• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 14:13
CET 20:13
KST 04:13
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
HomeStory Cup 28 - Info & Preview12Rongyi Cup S3 - Preview & Info3herO wins SC2 All-Star Invitational14SC2 All-Star Invitational: Tournament Preview5RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8
Community News
Weekly Cups (Jan 26-Feb 1): herO, Clem, ByuN, Classic win2RSL Season 4 announced for March-April7Weekly Cups (Jan 19-25): Bunny, Trigger, MaxPax win3Weekly Cups (Jan 12-18): herO, MaxPax, Solar win0BSL Season 2025 - Full Overview and Conclusion8
StarCraft 2
General
StarCraft 2 Not at the Esports World Cup 2026 Weekly Cups (Jan 26-Feb 1): herO, Clem, ByuN, Classic win HomeStory Cup 28 - Info & Preview Weekly Cups (Jan 19-25): Bunny, Trigger, MaxPax win Oliveira Would Have Returned If EWC Continued
Tourneys
RSL Season 4 announced for March-April PIG STY FESTIVAL 7.0! (19 Feb - 1 Mar) HomeStory Cup 28 StarCraft Evolution League (SC Evo Biweekly) $21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7)
Strategy
Custom Maps
[A] Starcraft Sound Mod
External Content
Mutation # 511 Temple of Rebirth The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 510 Safety Violation Mutation # 509 Doomsday Report
Brood War
General
[ASL21] Potential Map Candidates Can someone share very abbreviated BW cliffnotes? BW General Discussion Liquipedia.net NEEDS editors for Brood War BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues Azhi's Colosseum - Season 2 Small VOD Thread 2.0 [BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 10
Strategy
Zealot bombing is no longer popular? Simple Questions, Simple Answers Current Meta Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Battle Aces/David Kim RTS Megathread Path of Exile Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Beyond All Reason
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Join illminati in Luanda Angola+27 60 696 7068
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread The Games Industry And ATVI Canadian Politics Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
The herO Fan Club! The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Play, Watch, Drink: Esports …
TrAiDoS
My 2025 Magic: The Gathering…
DARKING
Life Update and thoughts.
FuDDx
How do archons sleep?
8882
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1388 users

Need critics for sc 3d anim - Page 2

Blogs > VIB
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 Next All
Phrogs!
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Japan521 Posts
May 25 2009 12:49 GMT
#21
Loving it so far!

Minor things people have already said that I think too: ramps could be a little less steep to stand out more from the cliff, smoke cloud could go a little less high.

Bigger suggestion, no clue at all how much work it would take: see on the kespa holy world one you linked there's the crazy red background -- Is it possible for you to easily implement something like that? Black space all around gives it a huge sense of being incomplete imo. Again, no idea how much work that would take.
MasterReY
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Germany2708 Posts
May 25 2009 14:15 GMT
#22
very good work, here my thoughts:

1-6 and 9: ok/doesnt matter at all

7: i think no wireframe is best
8: maybe try to point out ramps a bit better.(if you dont know the map you dont notice its a ramp so fast)

You shouldn't think about minor things like the gas smoking frequency or w/e. NObody will care enough so that its worth to make it perfect like in bw.

The biggest issue is the "camera path". I think you don't get a good overview of the map with the camera swinging so fast and stuff.
https://www.twitch.tv/MasterReY/ ~ Biggest Reach fan on TL.net (Don't even dare to mention LR now) ~ R.I.P Violet ~ Developer of SCRChart
TL+ Member
maga33
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States247 Posts
May 25 2009 14:37 GMT
#23
i think the minerals are a bit too blue and that you could try to make the geyser not in sync. Nice animation skillz though :D
The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
R3condite
Profile Joined August 2008
Korea (South)1541 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-25 15:29:27
May 25 2009 15:27 GMT
#24
make it more opaque like wat they did

and darken the gridlines

EDIT: also maybe u can have the camera follow a general path from one base to the middle?
ggyo...
VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-25 18:02:46
May 25 2009 18:01 GMT
#25
I guess, so far, I will work a little more on the ramps, cliffs and camera. I wasn't initially too worried about the camera. I just made a quick thing with it to focus more on the map instead. But I should have done something more elaborate so I could take some criticism on that as well.

I'm also making a separate animated starting location and maybe I will try one version without the wireframe so you guys can see the difference. The main reason why the wireframe is there is to hide the terrain texture defects (it is very low res and looks very poor when looked closely). It's just an optical illusion trick to simulate a higher resolution. It might sound a bit silly, but it actually fools our brains pretty nicely

On May 25 2009 17:11 Scorch wrote:
First off, this is great! Are you planning on making this an automatic parser/converter for .scm and .scx files?
Not unless I can find a suitable library for loading map data written in either c++ or python (not likely). Wasting my time fixing other people's mistake (blizzard closing their sources) is not something I'm very excited about.

