Union Islands WIP

[viscid prairie]

5 Large Islands in the Martinique Channel in the Grenadines. So far, I'm halfway done with the main Island. Will keep u guys updated on my progress. Lots of shanty towns and compounds. It's 1:1 replica scale using HQ satellite pictures for reference and placement of every single building.

night time, haven't added streetlights or powergrid yet, but airfield is done.

Nice little parking lot for the airfield.

[median ocean]

Nice work!

[viscid prairie]

thanks! how can I show video?

its 300km^2 total, Union island itself is 9km^2 of terrain, but the total area is around 300km^2 plus the other islands which should total around 20 or 30 km^2 of terrain and the rest is ocean

[fiery ermine]

Looks really good glad we're getting more varied types of terrain

[runic ibex]

I can’t wait!!

[craggy belfry]

Oooo

[viscid prairie]

Due to the size of the map, 300km, it will be a perfect map for fixed wing aircraft and flight in general. I’ve been flying around, and scale is perfect. I’m super excited to see this project thru, estimated time to finish is approximately 4 to 6 months for islands to be completely done. I’ll probably make an alpha release on steam workshop in about a month for playtesting. 🤙

[viscid prairie]

Some cliffside beachfront property under construction.

[viscid prairie]

A thousand polylines later...

[short swallow]

Looking good mate, nice work

[viscid prairie]

sunbathe?

Pebbles make everything better.

[safe lynx]

@viscid prairie I can I get a caravan in one of the military bases for my house 😭

[viscid prairie]

lol whats that

gonna take a flight to show portion of union island that is finished and to show scale of map so far

[safe lynx]

I was gonna ask if you could add a caravan on a military Base if you add one

[viscid prairie]

like an RV building?

[safe lynx]

The thing with wheels on right

[viscid prairie]

sure thing

[viscid prairie]

Ambush Central

[fiery ermine]

It would be sick if someone made a map set in the congo with some old overgrown mansions like this cause there are quite a few old Colonial style ones in the jungles there

[viscid prairie]

Already covered.

[viscid prairie]

Most of the map is compounds like these, and the compounds condense naturally as you get into the city. Like this urban compound.

[safe lynx]

I can't wait for this

[viscid prairie]

yeeee! im halfway done with first island

Village in the outskirts of Ashten.

[viscid prairie]

Photo Dump,

[ocean sphinx]

this map looks awesome but hopefully it’s size won’t cause problems

[fiery ermine]

Nice are you doing any abandoned houses cause you could use this mod that just came out to get the really overgrown feel
https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1180172288637796352

[trim junco]

Are you making custom buildings for the islands or using only the vanilla ones? looking phenomenal either way!

[viscid prairie]

I’m keeping everything vanilla due to the size of the map, that way I don’t allow myself to go overboard adding dependencies to it. After it’s finished, I may add mods to the final map as different versions, but Bohemia is updating their toolsets as the new updates roll in and I want to avoid issues. The primary reason for keeping it vanilla in the building stage is strictly for performance and optimization purposes.

[viscid prairie]

First buildings of Ashten under construction!

[viscid prairie]

Center of ashten making progress.

[runic ibex]

Kinda sorta reminds me of Altis

[viscid prairie]

Center of Ashten almost complete

Compounds coming together nicely

[viscid prairie]

Center of Ashten done, now got to work on North Ashten and Ashten bay.

North Ashten, South Ashten, and Ashten Bay.

Finished portion of the island so far about half way done with largest island.

[runic ibex]

That in itself would you be willing to release 😮 ?

[viscid prairie]

I guess I could put it out as an alpha build. But right now, it’s not playable yet, as no game modes made yet. I could make a GM mode on it and release that as an alpha build to test.

Martinique Channel WIP

[viscid prairie]

hey guys im gonna live stream a bit of Union Island and whats done so far in the terrain makers VC

[runic ibex]

NO I MISSED IT 😦 also I think the alpha GM mode would be really cool to test t bh

[viscid prairie]

U on PC or Xbox?

[runic ibex]

im on PC

[viscid prairie]

How do I make it GM mode? Is there a GM mode prefab I can just drop in?

[runic ibex]

to be honest i don't know 😦

[viscid prairie]

It’s ok, I’ll make a GM mode once I’ve finished it a bit more, it still needs some work before it’s playable.

[runic ibex]

yessir, sorry i couldn't help you..

[viscid prairie]

No worries bro 😎

[viscid prairie]

Progress coming along nicely.

[viscid prairie]

Union Islands WIP

[viscid prairie]

How is this possible to have so many trees yet still have around 60 frames on a 1070? I have more than 10,000 trees being rendered in the frame.

if it runs like this on my pc, it will run better on Xbox. So fingers crossed this is gonna play smoothly, I'm being really smart about optimization and such so it should run fine on everything hopefully. I have alot of occlusion boxes and hills which helps tremendously.

[grave jewel]

W man

[trim junco]

https://tenor.com/view/todd-howard-it-just-works-bethesda-this-all-just-works-gif-20598651

[stark flax]

Looking mint so far! Really unique location, flown here in MSFS a couple times myself.

[short swallow]

Beautiful map so far loving it

[runic ibex]

I do wonder if GM is a prefadv x-x

i've been playing around on the workshop all morning, and im hyped for this bro!1

[viscid prairie]

nice big cliff

[viscid prairie]

North ashten is done, its hard to put into scale how dense this map is.

with low res satmap you can't really make out the fine details of the city, however it is huuuuuge.

[shrewd glacier]

The maps looking sick, I hope it’s devently sized for OPs

[runic ibex]

Giving me arma3 goosebumps lolol I miss that feeling

[viscid prairie]

starting work on next chunk...

[acoustic quiver]

Looks amazing

[viscid prairie]

more beaches, you can never go wrong with beautiful beach. 🏖️ 🌅 🌴 🥥

[viscid prairie]

What you see

What the sniper sees

Somehow, well placed occluders and big hills make this many trees possible...

[trim junco]

[viscid prairie]

Progress!

[lapis imp]

Cannot wait until this map drops. I think playing conflict on this would be extremely fun. Especially with the helicopters and supplies. This map is going to be insane once it drops. 👏🏽

[viscid prairie]

This is just the first island as well, there are gonna be about 12 islands. 5 large islands with villages and settlements, and around 7 smaller wild islands.

[viscid prairie]

primary transport on this map is def gonna be air

Happy dude riding the crane:

[viscid prairie]

Almost done with Ashton north

Remainder of Island that needs to be finished! Almost done. Next part is the windward side on the Western portion of the Island which is mostly trees and wilderness.

This portion as well as south Ashten are going to be just as hard as making the dense cities, as making the wilderness feel "right" takes a lot of time and thinking, as well as analyzing erosion patterns, and scaping the landscape.

If anything, once it is done is should have this sort of "style" to the wilderness portions.

[viscid prairie]

gonna do showcase of map in current form in GM mode in the world editor, have not created navmesh yet or added base game master mode so its just to show the terrain

will be in creativity lounge streaming for a bit

[runic ibex]

its beautifullllll

imagine Lingor/dingor on Reforger

[viscid prairie]

basically will be after I get the palm tree assets in

[viscid prairie]

Think more on scale of Altis but with with a lot of smaller islands and waaay more Ocean instead of one big island.

