Richard
Garriott's Tabula Rasa
Science fiction MMORPG
Instance map: Fault Lever
"I had a strong
desire on my part to show how the interior spaces related to
the exterior terrain features. One of the ways I achieved it
was by creating windows that look out from the control rooms
in the instance map into the rift where the hammers are
firing off their energy bolts. That posed a problem where we
had to make sure that I recreated all the shared map’s
visible environmental features onto the separate instance
map. So I had to work closely with Michael Hutchison, the
shared map’s world builder, to make sure any changes he made
also made it to the instanced map."
In the
screenshot above is a corridor leading up to one of the
Hammer Monitoring Stations.
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