Any Terraining Tips for a Snow Landscape?

[Fisher621]

Well do you? , I need some tips on how to make a snowy landscape look good. ## Thank You in Advance ##

 

[M0rbid]

Too really give you tipps, only saying "snowy landscape" is way to less information, to help you.
I and I guess many other people around here will try to help you, but first, please, give us some more information about what the terrain should look like and what "snowy landscape" means for yu!

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Well only doodads made to be used in the snow will look good. Something with absolutely no snow or ice on it that has been under constant snow all night shouldn't be completely devoid of ice.

 

[Fisher621]

I mean a snowy forest with the occasional cliff or lake. The trees are spread so its playable and i have made a beautiful lake (playing with height tool and ice tileset and a water model) But it still looks so hollow. I mean arent there anything i can use to fill the area between the trees exept rocks?

 

[Megafyr]

This isn't easy, but you should try giving the snow volume by using the raise ground tool. Then you can have brances from smaller trees and snowy rocks sticking out where there is less snow.

 

[Deolrin]

Mushrooms, white flowers, wild animals, birds, small animals(beavers\squirrels\bears?), bones, pillars, ruins, abandoned camps\buildings...

 

[Pharaoh_]

Mushrooms, white flowers, wild animals, birds, small animals(beavers\squirrels\bears?), bones, pillars, ruins, abandoned camps\buildings...

Those ones are exactly what I used to avoid in terraining.

 

[M0rbid]

It might help if you could post a picture of what you currently have.

A nice addition that I could give you right now, is scaling down the crystal doodad from icecrown with a z scale of 0.1 or less and using it as ice on the lake, you don't have to cope the whole lake, but parts of it might look good!

 

[Fisher621]

 

[The Titan]

Mushrooms, white flowers, wild animals, birds, small animals(beavers\squirrels\bears?), bones, pillars, ruins, abandoned camps\buildings...

I hope this was sarcasm.

EDIT:
@Fisher:
These rocks really don't fit. And, where is the fog?

 

[Koeky]

First of all, the rocks they look wierd (no idea how to discribe it ) try to lower them and make them with diverend sizes.
And some of the trees are inside a rock.
I hope this will help you, good luck with your terrain

 

[Fisher621]

I hope this was sarcasm.

EDIT:
@Fisher:
These rocks really don't fit. And, where is the fog?

I didnt find better rocks and i removed the fog because it was way to dark to be able to see anything from that angle.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Those rocks look like they are sinking into the ground - like I said, your going to want to use doodads made for snowy terrain - those definitely aren't.

I generally don't like the sea weed doodad anyways, but if the waters freezing then there's no way sea weed would be growing (and it wouldn't be able to stick out of the water even on normal conditions - heck it can't even grow in climates that freeze like that).

I generally dislike the Ice waterfall doodad too, but I guess thats a manner of opinion.

Rocks do not grow over trees - so trees should not be sunken into rocks

Well its a WiP but the flat background in the second picture is bothering me.

 

[Fisher621]

Those rocks look like they are sinking into the ground - like I said, your going to want to use doodads made for snowy terrain - those definitely aren't.

I generally don't like the sea weed doodad anyways, but if the waters freezing then there's no way sea weed would be growing (and it wouldn't be able to stick out of the water even on normal conditions - heck it can't even grow in climates that freeze like that).

I generally dislike the Ice waterfall doodad too, but I guess thats a manner of opinion.

Rocks do not grow over trees - so trees should not be sunken into rocks

Well its a WiP but the flat background in the second picture is bothering me.

As i said i could not find any better cliffs/rocks than those and i have fixed the trees inside the rocks now thank you . And its supposed to be a half frozen lake, and this is going to be a playable terrain. It doesnt look so bad from the ingame angle. all im asking for is something to fill the void with. I cant just have snow.