CMarket's Terrain Showcase

[CMarket]

Since I know have enough terrains to create a showcase, I decided to do so. I never terrain just for the sake of creating a screen shot. All of these terrains are from my cinematic series the Sect of the Holy Mother and The Lone Panther.

1st picture - The Murky Griphin Lodge, located in Miridin's forest
2nd picture - The port village of Verun, located in Ashfield county
3rd picture - Occultun village, located in Ashfield county
4th picture - The gray tower of Occultun
5th picture - An alchemists work station
6th picture - The Lair of Veneficus, located on Deadman's Isles
7th picture - A mountain view of Deadman's Isles
8th picture - The port town of Confuto Tumul.
9th picture - Confuto Tumul, past and present.
10th picture - Info will be given later.
11th picture - Info will be given later.
12th picture - The main park of the town of Red Stone, located in Red Stone county.
13th picture - Info will be given later.
14th picture - Borigard Smith's house, on the outskirts of As'Latur.
15th picture - Info will be given later.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

• First picture is not so good. The house is ugly.
• Second picture is really nice. I like that.
• Can't say much about the third one, it's ok.
• Fourth is a bit grey, perhaps sad?. But it's pretty good. I like that castle model, I use it also in my campaign.

Anyway, +rep!

 

[Belgarath]

1st isn't very great, 2nd is really nice, 3rd and 4th are pretty meh. Felwood sky ftl.

 

[AntoMarc]

hmm for me the 2nd & 4th are the best

 

[Thrikodius]

Looks great. The second pic is my favourite. But remember to unselect the objects when you take the screenshot. In the second pick there is a green selection circle on the cliff/mountain/hill or whatever.
In the third pic the vines by the columns look a little flat. Try adding some viny doobad there. And the tower is covered by the fog but not the lanterns on it, so they just hang in the air. It looked good and mystical untill I saw the tower in the fourth pic.

 

[hellblazer-14]

I pretty much agree with everyone else here

Pic 1 - House is ugly lol and the grass isn't too pretty either, but you can't do much about that...

Pic 2 - The way you placed the ruins underneath the water gives a really nice effect, and all the doodads fit together quite nicely.

Pic 3 - The Trees and the foreground looks pretty decent, but the castle towers in the background just don't fit into the picture :/

Pic 4 - Pretty good all in all, the castle model is awesome, it gives it a lot more character, so this one is good. You could place a few more trees and environmetal doodads though, to give more of an atmosphere.

WEll I hope this helps
Plus rep for your work, you've made a great start.

 

[MasterHaosis]

CMarket nice job man I like those pictures!

 

[CMarket]

Thanks for the advice, but in your opinion where should I put more trees and doodads(what part of the picture)?

 

[CMarket]

Bump. Any other advice on how I can improve my pictures(especially the 3rd and 4th)?

 

[~Void~]

I like the second one a lot. But I think there are too many of those night elf archie things.

 

[Misha]

I like the second one a lot. But I think there are too many of those night elf archie things.

same opinion ^^ nice

 

[lord_ken]

Wonderful! Simply wonderful!

• The first one was abit... Bleugh. It was a bit flat and the house is ugly.

• Oh yeah! This one made my day. And its good you used that water model thingy.

• Nothing much to say about this one... x.x

• Quite a good fog for a sad part. And its good you used that castle model instead of blizzards.

+ Rep

 

[CMarket]

Well, I'm glad you liked it.

 

[AntoMarc]

I can't wait to see Lone Panther I am sure will be very good like The Sect of Holy Mother from the terrain showcase

 

[CMarket]

Just added a 5th picture. Comment on what I can improve, please.

 

[Rui]

Okay... the fifth one looks weird. Who would keep cheese in a shelf? Silly elf.

 

[Thrikodius]

It's magic cheese. Anyway I think an Alchemists shelves should be crowded with herbs.

 

[MasterHaosis]

WHoa the last one looks like flore shopping! Nice

 

[CMarket]

Alchemist's shelves should be filled with anything that has some alchemical properties. So, any other advice on what I could/should improve?

 

[Ziggen]

It looks good, but I think it will look better if you replace the shrubs with something else.

 

[Mechmap]

The 5th one has too big walls and paintings, it's not realistic.

 

[CMarket]

I think I just made the priest too small. The walls are supposed to be big because it's a tower and it goes really high up, but I guess the paintings are a bit too big, even though there are big paintings in real life.

 

[Celaquil]

I'd Say. Since you made the effort to actually contact me and ask for this, I will now review every-one of your pics:

Picture 1:

- Its fairly decent. The camera angle is too low, and therefor make the quality of your doodads look bad. And its to repetive, you use one type of tree, one type of shrub (mostly) and one type of rock, and thats it, except the one building, which, I personally dont like the roof on. Try to have a better camera angle, to make the fog appear more and give that special feel, also, remember next time, have more variation in your doodad choice, allways have at least 2 types of trees and 3-4 types of shrubs, or maybe some flowers. Or bushes.

Picture 2:

- This one is actually quite nice. The atmosphere is great. The only two things i dont like is the sky, never use that sky, its ugly. And I dont like how you made the cliffs, their too straigt, which cliffs never are, you should use the rise and lower tool a bit more to get a more rough surface on the cliff sides.

