Imperial City Terrain

[Ghost765]

some terrain that im doing for my Brother against Brother mission in my campaign.
first two are of an area near a breach in the City Wall, with a couple legionnaires/longbowman/knight/chaplain and ballista guarding it.
the others are of the Imperial Palace, i dont like it too much though, probably cause its not finished. I'll post more as i do more of the city.

UPDATED: Made a...moat thing... and um... made another tower, and the guard barracks.

 

[~Void~]

Aw, I thought this was going to be Oblivion

Anyways, it's good, but you shouldn't use raise for walls and that crater thing looks terrible.

 

[Ghost765]

raise wont be visible once i finish it, its just as a place holder. i also need it so that the black areas will be properly inplace.

you dont like my blighted craters

well, thinking of oblivion... i might do it later. much later. although it would be pretty huge.

 

[Gilles]

I think Void summed it all up well enough.

 

[Oziris]

I tought this was going to be Morrowind it's good just need to add a road some stuff fog...and u are finish!

 

[FrIkY]

No fog, no background, end of the world can be seen and it's too empty, it's missing doodads... not so good in my oppinion

 

[Steel_Stallion]

I think its just too WHITE. Put some color in there man!

 

[Oziris]

Wher did u get those statues in the pictures 6 ?

 

[FlamyoftheHive]

The statues were ripped from Dawn of War or he got them from a site that ripped them from Dawn of War, plain and simple. Its some alright work, but it should show fully completed pictures.

 

[Ghost765]

once again, the terrains not complete. i want to put mountains right behind the palace, as like a border line, but i cant get the raise tool to go any higher without screwing itself over.
I dont know if ill keep those wh40k statues, they dont look to marblish.
im working on this little by little, its a 160x160 map, and ive got alot of ground to cover. if someone could recommend some stuff that would be intresting in my city, that would be pretty cool.
im gonna try to add:
Barracks Area, basically a large building with a green lawn where soldiers train etc
Victory Lane, just a straight road that leads directly from the main gate to the palace, with huge buildings where i can hang like banners and stuff.
Im kinda brain dead right now, some ideas would be helpful

@steel_stallion, its supposed to be the capital of a grand Empire, it has to be large and inspiring...and white.
@FrikY, its not finished as i stated in my first post

 

[Steel_Stallion]

God damn it ghost I can stop looking at your sig....

Loool...

 

[Celaquil]

Its fully allowed to post W.I.P's here, I believe... <.<
Also, to post wips here is a good idea for most terrainers, cause this is an exelent place to get critics on your terrains. Me, I meen the model choise is what ruins it. Its suppost to be a living breathing imperal city right? Well, in my opinion it looks like a white marble ruin city, those black holes everywhere ruin it all, the models is nice, but the fact that all windows and entrances is completely BLACK is so fugly, yet, if this were to be a ghost-town then it would look nice

 

[Ghost765]

well, it is under siege from chaos forces. i dont really have an alternative since i dont want to decorate the insides of the buildings. im trying to give it sorta of a darkish feel, like this:

yet, making it the capital city of the good guys. ive also updated the palace, ill post some screenshots soon.

and keiji, please tell me some alternatives, im brain dead atm.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

i like this, it lookz really good.

but wow thatz your goal, that would be awsome if that got done.
i noticed that its done mostly with tileset , which is awsome cause that makes it playable

 

[Ghost765]

yes, almost all of it is playable, except for most of the roofs. but on some of them you can place archers/ballistas.

 

[Celaquil]

One word GHost, UTM ! Take out buildings and contructions from there, should be some nice ones for you there, also, what about the Dalaran buildings in wc3?

 

[Need_O2]

that reminded me the morrowind :/
anyway

 

[Ghost765]

dalaran buildings are...are...strange. they seem purple in my eyes.
yah, i have the UTM, and have extracted several materials that seem fit, but thats only a couple of them unfortunately.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

the UTM would be useful, but his buildings are based off the tileset. SO dalaran buildings would look a little wierd.

you should use the "Towers" in the "structures" section of the UTM, they might look good with this... i dont know though

 

[Windu]

Sorry for the offtopic, but I saw corpses in the world editor... how can I add such ?
Do i have to make a new model in order to place a corpse of a unit (knight for example) in the WE? .... I'd be grateful if u told me

Otherwise, I think it needs more doodads, the structures are fine.

 

[raid1000]

the sky man the sky is fucked up (in all the pics :O)

 

[Ghost765]

ya, but i didnt know how to use ctrl+mouse wheel then.
its not like ure gonna see the sky ingame, but ill add it later for the heck of it.

i made the cropses be destructibles, scaled them appropriately, and set their life to 0.
but their always red team colored ingame.

