Terraining Contest #11 - Battlefields

[2-P]

A lot of details are great as long as they're subtle, but you have too much stuff that screams "Look at me!" in your shot.

 

[Oziris]

So how would you suggest I remove the screams? Remove the details?

Fixed the eye catcher on the battle a little.

 

[Rainbow Evil]

I just noticed how wierd face fire one has. Fix it?

 

[Oziris]

What's weird? The lava or the eyes? xD

 

[Azurot]

So how would you suggest I remove the screams? Remove the details?

Fixed the eye catcher on the battle a little.

Oh I see what you did there, you put more glows, and detail into the golems to make it less "eye catchy", quick thinking pal!

 

[Oziris]

I think you see wrong pal, I didn't put details on the golem. I just added glow doodads behind them and removed the annoying waterfalls a long with the glows which were eye takers from the battle. Btw, it's now more eye catchy and not less.

 

[Azurot]

Why though, it's still messy as hell. It needs a color scheme so it doesn't look like a cluster fuck of doodads and light sources.

 

[Deolrin]

You should tone down the sun, or make it go BEHIND the golems, as it hides them right now.

 

[Oziris]

And how do you propose I make this colour scheme with the lava and nature on both sides?

 

[Belgarath]

Belgarath, don't golems look humanoid, because I'm sure they do. What do you expect a treant to be other then sticks and bushes?

let me rephrase that - it looks like a bunch of random sticks and bushes. the human form is not discernible at all, even with that glow giving a backdrop. just look at it, if noone had told me it was a golem, i would think that it's just... a bunch of bushes.

I have no skyscrapers an the hole should draw attention because it's the shit they've did when they've clashed with their fists.

the big apartment block houses is what i'm referring to. it's not a major issue, just something that caught my eye. but really, a giant.. red hole? it's just a giant attention sucker with no real look-good benefit, it looks like a big hole practically - and that's all there is to it, no doubts or questions of its nature or anything that might make it interesting.
something like an electrical storm around their fists or something would be better to show that THAT'S what happened with their fists.

Have you ever seen a storm which ended and the sun started shining through the weak clouds? You can clearly see this isn't the black storm which is causing tornados, heavy rain and etc.

the sun is shining right bang through the center of a cloudfront, with lightning and shit to either side, it would be a very weak shine. i agree that it should be probably behind the golems too


the real issue with the thing for me is that it really lacks the whole BATTLEFIELD element of things. when i look at it, i think, golem(s), clash of the titans, cataclysm, forces of nature colliding. but that's probably just me

 

[Oziris]

I'll remove the hole, add an army of small ents vs small fire golems and remake the whole big golem tree. Hope that satisfies you.

UPDATE. hopes it isn't "A bunch of random bushes and sticks" any more and the hole is gone.

 

[Belgarath]

i dunno, to me, it just lost any kind of humanoid shape or anything. looks more like a hive of flying dinosaurs or something

 

[L2love]

Looks much more evil I recommend you find a different tree model to use since the roots make it look a lot worst.

 

[chilla_killa]

Okay, like everyone told me, added a modern town in the background.
I made some screenshots with different explosion settings.

I think one of those screenshots will be my final entry.
Which do you think is the best?

 

[Oziris]

Well it doesn't have to be in a humanoid shape! Its a God and we humans don't know their shape! I made it the way I imagine them.

I'll try to fix the ugly root problem.

Fixed it up a little (roots) and made a new head for the right God!

 

[idodik]

@chilla_killa, I think you need to make those buildings more distant. It will look much better and will stop sticking them to the rocks.

@Oziris, honestly that's the weirdest pose I've seen a titan in, and the recent changes make it look much weirder.
What are all those branches between his two arms?? And in general there are much more branches sticking out, and that makes it look just wrong. You'd better reconsider that layout.
Other than that since you removed the hole it looks much better and allows you to understand the "story" behind this terrain, rather than think how the hell does that hole have anything have to do with the fight.

 

[The_Olorin]

@ chilla_killa

My favorite is 3.
And you should try to make the city in bg more like an City. Atm its just couple of houses and nothing else. Try to add more building behind the houses you have atm.

 

[Deolrin]

Oziris, now the nature golem is even messier and less distinguishable. The last one was better. You should at least remove the Lava Golem's eyes, they really don't fit in.

chilla_killa, the city honestly doesn't looks very good, you should make it more varied, with more buildings, more height variation, and add A LOT of black\silhouette buildings in the far back, on a hill preferably. At the moment it looks like a few random buildings.

 

[fladdermasken]

Okay, like everyone told me, added a modern town in the background.
I made some screenshots with different explosion settings.

I think one of those screenshots will be my final entry.
Which do you think is the best?

As of now the city isn't looking to great sadly, try fading it better and work with glow/fog doodads.

 

[KayS]

A group of humans was walking in the wood and Bang!!

This one is the main proyect, but I Think at the begining is dificult to understand what is happen, so i put some other pictures of the most important points of the scene.

