gatehouse.

Forum username: SageMcQuincy
Scene name: Sea Raider Fortress
Scene download link: https://mega.nz/#!H24UmYDa!Wn1yUmuaEV6IgCHwWWLZLZhhSWpW5QGYfRTaxBmO_Sc
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Some Sea Raiders have made themselves comfortable in their new home: an old abandoned fortress which is crumbling near the mouth of a river.
Back and forth they go, raiding and pillaging, shipping their treasure and loot to their reinforced ruin. But now they are under siege.













The approach of the walls. The bridge is out of order because the siege tower crashed through it, so through the water it is.

The defenders waiting for the attackers to crawl up the ladders.

A better view of the main wall reinforcements

The courtyard

The entrance to the inner courtyard

The inner courtyard.

A view on the inner keep

Defending crossbowmen shooting down from the windows towards the entrance of the inner courtyard

Overview

Forum username: SageMcQuincy
Scene name: Stonehill Castle
Scene download link: https://mega.nz/#!CipxBADA!7tVCXnX1K2z9EOF4rrdo8DfKZEXhEeEBSp5EUdZMhjw
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What I always felt during single player castle sieges was the lack of 'progress' or 'phases' during an attack. Generally, the men get up that one ladder, get on the wall, smack through the defences and all blob up into the reinforcement blob, mindlessly running in a swarm to the closest enemy.
With this map I tried to give some sense of 'stages'.

After many playtests, the following is the most common way this siege plays out:
The attackers approach and end up at the gatehouse, there's the first chokepoint. when they break through - archers on the walls able to shoot them on both the outside and inside of the castle - they enter the courtyard and split. Generally one group goes left up the tower and the other group right, because the archers are the closest enemies.

The reinforcements spawn on the 1st floor inside the keep, making them unable to just continue the blob in the courtyard (that'd be boring, I think). Since the attackers split up, it feels more a general fight in a castle, rather than a blob-on-blob swingfest on either a ladder or in an open courtyard.
After the archers get taken out on the walls, there's generally a chokepoint in one of the towers connected to the interior, where the reinforcements meet the attackers on the wall. Of course, since there's three entry points into the interior of the keep, you can always take a group of soldiers and walk around to either catch stragglers or attack the main reinforcement group from the side or behind. Sometimes the AI even ends up doing that themselves when both groups turn towards the keep in somewhat of a pincer movement.

Because the reinforcements spawn inside the keep on the 1st floor, and the archers don't move much, the AI and player are forced to go inside, experience the interior of the keep, and clear it out, making sure that most areas of the castle are actually used (as opposed to a simple 'quickest route to enemy blob')

Still, I found all my playtest sieges to each have gone in their own unique way. It's never really the same because of the many pathways the AI can take depending on how it all progresses, as well as the player input though commands. I hope you enjoy it!



The approach to the gate.

Attackers getting near the broken entrance.

The defenders gathering on the bottleneck to protect their keep.

The initial clash

The defenders point of view of the initial clash (at nighttime).

Attackers have broken through and are racing up the towers for protection, and to get those pesky crossbowmen on the walls.

A peaceful intermezzo: The courtyard

Meanwhile, the battle is taken to the walls. Reinforcements arrive from inside to help their allies.

Another wave of reinforcements from the inside race along the walls to get into the fight.

The battle is moving towards the interior.

Peaceful intermezzo 2: The kitchen.

Fallen men in the interior, the fight is over.

More fallen men. (while in the background you can see the attackers having mobbed up to the last poor defender in the corner)

An bird eye's view.

TFK_Ted said:

Bloody hell, looking great! One key less to get I guess   

Here's a WIP of mine, not sure wether I'll manage to finish, but whatever 

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That's a good looking crane you got there. Whenever I want to put cranes I just use a mangonel but this is a pretty nice alternative!
I love it when people use small objects to make something that isn't originally in the prop list. We've all probably played the game so much we've all seen every prop hundreds of times so it's always nice to see creative ways to break the esthetics with some delicate prop placements.

Here's some work in progress shots of my map.
The castle itself is pretty much done, now I just got to do the AI mesh and detailing the surrounding area as well as making the attackers spawn into something more interesting.

I hope the images resize themselves because I have no idea how to do that

InVain said:

In case anyone's interested, here's my sheet. Turns out it reflects the overall outcome pretty well. But of course, I don't know the other judge's evaluation nor what they focused on.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/stqafuqrj3cfjxl/Scening%20contest.xlsx?dl=0

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For what you've written, a 6/10 for visuals on my library seems a bit harsh. I'm a bit disappointed with that considering the feedback I got from pretty much everyone else here. Can you elaborate on this a bit?

InVain said:

Fantastic work! Yeah, I love that prop, too! 

Just a hint: Adding AI mesh to the outer terrain in order to make it usable as a siege map will increase your rating. 

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Yeah but since I absolutely hate AI meshing, it will ruin my evening, since I only have 4 hours left.
I'll take the hit in rating I think.

Forum username: SageMcQuincy

Scene name: The Library

Mission type: Keep indoors

WIP screenshots:

These are the earlier screenshots I shared:
They are pretty much the final product still, the only things I edited was technicalities like AI mesh and entry points, as well as some very minor detailing.

These are some proper "WIP" shots:

Scene download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/cr81543ioo9yyah/scn_multi_scene_4.sco/file

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A small explanation:
I initially designed this map with MP siege in mind. I'm more of a multiplayer mapper. Hearing it had to fit a single player mission type, I decided to go for the Castle Keep Interior. I scattered the entry points of the lords and ladies as well as the "nurse" or "chancellor" around in the whole construction. The idea behind that is that you have to search to find the lord or lady you'll want to talk to, allowing the player to explore the whole map unobstructed (as opposed to let's say, a single player siege)
The "Secrecy" part of the map is of course the library aspect (as well as the "hidden" lords and ladies I assume). There's a book in a cage, holding the main secret of the library, if anyone wants a tiny little backstory.

Because this was originally a Siege idea, there's a siege camp outside the keep. Even after changing to "Castle Keep Interior" I decided to leave it there if anyone was interested in using it as a siege nontheless.
It shouldn't bother too much if it's used as any other mission type, but it can of course always be removed if necessary. The landscape is pretty neutral around that area so it's just a matter of deleting props if the siege camp has to go.

I have only placed the AI mesh in the building itself and not the surrounding nature. I think that should do for most mission templates. If not, I'm willing to add the AI mesh for the outer part if anyone wants to use it as a single player siege map or anything else requiring AI mesh outside of the building.

I used multi_scene_4 as a base for making the map, that's "Ruined Fort" - makes it easier for MP testing, I always found it annoying to re-name and look for where to find your map, so.

And of course:

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(Give me a "bridge_modular_a" and I'll make you anything. Absolutely love this prop )

The 23.59 deadline is in GMT time or something else?

Hello guys!
Some WIP images of my work:

I interpreted the theme "secrecy" as a library. One side is protecting the secrets it holds, while the other side tries to steal them.
The flag (it will be a siege map) will be in the main hall near the book in the cage, also known as "the secret" that is being protected.

It still needs the technicalities like working siege ladders, flag, spawnpoints, etc.
It also still needs some detail and I'm not that happy yet about the siege camp/attacker spawn and the big open space I've got going on on the side.
I wish I chose a bigger map size cause the edges bother me a bit but hey, it's a bit late to change that right now isn't it?
I also wish I could place more books in the shelves but they eat FPS so I think I'll refrain from doing that.

Quick question here:

If the mission template can be chosen, and I choose to make a map that would not be intended to be played with bots - would the AI mesh still be a necessary addition to the map?