On May 25 2009 21:49 Phrogs! wrote:
Bigger suggestion, no clue at all how much work it would take: see on the kespa holy world one you linked there's the crazy red background -- Is it possible for you to easily implement something like that? Black space all around gives it a huge sense of being incomplete imo. Again, no idea how much work that would take.
That would be very easy and quick to do. But it's just not my goal to add external "fluff" details to it right now. I wanna make sure the map model itself looks good first. Then I'll add a background, texts, sound and a couple of different camera paths for showing off different parts of the map.
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.
YPang
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States4024 Posts
May 25 2009 23:54 GMT
#26
dude holyshit nice... I used to be an avid blender user too but stopped T_T
sMi.Gladstone | BW: B high| SC2: gold T_T
GogoKodo
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Canada1785 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-26 01:37:52
May 26 2009 01:11 GMT
#27
http://code.google.com/p/pyreplib/

Not sure how up to date or useful it is for you. But it exists, in python to boot.

Awesome work so far.
twitter: @terrancem
anderoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada1876 Posts
May 26 2009 01:12 GMT
#28
that looks so badass
VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
May 26 2009 04:37 GMT
#29
On May 26 2009 10:11 GogoKodo wrote:
http://code.google.com/p/pyreplib/

Not sure how up to date or useful it is for you. But it exists, in python to boot.

Awesome work so far.
That is a replay parser. It doesn't retrieve any of the map info that I would need. But thanks anyway.
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.
[Fin]Vittu
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada507 Posts
May 26 2009 05:26 GMT
#30
that is really cool, i've always wanted to know what it feels like to be in an sc unit's shoes.

keep up the awesome work.
The "Finnish Metal Terran"
GogoKodo
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Canada1785 Posts
May 26 2009 06:35 GMT
#31
On May 26 2009 13:37 VIB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2009 10:11 GogoKodo wrote:
http://code.google.com/p/pyreplib/

Not sure how up to date or useful it is for you. But it exists, in python to boot.

Awesome work so far.
That is a replay parser. It doesn't retrieve any of the map info that I would need. But thanks anyway.

Isn't the map information held within the replay in SC? You're able to load a replay even if you don't have the map.
Don't know if that type of information is available in pyrep but it might be a jumping off point.
twitter: @terrancem
VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
May 26 2009 06:46 GMT
#32
On May 26 2009 14:26 [Fin]Vittu wrote:
that is really cool, i've always wanted to know what it feels like to be in an sc unit's shoes.
I always wondered what is it like to be in an hydralisk's shoes, but I guess I'll never know


On May 26 2009 15:35 GogoKodo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2009 13:37 VIB wrote:
On May 26 2009 10:11 GogoKodo wrote:
http://code.google.com/p/pyreplib/

Not sure how up to date or useful it is for you. But it exists, in python to boot.

Awesome work so far.
That is a replay parser. It doesn't retrieve any of the map info that I would need. But thanks anyway.
Don't know if that type of information is available in pyrep but it might be a jumping off point.
Exactly, that only extracts info from the players' actions. I would need info from the map such as what points are high/low ground, what tiles each one use etc. Which is completely out of the scope of pyreplib.
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.
snorlax
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States755 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-26 06:58:39
May 26 2009 06:58 GMT
#33
cliffs look to high up to me also the mineral on the ramp looks a bit off otherwise I like it
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
May 26 2009 07:14 GMT
#34
It looks amazing, but the camera work is drunk
I'm serious
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
May 26 2009 08:23 GMT
#35
On May 26 2009 15:46 VIB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2009 14:26 [Fin]Vittu wrote:
that is really cool, i've always wanted to know what it feels like to be in an sc unit's shoes.
I always wondered what is it like to be in an hydralisk's shoes, but I guess I'll never know


Show nested quote +
On May 26 2009 15:35 GogoKodo wrote:
On May 26 2009 13:37 VIB wrote:
On May 26 2009 10:11 GogoKodo wrote:
http://code.google.com/p/pyreplib/

Not sure how up to date or useful it is for you. But it exists, in python to boot.

Awesome work so far.
That is a replay parser. It doesn't retrieve any of the map info that I would need. But thanks anyway.
Don't know if that type of information is available in pyrep but it might be a jumping off point.
Exactly, that only extracts info from the players' actions. I would need info from the map such as what points are high/low ground, what tiles each one use etc. Which is completely out of the scope of pyreplib.

