Babylon

[elredir]

I kinda ran out of inspiration and don't know what to add to the terrain to make it look more...realistic.Give me some ideas.

And how can i make the sky...well...cover all the sky??
Update:
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[Azurot]

VERY nice!! i love the tower, the city is amazing! But try a fog and put a sky (you can get a sky and time of day through Scenario-Map preferences. And a fog from Scenario-Map options and enable terrain fog then mess around with the settings. in my opinion, you should add small areas covered in some tropical grass, just try for semi-large patches of grass and maybe a tree or two in with those patches of vegetation.

 

[Acorn511]

Where did you get the tower model? I was looking for something like that!

 

[Fussiler1]

Maybe add the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

 

[syltman]

Background and desert is boring, the city is somewhat intresting tho.

 

[elredir]

The sky and fog are enabled..but the sky box is behind the tower and doesn't cover all the sky and i dont know how to fix it.And i wanted to keep the desert theme thats why i dindt add any vegetation but i think ill add some because,as syltman said,the desert is boring and its lacking detail.
The hanging gardens seem an interesting idea.
The towers arent one doodad,they are built out of other doodads like archway cityscape door/window etc.

 

[Celaquil]

The only way you can make the sky cover the entire thing is by zooming in and then MOVING the camera outwards again, like using your mouse wheel to move closer, then when the sky is covered, you move backwards using the right mouse button style.
At least thats your best, and most likely, only shot. You could try adding sky spheres from the UTM if that dont work, dont know if it will look good, or better though.

 

[chilla_killa]

More tile variation and add rocks and plants to the desert and maybe humans and animals

 

[Piwlady]

Try adding mountains into background.

 

[Racziel]

Maybe try to create a sandstorm, so that it doesn't look that empty?

And for the sky: You can change the height of a camera object so you don't have to zoom so far.

 

[Belgarath]

use a stormsphere looks better for deserts anyway

 

[Fingolfin]

Hold down ctrl and use the scroll wheel to remove the black mask.
Didn't i comment in this before? :O

Anyway, the terrain looks neat, but i don't like your lighting set. It makes everything look green, and that isn't very desert-y.

EDIT: lol, it looks neat, not meat, as i wrote.

 

[elredir]

I tried to zoom in and then moving backwards with the right mouse button but i could get the right camera angle for a good view without zooming and making the sky as it was...And im trying to make a sky with the ones from the cinematics and i was wandering if there is any way to change the black background to a different color??

 

[Fingolfin]

What do you mean black background?
Have you enabled the skybox in the first place?
Got to scenario>preferences and choose skybox. Otherwise, it won't show up.

Also, while you're at it, change that lame lighting set too.

 

[Racziel]

I tried to zoom in and then moving backwards with the right mouse button but i could get the right camera angle for a good view without zooming and making the sky as it was...And im trying to make a sky with the ones from the cinematics and i was wandering if there is any way to change the black background to a different color??

you took a screenshot from out of the skybox. You must create a camera-object and configurate it 'till it has the same height and perspective as you have now.

The skybox can be changed as Fingolfin already said, but you can also make a skin for the sky.

 

[Celaquil]

I tried to zoom in and then moving backwards with the right mouse button but i could get the right camera angle for a good view without zooming and making the sky as it was...And im trying to make a sky with the ones from the cinematics and i was wandering if there is any way to change the black background to a different color??

There is one way that will work, however it isnt quite SO simple to describe, I'll try:

Make a new doodad, then chose the "Platform" from Destructible from the menu of models you can choose, it SHOULD be completely white. Then you simply tint it into whatever color you want to use, and make the max size be 100. Now you change the Max Pitch Angle to - 1.55 (the - is important) if you dont know how to do that you hold down CTRL while hitting the value with your mouse. Now you simply place it at the FAR background of your terrain and blow it up untill it covers the entire background, then you can start adding clouds.