 

[Belgarath]

The raising is actually quite good, it looks effective in this situation. Very nice going, it looks highly clean, I love white and clean terrains.

 

[Ghost765]

i do too. watched eagle eye today, it was ok.

 

[Ghost765]

UPDATE check first post.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

niicceee

 

[Ghost765]

due to lord_turins totally awesome dwarven terrain thingy, ive decided to add a mission with dwarves in it. ill post some lord_turin copy offs soon > jk.

 

[Ardnived]

if you press 'i' those black an dpink boxes will disappear, its a good idea when taking screenshots

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

Well..
HOW YOU MADE THIS!!

it is really good!I highly suggest you work on some more terrains.BUT,you could fill it with more doodads.It's empty a bit.

 

[Ghost765]

yes yes i know about ingame settings, but then the black space will pop up and eat up the palace.
and i dont have my wheelie mouse (actually it really really sucks), and i was taking them in a hurry.

its actually not that hard to make. all the buildings follow a similar blueprint. one or two stories, with the black entrances, and the blocks ontop to cover up messy spots.

 

[Belgarath]

Looks great, keep going with this
So it's for a campaign right? When's that coming out?

 

[Ghost765]

it is actually for a campaign. full of custom models and crap. im hoping to bring another campaing thats over 50mb to the hive.
unfortunately, its a 3-man project. Me. Myself. And I.
ive planned out as many as 21 maps, 6 of them being cinematics, and a special credits cinematic.
pretty tough work ahead of me.

 

[wugiboy]

lol if you think thats hard try making a mod all by yourself
anyway nice work but everything is too straight and boxy
try making a bit more curvey/circular shaped buildings and while your at it put on some variation on your buildings.. too much arches makes it look too much like its ancient greece/rome

 

[Ghost765]

lol, ill give it a shot.
i dun even want to try to edit the MPQ T_T

tranquil recently released some arched doorways, so ill probably use those too.
ill probably also create some sort of temple thing, useing the regular cityscape archs and rotating them.

thanks for the critique guys

 

[Legion87]

The only thing it really lacks is pillars and columns, perhaps some diversity. Good stuff though.. keep at it.

 

[Ghost765]

i figured that the vertical block between the archs were columns, but meh, ill try to spice it up abit.

 

[Ghost765]

bump, for anyone who just noticed this.

 

[Gilles]

Please don't bump unless you have a good update worth the bump. If no one has commented on your old terrains, leave them. If you want them looked at, put it in your sig (which it is I see).

 

[Ghost765]

meh, my bad. didnt know that.

 

[Warhunter]

I really, really like this. +rep

 

[Ghost765]

too bad i havent worked on it in a loooong time.
mostly since there doesnt seem to be a reward at the end of the long journey. i dont even have a partner.

 

[Craka_J]

The architecture looks good and I like how you blackened out the interior. However, what bothers me is how the terrain itself is very plain and incomplete. Looks effortless. Work on your tile placement and tile variation skills, as well as adding hill variation too. You need to give the entire map its own atmosphere to bring it more to life. I know you want the city to be the focal point, but regardless, it already is because it is the only place with architecture, whereas the rest of the map will be/should be environmental with trees, bushes, grass, rocks, etc.

Please increase the field of view (FoV) when taking screenshots of your terrain. You can do this by holding Ctrl and scrolling up or down.

~Craka_J

 

[Ghost765]

you see, what are the tile variants for a marble city?

im not sure what you mean about hill variation, but like slopes? leading to higher ground?

 

[Craka_J]

Hill variation is basically making neat hills of different sizes around the terrain. Flat terrains are as repulsive as pointy ones (Hill that are really pointy) so be sure to use the smooth tool a lot when making hills as well on most of your terrain. I'll try to find you a reference or two as to what I mean later.

~Craka_J

 

[bounty hunter2]

Nice models and nice usage of them.
The surroundance I find quite plain.
And the city actualy, but it gives an interesting atmosphere.
And it is to flat.
But very nice overall.

 

[Ghost765]

i know how to use the raise tool/smooth tool cracka, just look at the buildings. their frames are using the raise tool+plateau
im just wondering how to apply hills inside a city 0.o

 

[Medieval]

Nice!, is this related to Elder Scrolls?

 

[Pinzu]

Too much white, throw in some color here and there when you get the chance.

 

[lord_Turin]

necro posting much lol