Allyhorn Island

[meager palm]

This is my first attempt at terrain in ARMA Reforger, and really ARMA ever. I've always wanted to do something like this with ARMA since ARMA 2.

It is based on the terrain of the Bois Blanc Island, which is near the USA and Canada border. I chose this area because i have friends in the USA and Canada side so I thought it'd be cool, nothing to do with the whole political aspect recently.

It is roughly 16km X 16km, which is very large for a beginner, however I'd rather my time spent be on a "bigger picture" than a smaller picture, then restarting. The area cut off in the northwest corner will be reshapped. I had to do a 20kmX20km to get the whole island which was too big. I may add surrounding island or two later on, we'll see.

Right now my mindset is to make the map the typical "post apocalyptic/post war" setting. I will release the map, but then also do a scenario. The scenario will be a "easier" surivial gamemode. Fun, but some challenges. I have my eye on the Centraleconomy and Metabolism mods, along with the ARMStalker mods. I will likely be using building mods such as Wolfsbuildings, EEC content. The content from those go their original creators, and they have done great work!

I work shift work so progress will be slow, but if there is an interest I'll do more regular posted updates. Right now I have only have heightmap and roads imported from QGIS.

Im always open to suggestions and constructive criticism, so please comment and interact if you'd like.

This is the Google map image.

First area I will be working on, wish me luck!

[flat needle]

Nice to see you here with your Island. Welcome and have fun 😉

[sage hound]

Good luck mate, look forward to seeing the final product 👍

Also, please don't forget to backup your project. I have spoken to a few map mod Devs and they have lost all their progress due to whatever issues they have come across.

[meager palm]

Thank you! I did a bit of scenario editing and enjoyed it a lot but didn’t finish it to publish officially even though I should lol.

[meager palm]

Dannng good to know. I tend to back up before I do major changes but will have to be more regular about it. I’d be devistated.

[sage hound]

Yeah it would suck. One guy I spoke to lost a years with of work 😢

[meager palm]

First area i've worked on. Have two more smaller areas about this size i've been working on but not ready to show that yet. Edit: First picture is before I did any editing.

[outer notch]

looks great so far!

[meager palm]

Thank you!

[meager palm]

Thank you appreciate it!

[meager palm]

Most recent progress. First bridge and river. Fuel station. Camp grounds.

[vestal monolith]

This is looking really good, loving the attention to detail and the rock work! I find placing rocks very tedious😂

[meager palm]

Hm i replied nto sure why didnt go thru. Yes the rocks are tedius, but learned whole map making process is hah! and thank you! Made the decision to do a rough layout of buildings and roads then go back to do finer details to most so i can learn along the way.

[meager palm]

First town area and residential area. Alot of work to do still but where im at after few more days of working on these areas.

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[flat needle]

you will find out one day; that 1 day doesn't have enough hours😉. Keep working hard and we'll have a new map soon😊

[meager palm]

Haha no they don’t!

[meager palm]

Started first harbour today. Progress after several hours.

[flat needle]

Nice 👍🏻

What’s your plan or idea for the shoreline a long the river?

[meager palm]

Thank you very much! Not really sure yet. This area turned out ALOT different than i planned, but just was going with flow.

[meager palm]

Going to plan for a rail line leaving that area, then expanding to a railyard, and then thru map.

[flat needle]

I work also on the Harbour🙀😹
But now i got the problem, how to design shorelines😞😕

[flat needle]

Good idea working on other ideas.

[meager palm]

Looks awesome! I wouldn’t save I have ADHD but maybe I do? I like doing bigger picture then going into smaller details lol. Did you work on zimnitaria or however you spell it?

[flat needle]

Yes, I built an underground bunker system with several floors for my friend Casseburn. He really helped me a lot when I had questions or problems at the beginning. That's why I told him that if he needed anything, he should ask me and I would take the time for him. After about a week of work, I was finished. If you ever visit this map... try to find this bunker.

[wild swift]

Wow you're island looks very promising. I made a newsitem about it on ARMA4Base.com. Keep up the good work. looking forward to it!

[meager palm]

I’ve loaded the map several times and flown around looking at how other map makers have done things and I swore I saw your name on the layers list haha. Challenge accepted! I want to do some tunnels /bunkers in mine. I looked at the Worthy Islands silo and that thing is intense how much work he put into that alone!

[flat needle]

What? My name? Never…it’s a fake 😜

If u need something just ask☺️

[meager palm]

And awesome job helping a friend out! I keep trying to convince my friends that like this type of stuff to get a PC but of course they aren’t cheap machines

[flat needle]

Don’t forget, if u place something underground the destruction will be activated and the game thinks this must be broken. Also the lightning need to be adjusted

[meager palm]

Thanks for the recognition I’ll check out the site! It’s just myself working on it so it’ll be a bit before releasing. I’m about 3 or 4 weeks and roughly 100 hours into it. It’ll be more small and medium locations with no big locations. I have friends on Xbox so want to make it console friendly even though it’s a larger map.

[meager palm]

Thanks for the offer! It’s just me working on it but stream for couple friends to get their input but they can’t physically work on it. And good to know thank you!

