My terrains

[Pitakebab]

My terrains (Swamp fixing try)

I have just started terraining seriously for my Skull Island project (King Kong you know?) And here's some pics of forest and swamp I made... So what you think about them and what I should do to make them look more realistic?
PS: Models by olofmoleman

 

[Karzvitch]

They are nice but use less seaweed, more heigh variation on and around cliffs, and put the "Viny Plant" in the forest.

 

[operator]

I doubt that those flower thingies would be in a swamp. Also try to add some fog.

 

[kebabmeat]

Nämen titta =) Seriously :| it isn't really fuckin good, but it could be a melee map terrain

4/10 --> 2/5 ^^

Like your name btw ; )

And for the futures terrain, don't use the cliffs so much, use the lower/raiser toll instead.

 

[Karzvitch]

He used the cliffs to give te effect of "Skull Island" in King Kong.. You know how it has the hugass cliffs?

 

[Pitakebab]

He used the cliffs to give te effect of "Skull Island" in King Kong.. You know how it has the hugass cliffs?

Yea... But I don't know why I used cliffs on the swamp... I added light green fog to map and dungeon green fog to swamp and more plants to the jungle. I think that now it looks better.

 

[Herio-san]

In the last terrain I did I created a new effect that I thought looked pretty awesome for a swamp. First create a new doodad, and change the model to this

Abilities\Spells\NightElf\MoonWell\CorruptedMoonWellTarget.mdl

then go into your swamp terrain and add little holes where the water is deeper using the lower tool. Finally place the doodad you just created in these little holes to create a murkey water effect.
Looks Like this in the end (the green areas in the water):

 

[Craka_J]

Wasn't skull Island more Jungle than forest and swamp?
GOOD:
Tile variation is pretty good for a beginner terrainer. For a bnet map, I suppose the forest is pretty typical to what you usually see in most Bnet maps, but a bit better.
BAD:
Swamp is just horrible, I'm sorry to say it. It can be greatly improved if you added maybe white-fog effect in it and had some lilly-pads, alot of river rushes instead of those seaweed things, and maybe some swampy looking rocks. The jungle looks more like a forest because of the old warcraft III style tree placement. But you can hide it's flaws if you add vines hanging from some trees and more bushes and vines everywhere. Terrain is very flat too and in some spots you have hills that look like pointy-things
Make more hills and make them better than the ones you have already.
For a beginner terrainer though, it doesn't look SO horrible, but I'm only saying that because it can be fixed. If you don't make an effort to fix the terrain, it's gonna be a disaster...
Overall: 4.3/10

 

[Pitakebab]

I'll try to fix them more... I don't like that tree placement too but it's difficult to fix all of the trees because the jungle is BIG... I can't find all the flaws there. Why didn't I just use custom tree models... And I'll try to do something to those hills.

 

[Craka_J]

Custom tree models, (even jungle tree models!) is a +
Well... for me, any custom models to make it look better is a +

 

[Pitakebab]

I removed a lot of seaweed from the swamp and added lily pads, river rushes and white fog. It is better than original?

 

[Craka_J]

How about adding a screenshot to support your question.

 

[Pitakebab]

How about adding a screenshot to support your question.

Can you possibly look at the first post

 

[Craka_J]

Oh, yes. Now I see them, it's an improvement. But I think you need to work on making hills; I still see pointy hills even in the swamp. I like better the way it is now though, gj for the effort too.

 

[TheRandomDude]

Trees that go straight up aren't in an open terrain like that, they move around and try to get as much sunlight as possible. Don't use straight trees unless you have a dense forest.

 

[Mechanical Man]

nice