Need advice for small volcanic area

[BlackEnvyX]

Well... I'm basically attempting to figure out how I can make this volcanic area look better.
Anyone have any ideas?
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[iChaos]

more doOdaDs?
mOre NON FLAT arEAs? (up + down?)
morE crEAtive ideaS?
etc.etc.

 

[GreeN!X]

You can add some ice on top of that volcano.. That will make it look even more realistic.. :3

 

[Veritas 117]

First of all I would make it less flat. You could also add some water tinted orange to look like lava. Some orange for effects would also really help here too. It's a start though.

 

[Bernkastel]

Start off with this. Then we can talk.

 

[Xonok]

Size it up, tint it orange or red and place some of it on top of the lava as doodads. Might also be a good idea to make it flatter or lower it into the ground.

 

[BlackEnvyX]

Start off with this. Then we can talk.

This isn't a standalone terrain, it's a segment on my map. I can't use that.

Anyways thanks for all the advice and help everyone, I've made a few changes to it.

 

[Binsu]

This is your Survive the Night game right? Ok, I'll try my best to give you suggestions on how to improve this... firstly, its flat use Raise/Lower or Smooth/Noise Tool. Dont spam doodads that much like your rocks and those rocks around the Volcano doesnt fit, remove them or place the rocks in a scattered way. Mixing lava with a Cityscape tile like that looks bad. Place looks empty, try putting some more doodads but dont spam them too much. That's all, good luck with terraining.

 

[Bernkastel]

Well, duh. You should honestly start with that, or else there really is no use in this.
I would gladly help, but finding every single model that could be used is a pain.

 

[xDeathKnightx]

1.Okay, firstly, you want to redo the area, in my opinion, inless there is a complete reason for having a random volcano area there.. Basically that room you've made looks like it was made with a volcano inside it, which is unrealistic, make the room look like it used to be something else, and the volcano has arisen from the ground, for example, make it look like it used to be a prison room, and the volcano has burst up through the ground in the center of the room.

2. Secondly, you don't want to use the 'Volcano' doodad, it sucks (No offense) but it just doesn't look that good at all, Use the 'Raise ground' tool and the Lava floor tile to make your own volcano, and variate it along the sides, Volcanos are never the same each side, they variate.

3. Use Shift when placing things like rocks, this reduces they're pathing size to 1 cell, meaning you can spam them more, without effecting In-game pathing. Also use Alt+Page up and page down, to change the height of things like rocks and rock archways to hide the ugly bits at the bottom.

4. The lava on the floor would generally be bulgy, and would be in lumps and clumps and at different height levels. So when using things like Rocks near the edge of the lava, you want to change the Max Roll angel and the Max Pitch angel both to 90.00. This will make them adjust to the different angel of the ground, making the place look alot more realistic.

5. Rocks Would be placed more towards the edges of Lava as this is where the lava would harden and become Volcanic Rock, I.E Your Rock doodad.

6. Lava wouldn't generally be in a pool as such, it would flow in streams to the more Downward place in the area, so there would be several big pools of lava, inless your volcano was Very Very active in which case there would be a giant pool, but from the size of that volcano i don't think there would be.

7. Also there wouldn't be as much fire, fire comes usually from lava striking woodland or objects that are flammable, ManMade walls and ground tiles aren't flammable, but there would be some fire from escaping gas which would be igniting, but there wouldn't be loads of it. Also i would get rid of the Fire trap doodad things cause they look really ugly in my opinion.

Here is something i did quickly, I haven't used varied floor tiles, as i will leave that for you to decide. It's just as an example of what i would've done, its a room that was used as a caged prison, but the volcano burst up through the center of the room, with lava pouring out of the volcano, No custom doodads are used, no custom tiles or skins or anything is used, its just pure Warcraft 3, it's just an example, which is fully Playable.

Example

Thats about it. Sorry if it was a bit blunt, I'm just giving my opinion.

Prison Volcano Area

 

[Bernkastel]

A volcano just rising from the ground is even more unrealistic though.

 

[xDeathKnightx]

I don't know of any ManMade volcano's out there at the moment. Like any Buildings/Rooms that are specifically designed to house a volcano. Where as a Rupture in the earths crust that may cause the earth its self to 'Mound' or stick out, or burst up, Which could be caused by escaping gas or something of the kind, could cause a volcano to a certain extent, not to mention that What i said sounds alot more believable, than someone manufacturing they're own volcano-room. Not trying to be harsh, just Saying.