madman9800 terrains

[madman9800]

This will be the official thread for my terrain screenshots.

1. Just a hut in a forest.
2. Same as above, a little furthur zoom.
3. Shaman traveling on a road in the forest. He's being stalked by trolls.
4. Same as above, exept its a footman, and changed camera.
5. A dense rain forest, in game shot.
6. A dense rain forest, world editor shot.

 

[Craka_J]

As simple as this is, this is really good. I like the second one a lot.
+Rep!
~Craka_J

 

[Gilles]

The second one looks really good! +rep

The first one has a hill in the background that is plain on the top, I would cover it! Those damn trees ruin some of it, stupid Blizzard trees!

 

[Belgarath]

It's good, except you overdid your flowers a little.

 

[madman9800]

The second one looks really good! +rep

The first one has a hill in the background that is plain on the top, I would cover it! Those damn trees ruin some of it, stupid Blizzard trees!

haha ya i hate those trees too, but i was trying to create this terrian with no imports.

 

[madman9800]

Im sorry for the double post, but i have added 2 screenshots, would appreciate feedback

p.s. thank you gilles and cracka_j for the rep, i do appreciate it
p.s.s. keep an eye on this thread for more screenshots.

 

[Belgarath]

Looks really cool.

P.S. It's P.P.S (Post Post Script) not P.S.S (Post Script Script)

 

[<Offspring>]

Nice, tho i aggre with Belgarath

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

They are nice.I didn't like the last one.Footman destroys it,dunno why.You put too much flowers on 1st and 2nd.

 

[Gilles]

The new ones are very nice, It would look awesome in an rpg.

 

[madman9800]

<Offspring>, thank you for the comment

UchihaSasuke.gr, my brother also said that the footman ruined it, thats why i made one with the shaman, i thought it looked better, my bro said that one with a jungle stalker or something would look even better...and i agree i did put too much flower in the 1st and 2nd one, thats because at first i was just playing around with mass flowering lol, and then i looked at it and it didnt look too bad so left it.

Gilles, i agree, it would look really nice in an rpg, all my terrains are playable, and there all 256x256, so someday i might join them together to make one massive single player rpg (like the one that came with warcraft) or i might just give them away to someone who might want them.

p.s. 2 new screenshots added, please give feedback.
p.p.s Belgarath, thank you for telling me that its p.p.s, and not p.s.s.

 

[seruk]

1, I really like it for whatever reason. However it just doesn't feel right with those cliffs. Oh and are all those flowers same angled? Something doesn't look right.
2, Same as above. Better shot, kudos to you. Both are a bit dark when I come to think of it, make it slightly lighter.
3, Nice and dandy, but the fog/sky just looks terribly wrong in my eyes. The front half of the picture is bright, yet the part way back is all dark and foggy. Either spread the fog so that it covers everything or just make the weather good. Whatever.
4, Looks good but: See above.
5&6, Really good job on that rainforest. However the shots are not good and doesn't do the terrain justice.

 

[Gilles]

The waterfall could use work, It looks weird. Maybe stack a couple of waterfall doodads to make it thicker, and add more rocks around it.

You river is too plain, add doodads in the water and on the shore, but overall these are all really good pieces!

 

[madman9800]

seruk , thank you very much for your feedback, it was very helpful, i agree that the fogged sky dosnt look good in that road picture, thats why i made one with dalaron sky. And to think of it none of my screenshots are very good lol, they always have something wrong with them, but i dont care about the shots, as long as the terrain is good.

Gilles, the river is too plain, but i really suck at water terraining, i just have absulutely no idea on what to place and where to place it

 

[Gilles]

Tint some river rushes to a color that matches your terrain, then make their variation 3 not 4. Add those in. Use Cattails, clump them together in spots and add floating lily pads in them as if they got stuck. Throw some shrubs and other plants in there, put them in the rocks. Maybe add some seashells on the shore, add some rocks on the shore, and maybe a tree or two.

