Belgrath's Secondary Showcase!

[Belgarath]

*update: Added 3 new screens, of a forest. I made them 'cause I found good tiles.
**update: added 4 new screens, of a forest. Again, I elaborated one idea.

 

[Gilles]

Your first of the forest are the best by far. The angles in the rest are poor. Usually far out shots aren't that great. Good use of HT's rocks!

 

[Belgarath]

*Update!!: Added 5 screens, of the evil twists & turns of the treacherous forest of Bealg ... This is my newest project, a rather terrain focused 160x160 map. I've made quite a bit in the middle.
And another 5. Off to play BF2.

 

[Craka_J]

I spy excessive hills and mountains with pointy edges. Fix them up a bit. Also, your tile variation in the screenshots of the forests with blueish fog isn't very good either. I'd say it is pretty basic. But your daytime forest pictures are really good. Yet I still see pointy hills and mountains.

Your terrain work varies from good, to great, and worse. Try to put a lot of time in your work. If you spot any flaws, I recommend you fix them because eventually I'll notice them and announce it lol
~Craka_J

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I like the new stuff, nothing to fancy, but good. +rep.

Grats on the second gem, Belgarath.

 

[kebabmeat]

The new ones are really great!

 

[Belgarath]

Thanks for that, raging ^^.
About the pointy hills, this is still a bit of a WIP, when I finish the entire map, I'm going to go over it with smoothing, lowering and raising, to make it more smooth, "like a baby's bottom".
*update: I was making a cave with night elves, then did the "Out of the cave" view, and had the peculiar idea of adding a big, kilted man! I think they're rather good.
*update: Added 3 screens of Bealg, these of one of the villages.

 

[Gilles]

This is the largest showcase I've seen. GJ! The new stuff is good, I agree with Craka, you still need to take your time a little more.

 

[Belgarath]

Largest showcase by far, 75 ^^
Usually if I take my time, I run out of ideas, get bored, etc.

 

[Craka_J]

The new forest screenshots are that great. Well they're good, but again, the tile variation is very bad. It is all dirt! In an area with that much vegetation, there should be a lot more grass. But I really like your new cave picture. I think it is your best cave made so far. The other one with the unit in the middle is ruined because the unit is there. Remove that knight guy and it'll be awesome.
~Craka_J

 

[Belgarath]

And I fixed it.

 

[Gilles]

I like the last picture you added (fixed). The lighting is really good. How did you make the horizon have that glow?
+rep

 

[FamousPker49]

Ambient lighting, or maybe luck? Anyhow it looks very nice, you for sure have the largest showcase, and it is nice GJ

 

[Belgarath]

I used magical Dungeon Thick White Fog, and combined with my Dark Green Fog; Z Start 0, Z End 7500. The ground where the shot was taken from was lowered, so the fog "stacked" itself right at the edge.

 

[Gilles]

Sweet, it sure turned out nice!

 

[Belgarath]

*update: After capturing the enemy in BF2, I wanted to do some desert terrain. There's the result
*update: Added a peaceful sorta river.

 

[Craka_J]

The newer shots are very nice. The one with rocks and water needs stuff like trees, lilly pads, and other environmentals.
~Craka_J

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I like the barrens piece, good work Belgarath. You keep getting better ^^

The river looks bad though, not up to your standards.

 

[Gilles]

Yeah I like the barrens a lot. The river is pretty boring.

 

[Belgarath]

It's not actually finished I just wanted to see how people liked the actual concept. I thought I said that, didn't I? >_<

 

[Gilles]

Oh, well if you add more doodads it might look better. River Rushes, Cattails, and lily pads and the like.

 

[Belgarath]

*update: added two roman, greeky thingies.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

The marble building really doesn't fit in with the environment or the other buildings for that matter. But it looks okay.

 

[Craka_J]

Tint the temple to blend more with the terrain. Give it a brownish tint. The currently white color is horrible for this piece.
~Craka_J

 

[Gilles]

Doesn't look at all like Rome to me. Not bad terrain, but as Craka and raging said, either tint the marble building or delete it. Or skin it.

 

[Belgarath]

I didn't say it was rome. And I though the building would rather better stand out, as marble is white, not brown.

