Belgrath's Secondary Showcase!

[Belgarath]

Just lots of screens shots, quite a few high resolution ones and other normal ones using and not using custom models. I think they all came out rather well.

 

[Mor)L(unE]

The first 2 are cool, the third is a bit to crowded

 

[Oziris]

The third is the best to me only that i dont like the tree next to the litle hause in the first picture ther is a tree that is not(winter)and use some other haouse that one dosent fit in.The 2 is good.
Good luck

 

[Bob27]

yep my favorite would have to be the third one. I think it would look better with custom trees though, or at least bigger trees. Although I would agree that it does look a bit over crowded.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I really like the third picture and yes it is overcrowded, but it is meant to be and it looks really great. Only negative thing about it would be the trees.

The first 2 screens are good aswell, but they lack something, can't quite put my finger on what.

 

[Craka_J]

I like the third one a lot. But the first two... meh, I think the cluttering of grass is either not enough or too much. Looks unrealistic tbh.
The first two needs more variation of environmental things such as trees and rocks too.
~Craka_J

 

[Belgarath]

The third is the best to me only that i dont like the tree next to the litle hause in the first picture ther is a tree that is not(winter)and use some other haouse that one dosent fit in.The 2 is good.
Good luck

Could you rephrase that ... in english?
*added another screen

 

[Craka_J]

Changed the title of this thread so it makes sense for now. Or I can rename it to: Belgarath's Terrain Showcase if you'd like to add all of your screenshots in here?
~Craka_J

 

[Belgarath]

Could you rename it to Belgarath's Screens of Stuff? Since I already have a terrain showcase, it'd make sense.

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

My favorite one has to be the 2nd one.I didn't like the 3rd one.

 

[Craka_J]

Why don't you just post in your showcase then?
~Craka_J

 

[Lonely Wolf.]

They be a bit messy, but my fave is the one with the house, reminds me somehow of Snow(w)hite and the dorfs ^^

 

[frankie11]

I LOVE the third picture... it looks like the beginning of a Disney fairytale movie. Awesome haha!

 

[Craka_J]

Model of Snow White's house.
Hey! Kind of does look like her house in your terrain, doesn't it?
~Craka_J

 

[Nuke770]

all of them are really nice, but my criticism applies to the second and third. firstly for the second pic, why does the ground suddenly drop off, make a few more trees or mountains to cover up that obvious separation between the ground and sky. In the third pic all i can say is that it has a good basis, but those trees dont "work" and ive never seen bushes sticking out of the hillside at a 45 degree angle

 

[Belgarath]

Where does the ground suddenly drop? It's a hill / mountain.
Also, I've never seen that house! Lol.

 

[Gilles]

The first two don't look great for high-res. I can't tell you much about why, I haven't tried using them before.

The third is by far the best. The angle, lighting, and placement is awesome. The trees do ruin it slightly, but not much you can do. The last one is boring tbh. It lacks a good angle.

 

[Nuke770]

hmm i might agree with Gilles on this, but the first and second picture do show a lack of shrubbery or natural bushes that naturally populate a "forgotten" stream.

 

[Belgarath]

... Forgotten stream? That was just a random place.
Added three others, ones from a map that I've been working on at times. I don't think it's gonna be something, but meh.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I like the 5th shot, looks really great, good angle, nice doodad placement, a bit simple but it has a great feel to it. Good job on that one. The last 2 are not that good, especially not the 6th, very bad angle, almost nothing to actually look at either.

 

[Craka_J]

The new fall pictures look empty and vacant in a lot of areas. They need more details like the third one has.
~Craka_J

 

[Gilles]

I totally agree with raging. The 5th shot is again an awesome angle, that is why it looks so nice. Oh and I don't like the few rocks on the side. Just use the rock tile, or use pure doodad. Not one or the other.

 

[Rvsoldier]

Wow, those are amazing. Havn't seen anything that great in wc3. Favorite is a good tie between the 1st and 3rd. Great job lol

 

[Gilles]

I think you should see some other High-res terrains Rvsoldier. Or look at any of MadseN's work.

Not to put down Belgarath, he's a very talented terrainer! Just doesn't pair up with some of the greats.

 

[Blackveiled]

Third one is nice, overcrowded

But the first two, there seems to be alot of those grass things, I don't recommend alot of them, they can lag up the game bad =/ but yeah! GJ!

 

[Gilles]

I doubt the terrain is playable banlord.

 

[Belgarath]

.. uh, nope ... 100% UNplayable.

 

[Gilles]

You need to work on your high-res. If you like them. I personally don't really like the high-res. It looks good, but I don't know, something bugs me.

 

[Belgarath]

I use it from time to time, but at the time I'm a bit busy playing other (FPS) games anyway. I haven't been doing a lot of WC3 lately, <_<

 

[Gilles]

I hear ya. I haven't been except for the two example terrains I did.

 

[Belgarath]

*update: Added two new high res screens, both of a nightly storm / town.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

The 2 new screens looks great, much better than your past work with High-res doodads. You've really succeded creating a dark and rainfull environment. It really fits in great and reminds me of how medieval villages looks in movies and such, good job.

Only bad thing that I noticed looking just now is that you placed some flowers with very light colors in the first picture, they don't fit, ruins the mood and looks like they take no rain damage.

 

[Belgarath]

Yeah, true, I saw them too late, but oh well. I added two other screens, couldn't upload one twice since I already uploaded it in another thread.

 

[Gilles]

The two new High-Res are a huge improvement! Well done.

The other one is nice, but pretty plain. Not much you can do... maybe a better angle?

 

[Belgarath]

I tried a few others, but they mostly had a fugly edge in them, or they covered nothing.

 

[Gilles]

Yeah I have a hard time with angles too.

I forgot, +rep for the new high-res!

 

[Belgarath]

I'm going to go and make that village happy and sunny.
*edit: Yay, now the village can be happy & sad.

 

[Gilles]

Someone really needs to weed that place!

 

[Belgarath]

Yeah, but only 3 people live there, so ... >_>

 

[Gilles]

Fair enough. I hate weeding.

 

[Belgarath]

I bet you live there. Anyway, I need some new ideas - high or normal res for new screens.

 

[Craka_J]

Very nice work Belgrath. Your only flaw with High-Res doodads are you need to learn to blend textures with other textures that blend together well. A white rock in a dark grassy field isn't really that impressive. Although for your first submitted work of High-Res terrain, it isn't bad at all.
Keep practicing! I think you'll really get good if you keep at it.
~Craka_J

 

[Belgarath]

True, now that you mention it, that rock DOES look very weird!

 

[Belgarath]

*update:
added another screen, of a dark forest with a knight in it who's about to get the crap owned out of him, >_>
And yes, I'm so terribly sorry for that double post, I should die, etc, etc.

 

[Gilles]

Looks pretty cool. It took me a while to see all the ninja/bandit guys.

 

[Belgarath]

They're actually footmen, but they looked really good. I actually had difficulty spotting them myself after I put it up here, lol

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

That one with the knight looks cool, those footmen actually does look like ninjas or some other bandit like folks hiding in the dark

 

[Belgarath]

Yeah, they do too. I might actually make a few other dark ones, maybe a trade caravan.
*updated, added 2 new island screens.
*updated, added an abandoned mining town.

 

[Gilles]

The Jungle ones are so very stranglethorn vale! I like them a lot, nice work!
The mine is rather boring. Nothing special, nothing bad.

 

[Belgarath]

Stranglethorn vale?
By the way, I'm not that good at doing destroyed things, etc. Rather happy, or non happy, but still functioning.
*update: added two other dark forest screens, I call them "the ninjas strike again".
*update: added two lake screens.