[runic ibex]

😫😫😫😫 ahh the euphoria

[viscid prairie]

So I just remeasured the Island, and according the the in game measuring tool based on meters the island is around 10 or 12 square kilometers

[lapis imp]

Dude I cannot wait to be immersed in this environment, especially once you get wind sounds, birds, butterflies. It’s gonna be so damn gorgeous. Also can’t wait to hear what gun shots sound like in the environment.

I’m ready to drive a keep around the island and go fishing 🎣

[viscid prairie]

they echo like crazy through the mountain pass in the valley

I'm gonna stream it rn in terrain makers

[viscid prairie]

South Ashten making progress, still lots of work to be done

Downtown Ashten vibe.

Narrow Roads and Dangerous cliffsides in North Union Island make skillful and careful driving a necessity.

Many homes situated with ocean views, privacy and self sufficiency is a big part of the Island lifestyle.

[grave jewel]

Definitely keeping an eye on this map. Looks sick

[viscid prairie]

South Ashten, getting close to done. Lots of coastal compounds and a cemetary.

Firepit chill sesh

Military site where a school used to be

[viscid prairie]

UPDATE: gm mode is now working on the map.

[grave jewel]

W

[viscid prairie]

AI seems to not mind the urban environment at all which surprises me

[grave jewel]

Hell yea, was that ground glitch thing ever figured out? I think other people were having similar issues where everything but the ground would show

[viscid prairie]

its only on two tiles and its only makes the ground clutter disappear so its not game breaking at all, so I'm not worried about it.

[grave jewel]

🫡

[viscid prairie]

looks so good god dayum

dont even need to place down anything just spawn dudes and they'll gointo all the surrounding buildings

make a mission in like 30 seconds

quick power station mission

the vertical aspect makes it feel like ground branch, just makes it feel more real.

mission accomplished lol

[viscid prairie]

Merry Christmas

[grave jewel]

Gah DAYUM

[viscid prairie]

Looks like Altis 2.0

[storm wigeon]

Sweet

[storm wigeon]

So wait is this on the workshop?

[viscid prairie]

not yet, im gonna upload this version as an alpha test tonight

[storm wigeon]

Sweet

[viscid prairie]

welcome to the jungle.

dense urban areas surrounded by jungle and vacation resorts + shanty towns

Nighttime look, still need to add streetlights

coming in for landing 😄

morning looks

[viscid prairie]

Alpha test is now live if you wish to download. Don't know if it works yet so stay tuned!

[hollow stone]

Now I could have a look, big map coming up. Good work.

[viscid prairie]

join me in Union Islands Alpha Test MP

[viscid prairie]

im locally hosting if anyone wants to test mp with me

[sleek junco]

This is gonna be lit

[acoustic quiver]

Gimme like 10 and ima probably be on

[shrewd glacier]

This is gorgeous I’ve been waiting for a new altis like map

[viscid prairie]

seems to be working fine

[viscid prairie]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5EBA1602F250FBB1-GM_UnionIsland_ALPHA

[trim junco]

Looking great, already one of the best modded maps out there.

[median ocean]

Good stuff man! Looking forward to future updates

[viscid prairie]

will try to implement shorebreaks and rest of union Island west side in next update. should be update 0.2.0

The mountains are starting to look like actual mountains now, Mount Taboi is around 300 meters or 1000 feet ASL.

10km view distance 😄

Island silouette from 10km out with 20km view distance rendering.

[storm wigeon]

The map is really nice but man do the czech buildings from Everon not fit well, hopefully we get either a mod/update with more Caribbean style architecture

[viscid prairie]

View from 20,000 feet

[viscid prairie]

agreed, I did my best with what I had XD

[storm wigeon]

Though the little details do make it really nice, love the use of rocks on the mountains, feels like vanilla

[viscid prairie]

yep, I looked at how they built the cliffs and just did that, but used the fucus cliffs which are meant to be on the shoreline and underwater or near water, but it fits well with the tropical look where its slightly damp.

The cliffs are layered ontop of eachother pretty much, lots and LOTS of cliffs, using just three prefabs, rotated around and jutting out of the terrain at different angles which creates variety.

with the fucus cliffs you get a nice shine and reflection which looks good at different times of day compared to the matte grey "dry" cliffs

[storm wigeon]

Yeah that's something that stood out to me

[viscid prairie]

Also, alot of the tutorials on youtube are getting scale wrong within the world editor, so people are having issues where the map is much smaller than the real life counterpart as they are not accounting for terrain area, mistaking width for area.

I fixed this issue within the params of the terrain heightmap, so the scale is 1:1 with no engine issues I have seen so far, it feels bigger, but more realistic.

it feels bigger cause normally everything is scaled down in gameworld sense, I just made it as close to reality in terms of scale as possible, and the outcome is great, which I think is what makes enfusion engine different than other game engines as this manages to simulate real world terrain sizes in a very well optimized way.

If you increase the far plane, larger than your world size, if your RAM can take it, it will show you your entire terrain, here I made the far plane 20,000 meters, being that my world is 17.9x17.9 km, which comes out to 320 km^2 which is larger area than Altis, and in game I am getting around 80 frames with a micro ATX build, GTX 1070 8 gb VRAM. So I would say enfusion completely fixes the frame issue that plagued the arma games of the past.

Now the biggest issue for bohemia I believe is netcode, syncing all game simulation aspects and physics properties globally in a multiplayer environment. With simple simulation you could probably have planetside level of players on a terrain if its strictly PvP. This would be impressive to see with Arma 4.

[brave fable]

this map looks bloody good!

[viscid prairie]

thx!

[brave fable]

keep up the work man, this is A grade stuff, the topo map is peak as well

[viscid prairie]

This blew my mind... When I went to check the topo map of the actual island XD

Keep in mind this is just one island, there are gonna be 5 islands when its done 😄

[brave fable]

conflict on this map is going to be amazing

[brave fable]

1 to 1 pretty much 👍

[storm wigeon]

That's something you don't see much in terrains actually, is it possible to mark mountains and height sorta like the one on the left

[viscid prairie]

yeah, I haven't gotten around to marking all locations yet. However I added some palm tree assets!

[storm wigeon]

Oh sweet

[daring badge]

Looks really good

[viscid prairie]

problem however with the palms is it is cutting frames in half

[brave fable]

lods are on the way, give it 60 mikes 😆

[brave fable]

really changes up the vibe, I would visit this island no doubt

[viscid prairie]

UPDATE: Added low poly model of palm tree, fixes frame rate issue.

[viscid prairie]

added fog and waves

[viscid prairie]

with fog added sillouhette of island looks so good from distance.

[trim junco]

Are any of the islands visible from the other islands?

[viscid prairie]

if you turn your viewdistance settings up in game then yes

[brave fable]

they really pop, glad you got your performance back 👍

[brave fable]

waves look amazing!

[viscid prairie]

yep, I need to republish however cause its not showing up under scenarios

problem tho, when I build shore map it says this

"unable to build .shore directory" So for now there are no waves in the GM mode

[brave fable]

thats disappointing, i hope you find a workaround

[viscid prairie]

yeah, One guy said I need to fix my file structure, but I tried that and it just broke my whole terrain so I had to iterate to the backup to fix it. So I don't really know for now.

