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Newbie Terrainer

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Here's my first try at making some terrain. Please comment on what is good/bad. The waterfall things are supposed to be streams of water gushing out from the mountain caves :/. I realize some are really misplaced; can someone teach me how to rotate doodads properly?
 

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A decent starting terrain. You need way more environment doodads and more tile variation. By that I mean add different dirt tiles in the city, and grass in the forest. Your cave should have rocks and shrubs all around it. Basically don't leave things plain. Mass doodads!

You do have height variation, you used Blizzard cliffs decently, and you used rock tile for hill/mountains. Good work!
 
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You can (Windows version) rotate doodads by holding control and left clicking where they should face. Or (on a mac) hold command(apple) and left click where you want them to face.

Alternative, for windows you can also click the object and then hold left mouse button down and rotate the thing like you want. I think thats the most easier and most accurate way..

Or.. err was it the right mouse button? ^^
 
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Hint 1: Dont use the lordearon summer tileset, its ugly
Hint 2: Try to Avoid using cliffs
Hint 3: Rotate doodads by putting random rotation off in the right layer of your screen and then rotate them by using the a button on the left of you screen, shouldn't be hard to find. for an even more accurate rotation double click (while not placing anything) of the doodad and change the rotation manually.
 
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Thanks for all the feedback everyone. I'll try to keep those things in mind the next time I try creating terrain.
 
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Not good, not "that" bad, this could use a lot of improvement, try taking a look at some of the galleries here at the site. HernanG, Craka_J and HappyTauren's galleries are all of high quality.

Belgarath and myself (decent terrain)! Oh and Correx and MadseN.
 
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Eh, now that I've checked other people's terrain I feel like crap :D! Lol, kidding. I'm pretty motivated now, thanks guys!
 
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