 

[Belgarath]

just use the storm sphere bro

 

[elredir]

Ok..so added some vegetation,rocks...etc,and the hanging gardens
And i solved the sky problem..thanks to Keiji and Racziel but no sky from the editor actually fit the terrain so i made the doodad thingy that Keiji said and in my opinion it blends in better.
So here it is,thanks for the help

@Belgarath:I couldn't add the stormsphere cuz for the city and the place where the camera was to be visible i should've made it very big and past a certain scale the editor crashed...

 

[Megafyr]

Looks crazy except from the foreground being a little boring compared to the awesome constructions. Maybe the grass will cast some shadows too? There could be some more, and smaller rocks, surrounding the large ones, and on top of them. The tile usage could be more advanced. There are some dirt tiles, I believe, that would fit in well with the tile you have already used, however, I don't remember which. Maybe some "sunken ruins" somewhere between the city and the traveller (just a thought)." Distant landscape wouldn't hurt either, and I mean higher than what you have already placed. Finally, I would like to suggest that you remove the sun, because as you can see, the landscape shadows don't go according to it, and whit the current sun, the city is actually supposed to cast a rather big shadow -- which it doesn't.

 

[syltman]

Ok..so added some vegetation,rocks...etc,and the hanging gardens
And i solved the sky problem..thanks to Keiji and Racziel but no sky from the editor actually fit the terrain so i made the doodad thingy that Keiji said and in my opinion it blends in better.
So here it is,thanks for the help
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@Belgarath:I couldn't add the stormsphere cuz for the city and the place where the camera was to be visible i should've made it very big and past a certain scale the editor crashed...

change the tile to the barrens desert one, it will look better

 

[Fingolfin]

looks much better now.
Seeing how this is one of your first teerrains, i'm convinced that we will see some really nice terrains from you in the future.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Well he would have a lot of problems adding hanging gardens to it as babylon had none (they were in Niniva it was later discorvered).

I could recommend trying a higher resolution render as it is hard to see any detail currently.

 

[Fussiler1]

Well he would have a lot of problems adding hanging gardens to it as babylon had none (they were in Niniva it was later discorvered).

I could recommend trying a higher resolution render as it is hard to see any detail currently.

I thought the Hanging Gardens were long gone?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Historians believe Babylon never had any hanging gardens, the gardens refered to as the Hanging Gardens were actually in Niniva, nearby Babylon.

They also used archimede screw like devices for lifting water (archimede was later).

 

[Fingolfin]

Another cool thing about Babylon is that the city was so big, that when the persians attacked the city limits in the morning, it would take until the evening for the people living in the centre to find out that they were being attacked.

 

[CyberDuelX16]

You need a background P;

 

[Fussiler1]

Erhm.. the sky is the background.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Add your lattest screenshot to the orignal post via editing it. This will stop people getting confused thinking it is the lattest.

 

[CyberDuelX16]

Erhm.. the sky is the background.

More Background P;

 

[elredir]

More Background P;

What do you mean by More background??
The sky kinda looks empty but i dont know how to improve it.

Well he would have a lot of problems adding hanging gardens to it as babylon had none (they were in Niniva it was later discorvered).

I could recommend trying a higher resolution render as it is hard to see any detail currently.

Didnt know about the hanging gardens not beeing in babylon...cuz all over the web you see"Hanging Gardens of Babylon".
The screen was taken at max resolution(1440x900)and max game settings i dont think i can improve the quality more.
I was wondering how can i modify the shadow angle of the terrain/dunes/hills?

 

[CyberDuelX16]

Add some doodads to the desert?

 

[drdgvhbh]

Make some bones, and why are the trees always beside the rocks?

 

[Insincerity]

That's Babel not Babylon

 

[Fussiler1]

But Babel and Babylon are pretty much the same city, so it doesn't matter that much.

 

[Insincerity]

Lol not really. Babel never existed (unless you're evangelic...), but Babylon is a historical place.

 

[elredir]

Sorry for the slow updates but i have some...problems.
thx for all the help.

I'm not evangelic....so its babylon.
edit:i think this is the last update on the map...

so tell me what you think