Ancient Keep (Need Suggestions)

[Aniria]

Well, im stuck here. Don't want to fill this in, making the place look clumped but don't want to leave it empty. So basically im asking for suggestions. It will help

The setting: An ancient dwarven keep, now used as a slaver base of operations. A mana rift is opened in the keep(Attracted Demons to the keep, drives mages insane). Most of the notable slavers in this keep are mages. Dwarves in ancient times crafted with mana(thus theres "clumps" of blue lava rock which is raw mana). One of the more "cooled down" Locations of the keep. Climate changed here.


What you should know:
It's going to be used for a cinematic in my rpg.
It's Playable(obviously if u read the first comment )

Pic

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[PROXY]

It isn't inspired by torchlight, is it?

If so/not, take a look at some screenshots of it, there is an area that looks exactly like this

 

[De.Facto]

Don't want to fill this in, making the place look clumped but don't want to leave it empty. So basically im asking for suggestions. It will help

It's the ground. Atm it looks monotone, there's nothing special. You might check out my tutorial, and try to use the alpha tile.
Maybe you could remove a part of the ground, creating an abyss, some rusty grills, eventually some more sources of light.

I can't give you that much ideas atm, but I'm preparing another tutorial - tipps for better ideas, using the mighty alpha tile.

 

[Aniria]

Yeah I see what you mean now, eventually was going to change the tiles. I terrain weirdly :3

 

[De.Facto]

Yeah I see what you mean now, eventually was going to change the tiles. I terrain weirdly :3

But keep it minimalistic, too much crap will ruin your terrain.

 

[Aniria]

Added an abyss with alpha tile on both sides an tried to make it look ruinish. still not complete but I think its an improvement.

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[De.Facto]

Added an abyss with alpha tile on both sides an tried to make it look ruinish. still not complete but I think its an improvement.

Mh, ye - that's it. You're on a good way. (;
Additionally you might chamfer the terrain in front of the stairs a bit, creating several plateau layers.
(In order to get more variation, without spamming doodads.)

 

[Adiktuz]

this looks like it was inspired by torchlight, especially because of those crystal lamps... ^_^

 

[Aniria]

I actually had no inspiration for this small piece, just a theme. This is my actual creativity

 

[Adiktuz]

anyway, it looks cool, it would be great if this was part of a playable map... ^_^

 

[Aniria]

it is, http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/project-recruitment-256/age-descent-192842/

If I get a commited experienced team then the project will be fine. I could do it all myself but it would take a long time for good quality. im getting offtopic, so i should probably stop now

 

[Orcnet]

Really Beautiful to see! good job

 

[Chudy]

Where did you get those awesome dwarf statues i could use one of those in the map im making xD

 

[L2love]

They are WoW rips.

 

[Chudy]

Yeah i figured that much but where can i find them i mean i have an mpq browser but can't figure where are the models in cata mpq's nor how to export them.

 

[Aniria]

You are not allowed to talk about where to get them and post links and such about it on hive and please don't derail the thread

 

[Chudy]

Well I dont see how just talking about it is offensive in any way(I have read the forum rules), but anyway pardon me i will look it up myself, sorry if I caused any trouble .

 

[Adiktuz]

It is not offensive in any way... but it is forbidden to talk about it here on The Hive...