SoJ's Playable Terrain Gallery

[sonofjay]

Introduction

Just a bunch of screenshots from my playable terrains. This thread still doesn't contain all my playable terrains that I'm currently working with but I will slowly put them up one by one and maybe also include the terrains from my projects on the map development forum and if I'm lucky, although I already doubt it, find some of my old playable terrains that I didn't release from my pc since I swept everything on my laptop when I reformatted it months ago(even lost my freaking Dwarf's Tale

). Anyway, everything here is still bound to change so feedback and suggestions are always welcome.

Anyhow, have fun browsing my terrains.

I will also use this thread to post WIP of current terrains.

[SRPG]Journey's Lore Arntaria [c] [r] [c] [r] [c] Alcia Village [c] Alcia Cave [c] [r] [c] Aldigor Swamp [c] [r] [c] Random Area [c] [r] [c]

[SRPG]Xheora - Figures of the Path Terrain from Chapter 1 [c] [c] [r] [c] [c]

[SRPG]Half-Baked Steamy Random Areas [c] [r] [c]

The Legend of Van Eastmore and Barren Clash

Changelog

11-05-14: Alcia Cave - 4: Tinted down the waterfall.
11-05-14: Added New Terrain Gallery "Xheora - Figures of the Path"
11-06-14: Added New Terrain Gallery "Half-Baked Steamy"
11-06-14: Added Journey's Lore - Arntaria - 6
11-20-14: Added link to "TLoVE" and "Barren Clash" post

 

[Heinvers]

Very Skyrim-ish and lovely. Overall the terrains are just pure eyegasm

The swamp parts could use some willow trees for more fabulousness :>

*teach me master*

 

[sonofjay]

Very Skyrim-ish and lovely. Overall the terrains are just pure eyegasm

Thanks. You and my two brothers just said the same thing with it being a Skyrim-ish. I guess 2 years of playing that game really influenced me. Although I love to think that this is also influenced by many of the RPG games that I've played recently.

The swamp parts could use some willow trees for more fabulousness :>

I guess I'll do that. I think I have some good willow trees here somewhere.
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Anyway, I think I'll put my terrains from my Valkyrie RPG and The Formless maps next.

 

[Tickles]

Looks like really fun RPG layouts I really like the snow laid out on some of the rocks and buildings. The lighting in Alcia Village gives nice, cozy vibes.

One issue that really stood out is that Alcia Cave has a blue waterfall in it and kind of ruins the atmosphere. I think the model is unfogged by using an alpha or additive material.

 

[sonofjay]

Thanks

Anyway, I really have no idea about editing models so I just tinted it down until I think its bearable enough.

 

[Heinvers]

I think the model is unfogged by using an alpha or additive material.

You can easily fix that with Magos at the Materials by unchecking unfogged (depends which geosets use which materials).

Edit: are those the waterfalls by ogre?

 

[sonofjay]

Bump. Added some terrain from another of my private map "Xheora - Figures of the Path" it only contains terrains from Chapter 1 though. And if you noticed the UI is the one I edited for my Valkyrie RPG. I haven't edited it yet for Xheora but its not really that big of a deal.

Also take note that the map have a locked camera so I can't really show much when I took the screencap in-game.

 

[Heinvers]

Diablo look, cool. I like that environment a lot, just lovely

 

[Vinz]

Several awesome terrains!

 

[sonofjay]

Glad you liked it

Anyway, added four new terrains from one of my worst steampunk interpretation I just named it "Half-Baked Steamy". I'll probably gonna work on it again if I have time. Not really one of my favorite.

 

[Heinvers]

I like those steam-punk terrains <3 <3 <3

 

[Vinz]

Very good, reminds me of Dwarven places.

 

[sonofjay]

I personally don't like it as I still believe that the theme I was going with which is an old underground city(the reason why it gives that Diablo-ish feeling) which was discovered by steampunk civilizations just have so much potential but I wasn't able to pull it off since I think that terrain was 2012-ish or maybe early 2013 where I still lack creativity and my technique and design ideas are still very lacking. It is actually a little inspired by the Van Hellsing game.

Anyway, I'm still glad that you guys still liked it.

 

[Heinvers]

Well yeah, your attention to details is great (something which I need ;<).

Van Hellsing game.

<3

 

[sonofjay]

Welp. New addition for Journey's Lore - Arntaria

The invisible platform on those rocks gave me one hell of a tough time to make it look like a natural path when you walk on it.

 

[sonofjay]

So I looked for some reference on some cliffs and almost all high cliffs have this fogs below so I tried it to add some on my terrain. I actually not liking it but I also want to hear your thoughts?

If you guys think its decent enough then I might stick with it.

 

[jopi]

well, I guess it's water down there so you should add wave effects to the rocks/cliffs or else it looks strange, as the just pop out from something....

the fog would for sure look better if it would be higher next to the rocks/cliff so you actually have something fading out the higher you get.

 

[Vinz]

Perhaps a lighter and smoother fog?

 

[sonofjay]

Unfortunately there will be no water below, I'm trying to do the same thing I'd seen on this movie where what separating the kingdom and the outside world is a bridge and a very deep cliff. Unfortunately, World Editor is very limited on its terrain depth and I can't just forcefully heighten the landscape for the kingdom since there are already made terrain outside(check out the Journey's Lore images). I'm planning to opt with just using the alpha tile and just add some rocks below to fake the depth.

I'll probably gonna be able to show an update in a few minutes.

 

[sonofjay]

How about this one? Is it deep enough to make the fog look natural?

EDIT:

I think the fogs need to be more thicker.

