Cosmos Platform

[HungryHusky]

I tried to recreate Atomsk the Spiral King's stage from "Impossible Bosses 2" in Starcraft 2. I think I did pretty well.

How did I do it? Firstly, I used an alpha'ed tile, then added three layers of an animated space textures underneath it. Then, I added some details such as various hero glows and the selection circles in the middle of the platform.

It may look complex, but was done in less than an hour. And don't worry about the lag in the video, my computer is a five year old work-laptop. Ima buy a new one soon.

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[Gilles]

Phew, glad I don't have to worry about the lag in the video. It would have been tough getting to sleep tonight with that hanging over my head.


Anywho, good work. The tile looks pretty good, but it's really repetitive. I'd love to see some variation, or just slam the thing with glows and stars and other spacey things.
The platform looks really good. The texture on the boarder pieces isn't the best, and perhaps smaller scaled ones might look slightly better, but it still looks good.

 

[Strydhaizer]

I like octagons <3
Nice work!

 

[Heinvers]

It looks fine, and neat in a way

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Do you have any kind of test map? I would like to see what you've done with the editor and so on. I'm interested to actually interested use this method to create terrain for a boss fight.

 

[sonofjay]

I would like to see what you've done with the editor and so on.

He just used the Alpha Tile and then put a lot of eye candy effects below the terrain.

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Damn, that is one delicious terrain you got there.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Yep, yep. I would like to see the map itself.

 

[GreeN!X]

I won't be surprised if I see a unicorn hopping around there. Good job with the terrain. ^^

 

[Vinz]

Amazing.

Did you use several varied glows for the starry effect?

 

[HungryHusky]

Yep, yep. I would like to see the map itself.

I don't want to relase it to public yet. I can send it to you privately, but I can't add attachments in PMs.

 

[Vinz]

Pastebins can work well for that.

 

[Strydhaizer]

I can send it to you privately, but I can't add attachments in PMs.

Oooh , im smelling a real conversation here
Can i have it too , i want to see that thing closer.

Anyway , for the suggestions , you can add the Galaxy FX under the Octagon Arena. You might also want to add obelisks on every edges of the octagon.

 

[HungryHusky]

Oooh , im smelling a real conversation here

Anyway , for the suggestions , you can add the Galaxy FX under the Octagon Arena. You might also want to add obelisks on every edges of the octagon.

This was just to test the idea. Alot of improvements can be done indeed. I like the obelisk suggestion, might try it out if I decide to use the terrain in the future.
The galaxy effect is already under the platform... What do you mean?

 

[Vinz]

I think he means some kind of spiral galaxy figure under the octagon itself.

 

[Strydhaizer]

I mean , using this effect under the center of the platform.
http://xgm.guru/p/wc3/galaxy

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Another suggestion , how about placing some Guldan Runes?

 

[HungryHusky]

Oooooh that is a nice idea. In fact I already updated with the suggested model. I also added a black hole effect by Fingolfin and the obelisks. Now it looks amazing.

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[Vinz]

It looks a little overloaded, but amazing, like before.

 

[Gilles]

To be honest, I don't care for the black dots or the obelisks.

 

[HungryHusky]

Can i have it too , i want to see that thing closer.

Sry didnt see this until now. It says you have chosen not to recieve PMs.

 

[sonofjay]

To be honest, I don't care for the black dots or the obelisks.

Yeah, the main thing that I really like on his terrain are those eye candy effects. I actually even think that the black dots doesn't blend really well with that colorful background.

 

[Vinz]

I kinda agree, are they supposed to be black holes?