Dark age terrain

[sonofjay]

Here are some of the terrain of my abandoned SRPG, "DARK AGE". I think they are good enough to be posted here.

Small Village

Valgore City

Cathedral

Valgore City 2

Hope you like it.

 

[Svenska_0rmen]

Hmm, i cant see the pics...

 

[sonofjay]

I wonder why, anyone have the same problem? If anyone here have the same problem please tell me.

 

[Shadow44]

I don't have a problem with pictures. Terrain - not bad, for me it looks good.

 

[sonofjay]

@Shadow thank you.

 

[fladdermasken]

Seeing as there's no eye candy besides the textures, tile and height variation should be waaay more dominant.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...ials-278/terrain-overgoes-small-guide-145182/

I don't see why people love that grass tile so much. It stinks. I say go for the grassy dirt tile and rough dirt from the high res pack, then complement it with tiles from ashenvale and village fall.

Bit monotonous at times, but it's a good enough start.

 

[sonofjay]

Thanks for the comment Fladd, I'll implement those things written on the tutorial when I have some spare time.

 

[M0rbid]

Fladd already has pointed out a lot of the stuff that I would have pointed out aswell.
I really like that you do not solely rely on the B²M typical high res pack, but added different more uncommon stuff to it. On how well those really work together, that's a different question. I am not yet sure about it.
But it's certainly a good thing to vary here.
On a minor note: It seems like some Unit models are unshaded or at least unfogged. Is this on purpose?

 

[Adiktuz]

It looks good but yeah, it relied solely on B2M's high res pack...

 

[PROXY]

Meh, most of the terrain make the wow doodads and the B2M's doodads.
For example, the cathedral consists of maybe 4-5 doodads, 4 trees and 1 cathedral model :/

Other than that, meh.

 

[sonofjay]

It looks good but yeah, it relied solely on B2M's high res pack...

Morbid just said that I did not solely rely on B2M pack . Units are not really shaded that is why they look too bright :C

 

[Zwiebelchen]

I can't really see real terrain here. All I see is some highress doodads and wow imports being put together almost randomly on flat ground. The screenshot of the cathedral is stupid. 80% of the screenshot is just one doodad.
Showing terraining work should actually involve terraining - but that's just my thoughts.

 

[sonofjay]

Way to go to encourage people,

Instead of saying shit about people's work, why don't help them improve. I know Fladd and Morbid wasn't impress about my work, but instead of saying this is stupid, they left with good advice. And if you don't like peoples work, then do your own.

Beside this map is was supposed to be a SRPG of mine but never been develop, so it become a compilation of high res models.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Way to go to encourage people,

Instead of saying shit about people's work, why don't help them improve. I know Fladd and Morbid wasn't impress about my work, but instead of saying this is stupid, they left with good advice. And if you don't like peoples work, then do your own.

Beside this map is was supposed to be a SRPG of mine but never been develop, so it become a compilation of high res models.

Look, it didn't want to insult you, but you gotta agree that the amount of actual *work* you put into this 'terraining' is less than average.
It would be *totally* different if the models were made by you. In this case, this counts indeed as terraining. But this is clearly not the case here.

You can easily tell what could be improved by my criticism: Show actual terraining instead of a compilation of highress doodads. Add detail to the streets and ground. Add detail to the buildings (yes, they are highress but still very undetailed ... this was intentional by b²m as I suppose he wanted to use doodad art to add to the detail level like adding plants to the windows, etc.) and so on.

And come on, at least calculate the shadowmap before you take a picture.

 

[ionster]

Quite -well -works.
But whaat I perfer is the second one.
As for the others, I'm afraid the sence you made was too ........Bare (you know what I mean right?) .
Perhaps you need more types of grass textures.

 

[Belgarath]

tbh one of the shittest things about high res packs is the tilework. there is really no decent set of tiles, they all look just so much worse than, for example, ashenvale. say what you will about blizzard, their tiles rule in most cases. especially in relative comparison :- (!
on that note, i'd suggest that you leave little ground visible when using high res tiles by using grass models and shit. it just always has a nasty look to it. so in towns, crowd the streets with small objects - wheels, wheelbarrows, all sorts of shit. in forests, crowd around the paths, rocks, flowers, trees, etc. and then pay close attention to how you make the paths :- )

 

[sonofjay]

As I said on the first post, this is a abandoned project, and if not little then will never get any progress. End of discussion no more throwing woods on the flame.

Oh also for the shadows. I calculate it, but after two hours, the saving is still not finish(just have way) cause you this is a 256x256 map, and I just show you little of the finish work, that city is a take 1/4 of the map, you just never saw how big it is .

 

[WindowsVistaSucks]

A lot of these models are from wow lol. And they're not even that hard to get. You should try to evade making models larger than what they're men't to be. Otherwise they'll look a bit dodgy.

 

[gorillabull]

you mixed Uldum models with european houses... if you are unaware those brown houses with the inscribed rocks are from a desert terrain setting not to say that it looks bad because it does not just nothing new. Its "a town" and the only reason it was made is because of the models i mean what's next you gonna make a forest because you have good tree models?