The Terrain Thread

[Ghostwind]

Ofc it's empty, that's why I'm asking people what the hell I should put in it, lol. It's not even close to done yet.

Anyways, torches are kind of a no-no because I like the look it has right now, like some old, forgotten cavern that nobody has been in for centuries.

 

[D.V.D]

Well, maybe add some wall torches, some rock spikes, gold on the sides.

 

[Ghostwind]

I'm thinking buildings... hmm

 

[D.V.D]

There isn't enough room for buildings and imagining it with buildings doesn't work too well. But you could try and see what you get.

 

[Ghostwind]

Well I mean like ruined buildings.

 

[D.V.D]

Try it out. I wanna see how it looks like.

 

[2-P]

Buildings? Oh, I thought that the passage is about as tall as a human lol.

You can evade those problems if you ask yourself what you want to do before you actually start to terrain. Can save a lot of time, yep.

 

[UndeadDragon]

Buildings? Oh, I thought that the passage is about as tall as a human lol.

Same

 

[Ghostwind]

Buildings? Oh, I thought that the passage is about as tall as a human lol.

You can evade those problems if you ask yourself what you want to do before you actually start to terrain. Can save a lot of time, yep.

Well I wanted to experiment with lighting

 

[BlackRose]

Put bats. Bats live in caves don't they? Or is it just watching movies they do.

 

[Kenito]

Bump! Awesome, this thread is still here!

Been working on recreating the Swamps of Sorrow and the Black Morass for a WC1-themed campaign (don't bother mentioning Dawn of Chaos since I already know of its existence and this project has an entirely different scope). Two images for now:

EDIT: +rep for the first person who can remind me what pitch and roll settings to use in a doodad to make it align realistically with the terrain. Values as low as 0.01 cause them to tilt far too much, but I think there's some specific value (a negative one?) that makes them even out nicely.

 

[2-P]

Values as low as 0.01 cause them to tilt far too much

Wat? 0.01 is close to nothing...
The value depends on the doodads and the bumpiness of your terrain.
Generally I'd say trees are fine with something around 0.05. Smaller stuff like flowers... hm, between 0.1 and 0.3 or so.
I'd give rocks an even higher value, e.g. 0.5, helps removing the ugly flat stones on the side if you lower them on uneven terrain.

Note that the effective maximum is 1.57.

 

[Ghostwind]

I'd say 0.00. Plants don't "tilt" on hills. There's a reason they grow upward; it's called the sun.

 

[Lobster]

My temple

Uses UTM

 

[Ghostwind]

Those lights are meh. And why are some textures stretched to low resolution while others are sharper?

 

[Lobster]

Ty for the feedback

 

[BlackRose]

Terrain: Portal

The Portal Back To Civilisation:
(Big screenshot)

Spoiler

 

[Blackveiled]

The Portal Back To Civilisation:
(Big screenshot)

Spoiler

Good idea. Placement was terrible sorry to say.

 

[BlackRose]

Placement?

 

[Jackal]

I think by placement he is talking about the steps.