 

[Gilles]

It sure looks like you used roman buildings and roman units.

The marble building stand out too much. Although if you like it, leave it.

 

[Belgarath]

Well, who cares
*update: added a high res screen, of a plain with white-greyish colour rocks (I call it just plain of white rocks)

 

[Gilles]

Looks pretty good. I think the whole atmosphere is good.

 

[Craka_J]

I can't really figure out if I like this or don't like it. It definately has a lot of contrast of darks and lights, but I'm guessing there's too much white fog on the left. Maybe if it were added everywhere else, it'd look better. I'm just guessing that.

Tile variation is pretty good. But the terrain is very flat. Also, the rocks stick out way too much and look randomly placed, which looks pretty bad actually. I advise you tint the rocks darker and place them more creatively. Add some hill variation too: remember to retain yourself from keeping them pointy!
~Craka_J

 

[gavdaman88]

I really like the last one you put up, although Craka is right the atmosphere and realism of the scene are both great! And the rest of your showcase was good to view as well, keep up the good work!

 

[Deleted member 139377]

i like the last few the best, but dude... you could ahve easily done all of that without a single inpor... you jsut need to know how.

 

[Belgarath]

i like the last few the best, but dude... you could ahve easily done all of that without a single inpor... you jsut need to know how.

Sorry, a single what?

 

[Gilles]

Import? I think he just forgot a "T" and replaced the "M" with an "N".

 

[Belgarath]

...Oh. The third picture and quite a few others are made with 0 imports.
*update: finished the stream / river / w/e picture.

 

[Belgarath]

*Update: added an indoors picture & just saying again I finished the river.

 

[Oziris]

Are u fucking crazy how much more of those super pictures ! some much time spent on macking the terrain and u are sure skilled u can do some terrine for me xD

 

[Craka_J]

The world's largest Wine Glasses.
I also like how you improved the other two terrains before the newest one. Good job and +Rep for that.
~Craka_J

 

[Gilles]

Well done on the river, and the indoor. Both are very good.

 

[Belgarath]

Oziris, some people call me crazy, but I actually don't spend hours on each screen. I just spend a while now and then, take pictures every now and then as well. I might keep doing some indoors ones.

 

[Gilles]

I am the same as you Belgarath. I get bored really quick, although I am working hard on castle siege.

 

[Belgarath]

Castle siege? Isn't that the big, big thread in Map Development? You should start terraining again
*update: Added 4 indoors pictures, each from a corner of the room (They have no door and no roof)

 

[Gilles]

I am terraining it right now, I have no time for personal terrain. Yes it is the big thread, and you should comment on the terrain!

I really don't like indoor terrains all that much. Generally they look really ugly because of the models. WC should stay outside. This indoor is much better than your last high-res one. Way more to look at, and better angles.

 

[Belgarath]

Heh, I'll get onto it as soon as I do some stuff. I actually like indoors ones, (making them) as all you have to worry about are the doodads, maybe weather and fog. Otherwise it's terrain variation, sky, etc, etc.
*update: added a dark forest high resolution one.
*update: added more high resolution ones. Lots of 'em now.

 

[Gilles]

They look nice, although I'm still not a fan of high-res.

 

[Belgarath]

I really like making high-res because, well, it's just fun and it looks awesome.
*update: added another 3. Craka, you do realize that you can't right? (just read that post >_<)

 

[Belgarath]

[RAINBOW]Anniversary! 102 screen shots!

Added 4 new screen shots of another indoor house, was supposed to be upstairs of the other one![/RAINBOW]

 

[Nindira]

The high rez screenshots look great. I'm totally diggin screens 91-93 but 94, woah...it confuses me a little. The slight rock/mountain formation is cool, but the walls to the left of it? What are they doing sticking out and stuff? Screen 95 looks terrific, like a high elven village/monastary way up in the mountains.

Your indoor high rez screenshots are a little dark and you could fix them up a tad.

 

[<Offspring>]

I like the cave and the snowy village, And the roman village is nice to!

 

[Belgarath]

94 - woops ... I didn't quite see that, let's say they were renewing the wall.