Terrain Advice

[Japut3h]

Im making a map called Magecraft

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44767

What i need now is some advice;what terrain would you describe as most interesting and fitting for this kind of a map?

 

[Oziris]

Sunken ruins i think is the best for an rpg!

 

[Japut3h]

Your probably right,but ive made so many sunken ruins tiled maps so far(about 7) that im kinda sick of that tileset.The only reason why i added it is because ive noticed that its quite popular among mappers.

 

[Oziris]

Yeap popular...

 

[<Offspring>]

Sunken ruins i think is the best for an rpg!

i aggre
Since i have to type more than 15 letters i wrote this

 

[Karzvitch]

One tileset for a project of the size you described?

Add aspects of all of them!

 

[Naze]

Your probably right,but ive made so many sunken ruins tiled maps so far(about 7) that im kinda sick of that tileset.The only reason why i added it is because ive noticed that its quite popular among mappers.

Hmm.... Lordaeron summer is so original that no one makes maps with it. Why don't you try it?

 

[Japut3h]

I noticed that many people voted on sunken ruins.I have to agree that its a popular with a reason,there are a lot of colorfull and nice doodads,its very easy to be creative with it,nice to look at,but what annoys me is that its been overused,and im pretty sure that in 6 months(if wc3 is still popular) almost everyone will get sick of it.So i dont know should i roll on unoriginality or try to be original and achieve half of the results i could have gotten with sunken ruins.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I would have to agree with karzvitch, adding a few different tilesets would be nice, so there could both be ice and sunken ruins and so on.

 

[Naze]

I noticed that many people voted on sunken ruins.I have to agree that its a popular with a reason,there are a lot of colorfull and nice doodads,its very easy to be creative with it,nice to look at,but what annoys me is that its been overused,and im pretty sure that in 6 months(if wc3 is still popular) almost everyone will get sick of it.So i dont know should i roll on unoriginality or try to be original and achieve half of the results i could have gotten with sunken ruins.

Agreed. But I suggest you to don't duble-post. And sunken ruins is so popular, that's why I don't use it !

 

[Japut3h]

I would have to agree with karzvitch, adding a few different tilesets would be nice, so there could both be ice and sunken ruins and so on.

im not bad at terraining but if i try to fuse icecrown glacier and sunken ruins itll look like crap...and i dunno how that would make sense...although...i can try to use more tilesets like ashenvale,barrens and lordaeron fall for example...

 

[Naze]

It makes sense if you add the snow tile at the top of montains, for example.

 

[Japut3h]

Ill try it...if that backfires ima either stick to one tile or use two similiar tiles..im not saying that its a bad idea,im only saying that i never tried that before and dont know how itll all look.

 

[Naze]

Well, try it. If you didn't like, clean the area you didn't like, and make another thing, until you like the idea. Thats the objective.

 

[DungeonM]

How about a combination of Village/Cityscape tilesets?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Japut3h, it could easily be solved by having a bit of water between the 2. Like a river or something.

 

[Craka_J]

I voted for the Icecrown Glacier. However, I would have voted for Village if it were available.
~Craka_J

 

[Mor)L(unE]

I vote for Icecrown, it gives a more arcane feeling then the others.

 

[Oziris]

I was thinking about to vote for Icercrown becous it is winter and its bether to make winter maps if u get my point...

 

[Japut3h]

I already started on the map.Since i noticed that the sunken ruins was most voted,and i didnt want to make the whole map with that tileset,i made a mix of sunken ruins jungles and beaches,barrens wastelands,ashenvale forest,silverpine forest and ill probably add more later.When crossing from one area A to area B,the terrain changes so slowly that you notice it only when your already deep in the area B.

Now what troubles me is the fact that i cant get any terrainers to help me with this task(Map is huge,and its boring like hell when you do the terraining alone.)If there is anyone who wants to help me please let me know.BTW ill post the current terrain screens pretty soon.

Edit:As for icecrown,im starting to work on a big dungeon thats completely frozen and uses the icecrown tileset.

Ok here are some screens of the terraining ive done so far.I already posted some of them in the idea factory forums,but seems that no one even looked at that post so i guess its more fitting to post em here.

Ashenvale pond

Ashenvale creek

Ashenvale dungeon entrance

Some Silverpine terrain

So far ashenvale is complete,silverpine forest and barrens wastelands are under construsction,and so is the sunken ruins jungle.Theres a part of terrain left untouched,i have to figure out which tileset to use there,but itll probably be tirisfal glades(loarderon fall tileset).

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Dude.. you could've just said that. Most RPG's have several tiles sets for different area's.. otherwise it would be boring.. anyways.. nice terrain ^^

 

[Japut3h]

Thanks

The point is,before starting the map,it didnt even occur to me to use more tilesets.I decided to use most of them a couple of days ago.

 

[Naze]

Good.

But there are many rocks floating at the last screen, and that's weird.


I have to say that you used very well the blizz at the last screen.



About your tileset change, just be sure that it will make sense. Like, Trisfal Glades with Barrens Wastelands beside. They are not too close in the world map...

 

[Japut3h]

Floating rocks?What do you mean by that?
And what blizz?

Btw i will make sure that the terrain makes sense - although i didnt express myself quite well;the terrain will be designed like tirisfal glades;this doesnt mean that it will actually represent it,maybe a mere part of it or something.

 

[Naze]

Floating rocks?What do you mean by that?
And what blizz?

Btw i will make sure that the terrain makes sense - although i didnt express myself quite well;the terrain will be designed like tirisfal glades;this doesnt mean that it will actually represent it,maybe a mere part of it or something.

Sorry, if I wasn't clear =]

The image says everything.

 

[Japut3h]

Oh lol,ill just ctrl + page down those rocks,i didnt notice they were too elevated

 

[Naze]

lol

you can go to the editor, and chang the max roll pitch angle to 60. It will help.

 

[Gilles]

I like this terrain a lot! +rep

The rocks were fine, you wouldn't see from an overhead view. The use of blizz cliffs is very good, but it may have looked better without them. Not sure, but you probably shouldn't try messing up something that looks good enough for a playable terrain. (IT is playable right?)

 

[Japut3h]

Of course
As for the blizz cliffs i tried to avoid it but the elevation of other cliffs made it impossible so i had to use them as best as i could.If i wanted to cliff the river in any other way,id have to separate the hills too much,and then,i wouldnt be able to use the bridge(or i would have to make it much bigger and it looks really bad that way).

 

[Oziris]

Not bad but if u are making a rpg how do u use the bridge i mean u cant walk on the bridge can u ?

 

[Japut3h]

of course you can lol i wouldnt put it there if you couldnt

 

[Oziris]

Lol thx i dident know that.

 

[Super-Sheep]

I voted for Sunken Ruins, but I would like to use Village tileset.

 

[~Void~]

I'm sorry to not be helpful, but could you add a "none" option? I hate RPGs and there's too many of them.

 

[Japut3h]

If you hate them so much,dont come to this thread,and if you thought that it was about something else dont post here.Not that you arent helpful,youre practically spamming by posting information that no one cares about(at least i dont,and you were refering to me while you were posting,right?).Im not asking for opinions on the map type,im asking for opinion on the terrain,and your response has absolutely nothing to do with it.