Felucia was actually one of the earliest maps I worked on for this mod, but I decided to hold off on showing the map until I finished the skins for a few units featured in the map. I think the stock Felucia has a pretty solid layout, but the thick green fog and minimal view distance make for absolutely nauseating visuals. I can forgive that, since the developers did have to take rendering capabilities into consideration, but I think there is definitely still room for improvement. With that in mind, I've put a lot of effort into perfecting the view distance/fog properties. The view distance has increased slightly, while the fog color has been adjusted to match the environment (more of a dirty yellow color, like the sky). I still need to do a bit of tweaking to ensure that there won't be any disappearing objects, but I'm pretty close to what I want.
The map has a lot of the same "landmark" features as the stock version - the massive spiral stump, the poisonous gas vents, a stream, one or two wrecked walkers - but I've rearranged the layout to try some ideas that I thought would be fun. The spiral stump is now the centerpiece of the map, with the rest of the command posts arranged in a circle around it. To add something a little different, I created a small underground section with a re-skinned Dagobah cave and some bio-luminescent mushrooms. I only plopped it down as a bit of an experiment, and actually expected to not like it, but it fits the environment very well.
I probably could have called this a side update just as much as a map update. As you can see, I've gotten to work on setting up the units for the 327th Legion. Any maps from Episode III will feature the appropriate style of clone trooper - e.g., 327th on Felucia, Galactic Marines on Mygeeto, and so on. It is just fluff in some ways, but it's one kind of fluff that I enjoy (and I know plenty of other people enjoy playing as different varieties of clone troopers). The clone trooper models seen in the screenshots above are kind of a conglomeration of work by several different authors, although the skins are my own. The screenshots also show off two of the Republic's fun new vehicles: the AT-AP and the swampspeeder.
This is really nice, but the Swamp-Speeder are not new; he is already existing in other mods.
Yes, I know that - but it is new compared to the stock maps.
Yeah, anything that wasn't in the stock game, but is in a mod, can be considered new. It's all perspective.
Anyway, looks great.