 

[Heinvers]

Not too thick please <3

Looks eerie

 

[Vinz]

Looks great, but needs to be spread.

 

[sonofjay]

The fog isn't really that thick in-game.



I'm thinking of playing a little with black glow. I wonder what kind of effect I can get with that.

EDIT:

I just noticed that B2M's texture looks smexy with Talavaj's stuffs. <3.

 

[Heinvers]

I just noticed that B2M's texture looks smexy with Talavaj's stuffs. <3.

Always <3

 

[sonofjay]

Welp. Finished the cliff area for the entrance. This bastard(including the bridge and wall) still took almost a couple of hours in total and I can't believe I'm gonna do this for the whole area of the kingdom I'm making.

Welp. I'm still satisfied about it since I think this is my most realistic cliff evah.

 

[Heinvers]

Now isn't that fabulous?

It really looks good, it's quite hard to make that good looking cliff in playable terrains (I know the pain x/).

btw if you wanna make it even more great use the alpha tile where you can to make it look deeper (<3) .

 

[sonofjay]

Thanks.

btw if you wanna make it even more great use the alpha tile where you can to make it look deeper (<3) .

I'm actually already using it. Its already too deep from the ground that it is already a pain to manipulate the doodads.

 

[Vinz]

I suggest making the space below black to give a deep feeling. Otherwise looks awesome.

 

[sonofjay]

I suggest making the space below black to give a deep feeling. Otherwise looks awesome.

Thanks

I tried playing with black glow but I can't seem to make it look good. I'll still try working on it but I'm gonna work first with important stuffs.

Anyway, thoughts? Inner part of the kingdom design.

(Excuse the paladins, they're my carpenters.)
Editor:

In-game:

 

[AuckeS]

Looking awesome.
Have you tried this model instead of the glow?

 

[sonofjay]

That one might actually work. Thanks for sharing! Never seen that one before. Did you made it?

 

[AuckeS]

Nope, I think I found it on XGM.

 

[Vinz]

Really awesome, but I think the lights should be a little centered on the lamp fire itself.

 

[Heinvers]

Agreed though what you see are the lamp's effects on the ground itself.

 

[sonofjay]

Really awesome, but I think the lights should be a little centered on the lamp fire itself.

That is how the lightning of the lamp works so I can't adjust it. I can add a seperate light on the lamp itself but it makes the lightning too bright(even if I make the light really small) since it is a lot closer on the camera.

EDIT:

The city is progressing very well. The challenge now is how I'll make it look magical since it is a kingdom for magicians.

 

[jopi]

you could also use a 0/0/0 tinted WaterPlane.mdx in your canyon to get a depth effect. just change its z-Scaling so you get a nice gradient into black.

to make it look magical, add some glowing crystals to the cliffs, use floating lamps, some runes, other flating things and moar crystals

 

[sonofjay]

you could also use a 0/0/0 tinted WaterPlane.mdx in your canyon to get a depth effect. just change its z-Scaling so you get a nice gradient into black.

This works the best so far its the one that really give that feeling of depth. I also kinda like AuckeS' glow since the animation gives that nice feeling and it seems that they do blend with each other nicely.

to make it look magical, add some glowing crystals to the cliffs, use floating lamps, some runes, other flating things and moar crystals

Welp. This is what I have so far.

Ignore the crystals, I didn't expect it to be that large in-game when I'm placing it on the editor. Anyway, here are some rune works and other stuffs. Whatcha think? I'm looking for some magical looking floating stuffs to use. Recommend if you know some.







The sfx have animations in-game that I think really brings more magic feeling.

 

[Vinz]

Awesome job. I like the runes.

 

[lord_Turin]

i like the general terrain, but there is such a thing as overkill on the runes

i would like to see more subtle effects

 

[sonofjay]

I like the number of the runes since they're not spammed on the whole city(which takes a large part of the terrain so you'll not see those ruins frequently) its only placed where magical techs are. You usually see runes where a magic is taking effect and those techs shown on the screenshots do since plot-wise this are the stuffs that is casting the magical barrier around the city.

I'll only agree that its overkill if I just placed those runes randomly but they're obviously not.

I'll try to come up with new ideas that represents magic without using runes next time.

 

[sonofjay]

Thoughts on the castle design?

 

[Heinvers]

Awesome, it has a byzantine cathedral feeling to it for some reason.

 

[sonofjay]

Really? I dunno, I just made it randomly.

Anyway, the city is coming a long very nicely.



I actually have some more plans on the shape of the city but as you can see I'm being limited by the editor.

 

[Heinvers]

Really? I dunno, I just made it randomly.

Well yeah.

Only the basilica, those minarets (towers) were made by the othomans later -

I actually have some more plans on the shape of the city but as you can see I'm being limited by the editor.

I like it

 

[sonofjay]

Lol, yeah it does look like one.

 

[Vinz]

I love the castle. The city itself looks great as well.

 

[sonofjay]

And so I thought I'm almost done with the kingdom and that I can move on with new stuffs then I remember that I haven't finish the cliff around the kingdom yet.

 

[Heinvers]

lawl, so cool

 

[sonofjay]

I still have to apply some magical stuffs on it but its pretty much done. I still wish that I can still extend the map size but I'm already at the max. The castle area is supposed to just the middle part of the kingdom. I thought 1/8 of 480x480 would be enough. If there are still some room after I finish some other important areas that I'm planning then maybe I can just place it there and just make a trigger to move the hero.

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

So I've been told I should post in the terrain board. I absolutely love the city design, I personally don't like it cluttered and what you have is the exact opposite. My favorite part of it is the color, each object and piece of terrain compliments each other beautifully.