Terraining Showcase Thread

I have decided to make a terraining showcase thread for people to post screencaps of their best terraining works. Use this to show off or simply get feedback! Now lets see some screenshots!
-VGsatomi

1 of Oldest versions of Meat 3
Even don't know why i love this screenshot ......
weather effects + cityscape + small army = awesome pic..

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MY best, i think,

You cant link to an image on your hard drive like that. You would need to upload it on a site that hosts images, like photobucket.

@Vampire: what is that red box censoring out?
-VGsatomi

There should be a mountain in the back somewhere...

2 VG

Red box - hidden accounts of russian players and several russian words. That screenshot have been done for a russian site,where i could be banned for those words

I'm learning to terrain nature, I'll post one when I have the time, but here's my map, which is terrained with cityscape and are hosted here.



There are traps that spawns fire from those 8 black spots with purple around them, that makes it look better in-game.

This is a screeny of a long-forgotten map of mine, age of summoners. I put quite some effort in the terrain back then, there's much more to be seen than this, but i might post that later.

Here are screenies I use in my campaign and my map 'The king of Kuhm'ra' (The first 2)
(the first 2 of these are also at the art section, but no1 ever looks there 8) )











I also have a question. How to remove the air that appears if u have a camera angle where u can c very far (In editor Ctrl and scroll back)

I guess I will toss some of mine in;

Here's one from my melee map "Land of the Forgotten"



Here's two from my semi-RPG "Lost Forest: The Intruder"




Here's a bunch from my campaign, "Return of Alisia Dragoon"





And here's some from my upcoming Inu Yasha RPG, "Taisetsu na Hito"








And some from Shadow Heart





-VGsatomi

Deltri,that's easy.
The main "Pro" here is an angle of camera..

You may easily make 3 triggers (random terrain+random doodads+random cloud\weather) and then just make the right angle of a camera and make a screenshot..

yyyyyeah....try doing all that with random. See what happens. :roll:

Oh, and there is no such thing as random terrain and doodad triggers...or even random weather for that matter...

@souldbad: Any chance you can shrink those images? They are too large to be displayed in the forums here.
-VGsatomi

Damn..everything need to prove...

ok,go by this link and DL the map..
9 terrains ,each terrain have their own doodads, and all types of weather(with cloud)
you may see cloud by using 1st person view (-camon & -camoff)

Link itself: http://www.wc3sear.ch/?p=Maps&ID=5626

You can make random terrain, destructables and such, but it'll never be as good as VG's terrain. In fact, it'll suck more that my terrain in most cases.

Heres another screenie, dunno why its so damn blurry (Now u cant c the birds and flies and other small doodads

Heres the throne chamber of the king:



PS: Still have no answer on my question: How 2 remove the air that appears if u zoom out to far? With that damn 'bug' u cant make cool screenshots in game

woah.... :shock:

Now thats some creative use of doodads...

As far as I know, the skybox only messes up if you zoom out to far while in the world editor. Actually in-game I don't believe it messes up. Only realy alternative in world editor is maybe angle the camera enouph to you cant see the sky.
-VGsatomi

Sorry if i missunderstood,but at WE "black mask" may be healed by holding ctrl button and make scrolling up\down at mouse

ctrl+scroll up > more view
ctrl+scroll down > less view

VampireKB said:

Sorry if i missunderstood,but at WE "black mask" may be healed by holding ctrl button and make scrolling up\down at mouse

ctrl+scroll up > more view
ctrl+scroll down > less view

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Yes, I know. I mean the in game 'blackmask' or air box

VGsatomi said:

woah.... :shock:

Now thats some creative use of doodads...

As far as I know, the skybox only messes up if you zoom out to far while in the world editor. Actually in-game I don't believe it messes up. Only realy alternative in world editor is maybe angle the camera enouph to you cant see the sky.
-VGsatomi

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Thnx, its nice that an admin pro mapmaker and terrainer likes my work

and thxn for the answer

Here a screenshot from the same map of the blurry screenie:

im just taking a guess but ramza dose iseedeadpeople help in what u want to happen??

K.... I didnt understand what u just said.... at all

My most recent (but not my best) terrain, I just did it while speaking about terrain with (/recieving terraining tips from) Mc !



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It won't ever be used for anything I think, it's just a furbolg at a lake in a forest with a snowy mountain in the background, it's raining on one of them, and why am I writing this when you could see it if you just clicked at them?

I like mthe screenie with the now on the background (Its almost as good as my terrain :twisted: )

U should add a white or green fog

It won't ever be used for anything I think, it's just a furbolg at a lake in a forest with a snowy mountain in the background, it's raining on one of them, and why am I writing this when you could see it if you just clicked at them?

