There's nothing more depressing to a terrain reviewer than a terrainer who
says he's deleted his map and whose posting several terrains in one bulk.
- Why? You might ask.
For one, part of what makes a terrain reviewer's "job" fun is seeing progress in the terrain, sure some might argue that
seeing the progress from terrain to terrain is equally fun as seeing the difference in one and the same terrain you've
reviewed, though I beg to differ. When you work together with the terrainer on one piece, and together you improve that
piece from nothing mediocre, or bad, to something good, or amazing, well... That's when you see results and that's
when you have fun.
Now, at least, that's my opinion.
The second part, posting multiple terrains at once, instead of posting one at a time is kind of parted in two parts. One is that
it makes our "job" both confusing and loaded. "What terrain should I focus on?" "Should I say something about all of them?"
"Do I really care to write a full review to all of them?" - These are questions you instantly ask yourself, so per my opinion,
if you post one terrain at the time, there's a higher chance of getting a more in-depth review by more people than when
you post a bulk of terrains together, and that's really what you want, isn't it?
Oh and, I'm saying "job" for lack of better words,
it's not like we do this professionally.
The second part is, well I'm not saying it IS like this, but it very much gives the impression that you've been half-assing
yourself through these terrains. Such as instead of spending a good long while on one terrain, concepting and executing
it as perfectly as you can, it seems like you've just quickly made several terrains without actually caring too much. This
in turn gives me as a reviewer less incentive to actually we willing to help to my best effort.
Those are, obviously, only some thoughts I've got about the way you posted this thread,
and I chose to say it here and now because I've seen other terrainers doing the same.
Anyway, for now, I'll just say this:
Be sure to crop all your terrains, remove the editor parts away from the
picture so we're only left with the terrain, it just simply looks better.
Don't use "V" to enable fog and sky, use "F" and "K" to enable them and then
go to something like the Unit panel to make the camera disappear, in that case
you won't have that ugly red text in the top right corner of the screen saying
"Game View Setting."
- Again, because it looks better.
Lastly, ALWAYS be sure that neither the green circle from the camera
nor the "Screen Captured" text shows in the screenshot, again because it looks better.
I might return to give a better review of some of the terrains,
but only if I really feel like it. (I'm sure you'll get that from
other terrainers anyway.)
- I just really felt like going on a rant here.
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