Picture 3:

- This one too looks nice, but there is two ting keeping this terrain from being great, which are the formerly mentioned lack of variation, in this terrain spesially pointing threes. Also, you can easily see that the fog is standing in contrast with the sky, NEVER make something contrast, if you see a contrast in your terrain, then fix it. The nicest of the nice terrains is when people get it to flow without contrasts and it still looks natural. but fog and sky shall ALLWAYS fit together.

Picture 4:

- Same problems as picture 3, but for one, I find the camera anlge in this terrain quite.. interesting. Also, this one is to empty, add some more doodads, but not too much though

Picture 5:

- What can I say, its a pic of a house inside, with a presumably herbalist in it. I never liked terrains of inside a house, nor do i like having unit models in terrain pics really. Its just not my type of terrain, but if anything, more doodads to make it look more realistic maybe?

Overall they are better than noob quality, fix the things i pointed out in your future terrains and practise much, and then you might become good ^^

Also, here is two links to Void's great tutorials on terraining:

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f283/natural-environments-advanced-terrain-96825/

[Terrain] Advanced Lighting - Wc3campaigns

To me these two tutorials tell you about EVERYTHING that you need to know to terrain for art.

 

[xDaSlicex]

Love your terraining 1st one is a little bad but overall u did good..

hey i have a favor for u can u help me make terrain in my map??

 

[CMarket]

Nah, sorry. All the time I have to work in the WE I use for my cinematic series.

 

[Belgarath]

The sky picture in picture 5 looks like an actual sky, that's really nice. Good variation of things and nice overall.

 

[CMarket]

New Picture added!

 

[NearbyHermit]

The newest addition is a blast,in what part are you going to include it?

 

[AntoMarc]

it's scary good job CM again

 

[Ziggen]

Hurry up with part II!
Anyway the pic reminds me of the graveyard area in Fable ;P
It looks nice.

 

[Coconut-NL]

1. - bit too many rocks and you made the grass look flat
2. - very great but there are house's on the left who are just standing there
3. - good but the castle is not great in the pic
4. - great only i miss lights on the road to the castle
5. - good maybe you made it look too smal
6. - knock, knock - who's there - necromancer - necromancer who? - necromancer eating your ass off

 

[FrIkY]

Nice terrains CMarket, I like all of them! ^^

 

[thedeathunterxx]

wow almost everyone iz HATING !! shut up !!!

all of them are fereakin awsome, and is probably twise as good as any of you could do it,

i liked them all, especially in the movies,
lol ima make C market a fan club xD

 

[CMarket]

TheDeathHunter I don't find their comments hating. Almost everybody says that at least some of the pictures are nice.

 

[Serbianbeast]

Indoor, graveyard and those 2 from your latest cinematic: the one with a port city and the castle one are ok. First is not so good. Tip: don't close up or put overscaled wc3 models in center of your picture since their textures are really not that good.

 

[Hawkwing]

Once again an awesome job, but I noticed some areas which could have been made better.

Picture #1 - It's great, but I would have chosen a different roof.

Picture #2 - Wonderful.

Picture #3 - The village in the background looks kinda small, but that's just me. The foreground is beautiful though.

Picture #4 - Awesome, but it would have been nicer from the perspective of someone standing outside it looking up at it. That way it would look more immense and not be covered in fog.

Picture #5 - I don't like the white rug, perhaps a darker colour would have been better.

Picture #6 - The angle of the green light from above seems a bit odd.

 

[Byaku]

All terrain is great, but I have some comments :

Picture 1 - I think To many rocks
Picture 2 - Nice port and village
Picture 3 - It's good for me
Picture 4 - Nice terrain
Picture 5 - I think it's ok
Picture 6 - The green light is odd for me.

 

[Mechmap]

The 6th picture is nice but the green light seems to be out of place? How about a glow doodad tinted green instead? I think there is something like that.

 

[NearbyHermit]

All terrain is great, but I have some comments :

Picture 1 - I think To many rocks
Picture 2 - Nice port and village
Picture 3 - It's good for me
Picture 4 - Nice terrain
Picture 5 - I think it's ok
Picture 6 - The green light is odd for me.

I sudgested to add some more light,to odden up the things!

 

[CMarket]

Added a new picture!

Pay close attention to the sign(I know it's dark but if you try hard enough you might make out the words).

 

[Serbianbeast]

It's like .... the foes of ??? will be consumed

 

[NearbyHermit]

Yep '' The foes of righteous will be condemned''

Odd picture!

 

[MasterHaosis]

Hey CMarket I like those last 2 pictures the most 6 and 7! SSScary
Man nice work!

 

[thedeathunterxx]

o shit, that necropolis in the background izz scarry !!

is that blackriverside?? Or is that " the huge unchangable undead bastion" that those people were talkin bout in the 6th chapter ( i think ) of SOTHM??

 

[CMarket]

Added a new picture

 

[Linaze]

The majority of the terrains looks quite good in my opinion. My only problem is that the final or, last three look pretty much alike each other. On the other hand, perhaps that was intended to begin with. My favorite is the second one since it is bright and happy. In the third picture, the castle looks meh to me. Overall this is a really nice collection of nice terrains. +rep

 

[CMarket]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it

And yes, the last three are meant to look alike because it's the same place.

 

[Mechmap]

8th picture: Is it Black Riverside again?

 

[CMarket]

Mayhaps....mayhaps not!

 

[~Void~]

I do like the sign. The green fog is terrible (make it more gray, but not black!). It could use some trees that aren't bare, too. Like some brown trees with dead leaves on them but not bare.