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Colorado Lakeside Resort (WIP, SCENIC)

***Special thanks and shoutout to the United States Geological Survey for providing the amazing NED 10m heightmap of a small part of Saint Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana USA.***

*Lighting, and the general athmosphere make a big part of a good experience for me. I have planned custom ambience, and worked for atleast an hour on overhauling and perfecting the theme of lighting for the map.
Stormy yet sunny sunrises mark another hopeless day of work and survival in the apocalypse but have bright sunlight poking out against the dark shadows to contrast hope vs loss, sunsets have been made pink because i feel like they fit a winter color scheme better than blue to tan sunsets and they generally give the map a more painterly feeling. The daylight has been tweaked heavily to make it less bleak, but I'm still looking for inspiration on what to take for it. Midnight is a keeper and I will use that scheme for all of my future maps albeit tweaked - I'm in love with the idea of that cyan color and the brown horizon and got the idea from a pixel artist called Waneella so shoutout to her as well!*

Heavily based off The Last of Us, this is an Unturned version of the Silver Lake Resort from the game.

The houses were remodelled almost 1:1 from reference imagery of the cabins from Joel's part of TLOU Lakeside Resort chapter.

This is a scenic map, the trees don't function like trees so don't try to destroy or get wood for them.
Map is a work in progress, right now theres only spawns and a crude layout of the resort.
The forests are still getting more detail and the houses will have furniture and item spawns later on.

I uploaded it as is because I'm losing interest in the winter setting and the map in general as I'm planning much cooler stuff for later, which are either:
-A small mining town in the Colorado Rockies (using real world heightmap and completely new and original buildings)
-An entire map of the USA (using a heavily edited real world heightmap if possible and completely new and original buildings, including different suburban architecture for each region and state)
-A map of my homestate Indiana - Something I've worked on long ago but eventually gave up on due to poor modding support and my generally bad knowledge of computery stuff.

This map has been a foundation for all my work.
I learned a LOT of stuff about unity, blender, modelling and bad stuff I can prevent from happening now.
I'm still looking into getting skybox models done; I haven't found ANY help for those at all as even the example bundle doesn't work (failed to analyze .dat?) but I've contacted modder Sathan as well as a Discord group that provided some theoretical help but nothing concrete yet.
Until I have working skybox models, I won't start working on any new projects as handplacing all these large boulders to block the view from areas and prevent visible pop-ins is rather tedious, taxing on performance and generally... ugly.

With that out the way, I hope you enjoy this map!