[meager palm]

Appreciate the post!! Just fyi the map is being made by me not Dennis green

[wild swift]

Hi, sorry you are right, I will corect it, right now.

[flat needle]

If u need help asked

I have nothing to do with this map, we’re just talking😌

[wild swift]

🙂

[meager palm]

All good. Don’t want people thinking his skill is much lower than it is when they see mine haha

[flat needle]

theres no skill... -100%

[meager palm]

I only stream when they are wanting to see the map or me show them something. I don't do much on my Youtube, but here's a 8 minute view around map and what i've currently done. The video quality sucks, i gotta figure out why. https://youtu.be/15lXSqRNYgM

[meager palm]

First train station and railroads

[meager palm]

Start of the dam

[wild swift]

Very nice!

[meager palm]

Progress on the dam

I made two different sides of the dam walls, not sure if i should make them the same, and if so which one? The conrete rention walls or the other one? The rention walls (the apx 4 layer wall side, 2nd pictrure) tends to run FPS a little lower due to more objects and polys. So thats why I did the other side different to see how it looks and runs. Any input?

[vestal monolith]

If it helps I discovered that you can enlarge the concrete quite big without ruining the collision so you can use fewer assets

for example @meager palm

[meager palm]

Oh very cool! You mind posting screen shot or brief explanation how to do that?

[vestal monolith]

Select the assett and press E and then scale it to size!

[meager palm]

I must be blind because I’ve never seen E do that. I’m not home but definitely checking out later thank you!

[vestal monolith]

Haha, it comes up with a green line click and rag up or down to scale to size! Dont make it absolutely massive other wise collision might not work well, it works with granite cliffs aswell which is very useful!

[celest lagoon]

I think you mean 'R' 😉

[vestal monolith]

Thankyou for the correction!😂

[meager palm]

Yup it was I thought I was blind haha

[meager palm]

That worked will be using that more thanks for info!!

[vestal monolith]

no problem brother!

[vestal monolith]

is the tunnel your own assett or from a mod?

[meager palm]

It’s from wolf’s building back. It was quite a task to hide it underground without clipping terrain into the tunnel itself or the service areas I made.

[vestal monolith]

Thankyou!

[meager palm]

First main military area, not entirely happy with how* it turned out, might redo a little bit of it at some point. Need to learn alot more of texture painting but this is where im at so far. Dont judge too much haha

[serene eagle]

shaping up well, can't wait to give it a go

[flat needle]

Cool ground texture 😃

[wild swift]

Yes shaping up wel! Keep up the good work! 👍 posted this also on arma4base.com

[sage hound]

Can't wait to test

[meager palm]

Than you! Will be a while before ready for a public test area, but will defientely post when I do.

[meager palm]

Thanks, I used the one you helped me with plus found a trick I hope i didn't screw up on. I duplicated the Forestclearing_deciduous_01, then modified the color to make most of the black area. Im using the burned ground for the "motor/explosive" impacts

[meager palm]

Thank you my friend!

[meager palm]

Appreciate the shoutout on the website!

[meager palm]

small shopping center "overlook" area. Worked on some prefab sets which are the picnic tables with assorted items on them and the statue base. Also imported some custom textures from Polyhaven. The prefabs and textures are in their own seperate mod im doing.

[meager palm]

Church along coast line, still WIP.

[meager palm]

I decided to upload to workshop the current state. I had a friend that wanted to check it out. It is very much early stages and the areas I have so far are only about 50-70% complete. A lot of finer details and touch ups need done in current areas. But the general idea/feel for what I have done is there.

[meager palm]

The next area I'll be tackling. Mostly residential/small town area.

[meager palm]

put some pieces together for a pool.

[meager palm]

Progress so far.

[meager palm]

Beginning a prefab bunker to place in a mountain I make in terrain. Going to have to find a good way to blend different wall styles so its not as "cookie cutter" and decorations will definitely help. Idea is a government/military bunker.

The plan is to make this yellow area into a mountain, Wish me luck!

The rest of the coast I was working on. Added the "islands" for the lighthouse area.

[sage hound]

Looking good 👍

[meager palm]

Thank you my friend!! The most recent changes are uploaded to workshop and have a barebones game master mode if you want to check it out. I’m focusing on the bunker and then mountain so progress around map will slow down as I try and tackle that project lol.

[flat needle]

Looks nice

[wild swift]

Looks very nice👍🙌

[sage hound]

I will once I get my community back up and running properly post 1.3

[meager palm]

Not bad for a "custom" made hole in a wall to lead to another room. Also, i know alot assets are european based, and this is a military bunker, but i think these urinals are too close.....what you think? haha I laughed too hard when it looked like they were holding hands.

[meager palm]

Mountain sculpting, here i come!

[meager palm]

Loving the Atmospheric Weather Mod!

[meager palm]

360 around mountain, alot of scupting and smoothing to still do.

