Crystal Building

[Moderator]

Misha 16th Aug 2013

Moderator's Review:

ugh.. that ring is totally undefined.. try to rewrap it plane by plane, it'll give a lot more detail.
also do something more about the birth animation, something needs to happen in it, beside the dust
and, if those 4 little crystals are supposed to be shards, then make them irregular shape, pointy, and imbed them in the ground at various angles, perhaps a little further from their current position
and lastly. those pillars that have the chain on them, they totally don't need a bottom plane

 

[infrenus]

Wow I feel... dumb. just now I see how people done the floating fortreses... should make mine too then.

Also simple but usefull model.

 

[Kyrbi0]

YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS.

Interesting. A little bit like the Protoss Pylons from Starcraft. I like the crystal, the chains, and the SFX around the base... But I don't like the wrap on that ring around the center. Just really smooth & not well-defined.

 

[Spellbound]

Oh, now this is a nice model, but I'm don't like the ring very much. To me it looks a tad too thick. Also something else that bothers me is how much the ring moves and crystal barely hovers - you should make the crystal sort of follow the ring (don't make it synchronised because then it'd look weird) and not just stand there.

Also, another thing you should consider would be to make the orbiting runes attachment points instead of having their own FX. This way people can put their own runes/other effects there and give the model customisation options.

Finally, you should probably add team colour to the ring (maybe like with the Arcane Sanctum), and possibly a faint glow under the crystal that intensifies when the crystal moves closer to the ground.