Reflections

[CoBrA b]

This is my latest terrain. I was trying to realistically create the way water reflects things. This was the result.

Comments and criticism always welcome. Enjoy.

 

[Shedan]

This is awesome. Make some work with tiles and it will better. Nice work + rep

 

[Megafyr]

Holy shit. That's a brilliant idea. You should only tint it abit. Everything else is really nice! +rep

 

[dansaDisco]

Looks very cool, though I hate the pixely grass, but I guess there's not much to do about it :|

 

[Ziggen]

Beatiful, but you should replace the cattail thingys on the sides of the river, they are awful.

 

[Celaquil]

I would want to know if you did this without photoshopping it. If so, then very good preformance. I do, however, not like the river-rushes, they seem far to spammed and ugly in general. And the mountains in the background could use some work in means of looking more realistic.

 

[Destructor [DoR]]

Looks really nice but the river shrubs destroy it ;(
+rep

@Keiji
Rotate the models with Model Editor and place them "under" the river/earth^^

 

[Nbah]

So how'd you make the sky reflect?

 

[dansaDisco]

Though I'm pretty sure he used blur on those trees Oo

 

[Celaquil]

Looks really nice but the river shrubs destroy it ;(
+rep

@Keiji
Rotate the models with Model Editor and place them "under" the river/earth^^

I never asked how to do it. I wanted him to confirm that this have been done without Photoshop, cause if it is indeed done WITH Photoshop then it is not AS gracefull of a work than it would be IF he made it without. Feel me?

 

[HFR]

No Photoshop: You sir, are awesome.

With Photoshop: Thou shall be banned from the Terrainer's Tavern.

 

[syltman]

If it's not made with photoshop it should go to the legendary terrain thread.

 

[Destructor [DoR]]

@ Keiji
sure

 

[Ziggen]

I think he has just used alpha tiles as the river.

 

[syltman]

I think he has just used alpha tiles as the river.

blurred alpha tiles?

 

[Destructor [DoR]]

Just normal Alpha Tiles

 

[dansaDisco]

btw I just noticed, the shrubs aren't mirrored, which ruins the whole reality of the terrain.

 

[Celaquil]

That is true. And that quite proves that this is not photoshop too. Thus you just need to fix up some small issues and this will be perfect.

 

[CoBrA b]

It's not photoshopped. I used alpha tiles, lowered them a bit, then put a really big, low-tinted Water(Ashenvale) over it, flipped some trees and rocks upside down (max roll angle -3.14) and lowered them into the ground. Anyhow, I'll get to work fixing it up as soon as I can. Btw, what do you mean when you say the shrubs aren't mirrored? (I hope I'm not asking a really stupid question).

 

[Celaquil]

The sea wheed at the edge of the water, of which you surely placed there to cover up the edges of the alpha tiles, they should be mirrored just as much as everything else.

 

[Total_Warrior]

alpha tiles?? ...wha?

 

[Trillium]

awesome!
any chance you can share the alpha tiles with us poor people? =)

 

[CoBrA b]

awesome!
any chance you can share the alpha tiles with us poor people? =)

Sure. I got them from MadseN (in the last Terrain Contest). Dunno where he got them from.

Link:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/363240-post43.html

EDIT: Btw, thanks to everyone so far for the comments, criticism, and rep.

 

[Just_Spectating]

i think the trees to the right are much too far from the river to reflect as so.


also maybe make the water have some waves or undulation.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

WOW wow wow

cool

 

[Belgarath]

imo the water doesn't look like water, you should add some ripples with waves or so in spots and places. also the r-rushes look like shit yes like shit :/ and they aren't reflected. use the other green shrubs in their place. the 'entrance' to the shrubs shouldn't be so abrupt either, try and make it more gradual by using some flat big bushes or so. alllllllso, left and right of the screen with the rocks looks a bit "meh", left you should keep the trees going. one more thing, the dalaran rough dirt looks really bad imo, isn't it ruined one too? replace with something a bit more realistic, dirty grass, grass, some dirt. finally, you can see the overgo from grass to alpha, you should probably add waves or some rocks here and there, maybe even some boat.

 

[Ham Ham]

These tree reflections at the right dont look realist. You should remove them and keep only these at the center.

 

[Wolfhelm]

There not blurred the river is alpha and you can see the bottom of the sky box due to the camera angle.
This is a great piece of terrain. The tile variation needs to be fixed it looks horrible the way it is but still great job, those mountains look awesome too.