BWChart seems to be able to do that with its "Show Map" functionality, so it certainly is possible somehow.
MasterReY
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Germany2708 Posts
May 26 2009 14:16 GMT
#36
when comes the next version of ur work? :D
its cool
https://www.twitch.tv/MasterReY/ ~ Biggest Reach fan on TL.net (Don't even dare to mention LR now) ~ R.I.P Violet ~ Developer of SCRChart
TL+ Member
poilord
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Germany3252 Posts
May 26 2009 15:35 GMT
#37
Looks really good! Keep on working
VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
May 27 2009 14:47 GMT
#38
On May 26 2009 23:16 MasterReY wrote:
when comes the next version of ur work? :D
its cool
Right now:
+ Show Spoiler +

Changes:
+ Show Spoiler +
- Terrain texture much higher resolution, cliffs should look better
- Adjusted some of the ramps
- Added starting locations
- Geysers taller
- Smoke is lighter in color and lower in height
- Minerals are a bit more fat and random
- Wireframe a little bit whiter
I personally didn't like much how the smoke looks now. I'll probably change those back or to something between this and the other version.

If there isn't anything too bad about this one (other than gas smoke). I'll just rework the camera movement then start making the other maps. I found how to unprotect Kespa maps now, so I can take some really good pics of them. Unfortunately those high res pics takes too long for my computer to process. This last 20sec animation took me 8 hours to render. So I will only be able to do one map per day.

On May 26 2009 17:23 Scorch wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2009 15:46 VIB wrote:
On May 26 2009 14:26 [Fin]Vittu wrote:
that is really cool, i've always wanted to know what it feels like to be in an sc unit's shoes.
I always wondered what is it like to be in an hydralisk's shoes, but I guess I'll never know


On May 26 2009 15:35 GogoKodo wrote:
On May 26 2009 13:37 VIB wrote:
On May 26 2009 10:11 GogoKodo wrote:
http://code.google.com/p/pyreplib/

Not sure how up to date or useful it is for you. But it exists, in python to boot.

Awesome work so far.
That is a replay parser. It doesn't retrieve any of the map info that I would need. But thanks anyway.
Don't know if that type of information is available in pyrep but it might be a jumping off point.
Exactly, that only extracts info from the players' actions. I would need info from the map such as what points are high/low ground, what tiles each one use etc. Which is completely out of the scope of pyreplib.

BWChart seems to be able to do that with its "Show Map" functionality, so it certainly is possible somehow.
Yes of course it is "possible somehow". All the map info is inside a replay. Just as it is inside a map file. It's just a matter of knowing what byte does what and extracting that info. I'm just saying I wanted a library that already does that, instead of having to write it myself.

But anyway this isn't worth it. Because currently the time I need to make a new map (~15 minutes) is irrelevant compared to the time I have to wait for my computer to render the video (8 hours). So using time to write a script to reduce those 15 minutes wouldn't help too much.
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.
GogoKodo
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Canada1785 Posts
May 27 2009 15:47 GMT
#39
The changes look great. Someone suggested before that the water levels around the bridges might be raised a little bit. That might be a good idea since it's a little hard to notice the water, or maybe make the water a little brighter blue so it's easier to distinguish from the dark terrain around it.

Great work.
twitter: @terrancem
MasterReY
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Germany2708 Posts
May 28 2009 02:13 GMT
#40
great :D:D:D:D
https://www.twitch.tv/MasterReY/ ~ Biggest Reach fan on TL.net (Don't even dare to mention LR now) ~ R.I.P Violet ~ Developer of SCRChart
TL+ Member
Prev 1 2 3 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 4h 47m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
mouzHeroMarine 520
Harstem 254
OGKoka 221
UpATreeSC 90
BRAT_OK 54
JuggernautJason36
MindelVK 13
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 22294
Calm 3180
Mini 551
Shuttle 158
actioN 149
ggaemo 105
Backho 50
Hyuk 36
910 28
Rock 16
Dota 2
qojqva2578
Dendi948
LuMiX1
League of Legends
C9.Mang069
Counter-Strike
fl0m1853
ptr_tv119
adren_tv106
Heroes of the Storm
Liquid`Hasu381
Khaldor139
Other Games
gofns13936
Grubby4074
FrodaN1995
Beastyqt870
ArmadaUGS91
TKL 85
Mew2King65
Trikslyr58
B2W.Neo48
Organizations
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 20 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 72
• HeavenSC 21
• Reevou 7
• Kozan
• Migwel
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• sooper7s
• intothetv
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
StarCraft: Brood War
• HerbMon 45
• FirePhoenix10
• Michael_bg 4
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
Dota 2
• WagamamaTV448
League of Legends
• imaqtpie1886
• TFBlade1601
• Shiphtur468
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
4h 47m
The PondCast
14h 47m
WardiTV Invitational
16h 47m
Replay Cast
1d 4h
RongYI Cup
2 days
herO vs Maru
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
3 days
Replay Cast
4 days
Wardi Open
4 days
Monday Night Weeklies
4 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-02-03
HSC XXVIII
Underdog Cup #3

Ongoing

CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 1
Acropolis #4 - TS4
Rongyi Cup S3
Nations Cup 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S1: W7
Escore Tournament S1: W8
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
HSC XXIX
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
RSL Revival: Season 4
LiuLi Cup: 2025 Grand Finals
IEM Rio 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.