Legendary Terrains

~Void~ · Mar 1, 2009

The point of this thread is to serve as a "hall of fame".

Oziris · Mar 10, 2009

My idea was to create the Legendary Terrain thread !
I want some Credit for that >.<

Super-Sheep · Mar 10, 2009

Omglolz you are the best!1

Enough?

FamousPker49 · Mar 12, 2009

Psh, whateve. You are easily the most controversial terrainer, and not in a good way. You've caused muck in quite a few of the big terrain contests. So who cares.

Belgarath · Mar 13, 2009

You had the idea. Famous made it. In life, you won't get a lot of credit for the idea.
Same case scenario.

Mr.Goblin · Mar 13, 2009

Here's a crazy idea, let's all team up and make a legendary terrain all together.

-someone makes the Relief and the tileset variation
-someone makes a structure
-someone else makes an other structure
-someone makes the sky (cloud, stars, sun etc.)
-someone else makes the fog (VOID?!)
-3 people teams to put down the doodads.

it is crazy I know.. but it WOULD be epic

leet.firefox · Mar 13, 2009

that I is epic

thedeathunterxx · Mar 13, 2009

someone should do that...but...

it would have to be REALLY epic.

Nbah · Mar 14, 2009

Nice Idea, if that actually forms notify me I would really wanna be part of it.

syltman · Mar 14, 2009

Mr.Goblin said:
Here's a crazy idea, let's all team up and make a legendary terrain all together.

-someone makes the Relief and the tileset variation
-someone makes a structure
-someone else makes an other structure
-someone makes the sky (cloud, stars, sun etc.)
-someone else makes the fog (VOID?!)
-3 people teams to put down the doodads.

it is crazy I know.. but it WOULD be epic

A terrain by Void, you, Famous, Madsen, Raid

that would be something aye.

Mr.Goblin · Mar 14, 2009

well i'm only good at making structures

so will see..

btw VOID if your reading the this post.. i'm still waiting for you for the relief

(yeah me and void want to make a teamed terrain)

~Void~ · Mar 15, 2009

syltman said:
A terrain by Void, you, Famous, Madsen, Raid

that would be something aye.

Nah it wouldn't. We'd probably end up arguing for a few months on what it would be, madsen would go (stay) inactive, we'd start working on it, bitch at each other about how it doesn't actually look like what each one of us had in mind, and when we finally finish it would suck.

FamousPker49 · Mar 15, 2009

Either way, it wouldn't happen. I would not participate.

~Void~ · Mar 15, 2009

Oziris said:
My idea was to create the Legendary Terrain thread !
I want some Credit for that >.<

Zowmg, you made the idea for the thread, so fucking what? :eekani:

FamousPker49 · Mar 15, 2009

If you wanted some sort of credit, maybe YOU should have made it. Little late now don't you think?

~Void~ · Mar 15, 2009

Fuck credit, anyways. That's all anyone seems to want on the internet is credit, and for the stupidest little things too. It's like expecting to become famous for buying someone a drink.

Mr.Goblin · Mar 15, 2009

~Void~ said:
Fuck credit, anyways. That's all anyone seems to want on the internet is credit, and for the stupidest little things too. It's like expecting to become famous for buying someone a drink.

Amen...

Strizx · Mar 22, 2009

The last picture how do i make that one? with the mountains can someone tell me?

~Void~ · Mar 22, 2009

Glacier doodad.

thedeathunterxx · Mar 25, 2009

no offence to tassadoom, but i doubt that green rock golem is legendary...

i was analyzing it, and it seems really simple to make a golem like that out rocks.

and the atmoshere isn't spectacular at all. a good structure none the less, but it craves a nice atmostphere.

just my opinion ...

Belgarath · Mar 25, 2009

That piece is absolutely great. It's masterfully done, the construction is wonderful, atmosphere is amazing. Trust me, making something THAT good is not very easy, at all.

Mr.Goblin · Mar 25, 2009

Belgarath said:
something THAT good is not very easy, at all.

i'm working on it!

yeah i made a terrain that i haven't finish it yet, but i hope it will make his way to this thread

~Void~ · Mar 25, 2009

Belgarath said:
That piece is absolutely great. It's masterfully done, the construction is wonderful, atmosphere is amazing. Trust me, making something THAT good is not very easy, at all.

There are flaws, though. Like the selection circle.

Belgarath · Mar 26, 2009

I was thinking it's the version w/o selection circle.

thedeathunterxx · Mar 26, 2009

well its good, but not lefendary.

and the atmosphere could be better.
for instance, there could be a sky behind the forest, and have bits of sunlight creeping down into it at an interesting camera angle... right now its a regular-looking overhead view ...

for the most part, the envirnment is overwelmingly green, which in my eyes diminishes the structures significance to the screenshot, since it doesn't stand out ( because its also green )

but once again, its just my opinion, i am not bashing anyone, so dont take this the wrong way

and if anyone noticed, one of the golems eyes dropped on the ground in the far right bottom corner

lulzzz

Wolfhelm · Mar 27, 2009

What did you use to create the shadow for the Tower of Babel ~Void~?

