(Cinematic) The Lone Footman

[PurgeandFire]

Nice, but it needs more tree variation and it needs some more atmosphere.

 

[Dakho]

I really think the terrain looks great. The terrain is very midieval-ish, which makes it look cool and gives it a feeling. Good luck on the cinematic itself!

 

[thewrongvine]

ALALAL! Stop about the terrain! I am his council advisor! lol.

Em. ANYWAY, we'll be waiting here.

Ok, bringing terrain topic back again -_-, here's a quick mini-tutorial.

Ok To Be Excessively Used But Not Spammed:
-Shrubs because they can also pass for grass. In real life, it's everywhere, just of different sizes. This makes it more 3-D.
-Flowers/Mushrooms! because there are a lot of these everywhere, it may be small and not noticable in your busy lives, but they are there.

Things That Should Be Used Not Too Excessively:
-Trees because just putting like 10 trees next to each other is not real. You need to space it out, even if just one block.
-Rocks because small rocks don't really count since these rocks block. Use these grouped with trees, flowers, mushrooms, shrubs, bushes, etc. around them.

Things Not To Be Excessively Used:
-Broken Logs/Stumps because, unless it's a cut down forest, you don't see too many of these near each other. Space them out and like with the rocks, group them with other doodads.

Tips:
-Use different variations of trees. That doesn't mean using mushroom trees (the ones in the floating rock place...) with Ashenvale trees, but find ones that match such as: Ashenvale/Lorderaen Summer/Fall/Felwood.
-Groupings of doodads work very well. One of my favorite combos is: 1 or 3 rocks together with shrubs bunched around and inside, with flowers in the opening cracks of the rocks, with maybe a mushroom, bush, or log next to it.
-Never mass one single doodad in an area too much unless it is intentional, like a "rocky island" or something. Shrubs, like I said before, should be placed around areas, not bunched up, but near each other, because it is also like grass in a way.

PHEW! Maybe I should write a terraining tutorial...

Good luck with this!

 

[hellblazer-1]

Thank you everyone!!!

Just to say again... I don't know about the trees, I'm desperately trying to find a different (but similar) variation for them, with little luck... Hopefully I'll get somewhere xD

 

[ZeroThirteen]

I like the way this looks. I agree with Dakho, the terrain does look like it belongs in a medieval movie. It reminds me of the oh-so-amazing Rennasaince Festival in Michigan (my state ).

I'd like to see the actual cinematic, and some more variant trees, but the screenshots look nice. Keep it up!

 

[hellblazer-1]

yes people, it most definitely is medieval themed. I was trying my best... but the trees

 

[thewrongvine]

Ashenvale Wall Tree, Felwood Wall Tree, Ashenvale Canopy Tree Wall, Felwood Canopy Tree Wall, mixed in with some Lordereon Summer and Fall Tree Wall. :thup:

Ok, I said that I'd be a helper so here are some of my... eh... daily tips or w/e:

Terrain Height - try to mix it up. Use 'raise' and 'lower' and 'noise' to make it more realistic. But don't just use noise for all of it.

Mountains - unless you need a wall or blockage, I prefer using 'raise' to make mountains and hills, since real mountains and hills are like that. To make it unpassable, you can simply place 'pathing blockers' and stuff.

UPDATE?

 

[hellblazer-1]

sorry just ran into some difficulties with a trigger... I'm waiting for some help so I can keep working. :banghead: