Odai Plains

[Deathcom3s]

This is just a screenshot from my rpg i'm working on right now, it's a wide open area about in the middle of the map called the Odai Plains. I was kind of messing around with lighting too.

It was NOT inspired by ~void~'s "dawn" terrain or Belgarath's "The Long Road Home"

1. The Original Terrain
2. Slightly Improved
3. Improved after reading Void's awesome lighting tutorial.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

The terrain itself looks okay. But the light don't look so good.

By the way, have you tried to play this rpg? Because it looks like you see only "light" when you play?

Anyway +rep!

 

[Belgarath]

Doesn't look anything like mine or Voids... Bit one sided and empty, and your lightings a little bad, it looks like a blob. I'd increase the Z End of the fog.
Oh, yeah, forgot, the terrain itself's nice.

 

[Deathcom3s]

K, i'll work on the lighting, like i said, this is my first try at lighting, i'm working on it right now, i'll post the update in a sec.

@Aeroblyctos: I just added the lighting in for the screenshots to make it look cooler. You can't even see the light from the Game Screen.

 

[~Void~]

The light's all over the place.
Maybe read my tutorial to show you how to realistically place lights.
Otherwise, it's good, but not really realistic.

 

[DungeonM]

I like the new results, being able to see the blue sky in the background makes the picture alot better.

 

[Deathcom3s]

Thanks for the tut void, i'm going to try some of that stuff.

 

[~Void~]

It looks a lot better now
+rep

 

[Deathcom3s]

Lol, thanks void.

ROFL! i r a taco!

 

[seruk]

So anyway I found this awesome new light doodad and I'm going to use it over and over again.

 

[Gilles]

Looks good. An rpg? Small or large? Your going to wind up with millions of doodads on a large one.

 

[Nindira]

Beautiful terrain, because it would look mediocre without the green bush (right), and the darker grass (left). If this wasn't for a project I'd suggest adding rocks on the path. Small rocks not like the giant ones in the grass.

 

[Belgarath]

If this is an RPG, don't use that grass. You can see 4 lines or something similar from up top, I'm pretty sure.

 

[Gilles]

If that is true, I suggest you use river rushes.

 

[seruk]

Beautiful terrain, because it would look mediocre without the green bush (right), and the darker grass (left). If this wasn't for a project I'd suggest adding rocks on the path. Small rocks not like the giant ones in the grass.

Small rocks usually looks like utter crap, I don't get why everyone like them so much.
And even know I doubt that's for an RPG I can confirm that unless you tilt them or scale them to 4.0 you'll see nothing.

 

[Deathcom3s]

It's going to be a large, single player rpg, so i don't really need to worry about the file size.

Anywho, thanks for the comments, i appreciate them, i'm going to post more screens of it later.

 

[seruk]

How are you going to fit the lightning in-game?

 

[~Void~]

How are you going to fit the lightning in-game?

You could make the lights units or destructibles that follow the hero around maybe...

 

[Troubadour]

Or you couldn't you just add rays of light as a weather effect? They are designed to look good in-game.

 

[Nindira]

Small rocks usually looks like utter crap, I don't get why everyone like them so much.
And even know I doubt that's for an RPG I can confirm that unless you tilt them or scale them to 4.0 you'll see nothing.

Lower the rocks then. Maybe smaller rocks add a little more realism to the piece. 4.0 is too small, I agree. Min 0.10, and max 0.25. That'll add a little bit of jazzery to the scenery. Crappy terrain is that without variety. Think.

 

[seruk]

Lower the rocks then. Maybe smaller rocks add a little more realism to the piece. 4.0 is too small, I agree. Min 0.10, and max 0.25. That'll add a little bit of jazzery to the scenery. Crappy terrain is that without variety. Think.

That last part about the 4.0 was about the grass. D:

 

[Belgarath]

Ya, you add rocks and shitloads of grass and I'll be surprised if you finish a bloody eighth of the map... THERE'S A DOODAD LIMIT ... Unless you're using WEU, which I wouldn't recommend, as Doodad limit + more = lag & file size.