[viscid prairie]

putting this nice shot here

cliffs coming along very nicely

nice boats

from radio tower you can see mayreau about 10 km away

then from other side you have palm island about 3 km awy and Petite Martinique about 20km away with view distance set to 50,000 meters,

from lookout point you can see petite martinique and petite st vincent more clearly

[viscid prairie]

its starting to feel like fortunate son XD

[brave fable]

that is beautiful

[viscid prairie]

Got the palm tree shading right. Had to lower the AO just a bit

[viscid prairie]

fixed the color, this looks crazy

10x better than everon look in my opinion, i may be biased tho XD

arma 4? 😄

[misty zealot]

Looks amazing

[viscid prairie]

Now its looking like an actual jungle 😄

Petite martinique 20 km away in the distance

[eager dawn]

So dis Nam?

[viscid prairie]

might as well be, its on the opposite end of the globe tho, its in the caribbean, its an island called Union Island, in RL.

[viscid prairie]

South Grenadines

at 20,000 ft you can see all islands with 50 km view distance.

[brave fable]

milsimmers are going to love this map

[solid lake]

Am I the only one who literally cannot delete this mod I delete it and I reopen the game and it’s back in my mods why is this happening

[acoustic quiver]

Why would you want to delete it?

[shrewd glacier]

You are quick with the updates, the map by the grid wise seems small but it seems like in person it’s going to be a pretty nicely sized main island

[viscid prairie]

yep, is 9km^2 but on the ground it feels way bigger cause its very dense.

[shrewd glacier]

So bigger than Arland you’d say?

[viscid prairie]

Yeah bigger than Arland I’m not finished with west side yet, it’s still in Alpha

[shrewd glacier]

Of course I understand but as long as it’s bigger than Arland I’m cool with it

[viscid prairie]

I think it’s cause I’ve been updating it a lot, don’t know for sure tho.

[shrewd glacier]

But again, it’s not my map so my opinion isn’t relevant per se. Do what you think is best and shit people will eat this map up

[viscid prairie]

The plan is to have 14 islands when it’s fully finished. It will be total area of 320 km. I’m gonna make an island hopping conflict mode.

[shrewd glacier]

Sure you can fit that in a decently sized file size😂

[solid lake]

It’s not a bad map it’s just not what I wanted I can’t really do anything with it that I could do with other maps so there is really no use for it and I’d rather have the storage room for maps I will use more often

[viscid prairie]

What would u like, if you request I can make a diff version with recommendations, right now I’m still in alpha phase just laying stuff down, then after, I can delete certain building and areas and create slots and such or empty map. When it’s done there will be more rural areas with space to place things down and build your own bases.

[solid lake]

It’s not that at all the map is perfect how it is i just don’t have use for it

[misty zealot]

Looking at the irl sat images of the island, and it does confirm my suspicion that the ATC tower and hangar should a bit further away from the runway if that’s possible at all.

[brave fable]

tbh I think it is a great allrounder that brings a lot of new things to the table, you have a mix of urban, open, and densely forested areas, perfect for any conflict gamemode or GM mission

A lot of other maps that take on larger scale are very sparse and lack variation and detail

[solid lake]

True and I like the big citys that you don’t see much but to be honest the map itsself it just a bit to small like you can play it a few times but after that you would just be doing the same thing over and over

[brave fable]

I get that seeing the sights over and over can get boring, but given the amount of detail throughout the map there will all ways be something new to see, not only that but i cant wait to see what conflict on these islands will be like, we havent yet gotten any maps on workshop that have dense forests like this map, so maybe check it out once its done 👍

[viscid prairie]

fixed lighting issue, added shoreline waves to GM mode, Here's how it looks now,

[viscid prairie]

fixed the palm tree texture leaves,

there is now a realistic shine on the palm tree leaves, replicating waxy surface of leaves

[mighty terrace]

This map is awesome

[viscid prairie]

thx 😄

[viscid prairie]

cleaned up a lot of vegetation assets, so clearings look much more realistic, also, less vegetation overall, so it runs faster and is more optimized.

[viscid prairie]

Dense...

Optimizing massive forests.

The entire western portion of the island is basically one giant forest. Prepare to get completely lost.

somehow im still getting like 60 frames. Don't know how, but enfusion engine is awesome.

[viscid prairie]

Progress being made, the rest of island is pretty much massive forests and super vertical cliffs but these still take alot of time to detail to get right.

Most likely will take around a week to finish the rest of the island.

This a nice view tho

[viscid prairie]

Cambell Lookout

[viscid prairie]

More nice cliffs and jungle and a nice claustrophobic cave, in the cave you have to go prone to make it through to the end,

[viscid prairie]

updated the topo map, looks much cleaner now.

[shrewd glacier]

in the Southwest chunk of the map do you plan on making another island at all?

Just for a filler i mean, another big one could go nice there but i don't know fully how hard map making is.

[viscid prairie]

I’m gonna put an oil rig out there.

Or maybe a few small ones and then a big mother one.

[shrewd glacier]

Oh damn, thats even better like a big oil rig??

[viscid prairie]

Few small ones along the coast like a mile out, then a big mother one in the drop off deep in Martinique channel

[shrewd glacier]

Cause honestly that'd be a huge change of pace with a lot of the maps if there was oil rig(s), that's an awesome idea

[viscid prairie]

It makes sense too cause this island is closer to South America and Venezuelan coast about a few hundred miles south.

[shrewd glacier]

Yeah you're right, well im here for it all the way

[viscid prairie]

Maybe I’ll find a big cargo ship model, or build one out, and place it in north mayreau channel moored in a big cove.

If you’ve played ground branch, or original ghost recon games of early 2000’s, my goal is to create CQB environments with combining the vibes of all the ground branch maps in a single open world tropical environment.

Then I need to find a way to fake terrain on the ships and oil rigs so that Navmesh will work on them, like cover points for AI similar to how they have cover points on the Gamemaster place-able structures.

This way when you tell AI to defend say oil rig or cargo ship, they will occupy the entire ship in certain spots they will guard and other spots they will patrol, and other spots they will loiter and chill in resting animations.

The conflict mode will be primarily drug cartel VS US military in 2024, connected to a spin off of the Guyana conflict.

The independent force will be modern day pirates, instead of FIA and soviets which is primarily in Eastern European theatre.

This way it’s reminiscent of Tanoa kind of. Except it’s in Atlantic instead of the pacific.

One team starts in mayreau, other team starts in petite Martinique and must capture island bases from pirates to get resources and supplies, pirates will have complete control of all islands and the main Union Island, so most of the fighting by both forces will be to conquer Union Island after they have fully captured their neighboring islands and created supply chains on them. This is where most of the conflict game mode will occur, where both teams fight over the main airfield and the main city of Clifton as that will have the highest amount of resources available, and the airfield will give the controlling team fixed wing attack aircraft instead of just transport choppers.

I’m keeping everything vanilla assets for now so that everything runs smooth and dependencies can be added on once stable 1.0 is released.

[shrewd glacier]

I've always loved the game Medal of Warfighter. It's a really good modern military game and you could take inspiration from that or Ghost Recon Wildlands/Future Soldier.

