High Resolution Terrain

[VampireHeart]

I originally wanted to make a whole set of maps with Born2Modificate's pack, but gave up on it.

Here is the fist one. Its a farmland area at dusk-ish time, with a city separated into sections based on class: The first level is shops and what not, second is nobles and the third is the royal house.

Please post what you think.
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Here is a dl for the map:
Map1
Map2

 

[Bob27]

I like it, although it looks a bit to flat in some places. Its got good detail, but I think it would look better with some different types of grass/shrubs in the forest screens. Also in the 4th last picture, there is a black space between the ground and the sky, which does not look very good. Then in the 4th screen I don't think there is a sky.

 

[Oziris]

Nice work,but it is 2 flat.

 

[VampireHeart]

Its a farmland.. so its kinda flat.

and the path thats stone is in the city.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Looks very good, I like this a lot. Better than most other high-res screens.

 

[Naze]

Well, I don't think it is TOO flat... It is a little flat.
But its OK. The only thing is the paved paths. They're too correct, artificial. A real stone path in a farmland isn't too linear, it is a little broken, if you understand me. You can add shrubs at the borders and grass tiles.


The terrain is excellent. I liked th way you used the shrubs.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Orange fog + High res = <3

 

[madman9800]

can you please try to upload the map again, i would really like to play around with it for a while...

 

[VampireHeart]

I dont think i can, since the file size exceeds the limit for .w3x files :/

Unless someone knows how to upload it differently.

 

[madman9800]

maybe you can use gmail? and email it to me? my email is [email protected]

or if you dont have gmail maybe you can use yahoo or msn or something

 

[VampireHeart]

Here is some screens from the second map:

Its a fogged coniferous forest. With a lake and river. More will be coming

 

[Gilles]

Not bad. The forest needs work.

High-res just isn't my cup of tea though.

 

[VampireHeart]

hmmm this map does not want to upload either...

 

[wd40bomber7]

Suggestion: Compress the map into a ZIP file and post that. Also the terrain looks very nice.

 

[VampireHeart]

Yes i have tried that but it still is the same size...

 

[Craka_J]

Terrain looks good. Some flaws with tree variation and other things as well. The first screenshot was taken too close to another model and clips through a tree: you can see the leaves in the upper left area of the shot.

Also, why is that river so shallow? A waterfall like that would surely be filling a deeper river than that; and waterfalls, even that big, don't feed into streams.
~Craka_J

 

[VampireHeart]

The map that was provided by Born2Modificate was made wrong I think. So idk how to fix it.

 

[Mor)L(unE]

Hmm, im not experienced with high ress terrains, but it looks good so far

 

[Nindira]

The fog could be more dense. Its a little heavy for a conferious forest. Plus, aren't conferious trees supposed to grown in mountains, or places where cold weather is dominant or persistant? This doesn't look cold, but the fog makes up for it! Which fog did you used by the way? Are you uploading the maps? Im somewhat confused on that part.

 

[Craka_J]

B2M's map filesize is around 50mb which is five times more than this site allows you to upload.
~Craka_J

 

[Nindira]

The farmland terrain is lacking. I do like how you raised the terrain with the crops/leaves tile, but still the piles of wood near an anvil? Thats out of place!
Those logs could catch on fire. Screen 8 and 11 are wonderful. In screen 8 the models look cool but mostly the background terrain. (inks for the models please.)

Coniferous forest looks wonderful. However arent coniferous trees supposed to grow in cold regions, where cold weather is dominant or persistant? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga

Anyways it looks great, the fog is heavy enough to give it a chilly feeling to the forest so I guess you did good by those standards.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Nice but not really High Resolution, most images are only 800*440 pixcels. Also the compression on the images does them no good.

Still beautiful terane and nice use of doodads.

 

[VampireHeart]

but still the piles of wood near an anvil? Thats out of place! Those logs could catch on fire.

Those are for stoking the fire in the furnace.

However arent coniferous trees supposed to grow in cold regions, where cold weather is dominant or persistant?

