--( TERRAINING CONTEST 2 )-( theme: AFTERMATH )--

[crystalguard]

Makes me wish warcraft still worked on my PC, dang i needa get that fixed, and above all of that i am jelious this sounds like a fun one :'( thanks everyone for choosing the worst time for me, lol well ill try not to get worked up, good luck everyone and have fun

 

[monoVertex]

Guys, please specify your name in the e-mails. I can't guess your TH.net names.

So far I got 2 unnamed submissions and I will not include them if you don't respond to my e-mails replies, telling me your names.

 

[bananaHUNT]

Bahhhh, I thought this time the terrain contest would include imports

Their totally needs to be a terrain contest where the main focus is that the terrain is actually playable, considering that map making is the reason terraining exists... imports don't make a terrain, they only enhance it.

....maybe next time

Oh snap, you remind me to post my map D

 

[MurderMode]

lol, atleast I'm good for something

 

[Ghostwind]

Pff. Playable shit is boring. You have to do pathing and all that crap, which is really restricting if you want to make buildings...

 

[demotry241]

hey smith_s9 ,

will you crop it again like last time.. or we will crop it?

(screenshots taken from W.E.)

 

[MurderMode]

Pff. Playable shit is boring. You have to do pathing and all that crap, which is really restricting if you want to make buildings...

I don't see how it's restrictive... it'd just mean you would have to make a better effort at actually planning out your terrain instead of just spraying doodads about.

I think whats really boring and restrictive is the consistant 'blizzard models only' rule of these terrain contests. I don't understand why people stack and flip doodads around to make walls and structures when you could completely model and skin a better looking structure in a tenth of the time.

 

[neckface]

- Judges can compete!

oh great, so now we're up against 2-p and ghostwind???? aaarg :banghead:

 

[monoVertex]

hey smith_s9 ,

will you crop it again like last time.. or we will crop it?

(screenshots taken from W.E.)

Read the rules again please?...

oh great, so now we're up against 2-p and ghostwind???? aaarg

I never said they will surely compete. They are just allowed to.

 

[demotry241]

Thanks

 

[Battlemapsta]

Ooo tough competition. Gotta prepare for this.

 

[jonadrian619]

This contest sounds interesting. Sign me up!

I'm adept at creating playable terrain and calculating pathing for maps and as a terrainer for other mapmakers, but I have lost the skill to make cool terrain pictures, though I did some of those stuff before. This is gonna be a bit of a handicap, but I will do my best.:thup: Good luck to all!

 

[SerraAvenger]

I think whats really boring and restrictive is the consistant 'blizzard models only' rule of these terrain contests. I don't understand why people stack and flip doodads around to make walls and structures when you could completely model and skin a better looking structure in a tenth of the time.

You perhaps. But not me ; )
It would just outbalance the contest. This is a terraining contest after all, not a modelling or skinning contest : )

Offtopic: These icons you gave me really look incredible ingame : )
Thx again!

 

[monoVertex]

This is the first WIP batch. I am sorry SerraAvenger, but your terrain had your name on it so I couldn't include it. A single person specified in the mail that he wants it to be posted as WIP (except Serra), so he is the only one to get his work posted. The others that sent me works did not specify, so I am taking them as finals.

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[Romek]

Thanks for posting my pictures Smith
Personally, I think you need some height changes, it looks flat.
Otherwise it's good!

 

[Belgarath]

I'm in ... I'll be sending my wips soon too.

 

[monoVertex]

Romek, you liar .

 

[neckface]

This is the first WIP batch. ...

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-The guard tower in the foreground is out of scale: make it bigger.

-Place more debris and corpses in the courtyard--it still looks clean after the slaughter!

-In the before picture the eye is most powerfully drawn to the courtyard flower display, in the after, there is no one focal point that draws the eye... perhaps, if you reposition the pit lord to look at the camera instead of away it would help.

 

[Romek]

Romek, you liar .

I posted a comment about it in white text.

 

[Belgarath]

IMO, its too flat and a bit much too random. Very random, indeed.