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Development Chronicle XV - ScytheCGC - 08-03-2008 NARRATED VIDEO VERSION Hello and welcome to the Development Chronicle XV for Legacy of the Zodiac II. This week I finished planning the Continent of Inngard and we began mapping again; you'll find more details about this below. As I said, I finished planning the Continent of Inngard; so I would like to share a few things about that. As you know, the Haven Area is a part of the Continent of Inngard, now I planned out everything else on this continent, which is the largest continent. The other areas that will be on the Continent are as follows... The Torrential Plains - Large plains where it is obviously always raining - Mapping by Yukimura Northern Spine which also includes the Village of Karthay - The Northern Spine is a very large and dense forest which starts to rise in elevation as you near the Kothas Heights - Mapping by Scythe The Capital City Taladas which also includes the outskirts of the city; which are huge - Mapping by Scythe Kothas Heights, which are mountains that span across the top of Inngard - Mapping by Scythe We also of course must map the Coastline that goes all around these new areas; which we are doing first of course. Everything is planned out except the Kothas Heights, and this is for a reason. They are going to be very complex and crazy so it would be too hard to plan them out before hand, I know the area in which they will take up but I will be planning them and mapping them as I go; it will be the best for this particular area. Note: The above list of areas does not includes caves or ruins since they are considered inside maps, not outside. Here's some statistics for you to wrap your minds around, the entire Haven Area INCLUDING insides, caves, ruins etc takes up 380 maps total. The rest of the OUTSIDE of the Continent of Inngard uses up to map # 953, and starts at map # 381; so the rest of the OUTSIDE of the Continent of Inngard takes up 570 maps. But this is excluding the Kothas Heights since I don't know how many maps it will take up exactly, but a guess would be about 130-150; so the total outside maps for the entire Continent of Inngard will be about 1100 or so. Here's something interesting as well; the Capital City Taladas takes up 71 maps (outsides only) and is divided into five districts; the Plaza District, Senate District, Market District, Colosseum District and the Temple District. The last two districts I listed are half size though, they together make up the size of one of the other three districts. So as you can tell we have a lot of work ahead of us, but we can do it; the Continent will also have a lot of things to do; and of course once the entire outside is mapped the insides and ruins etc must be mapped! So once all that planning was finished; we started mapping again. We are still working on the Coast since the coast for all of this is giant, I am hoping it will be done this weekend though. There isn't much to show since everyone has already seen what the Coast of other areas looked like, but I will show you one map anyways; it has some new trees in it (the ones for the Northern Spine). Here is one of the Coast near the Northern Spine; some of the trees shown will be used in the Northern Spine (the ones that weren't used anywhere else previously). Sorry about the pink line on the right side; it's one pixel row of the GUI and I couldn't get it off; weird. Here you also get to see the new style rain (if you haven't already); the new rain not only looks better and splashes when it hits the ground but there is also a wind system involved. Every once in a while the rain will blow to the left or right, in this one it is blowing to the left; default is just straight down (when there is no wind). So basically, that is all for this week; now I must get back to mapping! That is all for this week, see everyone next week! Thanks for listening, -Scythe