Dusk

[johannesr]

Wanted to try some reflections and lighting, this is what came out. Feedback is welcome.

Updated versions below.

 

[Aziex]

Ooooh awesome, it looks great, like the purple lighting around water + sun reflection.

Maybe add a ship or something? could look great with reflection + it would fill up the large sea area a bit ^^

 

[Solaris]

Looks nice so far, but as it has been already said the background is quite empty. You could add some distant spires, maybe some weather effects...
or some waves placed right would do fine too.

 

[fladdermasken]

Yeah, loving the concept! Although the light source (the sun in this case) could be bigger to take up more space. And you can also sort of see the end of the world, as the horizon is really wide open. Adding a ship or something to it would be quite effectful.

 

[elredir]

great terrain and awesome atmosphere as said
the only thing that i could point out is the sky...i dont know if that white fits it very well...i would suggest to change the color to some blue or something and add some clouds..think that would make the background look better and make the sun a lil' bigger as fladder said

 

[johannesr]

Okay made some updates, does it seem a bit too dark? It seems all my terrains seem too dark in the morning and bright in the evening...

 

[fladdermasken]

My sudgestion would be to use a sun glimmer effect that would be perfect for this terrain.
Firstly, download the holy rain model from here: http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=85230&highlight=holy+rain
Secondly, create a new doodad using the holy rain as model file. Make sure you set the minimum scaling value to 0.01 and the maximum scaling value to something like 3.
Place your holy rain doodad and flatten it (make sure you really flatten it)
You've now created a perfect model for sunglimmer!
Here's what the end result will look like:
http://www.wc3c.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=18311&d=1167492044

 

[johannesr]

Not sure if that'll fit in since i was going for reddish lighting and the color of the glimmer cant be changed

EDIT: Okay so i tried it and it doesnt look that bad actually, tell me what u think.

 

[fladdermasken]

Try to organize it so it doesn't colide with the shore. Perhaps move the sun more to the right. And you should definitely still increase the size of the sun. It should be much bigger. Fits quite nice though

 

[johannesr]

Wouldnt moving the sun right make the glimmer collide with the shore even more?

 

[johannesr]

Okay so i still wasn't happy about how the last one turned out so i made some changes. How is it?

 

[PROXY]

the new one is absolutly great

 

[Gilles]

Could you get the sun reflection to fade as it comes towards the foreground?

 

[Solaris]

Awesome improvement compared to the first one !

 

[johannesr]

Could you get the sun reflection to fade as it comes towards the foreground?

Is this what you meant?

 

[YourNameHere]

The sun is way too small. Look at this picture for example. This does also show off that your glow is a bit off and should be a bit bigger at the start and smaller at the end.

 

[Gilles]

It is. I Think it helped a lot. I also agree with the above post.

 

[johannesr]

Well the sun is proportional to the size i can see outside so...