[viscid prairie]

making da cliffffs

[viscid prairie]

West side of island is coming along nicely

Also, got rid of the birch trees, looks so much better

big cliff

[grave jewel]

@earnest frigate

[viscid prairie]

3 caves so far , This one has vertical aspect,

[viscid prairie]

slow but sure progress

[viscid prairie]

Added more diversity to forests,

much more natural look in the dry areas

[viscid prairie]

Detailing Altis like look

[storm wigeon]

Looks lovely

[viscid prairie]

The subtropical climate on union island looks similar to california

[viscid prairie]

NEW UPDATE INCOMING:

• Adjustments to lighting, cleaned up some vegetation issues, built more forests, trails, caves, structures, and points of interest in Union Island West, Adjustments to topographic map.

• Next update will introduce, navmesh fixes, Chatham Bay.

[ocean sphinx]

crazy how fast this map is progressing with plenty of detail too, can’t wait to see the finished version 🔥

[cursive laurel]

Looking pretty good

[jolly hemlock]

@viscid prairie

What's the time line you got for this being good to run. I got a milsim of guys ready to go.

[viscid prairie]

Its not finished yet, palm trees have no collision, but you can still run ops on it as it is rn.

[jolly hemlock]

OK sweet

[viscid prairie]

its currently in workbench as an alpha test

[jolly hemlock]

Alright I think my guys will hop in and check it out and I'll send you some feedback. You are welcome to be there if you want

[royal compass]

dognuts? didn’t know they sold those😂

[viscid prairie]

inside joike

also, palm trees now have collision!

[viscid prairie]

I’m gonna take a nap however I will be on later tonight time zone PST -8

[cursive laurel]

What’s the current progress on the map

[viscid prairie]

It’s in Alpha testing RN. Version 0.2.6, I just added collision to palm trees, so I will be updating navmesh with collision in 0.2.7, all objects are almost done being layed out for Union Island, then detailing work will begin, such as adding props, gardens, outdoor points of interest etc. Once Union island is done I will move on to Palm Island and then Mayreau, then the archipelago of 5 islands to the east about 3km from mayreau, then the last archipelago of 6 islands to the south of mayreau about 14km away. 14 islands total stretching over an area of 320km^2, I’m going to add a large cargo ship moored outside a cove in mayreau and many small oil rigs and a single large oil rig deep in the south west portion of the map as well when it’s fully done. This way you could take a helicopter or a RHIB to all the islands and oil rigs when it’s fully done.

[cursive laurel]

I wouldn’t go too heavy on the oil rigs, and make it more island focused, such as 2 small and 1 large, also a cave system would be interesting that goes between 2 islands

[viscid prairie]

cave going between 2 islands would be too noticable as it would look like its part of the same island or it be visibly connected, unless undewater, then the cave itself would be underwater.

[cursive laurel]

Damn there isn’t a way to make the cave not underwater?

[viscid prairie]

nope, you cant make a cave under the ground without exposing the top portion of the cave which needs to be hidden with rock objects

its not like normal ground where you can have a tunnel, you have to cover the top with something, otherwise it just looks like tiny ridge

[cursive laurel]

Can you cover it then remove the cover?

[viscid prairie]

the caves are just an illusion in cliff areas, they don't actually go underground sadly.

negative, if you remove the cover, then its just an open hole in the terrain.

[cursive laurel]

That is unfortunate, I saw on the nomad map they managed to do something with caves but I’m not sure

[viscid prairie]

I have three caves, and plan to make more. One cave has vertical aspect to it, so it looks almost like a mineshaft with ladders that goes deeper.

[cursive laurel]

That’d be pretty sick

[viscid prairie]

another cave is more claustrophobic so it gets more and more narrow the farther in you go, and you have to go prone to just barely make it to the other side.

[cursive laurel]

You should add a ton of dead ends to that cave

[viscid prairie]

I'm also gonna make sea caves in the coves and bluffs.

I'll have some larger cave systems in the northwest portion of the island as sea caves.

the goal is to make the caves large enoughon the inside so that GM's can build inside it, like set up small buildings and create there own walls and paths and stuff.

[cursive laurel]

You planning on making a naval port type deal like Pearl Harbor?

[viscid prairie]

The island chain is volcanic so it makes sense to have some larger cave systems near bluffs

[viscid prairie]

already have two ports so far, Clifton Bay and Ashton Bay, and many smaller piers all around the island. Clifton Bay is the most industrialized port as it has deepest water in the Bay.

[cursive laurel]

I’m pretty excited for this project to be complete it’s for sure something I’d be adding to my server

[viscid prairie]

This is a second world country as well, so things aren't going to be very industrialized, alot of it is more rugged, shanty towns, mixed with vacation resorts.

It's similar to venezuela or Haiti.

Overall I believe there will be five ports, Two in Mayreau I think, Two in Union Island which already are there, and One in Petite Martinique, there could be more however.

This is a 1:1 replication of Martinique channel, so distances between islands, Island size, are exactly a 1:1 scale of the actual island chain. https://satellites.pro/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines_map#12.591465,-61.426191,14

Its exactly the same actually. Only difference is building types and some vegetation differ from the actual islands so far.

If you wanted you could use the actual map to find your way, if you don't want to use the in game map XD

[viscid prairie]

Nice runnoff channels,

[jolly hemlock]

Can't wait

[viscid prairie]

Bloody Bay

This color combo blends so well with teh sat map its crazy

[trim junco]

[viscid prairie]

natural water pools are gonna be all over these islands, as well as very pointy vertical cliffs and bluffs.

[viscid prairie]

Recreating jungle vegetation with vanilla assets doesn't look too bad imo

[viscid prairie]

at 100km view distance, screenshots so noice,

[viscid prairie]

last bit of island to finish now, then Union Island is done, 13 more to go. XD

[viscid prairie]

Mission accomplished, All of union island is done, besides props and smaller details.

[viscid prairie]

Generating new Navmesh

[viscid prairie]

Reimported Satmap, waiting time...

[viscid prairie]

lighting is so good dang, next update coming up shortly.

Ocean view

[normal estuary]

So good I'm thinking of moving in.. 😃

[viscid prairie]

Update 0.2.7 is underway!

• Added collision to palm trees
• Updated the Navmesh
• Finished Chatham Bay
  All parts of Union Island are now in place, next step is refinement and optimization. Next Island to be added will be Palm Island.

[safe lynx]

@viscid prairie I'm this might be a big ask could could we possibly have a island with airbase like the one on arland

[viscid prairie]

there is a civilian air base on Union Island, when you say airbase do you just mean airfield? or like an actual airbase like large military airbase?

[fringe sandal]

This looks great, going to tell many fellas the definition of insanity

https://tenor.com/view/far-cry3-vaas-49685-funny-far-cry-gif-13852905

[cursive laurel]

Looks really sick man keep it up

[safe lynx]

Yeah Large or medium military air base

[viscid prairie]

My goal is to keep the islands as close to the original islands as possible so that other people can use it as a sandbox to build whatever they want on top of that. When I make a conflict mode I will modify all of the buildings but for layout phase I’m just keeping it 1:1 with the sat map for placement purposes so that everything looks right from the start.

