Mod_West

Mod_West



18 Jun

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Originally posted by YourMomYo

Is he redesigning all of the slayer helms?

Got bored last night and made the kq variant. Messing around with abyssal and kbd tonight but will hold off showing them for now. I want to wait until they're all done and lined up for a poll first :D

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Originally posted by Lonely_Beer

I'm surprised it took this long to add them into the game given that /u/KilianExperience's dad is Jagex

It was only a matter of time until he came knocking :P

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Originally posted by Hess_

Recolors should be as difficult as the squirrel one going forward

Given that we currently have both, it makes sense to continue that way. The title of this post is a little misleading as this isn't really an art inconsistency but rather a mechanical one. To remedy this we could add some lower effort squirrel variations in much the same way all the other pets have fairly easily obtainable ones. There's also the possibility to add difficult to obtain variations of other pets, providing there's relevant content to go with them.


11 Jun

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Originally posted by IAmJimmyBuffet

Damn, that is foul.

How dare those filthy English misuse their language :P

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Originally posted by W-Virginia

For the absolute love of Jesus Christ. IF you add a new LMS map REMOVE ALL ladders going upstairs to another floor or underground. There are far too many bots and boosters who simply hide in random buildings and try to afk to top 5. It slows down the game’s immensely when people are hiding and you have to essentially find them or wait till they die by fog or finally come running in. Also please remove the ability to go upstairs in the existing map regardless of if your account is in combat or not. There’s literally zero purpose to allowing players to hide.

I'll be sure to keep this in mind! I've always preferred raised areas in PvP minigames to behave like the castle wars walls so you can still see and interact with the other players. It is a shame to lock off access to the upper floors but on the other hand it means I can make use of them as scenery a lot better :D


05 Jun

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An easy and funny fix would be to build a pillow into their head models... Tempting.


04 Jun

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Originally posted by AdamantFather

They’re probably just reusing data from RS2 so they don’t have remake entire areas.

As the man who painstakingly recreated it tile for tile... Thank you for the compliment! So accurate it looks like a copy paste job is exactly what I was going for :P

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<3


10 May

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This looks incredible! I've not played Minecraft in a few years, can you still do those orthographic 2D renders of the world? I can imagine this would be really interesting to see like that! Glad to see that the height map remains helpful in making such fantastic creations :)


06 May

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Originally posted by WoutRS

Hi u/Mod_West,

Sorry to bother you, but I'm doing some research for a video project and I'm using this map. I'm wondering how you would interpret the height data. You said that 1 tile is roughly 1 meter, but how tall is 1 height value? I'm thinking of around 10cm, but that would mean that the highest point in the game can only be 25,5 meters, since the value goes from 0 to 255. Can you give me some insight on this?

Thanks, Wout :)

Scale isn't very consistent within OSRS to real life so it's hard to give an exact number. Comparing the height change values to the assets though... roughly 1 tile (meter) is 16 units in the map editor which has a maximum of 255... So the tallest mountain is 16 meters tall? From sea level, not that impressive really.

Hope that helps :D


23 Apr

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Incredible work! I love how naturally you've blended the land together to make some logical terrain transitions. I especially like what you've done with Ranul Forest, the concept is incredibly inspiring and super interesting. The balance of population density throughout the land is really great, feels super wild in the center with larger civilizations mostly taking up the edges.

It's scarily close to the rough block-out of Varlamore I was working on a few years ago... Although mine doesn't go quite so far east. I'm certainly a bigger fan of what you've put together! When I say rough block-out - I mean it! It's a collection of various other player made maps spliced together with a few original in-between zones.

Your map will surely go on to influence the future of Varlamore, it would be ridiculous for it not to. The reason I've not worked on that rough block-out for a while now is because we want to move towards the release of Varlamore slowly to allow for time to f...

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02 Apr

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Ah, I see now why you were interested in the blender height map! This is a fantastic use of it, I especially love how true you've kept the colours and terrain placement. Excited to see more :D

Oh, here's the world map

without icons, were you editing them out?


19 Mar

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Originally posted by Girthquake42

You work on Zeah right? Just wanted to say thanks for making the best continent in the game

Thanks!

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Originally posted by Unlikely_Island

Just trust everyone on the internet :)

Or maybe you could set up a stream showing it off.

Haha, doing some map editor livestreaming in my spare time would be quite cool tbh. Could start building fan maps just for fun... hmmm...

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Originally posted by Unlikely_Island

Share the developer tools with the public so people know the limits of what they can ask for.

I wish we could but they don't work without access to the offices network, which - as you may imagine - we can't give to everyone. Hopefully in the future it becomes possible but I can't see it happening any time soon ):

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Originally posted by Lark_vi_Britannia

Hi Mod West

Hey!

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Originally posted by Aylavelle

Thank you, now you can see what I was tweeting for :p

Indeed! Impressive speed, I must say. That would've taken me a while for sure! Although now that we're all working from home and I have access to the map editor... Hmm...

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Originally posted by blackburn009

Just throw a quick "all maps posted are property of JaGEx." Don't specificy that it's maps of RuneScape or in a RuneScape style, or even maps posted in the subreddit. Pretty sure if it's written there for a year without anyone complaining it's legally binding and not only will you own all custom RuneScape maps, you'll own all the maps in the world.

And if I own all the maps in the worlds... That would make the world mine, correct? The perfect plan for world domination!

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Originally posted by Sogemplow

Mod West as he furiously scribbles notes under the title "Original Kourend Ideas"

:O

Just kiddin, keep up making Zeah awesome.

That's why I made r/OSRSmaps so I had a centralised place for maps to collect so I can steal them when needed :D