Making my terrain better?

[Windu]

Hello there, I became inspired to make terrains lately, so I started making what I like best - appocalypse style terrain.

I wanted to ask what should/shouldn't be there according to you?

I still looks a bit .. empty to me :? (Don't look at the background, I'll place more buildings and stuff there, I mean the street and stuff)

At a side note I am always searching for some small model fillers (like trash on the ground, some paper pages would be awesome, perhaps some ground smudges etc.). So if u know or have some of that sort - please do tell.

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[Dr Super Good]

It is missing shadows. Omni-lit surfaces really take the atmosphere out of a scene.

In StarCraft II you can use the realtime shadow system to generate the shadows but in WarCraft III you will probably have to use hundreds of shadow like splat doodads.

 

[Bernkastel]

Super Good has a point there desu~, shadows are needed and also light doodads in the places where there is fire ofcourse.

And a thing that caught my eye is the destroyed building, it seems that the other parts of the building have mysteriously disappeared. I do understand that the buidling can collapse inside the exterior part, But atleast some of it should be seen. Either way we could simply go with parts of the building being on the road.

And then there is the building in the background. If i were you, i wouldn't use such a bad textured model so near the camera as the flaws of it can be easily seen. Either a better textured building or a building made out of doodads would fit there better, allowing you to create destroyed parts to it aswell.

Perhaps there could be more cars on the road instead of... Uhh.. Chairs... And let's not forget the toilets desu~!

Aaaand then let's take a look at the sky. It's blue, no no. Dame da. Use cloud models to make it grayer and maybe a bit orange..? Green, even? No? I do not know what has happened there, it's the apocalypse afterall, there should be smoke and who knows what everywhere, which.. Ofcourse affects the sky.

Also, the right top corner looks a bit like "End of the World" to me. It could be fixed with adding a building, or maybe the sky will fix it? Who knows.

Ofcourse the road could be destroyed, revealing pipes and so on beneath it. That might be a bit too hard for you though, I am not that aware of your skills.

And I have to say that I hate the villager model - But, ah.. Details!

 

[Windu]

Let's have an update, with more shadows/lights, better sky, more things ... and an army, marching into town to look for survivors.

Here we go:

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[sonofjay]

Image 2 and 3 looks more better. And for the shadow thing go to File -> Calculate Shadows and Save map, saving might take some minutes but it will show great results.

And also where did you get those models? I think it will really fit on my map project. Especially those cars.

 

[Windu]

Thank you. I will tell u in PM for the models. I will try that with the shadows, for now I am adding them 1 by 1.

Here is another screenie of me:

A band of soldiers near a destroyed bridge, waiting for their doom...

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[sonofjay]

At image 4 the soldier on the truck and the other soldier on the top of the crates looks buggy, I think the soldiers are quite to far for the camera.

Man those cars will really fit on my map, if you want to see the project thread see it here.

 

[HOooDy]

Reminds , me a movie called " The Mist " D

A .. Big Thumbs Up For U DD

 

[Remixer]

Reminds me from Half Life 2 >,<

 

[sonofjay]

^
Mega bump,

 

[Animalpower]

It is disgusting.