This airfield is fairly large in game, it a smaller airfield in reality but in game it feels big, and there is plenty of space to turn it into a military base and add extra buildings. It’s a civilian airfield atm, but in GM mode you can fortify it and turn it into a military base.

[brave fable]

holy shit, I leave for a few days and the island is looking even more amazing!

[viscid prairie]

haha, radios working now, got like 11 new songs on new Liberation radio !! listening to Lime in the coconut currently haha

red radio is gonna be yatch rock station, and black radio is gonna be Liberation Radio

I'm gonna add like 30 songs for each radio station, then I'm gonna figure out how to add FM radio to the vehicles.

[viscid prairie]

Car vehicle FM Radio in testing, working so far, got RadioBroadcast for Union Island Radio station called Liberation Radio, got around 25 or so songs in playlist. Primarily Yacht Rock, Reggae, and Calypso Music. Liberation Radio.

Begin cruisin in the Carribean bumping soft tunes

[viscid prairie]

Starting work on Palm Island

[cursive laurel]

Just love how much you’re putting into this

What are “PPeffects” 💀

[viscid prairie]

PostProcess Effects, is how lighting and rain, HDR and anti aliasing are processed in the game world

Ran into issue with Radios, you can only have a single station for now

So Liberation Radio, got like 20 so songs in it and two DJ's, and independent forces that hijack the station spreading propoganda every now and then.

[viscid prairie]

View of union Island from Palm Island

Looking the other direction, you have Petite St Vincent and the Petite Martinique archipelago 10 kilometers to the south. And then to the northeast, you can see Mayreau, about 7 km away

[viscid prairie]

got pina colada song playing on the radio, Yacht Rock radio next update, as well as Palm Island and some bug fixes.

[safe lynx]

Understand that u can't do a big air base! But could you possibly add a medical Barricks/military hospital nd heli pad to the military base. Ik it's alot to a ask but my unit loves the map but we don't have anywhere for our medevac to drop people off

[viscid prairie]

I thought there already was one, two barracks buildings and one of them is medical i'm pretty sure

[safe lynx]

I will double check sorry if Im wrong

[viscid prairie]

at the military site in south ashten

[safe lynx]

I will be on at 10 to check!

[viscid prairie]

The airfield is a civilian airfield

[safe lynx]

Ik

[viscid prairie]

but you can build it out in GM mode I think, Other islands will have more military like structures

[safe lynx]

I'm talking about the military site I just checked

[viscid prairie]

this is the main civ island primarily with two main cities. Yeah, I'll add some more stuff to that military site, everything is placeholder for now.

Also here's this nice video doyle took https://www.youtube.com/live/ILqT8t7Qb5Q?si=h2-mDYY1gtcqFwqT

[safe lynx]

Copy that a heli pad would be greatly appreciated at the site since one u can spawn is a bit jank with the extra props on it

[viscid prairie]

got it 👍

[viscid prairie]

also, are you aware of layers? in GM mode ifyou don't want the extra stuff near the helipad and you just want it bare, you can enable layers in your GM settings, and then you can manually delete all the extra stuff from the helipad.

takes a bit of extra prep, but it opens up way more possibilities with GM as you can build much more stuff.

[brave fable]

what a splendid flyover!

[viscid prairie]

Palm Island, masking and scupting is done, added roads and another marsh.

.5km^2

much smaller than Union Island

[safe lynx]

Oh I didn't know

[viscid prairie]

try it out, it will also affect how in depth you can make your missions as well.

Total land on this map when its done is gonna be 22.27 km^2 stretched out over 320km^2 of ocean.

so the map itself is quite larger than everon, but the total area of land mass is slightly smaller than everon.

when you total up the areas of each island, of which there are 14 islands in total.

[cursive laurel]

Can we get some island boys on the radio?

[viscid prairie]

lol

[viscid prairie]

all radio entities are now functional, and FM radio works in the helicopter, will add to all Civ ground vics as well

[viscid prairie]

sure thing

[cursive laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/islandboyjusaislandboy-gif-24319719

[brave fable]

no. no. no. please.

[cursive laurel]

Yes....

[cursive laurel]

Would you say the map is currently playable?

[brave fable]

for a GM scenario 100% especially considering how much of the first island is complete

[cursive laurel]

Are there like military bases and stuff?

Well I guess iz's map is getting featured on my server lmfao

What's the id for it?

[viscid prairie]

Union island is done besides minor details and props, decals, and signs, which will make it feel more alive. Sry fellas will not be adding Island boys songs. It’s a yacht rock station, it’s connected to island Lore.

[cursive laurel]

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[viscid prairie]

• updated all foliage,
• Added Ground palms (thanks to ethanthechunkymunk for models)

[viscid prairie]

Video Courtesy of EthanTheChunkyMunk:

[brave fable]

i will do a full day sped up timelapse with sound soon

[viscid prairie]

added beach sand

[cursive laurel]

I’m gonna force people to march through the jungle, then ambush the hell out of them

[eager dawn]

Is union islands available roight neow for download?

[cursive laurel]

I have it on my server so… yes?

[brave fable]

me and LZ were discussing how different logistics will be on this map in comparison to everon, transporting supplies will be 100 times more dangerous

[brave fable]

yes early alpha, we will update every so often, given the amount of changes we have made today along it will be a really nice update

[viscid prairie]

yep

[median ocean]

Makes a huge difference now you have sand and palms

[viscid prairie]

indeed

[brave fable]

yep, i agree, it really makes it pop

[trim junco]

Is this your first ever map? (arma 3 included)

[cursive laurel]

It’d really pop if we had the island boys

[viscid prairie]

Yes

[viscid prairie]

lowered tree density to increase frames, still looks nice tho

frames now increased by double

[brave fable]

wow it doesnt look like much changed either

[viscid prairie]

yep, just lowered density of the forest generator, thats why forest generators are so nice, they fill in the empty space

procedurally

now we should get solid 60 hopefully in workshop

[brave fable]

remember that volumetric clouds also take a performance chunk

[viscid prairie]

yep

is there a way to optimize clouds? current version on workshop rn is getting around 50 frames for me and 40 in the city

[pallid aspen]

Oh, also, i believe bots are not pathing correctly. That may be worth checking in on, however, I’ve slept since then. That may be fixed by now

[viscid prairie]

will look into it

[viscid prairie]

Palm island structures phase

the whole island is a giant caribbean resort

dude the waves are actually breaking correctly after doing the bathymetry

[runic ibex]

:)

[cursive laurel]

Please add a helicopter pad on each island lmao

I can't find many flat spots to slap them down at (besides the airport)

[grave jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/skillissue-skill-issue-gif-22125481

[viscid prairie]

piers are gonna be interesting

[viscid prairie]

you have to fly slower over the tree areas cause there are many hidden clearings,

i made it super dense on purpose cause that's what its like in real life

theres only so many spots you can actually land, unless you get creative or are a very good pilot and can fit in tight spaces, then there is many many places to land. You'd be surprised where you can fit.

also, you can do hover landings on slopes, you don't have to put it down fully on the skids to drop peeps off, you can hang one skid off the slope at a 45 degree angle,

[cursive laurel]

There is no doubt they’re spots but if it is a military area aka fighting is happening there would definitely be helipads, bunkers, and cut down trees

[viscid prairie]

are you talking bout that military site?

