The Terrain Thread

[BlackRose]

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[gameman]

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Ok those arches must be custom, or else they would have a base! were can I get those?

 

[BlackRose]

It is just an upside down arch.

 

[gameman]

oh.

Dont tell me I killed this thread...

 

[2-P]

Time for a resurrection. =)

One month for a single screenshot? Oh...
http://www.wc3c.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=45814&d=1253735270

 

[D.V.D]

Cool. It looks pretty animated though. Not wc3ish but thats not much of a con. And that one rock on the right side seems much to prefectly balanced to hold itself on such a small point during a huge strom with a dragon breathing fire.

 

[DogOfHavoc]

Anyone have a link to some good trees I could download?

 

[2-P]

You could export trees from the UTM.

http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=98918

 

[UndeadDragon]

That looks really good 2-P. The only critique is that the lightning looks quite low quality against the high quality models, but that isn't exactly your fault.

 

[DogOfHavoc]

You could export trees from the UTM.

http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=98918

Good idea, thanks. +rep

 

[DogOfHavoc]

I looked at the terraining map, it has some great stuff. I'd like to use it as a template, but will the amount of imported files make it unplayable online?

 

[D.V.D]

No.

 

[DogOfHavoc]

Care to elucidate? Won't that many mbs right off the bat cause lag when i add coding and units etc.

 

[D.V.D]

It won't cause lag. It just causes dling time and loading time to be longer. You should delete all the files you didn't use after your done making.

 

[steaknife]

Here are a few screen shots of one I whipped up. I've been practicing landscape terrain-ing for this map I'm making.

Oh, and by the way... If you could just ignore that little selection circle in #5 that would be great. (I didn't notice it was there until I uploaded it.)

 

[D.V.D]

It actually looks good with those blizzard cliffs. And the circle makes the fish stand out more so its not that bad. Keep up with the terrain :thup:

 

[BlackRose]

Looks like another "RPG game" type map. Terraining isn't very appealing. If it is a playable map, try placing the angle in a 'player view' to get better feedback.

-Lordaeron Summer is suckz! Dun't use it!
-The terrain in #2 cuts off randomly, also, don't use cliffs when you raise, random "HOLES" in the cliff look weird.
-Try use different trees, imported trees or something (unless you WANT these trees to be part of gameplay and be destroyed). But they still look terrible, switch tilesets!

@D.V.D:
W.T.F? I don't see how that circle has to do with anything, it is a mistake, so it shouldn't even be brought up. I don't think circles will come up in real game.

I can't say anything to make me actually think this terrain looks good, it looks like a plain Blizzard map (Except Blizzard actually makes not bad but not great terraing, they just good at Waterfalls ).

(Please take it in a non-offensive way )

 

[D.V.D]

Its a terrain. If it was in a real game, ud never have that bear beside the fish the whole game or even in a part of the game.

 

[Cornface]

Time for a resurrection. =)

One month for a single screenshot? Oh...
http://www.wc3c.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=45814&d=1253735270

Holy shit that is awesome.

 

[steaknife]

Looks like another "RPG game" type map. Terraining isn't very appealing. If it is a playable map, try placing the angle in a 'player view' to get better feedback.

-Lordaeron Summer is suckz! Dun't use it!
-The terrain in #2 cuts off randomly, also, don't use cliffs when you raise, random "HOLES" in the cliff look weird.
-Try use different trees, imported trees or something (unless you WANT these trees to be part of gameplay and be destroyed). But they still look terrible, switch tilesets!

@D.V.D:
W.T.F? I don't see how that circle has to do with anything, it is a mistake, so it shouldn't even be brought up. I don't think circles will come up in real game.

I can't say anything to make me actually think this terrain looks good, it looks like a plain Blizzard map (Except Blizzard actually makes not bad but not great terraing, they just good at Waterfalls ).

(Please take it in a non-offensive way )

I don't use models I didn't make myself, and I didn't feel like making one from scratch just for that terrain, so I just used the stock WE trees. As for the terrain I've never been too good at large open landscapes. But enough of the excuses.

Want to see some more pics?

Just a quick 5-minute experiment.