Systemfre's Terrain Art

[Systemfre1]

Here are my terrains, finished and unfinished... in no particular order.

Terrain

Terrain

Terrain

Terrain

This one was for a wc3 cinematic of mine, which used wc3 doodads, I think this part came out pretty well.

First Terrain Ever

Uses reflections

Terrain

Won a Terrain Contest with this. (on ChaosRealm)

Unfinished Terrain

Unfinished Terrain

Questions and Feedback is welcome.

 

[RedClaw]

Awesome terrains system

 

[Systemfre1]

Thank you RC

 

[vuongkkk]

#2 is best. Liked
- Put more effort to create the depth of the terrain
- Try to place more things on the ground
- Spend more time to modify the light effect
Yep, they will make your terrain better

 

[FRENGERS]

Heyy Systemfree!!
Well, so sad RIP WCUnderground Y.Y

 

[Systemfre1]

@vuongkkk

Yeah, I spend hours trying to think of stuff, to put around.
but mostly it doesn't fit with the other models.

All of these are pretty old, (The Second one is brand new) so my newer ones should have better lighting (seen as I only found out a good way to do it in the last one which is not as old as the rest but not as new as the 2nd)

@ FRENGERS

Do I know you?

But yeah, R.I.P Underground, so I'll make my stay here instead xD

 

[Lordkoon]

I do love the dark corridor and the second one. Are the models from the 2-nd screen available somewhere? The trees look very good.

 

[marko9]

Yes Lord but the size of those models must be huge since they are from WoW...

 

[sonofjay]

Second one only used WoW model since System is a sissy wow lover, but the dark corridor uses B2M's models and the girl is a RIP from Left 4 Dead "Witch"

 

[Systemfre1]

Hey, WoW is an awesome resource for models xD
it may be easy to make a nice terrain with them but, to make it work really well is hard.


@Lordkoon
I have quite a few of them still if you want them?

 

[Lordkoon]

Hey, WoW is an awesome resource for models xD
it may be easy to make a nice terrain with them but, to make it work really well is hard.


@Lordkoon
I have quite a few of them still if you want them?

Yes I am on a crusade to gather diminished resourses from other sites. It would be great if you can send them to me. Also the authors.

 

[Systemfre1]

Here is my latest terrain.

I threw it together in like 30 minutes so please excuse imperfections

Feedback welcome

http://i45.tinypic.com/2zrq7on.jpg

 

[vuongkkk]

The fog is good but the depth is still improve more.

 

[bhusta]

Since you don't enumerate or name your maps I had to mark areas I don't like.

• empty areas
• only used one tileset
• flat
• Why did't you just cut it like this?

• The marks look ridiculous but there is a lot room for improvements
• blurry rock in the front
• total use of two tilesets
• flat
• empty naked hills in the background

• empty
• flat

• just WoW model spamming. You won't get much applause for this one on the hive
• very flat terrain
• total use of two tile sets
• the unit is realy blurry

• aaahh my eyes
• there is no contrast
• trees should have slightly different colors
• the tileset and the trees do not fit together
• emptyness in the foreground
• the waterfall is crap .

All in all you have a good selection of fogs in your terrains, but there is much room for improvements. You can't rely on hq models and think the terrain would automatically look good. Good luck with improving

 

[Codric]

R.I.P Wc Underground .
Anyway nice terrain art 'specilly they one you won a contest with.

500th POST!

 

[Cihparg]

There's only one I like and it's this one.

 

[Systemfre1]

@vuongkkk Thanks, I really have a lot to improve on

@bhusta Your pictures aren't showing up, can't really see which one your commenting on.
but I agree a lot of them are flat and quite bad, I don't take terraining seriously really, and I mostly do playable terrains which look good... or better than these showy off ones.
But yeah.

@Codric Heh underground is pretty much dead, although still crawling along.
And yeah, they are sort of better... seems to be better than some active people nowadays (as to why I won)

@OffGraphic, yeah that one looks cool... but it was to easy to do tbh, but I like things that look good. I don't take stock in skill to make it without HQ stuff :S (I should probably try though)

 

[bhusta]

ah yes I fixed it.

Nearly all bad terrainers play the playable-card I am not saying you are bad but this isn't a valid argument since you are spamming some high quality models, which makes it unplayable for people with old computers sometimes

 

[fladdermasken]

Nearly all bad terrainers play the playable-card I am not saying you are bad but this isn't a valid argument

^This. I'm going to segue this into a plead to the whole bloody board. You see at the back of my critique there is always an ethos emerging. Some semantic bullshit I make up on the spot. Now I'm going with "I don't review past the pixels." If you want people to comment about your playable terrain, you damn sure better help us enough to attach gameplay footage and not anything else.

Comprende esse?

 

[Systemfre1]

ah yes I fixed it.

Nearly all bad terrainers play the playable-card I am not saying you are bad but this isn't a valid argument since you are spamming some high quality models, which makes it unplayable for people with old computers sometimes

Who says what I posted here is playable?
Who says I spam HQ models on playable maps?

 

[sonofjay]

Lol, Josh is getting fried here.

 

[fladdermasken]

They're not horrible. It's just, you stop when you're only just getting started. You're a thorn in your own toe.

 

[Systemfre1]

They're not horrible. It's just, you stop when you're only just getting started. You're a thorn in your own toe.

Yeah, Cause I can never think of anything else to do

 

[fladdermasken]

Try some jack moves. Copy concept art, bum ideas from other terrainers, do terrains you know you can handle well. Don't leave any mistakes.

Just spend more time on it. Be awesome for the sake of being awesome.