Two of the ridges mostly done. The cross overs i needed for the bunker are covered half decently. The bunker is not as large as it seems, it'll be more deeper thatn it is wide. The majority of what you see is covering up holes in the terrain. Alot more work of blending and figure out overall style I want on it, but so far happy with how its turning out.

[meager palm]

Changed up the road enterance and around mountain alot, added a few access roads and fiddling with some bridge work. Mostly happy with how its turned out so far, just got alot of filling in to do on the terrain.

[meager palm]

Moving on to the first main rail yard.

[sage hound]

Looking good

[meager palm]

Thank you! Having issue with getting railways to work and look good. I tried to keep it realistic with how a train would travel if hauling cargo, but just got very difficult. I had to move on from it lol.

[meager palm]

Video I made to show a friend me workign on an area of map, figured i'd post here too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li_SZA4Eum4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVAbn_ygjkU

[meager palm]

https://youtu.be/MB5Z2IV3QdU https://youtu.be/hLO1ojy-M7U https://youtu.be/VX8A_uk7_Xo

[meager palm]

First time doing the paper 2d map. Not sure why, but I feel very accomplished seeing this map. It helped put in perspective what i have accomplished. Its only the north-eastern end of map that ive been working on. So it also put into reality how much i have left! lol

[flat needle]

Mr.Fox very cool videos on YT 🫡 thanks

[meager palm]

I managed to figure out the awesome "Satmap generator tool" and its a nice change to see that instead of the original sat map when moving around the map. Really helped feel like progress. Couple videos showing it off. The combat vidoe made me realize i got alot of work to do with textures and "cover/concealment" on the map.

Flyover of map

https://youtu.be/GrizU0e342A?si=cYusug0qXmMIJ2jS

Combat (has mods endabled to disable damage, has a new weapon, others)
https://youtu.be/YhLYFFQU4jc

[spark turtle]

Cool island, great to see it evolving in front of our eyes.
Keep on keeping on.🙌

[meager palm]

Thank you! It was a bit rewarding to do a 2d map and see it on paper and the terrain look decent at distance. What is name of your other mod that isn’t a weather mod like “ambience” or something. I couldn’t find it because I forgot name.

[spark turtle]

There's two, Environmental and Battlefield.😉

[meager palm]

I will be welcoming a friend of mine to helping me make Allyhorn Island. He’s very talented with building bases in crafting games, and i can not wait to see his talents grow where he can now make whole maps. Once he’s learns how to use the Workbench we should see some more timely progress. He is a lot more talented with details than myself. Very excited for this next step and to have his talents grow

[meager palm]

I'm oppen for input on this part of my map. I like the area where the train tunnel exits into the big lake, but I dont like how it turned out where the rail curves and goes up to meet the other side of lake near the other track. It just feels wrong. THe reason it sits low, is because on the other side it goes to the harbor industrial. According to measure tool its about 590m long. The tunnel goes down at about a 1 degree angle to meet the harbor rail yard level. I could raise up the rail exit leading to the lake, however that means a likely steeper exit on the other side at the harbor. Im a little torn on what to do.

[meager palm]

So i ripped it open, tore it apart, and been rebuilding. So far, liking this better. Old tunnel will be a "abandoned mine shaft" type of look that is closed. So still get to keep that spot i really liked lol. The new tunnel will be have undeground room access to the radio antenna area above it. There will also be a couple exits along the tunnel to not have such a major fatal funnel when fighting.

[meager palm]

Gif's of the new tunnel

FULL VERSION

[meager palm]

Holllllly cow this was interesting. Learned alot while doing this, and several hours later its getting there Will post a video too.

[meager palm]

https://youtu.be/0zEYYxUo1p4 https://youtu.be/bmExdcz534Y

[meager palm]

Did some more videos working on it to, but i have to merge the videos and edit out a little bit.

[meager palm]

Current waterfall particles. Particle Editor 1 is first two images, particle editor 2 is 3rd and 4th images. First two are for top of waterfall ( i believe) last two are for bottom i believe

[meager palm]

Redoing a railyard I had. Been reworking my railroad layout for a little while now, and this is the last area i've been workign on, and honestly was the toughest to redo.

[meager palm]

Couple shots of how it used to look. Obviously alot of work to still put into the redo.

[marsh thistle]

I like the map - is it already in the workshop or not?

[meager palm]

Thank you! It is in workshop, but isn’t anywhere close to complete. VERY early work in progress. The only reason I have it in workbench is so couple friends can load in and see progress, but it is there for anyone else to check out. I uploaded the last version earlier today.

[meager palm]

Hound has official started to learn the workbench! It ain't much, but its a start!

Getting creative to hide, wish it was just easier and could cut into the terrain. However, the results are more creativity.

[meager palm]

Been a slow couple of weeks, but heres a park area I worked on recently. I did copy+paste parts from other areas, however they will be changed to be more unique. They're just "placeholders". Of course, the area is not complete and just a general idea of what I want.

Going to start VERY BASIC blender stuff some point soon, this is a place holder for a basketball court, and maybe a tennis court. The soccer field should be along the proper dimensions for a soccer field, same with the basketball court. I'll have to resize the 2nd court for tennis if i decided to do that.