Nbah · Mar 27, 2009

My guess is the boundary tool.

Belgarath · Mar 27, 2009

Nah, boundary makes stuff completely black.

Super-Sheep · Mar 27, 2009

File - Save map and calculate shadows?

Belgarath · Mar 27, 2009

Yes. I knew it was something with calculate shadows.

Wolfhelm · Mar 27, 2009

Oh lol, that makes sense... for some reason i thought it was somthing much more creative then that.

~Void~ · Mar 28, 2009

Belgarath said:
Yes. I knew it was something with calculate shadows.

No. I made a custom destructible and gave it a big shadow, and then placed a bunch of them behind a tower. Turns out destructibles like this already exist in the UTM, but I didn't know that at the time xD

Belgarath · Mar 28, 2009

Well, I suppose using the calculate shadows would've been easier.. except taken more time.

Mellonhead · Mar 28, 2009

ya and when you have @2000 doodads in one terrain and needs to calculate shadows for all of them... its like processorkill!

~Void~ · Mar 31, 2009

Belgarath said:
Well, I suppose using the calculate shadows would've been easier.. except taken more time.

Not really though. It probably would've taken less time, but the result would have been really bad because all the shadows would face the wrong direction.

Oh and for the doodads, I'd say I have about 250 doodads, 200 trees and about 600 cathedrals ^^,

thedeathunterxx · Mar 31, 2009

actually when u calculate shadows, all shadows are in the same direction, but just in different clumps of darknesses, depending on how many doodads are in an area, since the shadowns overlap.

frostwhisper · Apr 4, 2009

.... Handy? ;(

Archipelago · Apr 5, 2009

frostwhisper said:
.... Handy? ;(

Your not banned anymore?

TheBlooddancer · Apr 5, 2009

Apparently not.

syltman · Apr 6, 2009

I finally found a way to describe how epic these terrains are

YouTube - Crazy Lemur

Wolfhelm · Apr 8, 2009

Is there anyways you could "update" this thread (or make a new 1) so we can get some more terrains posted up here.
Cuz although these are very good, some seem outdated.
Maybe post a thread of "Epic Terrains"... i dunno just a suggestion

~Void~ · Apr 8, 2009

I have been editing the first post whenever a new one comes along. So far, I haven't seen any that I like everything about them enough to put up here.

This is like a Hall of Fame, sort of.

FamousPker49 · Apr 8, 2009

Haven't you only really added one in there? Lol. Either way.... There is going to be one thread. This one. I don't understand the point of creating another.

Wolfhelm · Apr 8, 2009

Fair enough.. i was thinking it was closed to new pics, but thats cool.

P.S. i nominate raid1000's "sunrise" screen for here, I like that terrain.
I would say its better then the death1xq3 or dawnqi3 pics posted up here, not to flame on anybodys work there all good.

~Void~ · Apr 8, 2009

Yeah, but that's because it's new, and those are old. If terrains like those were never made, I doubt the good ones we see today would have ever been made. Terrains that get put up here tend to use some kind of "revolutionary" technique that influences many people. As you will notice, if you look at terrains over the past year or so, most of them are influenced by these in some way.

For example the waterfall terrain, I'd say that camera perspective is now (or at least was for a while) the most popular camera perspective simply because that terrain, back then, was really amazing. Now the other one, Dawn (which I made), well without that you wouldn't see a fair amount of the lighting effects you see in terrains now.

I don't really see what Sunrise influences... sure it's good, I guess, but it's nothing particularly amazing, at least not to me. I'd say the Burning Sky is what started that kind of lighting use, and that's already up there.

Belgarath · Apr 8, 2009

Hey now void, the lighting period was started by MadseN, I copied it in my challenge vs Gilles, then continued on with my rip-offs from MadseN's, you came in the buzz with some great sun technique

~Void~ · Apr 8, 2009

My technique is a lot different from Mad's

Wolfhelm · Apr 9, 2009

Well, so unless you do somthing revelutionary it will never be posted here?
Hmm.. whats left to do...

~Void~ · Apr 9, 2009

Well it has to be at least somewhat influential, and otherwise nearly perfect

That includes tree model choice, Raid :grin:

Nbah · Apr 9, 2009

I think we should add more terrain's even if they don't spark anything new. As long as they look really good and people like them I think they should deserve legendary terrain's. Atm, we have 17 pictures, and I am kinda hoping for something like 30 or even more, just so there are more terrain's to be viewed by newbies, etc.

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