Eyecandy!?

**Wijitmaker** · September 25, 2003

What kind of eye candy do you think we should include in the map editor?

Marcus Petrius · September 25, 2003

- Realistic ruins (Some of them overgrown, some covered by sand) of buildings that are actually in the game.

- Realistic ruins of buildings that were actually there, but not in the game

- collapsed carts, siege machines and the like

- A lot of random architecture things like columns and statues. (Even for civs not in the game, such as Egyptians)

- About the same things that were in AoE, AoK and probably stuff the designers of the original scenarios will demand (They are the first ones with practical experience, so they know what they need).

ZeZar · September 25, 2003

As long as its a easy-use editor, i dont care to much about the things that are in the editor, as long as its normal stuff are included!

**CodeOptimist** · September 25, 2003

I agree with Marcus. It should include a lot of random, misc stuff so map creators have a lot of flexibility in designing maps for scenarios, etc.

Maybe, the objects in the map editor could be seperated by categories, i.e. "Egyptian objects", "Greek objects", "Misc. Ruins", etc.

**Black Op** · September 25, 2003

- "Useless" buildings ie. those that serve no purpose except for eyecandy and can't be made in-game, like shrines, baths, graves, and houses for the rich.

- Dead bodies and bones.

- Everything else mentioned.

Widukind · September 26, 2003

Plants, lot's and lot's of them. Different sorts of rocks, puddles, etc.

**Quacker** · September 26, 2003

Maybe, the objects in the map editor could be seperated by categories, i.e. "Egyptian objects", "Greek objects", "Misc. Ruins", etc.

Thats a need. One problem i had with AoM is the units/embellishments/etc. weren't organized very well, imo. AoK had that prob too. Maybe a tree structure, and/or the user can customize it so its ordered by civ or by type (building, unit, object, etc.) or by a whole list, and more.

As for eyecandy (since that is the topic at hand), scroll through all the main games (AoK/M, EE, RoN, WC3, etc) and find the best eyecandy of them all. And please, if you make a bridge, make it walkable unlike the AoM one

**Aeros** · September 26, 2003

as much stuff as you can possibly pitch in there

The_Avenger · September 26, 2003

More eyecandy, the better. Never enough in any RTS game. Apart from the standard stuff, you can expect, like for AoE and AoK, that people will want to make historical scenarios based on the period with 0AD with the editor. Things like well-made tents/camp equipment, palisade walls, palisade towers (for Romans), various flags, small bridges, market stalls, etc.

Ornlu · September 26, 2003

Attackable training dummies, fire, different kinds of roads and paths, cracks and craters, bridges, and much more .

Esus · September 26, 2003

statues, flowers, loads of stuff on aom/aomx, and everything to make it as real to history as possible when making scens.

ZeZar · September 26, 2003

Yes, i agree with Code, it has to be organized, like the Battlefield 1942 editor, BattleCraft 1942!

**Wijitmaker** · September 27, 2003

The thing is guys we need to complete our list of stuff. So when you say lots of "stuff' thats kind of vague

I'm looking for things like what Marcus was saying up above. I need names of actual items if you can

Esus · September 27, 2003

Flowers

Statues

Ruins

Pillars

Mist

Rocks/sprites

Special trees

fountains

ponds

gates

fences

weapon piles

crates

barrels

are some.

**Render** · September 28, 2003

THE LIST

Here it is Wijit, Tell Me What I forgot guys. Also I think the Way I orgonised it into Man Made, Natural and Misc Objects works well.