Thats completely irrelevant, I live in San Diego and I have two coniferous(Pine) trees in my back yard.


And about the file size, 50MB is the size if you don't even add anything. The farmland map is over 65MB.

 

[Mor)L(unE]

Nice but not really High Resolution, most images are only 800*440 pixcels. Also the compression on the images does them no good.

Still beautiful terane and nice use of doodads.

For some strange reason, the doodad set he used is called high resolution models

 

[VampireHeart]

Because place a wc3 tree next to a B2M tree... You'll see the difference.

And all it means by "High Rez" is that its made with a real-texture image. Unlike Blizzard who used actual drawings.

 

[Mor)L(unE]

Yeah but i heard it hasnt got anything to do with resolution but im not sure

 

[Eleandor]

The reason we call them high res models is because the textures don't look cartoonish, and are overall of a higher resolution than the average wc3 texture (I think B2M mainly uses 512² while wc3 uses 256²). Can be wrong though.

Nowadays however, 512² isn't considered "high res" anymore, next gen games will probably use 2048²...
Yet, the main reason we call them high res is because they look high res compared to the original textures. It's the same as comparing WoW models with wc3 models. I think a WoW model averages at 5K triangles, which is nothing, but with 500 triangles on a footman model, a WoW model is 10 times as detailed, which is why we call them high poly...

 

[LudwigVonDrake]

I originally wanted to make a whole set of maps with Born2Modificate's pack, but gave up on it.

Here is the fist one. Its a farmland area at dusk-ish time, with a city separated into sections based on class: The first level is shops and what not, second is nobles and the third is the royal house.

Ill post the map as well, so you can explore it.

Please post what you think.

EDIT: hmm its not uploading...

good medieval setting, like it

 

[sjama]

maybe you can try post it at mediafire or something?? cause.... I LOVE IT!!!!! BRILLIANT!!!! GREAT!!!! PWNING EVERYTHING!!!!

 

[VampireHeart]

I finally got it to work.

go to first post.

 

[tunerband]

Wampireheart how u get those models? o.o i cant find out how, and btw nice terrain!!!

 

[VampireHeart]

Here

 

[modler2]

very nice all i can say is wc3 gone ps3

 

[FamousPker49]

It's a good terrain, but high res really isn't my bag... I mean, orange fog + high res = every other high res terrain. They all really look the same to me. Good enough job though.

 

[VampireHeart]

I used grey on the other post.

 

[Nindira]

Screen 4, the rock wall doesn't fit. Now, maybe, if you lowered some of the wall into the ground, creating some heigth diversity, and made it less straight while still adding shrubbery and grass, then it would awsome. Just a suggestion...

 

[VampireHeart]

I see what you mean, its a bit to linear.

 

[Ribenamania]

Hey! I would like to look at the map, can you upload it again since the link is broken? Please ...

 

[thedeathunterxx]

2 things...

where did you get the high resolution uints in Screenie 8 ! DD

and second thing, i think if you make your map into a campagin file ( a one map campaign ) then ur able to upload it here... im not sure thought, i never tried...

i like the forest pics u took on the second page veryy nice, it inspires me . + rep.

 

[VampireHeart]

ok, ive re-uploaded the map and added the other one.

enjoy!

 

[~Void~]

What are those hi-res unit models? :O

 

[Childeric]

I really like the second set of pics. Problem with high-res though, is that they only look good because they are high res. If you made the same scene with Wc3 models, eckk. xD

Still, nice job. ('-'d)

 

[Vercas]

The links are broken XD
can you re-upload the maps so i can see them too? please
they look very interesting

 

[Revan(Rom)]

well i must say,thins is not realy a good terrain ( only this models are good ) there is no epicness at all...bad texture variation...bad usage of high-low ground...bad sky and its just "cold" (Don´t touched my sense)

you could do more with such models..

Overall I would give 4/10 ->2/5

 

[bounty hunter2]

This us uber. I like the high res that doesn't look like warcraft. GJ anyway.

 

[Warhunter]

I like it, but, I can't download it. It just says invalid file.