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Dark Citadel

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Well, I have been working on this one all day, still somewhat of a WIP, red fog giving me some trouble anyway as always, comments pls
 

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Why is Oblivion mentioned in every lava terrain!

Pretty good. I like your lava. I think the doodads you used in it make it. The middle is nice, but I don't care for the walls. That's about it. Good work!
 
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Well, it's not exactly great. First off, experienced terrainers NEVER use orange water for lava, use a model or terrain substitute. It'll work much better.

i actually think the oragne water (didnt even know it was orange water till you mentioned it, i thought it was lava) looks really nice, and would definlatly look better then the lava terrain texture...
 
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Well, I have been working on this one all day, still somewhat of a WIP, red fog giving me some trouble anyway as always, comments pls

Dark (??)Citadel? Seems awfully bright to me. :grin:

Your camera shot is really zoomed out, the sky box is obviously a box. Upside you see the whole of hell there, down side you also see the end of the world and the sky box.

I would set the fog at a starting distance of 10 and a furthest distance of about 60 000 - I would tinker with the density until the sky box and the edge of the world is lost in the mists of fog. Failing that I would rise up and look steeply down, or I would set up a camera on the approach to the bridge and zoom it in/out until the sky box is just one click away from being obviously a sky box.

For a terrain pretty picture shot you may want to enlarge the map to epic - add steep hills (cliff like) out of dark rock with just a hint of cracks of lava jutting up to hide the edge of the world. maybe a thick coat of ground fog in the distance?

:thumbs_up:
 
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Very good work, famouspker49. The walls of the cliff where the fortess is set atop needs more details though. Possibly red outland rocks or something to blend.

But I really like this piece. You should've taken better screenshots of it though rather than showing the entire map with the boundries visible and all that. Take screenshots like me or [Death] does for example. It makes the terrain more interesting. :smile:

Nice work overall! +Rep!
~Craka_J
 
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Alright, thanks for the suggestions guys, my next terraining pieces will be much on a much larger map, to eliminate that, I will do what I can with the suggestions, the fog gets like super dense, even on a super low density, maybe I am just a little inexperienced, but fog is a little new for me, Thanks Again! Look out for my next upcoming piece, I hope you like it just as much, and keep on improving with all the suggestions I get.
 
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