[cursive laurel]

I’m saying it’s a military game in general, the area is a war zone

[viscid prairie]

its actually a school in reality, but I'm keeping it 1:1 so I'm not placing anything down that is not true to the satellite map, GM's can place whatever they want over the map as a layout

[cursive laurel]

Militaries even poor ones would have heli pads and some clearing

[viscid prairie]

the map itself is just a sandbox so other people can build on top of it, think of it like Eden Empty.

this is not a military island, check google maps search union island grenadines, there is no military bases on it haha

[cursive laurel]

Yeah I completely understand that especially appreciate the 1:1 I would suggest adding a few military aspects because again war game. It is also difficult to fit compositions in good areas.

[viscid prairie]

I don't want to deviate from reality for this map in terms of where buildings are placed or treeline.

I'll make a conflict version of the map with mil bases, and another GM version of the map with military sites

once its done, im still putting layout down. its version 0.2.8, not even close to being done.

[cursive laurel]

I love the map and so do the people on my server the heli pads aren’t a big deal either, but if you’re planning on gm stuff you do you lol I was just thinking of ways to possibly improve certain aspects

My 1 and only demand still stands though… Island boys… 💀

[viscid prairie]

haha

[cursive laurel]

You think you’d get copyrighted if you put island boys on it lmao

[viscid prairie]

no, as long as its not for commercial purposes

I am putting a bunch of yacht rock in the radio playlist and some royalty free calypso music. alot of songs are pre 1974 which is where copyright law ends for anything published before that.

but its also all for noncommercial purposes so the record labels most likely won't even know

or care 😄 now if it was drake songs then yea, i'd prob get cease and desist, but that's only if other people start making money off ad revenue through lets say youtube videos going viral.

[viscid prairie]

progress

[mighty terrace]

Keep doing your thing and please don’t change the map to make it more convenient for anyone else. It looks great and it continues to look great with every update.

And for anyone else that might reply. It was already stated that the map is made 1:1 realistically. If there is a challenge for you to overcome then figure it out. That’s part of why people play these types of games.

[storm wigeon]

Not trying to start something but do you think they just like, manifest helipads when wars happen?

[normal estuary]

Also with it being a bunch of islands its likely any conflict would be lead by a Naval task force. So aircraft would likely be launched from a carrier. With maybe marines using Amphibious craft or jumping from helos into shallow water. Lots of ways to do this you just have to have an imagination.

[viscid prairie]

halfway done with palm island, around 1km^2

Next update V0.2.8 will include:

• Palm Island
• New Sandy beaches
• Updated Vegetation, added ground palms, new dense forest texture.
• (Requires testing) working FM radio station in all civ vehicles and helicopters, Liberation Radio, inspired by Far Cry 2, includes 26 tracks of 70's Yacht Rock, Reggae, and Calypso Music.

[solemn valve]

I love this map

[viscid prairie]

palm island is done!

Next update will be rolling out tomorrow night

some nice reefs

still need to paint the bathymetry, and then finish up the cliffs on Palm Island

A quick sneak peak of the wilderness on Palm Island.

Liberation Radio is working

[cursive laurel]

No it’s a war zone don’t you think there would be engineered helipads or designated landing zones.

[cursive laurel]

I thought of that but there is 1 aircraft carrier in the game that I think is from around 2010. Otherwise I’d definitely do that.

[storm wigeon]

If ya wanna be realistic then no. Because it's a very small island, they could deploy like a battalion and have it capture in a couple days at most.

[cursive laurel]

That’s what they said about Vietnam

[storm wigeon]

Vietnam is famously a tiny island in the caribbean

[normal estuary]

any conflict that I can think of that would work on thus will be against unorganised militia type, rather than regular armies with a large military spend.

[cursive laurel]

No, but Vietnam is a jungle, so is the islands. Also I wouldn’t see a very large military force taking over the island unless it had some strategic positioning.

[storm wigeon]

Vietnam isn't just a jungle it's a huge country home to mountains, jungles, plains, and probably other types of land I am forgetting

[cursive laurel]

Yeah but the problem they had was the jungle

[storm wigeon]

No the problem was not the jungle they could handle jungle fighting just fine if not then Europe wouldn't have colonized Africa

Anyways this is completely off-topic. Just let the lad cook

[cursive laurel]

The jungle provided camouflage, easy traps, lots of protection from air to ground as well as tons of positions to ambush from. Hence the napalm bombs. Not sure what Europe has to do with this lol.

“Using the dense jungle as cover.”

[storm wigeon]

Was referring to the colonization of Africa, home to TONS of jungle. The thing with Vietnam is more that counter insurgency is hard and when the state you are propping up goes through multiple military coups it gets even harder. If the jungle was the whole issue then why would the Viet Cong Guerrillas take like three times the PAVN's casualties over the Tet Offensive

[cursive laurel]

The Vietcong took heavy casualties because they were more human shields than soldiers to Vietnam. Also Americans soon started using napalm bombs which did a number on them. Yet using the jungle they still pushed the Americans out of the country. America captured almost every town in Vietnam yet couldn’t win the war because of the jungle. Majority of the fighting happened in the jungles, and majority of the deaths happened in the jungle. We couldn’t take the jungles and kept getting shot from the trees so we lost.

[storm wigeon]

[cursive laurel]

The BBC said that it was because of the jungle I don’t know how you’re planning on arguing that

[storm wigeon]

Ah well if the BBC said so

[cursive laurel]

Multiple sources of information said it was because of the jungle. 💀

[storm wigeon]

Please do more research than google

[cursive laurel]

I think you should do more research lmao

[storm wigeon]

🗿

[cursive laurel]

Also want me to use bing? I can use yahoo too!

[cursive laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/pdf-document-files-scroll-down-gif-17235498

[normal estuary]

I like all of the above. It's kinda what I had in mind what I'm planning for in my campaign for the unit I'm in.

[cursive laurel]

I wish more map creators built along the vanilla era lines ngl.

[viscid prairie]

What’s that?

[cursive laurel]

??

[viscid prairie]

whats vanilla era lines mean

[cursive laurel]

Cold war

[viscid prairie]

Added Jungle Soil Texture, adjusted middle distance blend to blend better with current sat map, (Current sat map is low res and is a placeholder, will add HQ sat map once all structures are placed down and map is in final stages.

[normal estuary]

It's going to be awful fighting in that!! I love it

[viscid prairie]

new update will drop in 30min, adding Palm Island. 1km^2 small island off coast of Union Island

[pallid aspen]

That’s awesome‼️

I’ll try to run this on my server tomorrow

[viscid prairie]

Palm Island done

[sturdy trench]

Looks incredible

[viscid prairie]

Updated screens,

[sturdy trench]

Thats some nice progress ur doing on that project, keep up the good work. Feel like ill be on vacation there and let the others fight.

[viscid prairie]

also this, someone told me to add a lookout point on the big cliff in the middle of the island,

[viscid prairie]

update is now live, might be some issues with navmesh, if so let me know

[cursive laurel]

What is featured on the update?

[median ocean]

Just a suggestion for the next update. If you like, you can hide the "HORNIK" sign on the mountain restaurant, without altering the prefab. Just drag the sign into the wall or underground.
I've done this on mine, gonna replace with a daft pun once I think of one.

