New Terrain

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Well, I got bored and made this terrain (again, at around 4:30 in the morning, all my terrains see to be done in the early morning)

I've been wanting to make a terrain for a while, but couldn't think of anything I really wanted to do, so I decided to do it out of a place in a book I really enjoy - Watership Down.

Some parts are missing, and if you look carefully in 2 of the screens you can see a Dark Ranger hidden in the prarie grass. The 2nd one is VERY hard to find.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I like the way the lightning is, fits well with the wheat (or however you spell it). Besides from that it is nothing all that special and most of the shots are taken very close up so it is hard to tell if it is good or not.

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Well, I made this with the ultimate terraining map and I used one of the animated grass doodads, and i put in so much to give a realistic prarie feel to it makes my computer lag like a bitch, so trying to get wide camera angles wasnt too theasable, still I'll see what I can do.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

The big fields are what looks best, it's the other parts which are very zoomed in.

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

I know, its a WiP so chill out.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

What do you mean with that comment, when have I been hostile? Learn to take critism.

 

[Karzvitch]

I think the forest looks a bit bare, and it just doesn't fit in with the whole prarie feeling that you tried to create. The prarie does look nice though, maybe some doodads around the house? (Weeds, Grass, common overgrowth along the sides of houses)

 

[Deckboy]

I know, its a WiP so chill out.

Dude calm down man. . .

 

[PurgeandFire]

It looks nice but a bit unvariated and close-up.

I don't think I can find the Dark Ranger clearly but I think I saw the two. But I'm not sure.

 

[Gilles]

I like them, I actually just tried doing the same the other day, but the lag got so bad I quit, I was at like 12000 doodads or something? the stupid over limit message came up every time I placed some which also sucked.

 

[Chaos Overlord]

Hey is teh dark ranger in pics 5 and 8? Anyways, I do like the pararie idk why. Not saying that in a mean way..

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Lol, I'm fine with criticism, and I didn't mean it like I thought you were like attacking me or anything.

Edit: I have 2 new screens and I changed #2 and #3
The new 2 pics are of an underground rabit warren, and if you know the story its supposed to be the part when the efrafrans are digging their way into the Honeycomb.

 

[Gilles]

Don't really like the underground one, rabbits in that big of a rabbit hole? I know it's the main area, but I think it's still big. More doodads would be nice. The tress, well, I can't decide if I like them or not. At first glance they looks alright, but after a while I noticed they were trees which is weird, but the idea was good and I would say keep them.

Edit: By the way, I really liked that book, cool idea to terrain it!

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Don't really like the underground one, rabbits in that big of a rabbit hole? I know it's the main area, but I think it's still big. More doodads would be nice. The tress, well, I can't decide if I like them or not. At first glance they looks alright, but after a while I noticed they were trees which is weird, but the idea was good and I would say keep them.

Edit: By the way, I really liked that book, cool idea to terrain it!

lol, I have to do this entire terrain out of a picture in my head, so its quite different then yours in all likelyhood.

As for the honeycomb, the only thing that gave my a really nice underground look was the underground dome doodad, which is, sadly, dome shaped. but yeah, I see what you mean, Ill see if i can fix it for later.

 

[Craka_J]

Images 4, 5, and 8 are fairly nice. Nothing too complex, just a bunch of grass and a couple trees. However the fog and sky is nice. Only thing I hate is how the Villager is taller than the house. Very unrealistic; which is a definate no, no!

All of the other screenshots I don't like. They're way too plain and the camera angles are very badly placed. Don't mean to be harsh but the two screenshots with the rabits honestly makes no sense to me. There isn't much of a reason for Rabits to be gathered in a circle underground while it, meaning the underground area, (looks) is collapsing. And even if it was something they naturally do when a small area is collapsing, the terrain is poorly done. Probably something that could be done easily in 5 minutes. You need to get into the habit of using environmental doodads and props, but effectively in a postive way. Doing this as a noob shouldn't be too hard, especially since you seem to be familiar with how to use custom imported objects such as the trees you used in your terrain screenshots. You should read up on tutorials made by HappyTauren and HernanG if you can find any, they'll really help you out big time. And if I release one of my own, I recommend you check it out.
And remember, when reading a tutorial, read it slowly to absorb the information more efficiently.
~Craka_J

 

[Tawsix]

Smooth Tool = Cruise control for cool. Jagged edges are ugly and detract from terrains.

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Images 4, 5, and 8 are fairly nice. Nothing too complex, just a bunch of grass and a couple trees. However the fog and sky is nice. Only thing I hate is how the Villager is taller than the house. Very unrealistic; which is a definate no, no!

All of the other screenshots I don't like. They're way too plain and the camera angles are very badly placed. Don't mean to be harsh but the two screenshots with the rabits honestly makes no sense to me. There isn't much of a reason for Rabits to be gathered in a circle underground while it, meaning the underground area, (looks) is collapsing. And even if it was something they naturally do when a small area is collapsing, the terrain is poorly done. Probably something that could be done easily in 5 minutes. You need to get into the habit of using environmental doodads and props, but effectively in a postive way. Doing this as a noob shouldn't be too hard, especially since you seem to be familiar with how to use custom imported objects such as the trees you used in your terrain screenshots. You should read up on tutorials made by HappyTauren and HernanG if you can find any, they'll really help you out big time. And if I release one of my own, I recommend you check it out.
And remember, when reading a tutorial, read it slowly to absorb the information more efficiently.
~Craka_J

Thats a dog house lmao, if you look you can see a dog next to him.
The scene with the rabbits underground is a part taken from a book, when their warren (rabbit colony) is being attacked by other rabbits, and they are digging their way down through the roof, and they are meeting to discus it. In the pic the 4 trees are meant to be tree-roots.
Still, I can increase the rabbits size to make it look less like theyre in some giant thing.

 

[Gilles]

Still, I can increase the rabbits size to make it look less like theyre in some giant thing.

Probably not a good idea due to many critters looking like garbage when you make them large, in fact most models look bad when blown up.

 

[Mor)L(unE]

I dont like the road, better replace it with a village road texture or something in that direction. but apart from that it looks pretty cool.

Gilles, 12000 animated doodads... no kidding it lags doh!

 

[Gilles]

I hadn't planned on making that many, and it sure didn't look like that many! But the WE said it was.

 

[Craka_J]

Ah yes that's another thing I forgot to mention: The road should be replaced. The tile you're using is something that may be best used in a Library, Court, Park. It can be used in other areas as well I'm sure like a Museum but definately not the best choice for a path to a village / farm.
~Craka_J

 

[Wraithwynd]

To "fill" a large area with "grass" make a customized copy of your grass. Make it to where it is much larger than normal. This will give you a wide "base" to cover a larger area with less doodads.

For ease of seeing I made the customized doodads green, and I am using sand since it is a nice contrast. I use a few super sized ones and lowered them about half way.

The selected one is "normal" size for rushes, the one to the left is the "giant sized" the ones bottom left are just the giant ones sank down. The ones to the right are seeded with "normal" sized rushes (using brown ones only for clarity of image)

If you do not want to spend a lot of time holding down control and using the page up/page down keys you can lay in a few giant rushes, hit enter and lower them by the z axis.

You will still use a lot of doodads, but you will be using less than you are now.