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Hmmm.. yes

Heres a screenshot from the fourth chapter of my campaign: The Adventure of Heroes

man... I feel so inferior to such great terrainers

How did you make the water and the land look so linked together, like in VG's screenshots, there's no shallow water at all? I wanted to try that out

Just make water somewhere, then raise it again (with cliffs) (with another terrain type so u can c where the water is) Then u lower the land (with 'lower terrain')

Voila

Hello everyone This is my work from Light or Shadow.All screens are from map 5.

Hello evryone , im new to the site , and id like to show some off my work (I never finsih anything :x )


Some house i build from doodads

a cannon on a city wall, also made from doodads

A building made out of different Undead things

Hello evryone , im new to the site , and id like to show some off my work (I never finsih anything :x )


Some house i build from doodads

a cannon on a city wall, also made from doodads

A building made out of different Undead things

i like the first one!You have great ideas GJ

Naiden, I like the pumpkin screenie and the one with the stone circle. The rest isnt ugly, but there is almost no terrain or sumthing to c

Thunderhorn, very cool first screenie. I frist thought it was just a custom model
The undead building is good 2

W00ters!

Ramza , i think your terraining , and use of doodads are great!

naiden , youre screenshots look good! they have lots of custom skins/models.

thx men.
All my screens is from my project

if i was a noob, i would say ramza your the best 1337 haxxor in the VV3

but since im not ill saying 9999999999999999999999999/5 to ramza since he always did have skill and his terraining is better then blizzard IMO there that good they actualy look like custom modles 8)

if i was a noob, i would say ramza your the best 1337 haxxor in the VV3

but since im not ill saying 9999999999999999999999999/5 to ramza since he always did have skill and his terraining is better then blizzard IMO there that good

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Ramza , i think your terraining , and use of doodads are great!

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Thnx alot both

Fear teh beautey of teh waterfall! My remake of my old waterfall, which was better = /

Anyways, it's still good. It demonstrates my goodness in nature, though I am not that great at cities.

One side is without waterfalls, the other is with, and the bottom is a demonstration of river skills.

I dont like it very much, cuz:
the cliff plants and cattail arent placed well. u should make some clusters of those plants to, not only individual on every spot.
And the rocks dont fit with the terrain (maybe u should use another colour of rocks or sumthing).


Maybe u could also change the water and waterfall colour to make it better.

Heres a screenshot from my 6th map of my campaign: TAoH

Only Blizzard puts doodads in clusters everywhere.

Perhaps I'm the only sensible person here. It's not like you go on a cliff and see a small vine and a little rock...

It's not like you go to a river and see one little lily pad...

I mass doodads, and if my old waterfall was here, then perhaps you would be more impressed.

Ramza, you are trying to compete, and I say that you are close to winning.

You have not won yet.

Glow Cave.

2 player map for the upcoming, Creep Battles. Now that I'm done the map, I will make all the races. This will be the biggest map. After that, the map will be copied and made into other maps.

Maybe it stinks to you Ramza, Great G, but to all my friends, they say it's awesome.

And I agree with the waterfall. I like the other side but the non-cascade side looks dull.

Sorry about the previous post!

I'd recommend using more ground textures. Looks a little more better that way. Here's an example of how I did it:


-VGsatomi

Ramza, you are trying to compete, and I say that you are close to winning.

You have not won yet.

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Winning from who? Blizzard? you?

And I agree with the waterfall. I like the other side but the non-cascade side looks dull.

Sorry about the previous post!

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8) np

PS: VG, how do u make those crystals giving so much glow? Or is that normal?

Its normal. When you have them overlapped, combined with the blue fog to dull out the background and make them stand out more, they have a larger glow effect.
-VGsatomi

So if u make crystal doodads without pathing and place alot on eachother u can get nice glow areas 8)

Here another screenshot of the fifth map from my campaign. Maybe a little to foggy.



PS: The first screenshot where I use custom models

Well before I post, heres a few things to know about me...

I suck at taking screenshots so I am mostly going to leave it near game view and click, and I like to shake what daddy blizz gave us and don't like using custom doodad models. Other than that, the only thing to know is that these are just 3 of the maps i'm working on and the only one actually released is the 2nd age one. The terrain prob. won't blow you away because they are large maps and are meant to be playably smooth so I try not to overdue it. Look forward to your critcism!!

A 1st Age map I am working on...

Himring


Barad Eithel


Nargothrond


Gondolin


The Fall of Gondolin map I am working on...

A large square...


An irrigation system...


Part of the main city...


The 2nd Age map...

Part of Lorien...


Part of Lindon...


Osgiliath (Work in Progress, but it was capital of Gondor at this time)...


Annumias (Capital of Men)

Almost all pictures are veeeeeery nice! I'd never have ideas like those I saw in this topic! congratulations to every body

I really like how u use those doodads, but the terrain itself isnt very special. U should really use more tilesets and more props and envoriment

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