[crystal charm]

wow that town looks so good

[cursive laurel]

Only complaint is this beach looks pretty plain

I'd recommend this map though, and at the current stage it is at (very early in development)

I'd have to rate this map (8/10) very cool scenery and has good detailing.

[crystal charm]

the beach looks like it's flooded

[viscid prairie]

I added new sand texture so I need to experiment with the beaches a bit, till I find the right look, for now I just made it sand, till I can find something to blend it with.

The pebbles I had for Dirt_01 were overboard with this beach sand texture so I need to retouch up all the beaches which is gonna take a while.

[cursive laurel]

Some of the beaches look really good it's just too much beach

[viscid prairie]

Did u test the radio?

[viscid prairie]

UPDATE 0.2.8

• Palm Island
• Added Ground Palms to Forest Generator
• Optimized forests to hopefully get better performance, will continue tweaking this as time goes on.
• Changed surface textures for beaches and forests, added Beachsand and Jungle Soil texture
• Adjustments to lighting
• Added experimental FM Radio to US and Russian helicopter variants, and civilian UAZ closed top vehicles. Union Island Radio broadcasts on all FM Radios on the island. Yacht Rock, Reggae, and Calypso music. Welcome to paradise.

[viscid prairie]

U can never have too much beach 🏖️ 😎 ☀️ 😂

[viscid prairie]

Some of the beach on windward side SW is filler till I add the cliffs, as this takes a very long time to detail cliffs with larger terrains.

[cursive laurel]

Not yett bro we are having so much fun

We're getting our asses kicked we got pushed by a whole platoon from our asses when we thought we snuck past them

[viscid prairie]

Cause you have to resculpt it and repaint it, and then resnap the forest generators after resculpting, which takes forever. And then you have to get creative with the cliff prefabs to make the points look natural, north side points near big sands resort are close to done, as this will be a good representation of how the cliffs will look.

[cursive laurel]

We're on the new island btw I know you can't see it but it's difficult lol

[viscid prairie]

Place down an FM radio 📻 object and you can listen to Liberation Radio.

Why is it dark? Is it night?

Wait r u on Xbox?

[cursive laurel]

The other dude is, but it's foggy af, and morning'

[viscid prairie]

I don’t know how it runs for Xbox, if I had one I would test, also I don’t know if the FM radio works for multiplayer yet as I have only tested it myself in SP and it works fine there.

[cursive laurel]

It runs for xbox

[viscid prairie]

In helicopter cockpit, if you look at the VHF panel you can turn on FM radio in the chopper

[cursive laurel]

And multiplayer it's hella fire, dude this is so uncanny rn lmfao we're hiding in a house from 2 platoons

[viscid prairie]

Damn that’s cool

[cursive laurel]

Nah we're having hella fun though the map is sick, if I had more players I could do so much with it

[viscid prairie]

Is it running smooth?

[cursive laurel]

Yeah, I had some ping issues but I don't know if that's related to the map or not

[viscid prairie]

Probably not, are u on dedicated server or listen server?

[viscid prairie]

I haven’t added props and minor details to that beach yet or beaches in general, I just replaced the Dirt_01 with the beachsand texture, it will look better in the next updates to come.

I still gotta make the rest of the Islands, sculpt them and add infrastructure and vegetation and surface masking. That will continue into the next month most likely.

[cursive laurel]

Dedicated server

[viscid prairie]

Sometimes issues can be mod related cause the map is mainly vanilla for the most part besides the custom radio and custom textures which shouldn’t cause any ping issues.

Some of the larger mods stacked on top of eachother that are very script heavy can cause lag issues if they aren’t compatible with eachother or if they are overriding other mods.

Try testing the terrain in vanilla and let me know if there are any ping issues, or frame drops.

[cursive laurel]

I think it's my internet being off today, because everyone else is running great

[cursive laurel]

I think another issue is the amount of downloading people gotta do

I think it takes an xbox player about 15-30 minutes to install the map I'm being so fr. I'm not sure if that's normal though

[glacial fable]

Microsoft limits download speeds on xbox, current cap for the workshop is 10Mb/s no matter how fast your internet is

[cursive laurel]

RIP

[misty zealot]

Is that confirmed or is it something that only affects Arma? I ask since I can download GB sized addons on flight sim with speeds higher then 100mbs

[fringe sandal]

Probably arma, I’m wired and gta 5 xs the version that’s like 100gb takes 20-30 min vs 2-3 on wireless

[glacial fable]

It appears to only affect Reforger's workshop. I get way faster downloads with everything else but thats also downloading addons and things from Microsoft (Xbox store, etc) rather than a 3rd party host in game

[viscid prairie]

This was my reference lol https://youtu.be/NpMPXDeiBxw?si=jCibwMm-JzOdggIc

[acoustic quiver]

I don't play mfs yet do you download it like dlc where it's through the Xbox or so you actually physically do it through the game?

[misty zealot]

Through the game

[brave fable]

is there a server running map up???

sorry i had a bit of a camping trip i am not up to date 😆

[normal estuary]

Think maybe tide lines would be the icing on the cake for the realism.

[viscid prairie]

That all will come in time, that’s final stages with the finer details, also props and such is all last stage

I’m still in first phase, terrain sculpting painting and building layout, creating roads and vegetation. Second phase is infrastructure (power lines, service type structures, and refining building layout), then third phase is minor details, (sidewalks, urbanization, beaches, decals, props.) Then it’s optimization after that in fourth phase which is 1.0 (what needs to be added and what needs to be taken away)

Rn we are in 0.2.8 not even out of Alpha, at .5 we are in beta, then 1.0 is official release.

[normal estuary]

To be honest, I don't want to fight on it, I'm just gonna get shit ton of screen shots of me chilling on the deck chair by the beach haha

[acoustic quiver]

Perhaps due to it being Microsoft or something I really don't know. All we know is that (don't quote me) i believe bohemia said themselves that it's Microsoft limiting them.

[cursive laurel]

Yeah I’m running a operations server rn

[cursive laurel]

Another lovely day on the Union Islands, he's living the dangerous life!

[viscid prairie]

lol he’s got the thousand yard stare, man deserves a vacation.

[slow moat]

Cool romba!

[cursive laurel]

gotta stop global warming somehow

[viscid prairie]

is that an AT mine under the chair? lol

[novel socket]

Is anyone else having issues with the map being stuck on one old version anytime you start the scenario?

[viscid prairie]

I think people said that workshop is having issues today I’m not sure if that could be the issue

[novel socket]

Every time I load up it tells me I’m on Alpha 0.18 but I’ve downloaded all the updates and I can’t find the new island

Been that way for a while too

[viscid prairie]

Hmm, weird, is Union Island done in your version?

[novel socket]

Nope there are still parts un forested

[viscid prairie]

That means you are running older version, when u updated from workshop did u see any issues downloading? It should be version 0.2.8

If nothing else works, Delete and reinstall v0.2.8 from workshop.

[novel socket]

I’ve deleted it and reinstalled already, I figure I might just clear my cache of mods and see if that fixes it, thanks for the insight

[viscid prairie]

Did that fix?

[novel socket]

the reinstall didnt fix but im gonna try the cache clear now

[viscid prairie]

Only thing I can think of is it’s messed up in workshop, but then everyone would be having same issue, but other servers I was on was working v0.2.8 so maybe it’s your other mods possibly.

