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Looking to start a new life, you have decided to move to Blackened City. With nothing but 50 Sheckles in your wallet, you must do anything that you can to earn a comfortable life. Will you deliver pizzas to earn money to buy a house? Maybe you'll outrun your competition in the ultimate racing machine as you wind through the mountains, fly through the city streets, and offroad through the country-side. Blackened City is a place of many opportunities, but in the end, it's up to you to decide how to live.


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Blackened is a racing themed world with upgradeable vehicles and loads of other things to do besides racing. I can't say too much about what I'm working on right now, but here's a couple screenshots of the amazing heightmap and texmaps that Stimutacs made for Blackened.

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Notice how the roads naturally flow through the hills on the bottom picture. I'll post more as the world gets closer to the release point.
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Post by JasonX »

Looks good. Still need me to do those vehicle settings?
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Post by David »

Interesting, such dedication to detail.
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Post by Fooli »

Looks good... is this based on the racing template here: http://theuniversal.net/isldownloads.php

Or just using the same techniques to do the heightmap funkiness? Either way, I'm glad someone else is using this approach - it takes ages to get it right but it's cool when you do...

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Post by flametard »

actually no. the heightmap and texmaps are all custom.
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Post by wes773 »

Stimutacs made the heightmap and texmaps for a racing world that he never got to work on, so when I told him about my idea, he told me I could use what he had. I still have some tweaking to do with the heightmap settings, but I'll have to wait until I get some spare time to mess with it. I'll do some before and after pics as the game gets closer to being releaseable.
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