My First Plains-like terrain

[NomadicAssassin]

Ok this is my first terrain made, so let me know what i should do to make it better, and please no "It's Ok" or "It sucks" comments givem e details plz.

 

[Mechmap]

First of all, give us a different angle, we can hardly see anything bring us closer! From what I can see though it looks pretty plain with almost no doodads it seems.

 

[Wolle]

To be quite honest it looks like shit. All you did was stroking the terrain brush over the entire map a couple of times and then raising it at random parts. Also your doodading could be alot better. I suggest that you look at some of the galleries that are in this section to give you an idea of what terraining really is or look at some eviromental photographs to help you.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

I gotta agree with Wolle here, it looks too plain for a plain. Too boring.

 

[greasontim]

First of all, give us a different angle, we can hardly see anything bring us closer! From what I can see though it looks pretty plain with almost no doodads it seems.

dude its a plains like terrain so really its only like half way there but the tiles needs a little more work

 

[Gilles]

I'm going to assume that this is an early work for you. I'll then suggest you hold on to your early work, until you feel your work is good enough to show, and have people critique. I'm not trying to be a dick, but you can improve this drastically in two simple ways.
1) Look at other peoples work. Get an idea of what a good terrain looks like.
2) Spend time on your terrain. An hour is practically a minimum.

When you have something your proud of, post it, and everyone will help you perfect it.

And I bet if you spent a few hours working with the editor and looking at other peoples work, you could improve 400%.

 

[Dr. House]

dont place enything randomly and use som high variation in it it looks like me you havent put much time in this my tip for you is look to terrain frome people like craka_j or void

 

[TheBlooddancer]

It looks like everything is 'placed'.

Also, we can see, how your brush went. Remove that.

 

[cool_is_i]

Place trees in clumps, add rocks around it + grass.
Some of the trees should be like this, it adds variety.

Choose ur tileset carefully, random patches of grass doesent look good, add them in areas such as under trees, rocky rough tiles for paths etc.

Raise and lower the terrain abit, here and there, bt dont over do it.

thats all for now, GL

 

[NomadicAssassin]

Place trees in clumps, add rocks around it + grass.
Some of the trees should be like this, it adds variety.

Choose ur tileset carefully, random patches of grass doesent look good, add them in areas such as under trees, rocky rough tiles for paths etc.

Raise and lower the terrain abit, here and there, bt dont over do it.

thats all for now, GL

I just want to say thx to all for your posts, yes this is like half way through i am not finished i wanted to however get some opinions on what should be done to make a good map, and i got them so im gone go back and make more changes will have update hopfully by tomorrow .

 

[Nudl9]

and please no "It's Ok" or "It sucks" comments givem e details plz.

Its random

 

[NomadicAssassin]

Here is the new improved one let me know what you think? There is a bridge there i just selected the wrong photo, sry

 

[cool_is_i]

kk
more tips-
-Never ever ever use noise, its very messy and make you terrain look ugly.
do it the hard way, raise and lower manually

-To make an awesome river,
Go to Advanced, and uncheck "enforce water height limits"
Cover a large area in shallow/deep water.
Then cover it up, use the same level tool to patch it up so that there is NO water visible
Lastly, use the lower tool, and lower the area which u previously covered in water.
This makes A MUCH better looking river.

-To clump doodads, press SHIFT then place them, they will have a less collision now and can be placed together.

-Go to Advanced>Modify tileset, to get some better tiles for your map, for example, use sand tile from Sunken Ruins, these are GREAT for rivers.

Check out this example, i did most if not all, what i said above.
[i know its not the best terrain in the world, i did it in 10min]

 

[~Void~]

It's kinda boring, looks randomly generated, and uses only 3 tiles. You might want to add some interesting features to it like little towns and cool rock formations and canyons and stuff like that.

 

[NomadicAssassin]

Wow ok great ill go do that, nice diea man thx

 

[NomadicAssassin]

It's kinda boring, looks randomly generated, and uses only 3 tiles. You might want to add some interesting features to it like little towns and cool rock formations and canyons and stuff like that.

How do i grab other tile sets without loosing the ones i have?

 

[Wolle]

Still a no go, your hills are to pointy and your envimental doodads are spred to far and random. Still, its a tad better than the first couple of pictures.
But I suggest, again, that you look at some reference pics and try and see if you can learn something from other terrainers on this site. You might also want to look at some tutorials.

 

[~Void~]

How do i grab other tile sets without loosing the ones i have?

Um, well usually there are more than 3 tiles per tileset. The one you're using has 7, I believe.

 

[greasontim]

modify tileset i think its in adcanved
PS be careful not to remove a tile u want to keep in the map

 

[syltman]

On your 2nd pics there was to much variation, try and flat it out a bit and also everything is to close to eachother. Do like cool_is_i and place everything in "stacks"

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Use way more tiles.
Besides, the trees and doodads are still not in clusters.
You should place more stuff in a bunch.

 

[NearbyHermit]

The more it looks like reality,the better the terrain is!
You should try this:
New Zealand

 

[thedeathunterxx]

this shows potential.

try this :

use the smooth feature. By selecting it, you even out the space between pointy hills.
This creates a more " plain- field " feel.

you may also want to use shrubs. Place them near the bases of trees.

 

[NearbyHermit]

this shows potential.

try this :

use the smooth feature. By selecting it, you even out the space between pointy hills.
This creates a more " plain- field " feel.

you may also want to use shrubs. Place them near the bases of trees.

Yeah,but shrubs have a lot of uses!

You can place them near anything and they look good,take that in consideration!

 

[mpcopy]

NomadicAssassin maybe you should make mor bushes, and "mountains", and more trees like a forrest..

You could also use some tutorials

 

[greasontim]

show some up-to-date terrain that u made

 

[Anachron]

My random world generator (which can be found on this side) actually does a better job