[novel socket]

Working now, must've gotten messed up somehow when i was trying to fix the downloads not working

[pallid aspen]

Ran a mission on palm island last night. Server loved it🤙

Excited to see further updates!

[fringe sandal]

Cliff over airstrip has a great view

[cursive laurel]

Drinking can cause testicular cancer.

[viscid prairie]

Next update: Mayreau 1.2km^2,

ETA 2-3 weeks, last image is Union Island airfield.

[viscid prairie]

This whole town is set on a curvy big hill which will be very difficult to create 😄

[cursive laurel]

❤️

[viscid prairie]

You can see the vertical aspect of the village situated on a hill, which would require some thought in terms of terrain sculpting, which areas need to be flattened and which areas need to be adjusted to match the height map. The hard part is putting flat bottom buildings on a slope, and making it look natural.

[median ocean]

Gonna be a good challenge! Especially if you have pavements to place 😄

[cursive laurel]

gl ❤️

[misty zealot]

You could do a angled concrete or brick base under some of the houses

[viscid prairie]

Cool thing about these vanilla buildings is they already have full bottoms and some even basements, so they work well on angled surfaces.

"hilltop"

[hybrid moon]

@viscid prairie I took some pictures of your beautiful Union Island mod, this mod has to be one of the best cinematic shots.

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[brave fable]

oh it sure is, great looking shots

[cursive laurel]

Walking dead moment

[cursive laurel]

@viscid prairie The grass is poking through the floor here just thought you'd want to know

[viscid prairie]

just fixed it,

making slow progress on Mayreau, this gonna take a bit of time to get right, very difficult island.

This slopey town has got my brain fried. its so annoying switching from terrain sculpting to painting, to messing with road heightmaps, then vectors trying to fix roads on slope, getting intersections smoothed out, then trying to smooth out terrain to fit these houses on sloped angles, very very hard haha

I guess for now I will put down general layout, smooth out the intersections, then work on detailing later

This gonna take a while, much more involved process for this town than the larger towns on Union Island, where it was primarily flat terrain.

[cursive laurel]

Your number 1 objective should be adding the island boys song

[viscid prairie]

maybe

[mighty terrace]

Please no

[cursive laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/islandboyjusaislandboy-gif-24319719

[mighty terrace]

Some Caribbean instrumentals would be cool

[cursive laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/beach-island-sea-vacation-paradise-gif-763981404100543537

[viscid prairie]

I do have some calypso music in there

[mighty terrace]

But don’t cave to the island boys crap

[cursive laurel]

Bros just jealous he can’t be an island boy

[viscid prairie]

Island boys is not going into the playlist sry lol

[cursive laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/island-boy-islandboys-gif-23672325 never said never

[brave fable]

you could make an override with the song

[cursive laurel]

Huh

[brave fable]

as in if anyone wanted island boys radio they could do it, i just dont think anyone would get the mod XD

[cursive laurel]

What did you just say about island boys… 💀

[viscid prairie]

taking shape

[viscid prairie]

big salt pond on Mayreau

nice shot of palm island with reefs exposed underwater

petite martinique 10km away in the distance from Palm island

[viscid prairie]

look over bay in Mayreau

[viscid prairie]

entire map, 320km^2

doesnt even let me go up high enough to get full top down pic lol

20,000 ft up with clouds

This hurt my brain to build, but its actually working...

beginning of the hilltop town on Mayreau

[cursive laurel]

Bro this is so fire keep it up man I can't wait to see the final product! 🔥

Another day at the beach

[viscid prairie]

fixed ocean being flat, added bump map, now all water surfaces are moved by wind.

[trim junco]

[viscid prairie]

updated music playlist, now Radio Station has 40 noteworthy songs, yatch rock, some oldschool hard rock, calypso music, and reggae.

Also a good amount of vietnam era music.

[brave fable]

looking really nice

a island hopping conflict gamemode would be amazing

[viscid prairie]

thats the plan

[cursive laurel]

It’d be funny if the island boys was added to that

[viscid prairie]

lol

[cursive laurel]

How’s the new island going?

[viscid prairie]

going well

[cursive laurel]

👀

[viscid prairie]

This what i have done so far for mayreau

still pretty rough so far

updated sound map is real nice, now in the towns, the gunshots bounce off all the buildings and the surrounding hills, which can make spotting snipers difficult

[cursive laurel]

What are you gonna call this hole?

Island boys hole 💀

[viscid prairie]

mayreau gonna feel a bit like laguna or san diego

[viscid prairie]

urban terraces in Mayreau,

verandas and such, will also include lots of outdoor patios and food eatery areas/outdoor restauraunts. very touristy vibe.

[viscid prairie]

Mayreau Favela, WIP

view from Mayreau church,

[viscid prairie]

about a third of the way done with central town of Mayreau, didn't realize it was this big until I began building it out.

[barren ferry]

The new Chinese pla mod is gonna hit hard with this map 🙏

[runic ibex]

Stratis vibes

[viscid prairie]

Town of Mayreau, getting closer

[brave fable]

almost there

[shrewd wing]

Wish we got this kind of render distance in game

Map looks and feels really good. AI functions pretty fluently too

[brave fable]

same, would be nice to know how much it affects performance

[shrewd wing]

Optimization options could be a cool experimental branch update

[fiery ermine]

What is this mod called on the workshop I can't find it

[median ocean]

Seems to be down at the moment

[brave fable]

really?

Oh shit I think I might know why 😬

[thick valve]

Best map on the game is gone 😭😭😭

[craggy belfry]

It’ll be back soon I’m sure

[brave fable]

we are still working on resolving the issue, we have a good idea on what the problem is and will hopefully get the mod back up again soon

[shrewd wing]

Im not having any issues, im playing on it right now

[brave fable]

yes it is on your system, but not able to get on workshop, so dont uninstall it XD

[shrewd wing]

I’ll just live on here for a while

[brave fable]

lmao

[fringe sandal]

Any word on if this will be back up, was it the music that got it struck down from the radio?

[storm wigeon]

Wait union Island got struck???

[thick valve]

Sadly

[shrewd wing]

Like its down to be updated or bohemia threw a fit?

[thick valve]

Seems to have been taken down by BI

But we dont know and it aint our business, hopefully it comes back 🙏

[shrewd wing]

Bohemia would rather take mods down than do their jobs ig, modders carry this game heavily

[fringe sandal]

They rather not get sued, I understand, I just hope it was the music and they can put new non copyright stuff and it wasn’t something like trees or ground textures that will need the whole thing redone

[brave fable]

sorry all, mod will not be coming back online, ever

it was not a copyright issue more so a personal issue that i wont disclose on this thread, but situation is that the project is whipped from existence, if you still have the mod installed enjoy it, there is very little chance that it will be returning to the workshop ever and there certainly wont be any updates or completion made to the map 😢

[silk thicket]

Damn.
Thats sad to hear. This map has been a treat to look at.

Whatever the reason was, it's your decision. You dont owe us anything 🙂

[acoustic quiver]

If someone has it installed post the scenario code and mod code to cement it

[fringe sandal]

I got it can look next am on, if the creator will allow unfinished to be used that be dope