Island Terrain

[hawk_767]

Hi. This is my second terrain. The terrain map I'm making is two small islands. The one I've finished I'm posting the images of and I'll finish the other island and post images of it.
These Aren't the best images but there ok for this island which is smaller than the other. I was also wondering if there were any downloadable units that were like villagers but had beards and torn ragitty cloths so they looked like they had been ship wrecked. Maybe even some makeshift looking tents that they could have made from the surrounding. Anyways tell me what you think of these images and if you could help me with my last few questions that would be great.

 

[Ivanneth]

Hmm .. They're okay, hope you're making good use of CTRL+RIGHT MOUSE DRAG. Also, the terrain needs a few more variations. The whole thing's kinda empty; for a skin use Olof Moleman's Caveman one.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

You need more tile variation and perhaps vary the terrain a small bit here and there at the beach, it is very flat. It is ok, but nothing special. Just keep at it!

 

[Bob27]

and try and add some environmental doodads around it, like Shrubs and Rocks and things. Especially around the trees. Another thing that would make it better is some fog.

 

[Mor)L(unE]

Dont forget shells

oh and instead of making new threads you could make your own gallery and put everything in it

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

He is allowed to make new threads if that is what he wants to.

 

[hawk_767]

Thx huys for the tips. Ya I realized that the tile didn't very much and there weren't any doodads. I did this around 2 in the morning so I wasn't really thinking. Im going to fix them up then I'll add the new ones and start working on the next island. Thanks for givin me the idea on the models Ivanneth. Also I like the gallery idea but I might just use it for groups of tilesets so its not a mix of icecrown and the sunken ruins which dont go together well I dont think.

ThX
Hawk

 

[hawk_767]

I got rid of the last pictures that I had on here and added some new ones after I fixed up the terrain and added some things I'll start working on the next islnad and get the shots in on this post when im finished.

 

[Ivanneth]

Nice, the cliff is a little too steep, but that's not very important -- especially when you're in game. Also, for rocks, just a tip, put a few shrubs around them, and huts, shrubs have an awesome effect, I'm not sure why.

 

[hawk_767]

Thanx. Ya Thk shrubs would have gone good next to the rocks I guess I didn't thk about that at the time. Ya I know the cliff was a little steep but I didn't want to try and fix it and have it end up looking worse.

 

[Ivanneth]

Just for the cliff, smooth it a bit. a few clicks here and there, maybe a couple of rocks.

 

[Gilles]

Whoa, the second one has deadly looking hills! Might want to smooth the bumpy-spike-hills. Same with the forth one on the top of your hill. Tile variation is not too bad, doesn't look right to me though. It takes a lot of practice, I still suck at it.

 

[hawk_767]

Thanx for the tips. Ya Now that I'm done with the map im gonig to go through and find the things that look wrong and add some of the end results. Other wise I've put some new pics from the other island on here now so take a look at them and give me your overall feeling of them.

ThX
Hawk

 

[Ivanneth]

Ah, the 6th one is rather not good, since you can see "the end of the world". 7th one is quite nice, but the dunes need a bit more smoothing and doodads, I think. 8 and 9 are good, 10 isn't too good, because of the sharp edges, and sudden variation -- dirt / sand to that tile stuff. The last ones are good, but be careful where you place the angle, try not to catch the sharp edge of the end.

 

[hawk_767]

O I didn't see that in #6 you could see the end of the world. Guess I didn't studdie the picture enough. And # 10 ya i agree there wasn't much going on in that picture so I dont thk its one of my favorite either. Personaly my favorites are 8 and 9

 

[Mor)L(unE]

That Actually looks pretty good

Some more tips:
The Stone tiles in Pic 2-3 and 12 feature some odd bumbs, you could smooth em down since paved roads are generally flat, it also looks better.

For picture 4 you could try out something: take a sunken ruins rock (and a big variation)and size it up till its as big as the whole cliff itself. (in order to do this go to the object editor and put max scale to 100 for the rock you want to place then place one and then select it and click on it again now increase all the sizes till its big enough) then place it on top of the clif and use ctrl and page down to move it inside the cliff thing. if you sized it good (the rock should be abit bigger then the cliff itself) then your will have one big rock cliff, then you can decorate it with trees and perhaps rock spires to decorate it, try it out that never hurts (if you save )

 

[Craka_J]

Your hills and mountains are way too pointy and you need a lot more tile variation, including environment doodads too. You need to also apply a fog too. In this case, probably a light blue or teal fog will go well.
~Craka_J