1. The shaman is giving a new face for the elf, the elf is bent, while the footman fight with the gigant.

2. The magician is being crossed by the tauren weapon.

3. And a jump...

I hope you like it!! ^.^

 

[chilla_killa]

Damn, you guys ruined my day
I thought it was good
Okay I try to work on it ..

 

[Oziris]

chilla_killa, the buildings should be at least x3 bigger to match the units. Also the buildings don't fit in very well, try using the ones I'm using, and place more of them in order to bring depth to the terrain.

 

[Belgarath]

Well it doesn't have to be in a humanoid shape! Its a God and we humans don't know their shape! I made it the way I imagine them.

I'll try to fix the ugly root problem.

Fixed it up a little (roots) and made a new head for the right God!

i sure hope that head is a joke
but really they have a humanoid shape since you gave them a humanoid shape.

 

[Oziris]

The right one has a humanoid shape, the left one not really.
Lol. Yeah, How did you guess?! It's a joke alright! Hmpf, should I return the old head back?

 

[fladdermasken]

There isn't much change yet, however I may need some pointers on the rocks in the foreground and the new structure in the background.
Better or worse?

 

[Oziris]

fladdermasken the background is cool, but I wondering where will you put a battlefield? In the sky?

 

[fladdermasken]

fladdermasken the background is cool, but I wondering where will you put a battlefield? In the sky?

As previously stated, it will be pre-battle between man and nature. I'll do my best to define it in the foreground, as you can see it's completely undetailed so far.
Man is represented by the constructions in the background and nature will be represented by either animals or natives.

 

[Skycraft]

Woahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoah.
That's awesome.

 

[Oziris]

Uh, this is getting boring, added 2 versions. Which is better?

 

[Tleno]

I like the first one. I just dislike all those cop cars down there. Seriously, you should like add some variety, maybe an ambulance?

 

[idodik]

@fladdermasken - your terrain is beautiful but unless you start working on the battle soon I'm afraid it won't be accepted.

 

[M0rbid]

Well right now I see no reason to "reject" this terrain, since fladdermasken pointed out what he's looking for and also made a layout in his terrain already to make his idea come true.

 

[fladdermasken]

@fladdermasken - your terrain is beautiful but unless you start working on the battle soon I'm afraid it won't be accepted.

I have 10 days still, have I not?

I'll do my best to get it approved, if not then that's that.
And thank you.

 

[Oziris]

Uh, okay! I'm confused.
First or Second?

 

[VegaKotes]

I vote 1

 

[idodik]

The 1st is definitely better. That black hole eventually doesn't do any good.

 

[Skycraft]

The first one works more better with the environment.

 

[Azharr]

I would like to submit my screen shots, where/how do i do this?
(and also for future reference, how do i submit my map?)

 

[chilla_killa]

Press "Edit" on your post.
Click on "Go Advanced".
Click on "Manage Attachments"
Upload any stuff you want.

 

[Hevenblood]

oh, I completely forgot about this contest. I really need to get to work

 

[chilla_killa]

Damn, when I try to make the buildings more distant, everythings messed up.
How can I solve this?

 

[fladdermasken]

Damn, when I try to make the buildings more distant, everythings messed up.
How can I solve this?

Hold Ctrl down and scroll.

 

[Celaquil]

Here's an update on my entry, and most probably my final entry.

 

[chilla_killa]

Away with the idea of a city in the background.
It messed up my whole concept.
The eye shall not be distracted by a city and should concentrate on the battle and the giant robot.

Also I liked my idea of having trapped the robot in between the Power Armor forces and a giant cliff, often found in Fallout.

So this is gonna be my final entry:

 

[fladdermasken]

Here's an update on my entry, and most probably my final entry.

There's not a thing I dislike about your entry Keiji. It is both imaginative and extremely well executed.
Your ability to maintain high artistic standards never ceases to impress me.

Your style is fly, and you swagger along with it.

As far as i'm concerned, you're the winner of this contest.

 

[idodik]

Congradulations Keiji, you've seemed to take the beauty of battle into your picture. It looks amazing. However I'd say you still have some competition from CloudWolf and a few others.

 

[Oziris]

Nice Keiji, looks nice.

Another update from me, I just realized how the last version was bright.

 

[Azurot]

Here's an update on my entry, and most probably my final entry.

I love everything about that terrain, but I'm curious, where did you find those mushrooms?

I love the new updates, Oziris, it's coming along much, much better.

 

[idodik]

Nice Keiji, looks nice.

Another update from me, I just realized how the last version was bright.

THAT'S A GIANT FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make it smaller.

 

[Celaquil]

I love everything about that terrain, but I'm curious, where did you find those mushrooms?

Their from the Deadly Habits Modelle pack that was released in the forum some odd-number while ago, I honestly can't remember when, nor can I really find the thread again, only thing I know is that it was publicly released, else I wouldn't have it. I can upload the mushrooms if finding the pack proves to be very hard, to make this fair for everyone.