If the cattails and river rushes don't match your terrain just add the shrubs and plants.

 

[madman9800]

Thank you for the suggestions Gilles, i tried your tips and here is what i have so far...

 

[Gilles]

Awesome job! Thanks for the credit, but you can leave that out It's all your work. I would rep, but alas I have to spread the rep around more.

I really like that tree in the middle.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Nice piece, madman, looks good, especially the cliffs/waterfall area. Only bad thing is the beach on the other part of the river, that look empty and doesn't seem to fit with the rest.

 

[Nudl9]

You got potential to become a good terrainer!
I suggest you dont mass to much doodads and make them such close togheter.
Add some variation and try to keep enviroment doodads matching with the ground texture!
Roots + shrubs = not so good
Roots + entagling roots (the goldmine entagling ability model) = good
Else i wouldnt suggest using the root terrain.
Use ashenvale grass + ashenvale grassy dirt, they are my personal favorite beacuse they fade nicely into eachother!

 

[Craka_J]

This definately has an awesome jungle environmentl/atmosphere. I can tell that it is a jungle easily by how dense you made the jungle vegetated.
Very good work. Impressive enough to recieve:
+Rep!
~Craka_J

 

[madman9800]

ragingspeedhorn, the reason why i made that beach initially was because i was going to place some animals there, but i couldnt find a crocadile model or anything else that i was really intreasted in, ill change the beach later.

Nudl9, i also love mixing ashenvale grass and ashenvale grassy dirt, you could even add lumpy grass between them and all 3 blend in quite nicely.

Craka_J Thank you for the rep once again

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This is my 1st attempt at making a desert terrain, and here is what i have so far.

Its just a centaur khan in his hut, made out of skulls of many animals that he has killed...i think i did a nice job on the hut, but i hate how empty the desert seems, but isnt a desert suppose to be empty? still i feel like the desert sucks, so i need some suggestions on what to add...Thanks

oh and i almost forgot, the sun in the 2nd picture was added using photoshop, when i was cropping the image i had the idea of adding a sun, lol, so dont ask me how i got that sun in wc3, cuz i didnt...

 

[Gilles]

I really like the second one. The first isn't so great, that hut needs work.

Did you make those reflection rings?

 

[madman9800]

no the rings come with the sun effect in photoshop...click on filter-->lens flare place the flare somewhere in the screenshot, and you can edit the brightness, etc...

 

[Gilles]

Aww, you had me excited! Cool effect. It actually looks good with wc.

 

[madman9800]

Aww, you had me excited! Cool effect. It actually looks good with wc.

lol, sorry didnt mean to get your hopes reaised lol.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Doesn't really give me the feeling of a desert. The second one is only good because the burning sun effect added.

 

[madman9800]

Doesn't really give me the feeling of a desert. The second one is only good because the burning sun effect added.

i agree, i guess im just not good with desert terraining, iv never tried terraining a city...hmmm might do that later, but right now i think im best with forest/jungles.

tommorrow (hopefully) i will post a new terrain, and it will be one of the best i'v ever done, just wait and see o.0

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Looking forward to that then!

What style will it be in.

 

[Nudl9]

Bit to much SFX, the fog kinda ruins it.
The lens flare is a good idea though, looks kinda cool and gives a little feeling of the burning sun in the desert!

Else i wouldnt suggest that you work with the barren tileset, its boring, plain and to grey'ish looking (i mean that it looks pretty much all the same).

Work with Ashenvale, or the village tilesets, they are probably the best tilesets for terraining! (Sunken Ruins and Icecrown glacier are good aswell, but to sharp and edgy!)

 

[Gilles]

Cities are the hardest. IMO.

 

[Craka_J]

It's nice. But you need to surround the terrain more with other doodads such as spires and rocks to keep it interesting. Though I do like the skull hut idea.
~Craka_J