Dusk Forest

[frostwhisper]

A little experiment of mine.
I was wondering if this looked gloomy enough to be valid in the Terrain contest.
Anyway, it's a simple tree clustering from bird's-eye view.

Tell me what you think and how I can improve this sucka:

 

[Firelord213]

Hmm I liked it buy the pine trees & exotic trees dont fit together is my oppinion!
Anyways I think it will be approved add some fog and it will be even kewler!

 

[Nudl9]

Your using way to many different tree types togheter, it doesnt look good at all.
It also seems like a totally random terrain, work something on it and add some eye-catchy!

 

[frostwhisper]

Yeah, that was my original idea: make it with great variety, and let it be just a generic forest.

Upon further thought however I've decided not to add this as a submission since it doesn't match the quality and effort I put in the others.

Maybe I'll stick it in my collection though.

 

[Deathcom3s]

The exotic trees don't fit at all. I like how you try to use different trees, I think it makes it look more realistic. You just need to work on finding different trees that go together well.

Also, What is the focus of this terrain? It seems too random.

 

[frostwhisper]

No focus. It was basically a test to see if the multiple variety thing works.
I might use this technique later on (in terrains with an actual focus point).

 

[Deathcom3s]

The multiple variety thing works, if you do it right. I usually try use more than one type of tree in my terrains, if I can find more than one that fits..

 

[frostwhisper]

It all depends on the theme.
Here for instance I have a dusky, early fall theme. Meaning I can have both greenish and yellow, orange trees that would fit.

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

This is ok,but you use lots of tree types.Stick on 2 or 3 trees that you like most.

 

[frostwhisper]

Like I said, I did it for realism's sake.
And I experimented with lots of trees.

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

I don't think real forest have that variety.Anyway,it looks good. =D

 

[frostwhisper]

Depends on the kind of forest.
Pine forests for instance are pine only. Mixed forests (like this 'ere) look like... this.

 

[FamousPker49]

It doesnt seem gloomy. And as others stated too random (for the most part), and too large variety of trees. But I see what you were trying to do here.

 

[thegreatsmite]

i think the variety of trees looks good, but there needs to be a dominant tree, one that has more repetitions than the others.

 

[Naze]

For me that is not gloomy...

Thats too... realistic.

As Uchiha said, I don't think that a forest have that variety...

 

[~Void~]

The camera angle is horrible, and there's no lighting or anything... but I guess that's because of Wolv's rules. "it must be playable"

 

[TheSandWraith]

I like it. The variation of plants makes it look nice. For a gloomy effet, I would add maybe some moon shine, night kind of look and definatly fog. Good though.

 

[Gilles]

Upon first glance this looked good. After further inspection, it looks bad. Way too many different types of trees. Way too many.

 

[frostwhisper]

Thanks for the crits guys.
I've decided to drop the idea for now (for the contest at least). Like I said, appart form everything else, I didn't put so much effort in this as I did with the other ones, which alone is reason enough to exclude it from the map.

 

[Hawkwing]

"Gloomy" needs fog in it or has to be swampy and seem like a place you wouldn't want to go.

The terrain is good but way too much variety and you need more bumps in the ground. Just don't noise >.<