Read this! (If you like Azurot)

[Azurot]

Well maybe not, but who gives a rats ass; you came, didn't you?

"I certainly did" - M0rbid

Azurot's
Showcase

Terrain Gallery

Morning Joy

Meditation

Morning Crossing

Fateless Temple

The Great Plain

Memorial Sunrise

Kroa

The Watcher

Ancient Storm

Big Sky

Cave Ruins

Update Log

-Edit:Added "Kroa" (12/16/2011)
-Edit:Added "Meditation", "Memorial Sunrise", "The Great Plain" and "Glacial Expanse" (12/30/2011)
-Edit:In the process of completely redoing the entire thread, bare with me. (12/31/2011)
-Edit:Added "Ancient Storm" 1/10/2012
-Edit:Added "Big Sky" 2/11/2012
-Edit:Added "Cave Ruins" also added thumbnails, for well, the sake of having thumbnails. They are in no particular order however, so good luck with that! 4/30/2012

 

[M0rbid]

Lovely - that is for the first screen - which I simply love. There might be a few minor flaws, but I do not feel like searching for them, because I am to happy with what I see. So I will leave it to fladdermasken, Keiji and those other skilled reviewers...
The second one is nice aswell, however I feel like the foreground could use some more work, basically I dislike the tiles/ground. Maybe it's to empty, maybe it's to monotone, it just does not fit the very nice background. I suggest you try working on that.

Allow me to contribute to your thread title Because, yeah, I need to spoil some fun, because that is fun to do so.

 

[vuongkkk]

Pic 1: The contrast of the cloud at top-right corner maybe too much (in my opinion)
Anything else is lovely, especially the color

 

[Celaquil]

I'm loving the first screenshot, you have such a lovely way of making mountains look extremely natural in your terrains, if anything I would like to point out that vuongkkk is entirely wrong.
- Or, that I find the wierd light green "leaf" things on the ground to be a bit too brightly tinted, you should make those darker by some means.

As for the second one, I really don't dig the angle, that and I honestly do not get the feeling of there being much going on, it's rather bland and boring to look at, especially when followed up by the first one. I love the lighting and fog work in it, but I find the trunks of the trees to seem a little to dominative, and the leaves up front on the camera also taking up a bit too much space, not to mention that when their this close, they really don't look too good. Same thing with the "leaf" things on the ground, maybe it's lillies? I'm really not sure what they are

The second one could do with a more interesting focal point.

Overall though, good job indeed Sir.

 

[Belgarath]

personally i think you should see about removing the laser beams out of the clouds in the first picture. it might be a bit difficult with the sun you're using and all that but it'd definitely be better if the clouds weren't indefinite gateways to heaven. also the trees in the distance kinda look like a single line, these kinds of things look muuch better if they go for a while and actually shrink in size too, to kind of display the forest has boundaries in the foothills of the mountains or so

 

[Dr. House]

@M0rbid remember that contest we had? I bet he beats us both xD

@Azurot there isn't much i can find besides what the others said all by all they are just lovely terrains +rep from your docter

 

[Azurot]

Haha, thank you very much kind sir, Morbid. The addition was greatly needed.

As for everybody else, thanks for the comments, I really do appreciate any and all suggestions, however this particular map was not saved correctly so I'll just keep your ideas in mind for future reference. Thanks!

I will, however, keep this thread as updated as possible. With that said, "Kroa" has been added to the initial post.

 

[Dr. House]

Nice one but i think you should smooth the hill a bit more in the front of the waterfall and the color of the waterfall doesn´t really fit with the things around it (in my opinion) and maybe more variation in trees. Besides this i must say i like the terrain it somehow reminds me of Avatar

 

[Gilles]

The last one's sky is way too bright, and foreground is too pointy, and the island/boulder-thing is unnatural looking. Not sure if it's the rocks poorly meshed together, or that trees are sticking out of them.

The first two are good.

 

[tobyfat50]

The first picture is your best from this gallery, It has a natural feeling to it. I would make it a a poste and put it in my room.
The second one in my opinion needs a little bit of contrast on the foreground, some less darker ground shadows. The way the foreground leaves look separate to the ground region in front is nice but it gives me a cave like atmosphere, impresion. You could work more on it or leave it like so, it's all personal preferences but it's not as spectacular as the first Image.

 

[eubz]

I like the second picture best.

 

[Azurot]

New ones!!
Edit:Added "Meditation", "Memorial Sunrise", "The Great Plain" and "Glacial Expanse" (12/30/2011)

 

[eubz]

Woah, my tree! my tree!. It stands there!!!

 

[tobyfat50]

Whooo!!!` Morning Crossing has such an impressive lighting and fog I am obsessed with this 2 points in training so I try to improve them, but you sir are a beautiful man! Morning Crossing = my fav. The only thing I don't like is the roof bridge, you could've used a normal bridge model.

 

[johannesr]

My favs are Memorial Sunrise and The Great Plain so far. On the Watcher you should replace the ugly wc3 sand with WoW sand imo, but how did you do the lighting on that one? Keep up the good work tho!

 

[Rui]

Because it's snow, it actually doesn't look too bad that the glacier is slightly buried into the terrain.

 

[fladdermasken]

but how did you do the lighting on that one?

I'm guessing it's dawn lighting and fogged sky, complemented by B²M's cloud model.

 

[Azurot]

I'm guessing it's dawn lighting and fogged sky, complemented by B²M's cloud model.

Close - Midnight lighting, and I do believe that the skybox is that of the Lordaeron Winter (Pink), with the clouds being Tobyfat's rendition of b2m's cloud models, given different coloration based on how far they were from the source. But all the same, you got it pretty close!

 

[tobyfat50]

All this details, I've couldn't even think about...~

 

[andreariona]

I like the 'morning joy' best. it looks so peaceful for me.

 

[Gilles]

I like Meditation. I would suggest changing the flora. Perhaps using a variety, especially different grasses, scaling them smaller, and using way more so the textures look good.

Either way, it's my favorite.

 

[Azurot]

-Edit:Added "Ancient Storm" 1/10/2012

Thanks to XRiotZx for the idea to make purple lightning. Teh Coolest Beans for him.

 

[Azurot]

-Edit:Added "Big Sky" 2/11/2012

Check it out, it's pretty kewl.

 

[Mr.Foxy]

Can i post a just terrain map here?

 

[tobyfat50]

wow! Big Sky looks great. I would like to see you master the galaxy editor. Making a terrain with a more powerful graphic engine shud be a lot easier - or so I thought but, it is actually in a different realm of its own and requires reinventing the techniques. Making a 3d image look estetic is harder than it looks!

Sadly I broke my LCD monitor and don't have the option of making cool hd terrain anymore.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

great work. my fav is the first one and the one with lightning. great use of some shadows by the way.

 

[AyeKantSpel]

I totally agree with TDHX, my fav was ancient storm as well.

 

[vuongkkk]

Like the first and the last one best :x
Off-topic: I wonder why the sky in your pics (all you guy) is so attractive !
Sky: Cloud + imported sky are enough or i still miss something?

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Nicy nicy!

 

[gorillabull]

this is what im talking about. your terrain should be a standard for noobs everywhere this is like a Renessance painting or something ^^^^^

 

[ionster]

Perhaps everyone need a showcase

 

[fladdermasken]

No. Never. Niet. Nein. Negative. Nay. Nope. Not at all.

 

[Celaquil]

Not. At. All.

 

[Azurot]

HAI GUISE NEW UPDATE HEAR.. I HOPE U LIK !
-Edit:Added "Cave Ruins" also added thumbnails, for well, the sake of having thumbnails. They are in no particular order however, so good luck with that! 4/30/2012

 

[M0rbid]

I love it and you know it.

 

[Azurot]

I'm sexy and I know it!

 

[ionster]

I'm sexy and I know it!

A skeleton man still sexy(your avatar)...........I'm still waiting here for more awesome works.

 

[bb5892914]

I like very much they

 

[marko9]

I love your Terrain so much, but where did you find all those models exept the ones from UTM and B2M Dodad pack and some WoW!?

 

[ionster]

I love your Terrain so much, but where did you find all those models exept the ones from UTM and B2M Dodad pack and some WoW!?

I really love your avatar and would mind tell me where did you find it？

 

[johannesr]

Cave Ruins is pretty awesome!

 

[marko9]

Azurot I love the Cave Ruins where you get the Rock model?

 

[Azurot]

Azurot I love the Cave Ruins where you get the Rock model?

Just some clever work with the steinlords rock model

Btw, love your new work on argos!

 

[marko9]

Thanks man, your comment means alot since I realy like your terrains, that Memorial Sunrise waterfall is Epic and still I cant find that Rock Model... >.>