Terraining Contest #2 - Mountains

[Belgarath]

So damn blurry mate. You should be blocking out the sky with smoke and ash things.

 

[Mechmap]

I will maybe try to do something new, otherwíse my volcano is final.

 

[Darkimp]

Heres an updated Wip^^
Still needs some work though.

 

[varsaigen]

Is it that blurry? Sorry, i don't really know where I can change my resolution. Also I had to enlarge the pics by a lot and that my have caused it.

 

[Just_Spectating]

@darkimp, ugly whales.

 

[Gilles]

I'll do my best to blow your mind Gilles (There is no sexual inuendo here). Probably gonna just do a whole new terrain.... again.

Just can't be happy with any of em...

Let's hope you can. I have faith in you.

@Darkimp: I'm impressed, but those whales are extremely ugly.

 

[varsaigen]

darkimp, how dd you get the cloud effect??? I couldn't figure it out.

 

[Hawkwing]

Well, I finally got an idea I am happy with so here it is...

It is still a WIP, so give me some feedback. I am debating on the wind, it looks a bit odd.

I haven't gotten around to placing the Rock Spires into the ground perfectly so they are elevated up a bit too much.

 

[varsaigen]

It looks... odd. What is it exactly? And how did you manage the sky? The sky is awesome but needs more color.

 

[Hawkwing]

Well the wind dosen't exactly suite Shadowmoon Vale, I am not sure. It is supposed to be the Hand of Gul'Dan, a volcano raised by Gul'Dan himself. The sky, Clouds# under Cinematic is shaped like a circle, though half goes underground so what you see is a semi circle. I put the doodad a fair distance away from the volcano, so the center of the clouds could be seen. Now it looks like the clouds are swirling around the volcano. I think I will tint them a Felish Green colour.

 

[Dakho]

Here's a WIP of the terrain I made.

 

[redscores]

@Darkimp: remove whales and add white fog to the water. That will make it look creepy.

@Darkho: why white under the grasses? and I think only grass is boring, don't use it as a filler.

@Hawking: looks very very good, very impressive style of an volcano.

 

[varsaigen]

Well the wind dosen't exactly suite Shadowmoon Vale, I am not sure. It is supposed to be the Hand of Gul'Dan, a volcano raised by Gul'Dan himself. The sky, Clouds# under Cinematic is shaped like a circle, though half goes underground so what you see is a semi circle. I put the doodad a fair distance away from the volcano, so the center of the clouds could be seen. Now it looks like the clouds are swirling around the volcano. I think I will tint them a Felish Green colour.

That sounds good. But you might want to change the lighting a bit. Perhaps Black Citadel or Dugon? Those give it an ominous look.

Other than that, I think you need to make things not blend into eachother as much. I can't tell if thats a warlock I see infront of it. Is it?

 

[Hawkwing]

Well I was planning on making a big burst of Fel Flames in front of the Gul'Dan to make him more visible. I'm not sure how to do that, though. Btw, ty Rescores.

Anyways, here is my second WIP:

 

[Just_Spectating]

@ dakho, thats not a mountain.

 

[Dakho]

@ dakho, thats not a mountain.

Looking through the pages about a third of these are hardly considered mountains, But either way I'm making a different one so it doesn't matter.

 

[Just_Spectating]

which ones dont look like mountains to u?

 

[varsaigen]

hawkwing, even though you are my competition, I will tell you what flames you can use. If you want flame pillars with smoke, use "Fire&smoke". I hope this helps you. Good luck in the competition.

And dahko, that isn't a mountain. It is a hill and you can't see anything beyond it. You need to work on that.

 

[varsaigen]

<BUMP> I have made edits to my terrain of Pompei so the smoke and flame are angled. I know the ash falls the opposite way. >.> But it looke better ths way.

 

[Hawkwing]

Here is my third WIP. I added the flames. Unfortunatley the smoke covered up the volcano, it looked bad, so I had to do a little somethin' somethin'.

 

[varsaigen]

lol srry. I didnt know how you would do it. but ya, Large Flames makes it look good.
any suggestions for my terrain?

 

[Hawkwing]

The Volcano is kinda hard to see, one reason is because of all that snow. Also the smoke coming out of the volcano is going in the same direction, not spreading out like a real one.

 

[varsaigen]

ok. I'll fix that. Thx

 

[HappyTauren]

guys... should I enter this shit

 

[Volvox]

If entering shit makes you happy, go ahead XD

 

[HappyTauren]

K... Now I need to embed mountains somewhere D:

 

[frostwhisper]

Holy, wtf, h4x... damn it.

 

[HappyTauren]

here is wip #2...

 

[varsaigen]

nope. no mountains

 

[~Void~]

I might participate to the competiton.. but i hate imported models.. cause with imported models.. everyone can make something look awsome.. so i will do my best .. without any imported models.. I might loose.. but at least i will show that the model in warcraft is enough...

Lol, with imported models you can't just make anything look good. How many times do I have to tell this to people? If you can show me that you can make something as good as my terrains with imported models, be my guest.

 

[varsaigen]

void, what can be improved on my terrain?
I already know to spread the smoke out.
But what else?

 

[Mechmap]

Those rock spires probably counts as mountains varsaigen, and HT, that just looks, well better then any of ours! Just make sure to do a little more focus on mountains, right now it looks like the main focus is in the floating building and its mountains that is the theme.

 

[varsaigen]

with a lot of good terrains here, this could be close.

Anywayz, here is my latest version of my WIP. I have changed the smoke so it goes more out. Please tell me what you think.

 

[LiOneSS]

And the winner is... HT!!!

 

[varsaigen]

its not over yet.

 

[HappyTauren]

of course, I haven't finished my entry.

 

[varsaigen]

I have added burning rocks to my submission. I hope you like it. Please tell me anything that needs to be fixed or added.

 

[redscores]

The Volcano looks good, no problems about it. Well, maybe add a few fires to the crater of the volcano.

 

[Gilles]

HappyTauren, it's awful! That citadel is just so lame! ; )

 

[HappyTauren]

Mortals and imorals... BEWARE!!1!!ONE

 

[X.e.r.e.X]

That's pure wins gg kkthxbai I give up already >_>

 

[Cham[p]ion]

Awesomeeeeeee work HT. Only thing i would change is the big rocks in the background.

They look too similar, switch it up to make them look more natural. Other than that, tis quite shmexeh.

 

[varsaigen]

This competition just got a lot harder. lol. tougave me great ideas for my terrain gallery though.

 

[Samuraid]

Mortals and imorals... BEWARE!!1!!ONE

Moar Anti Aliasing Pl0x. TY.

Very nice terrain, HT.

 

[Cham[p]ion]

Agreed. This has prompted me to make yet another entry, bringn out the big guns.

 

[Just_Spectating]

WHO INVITED HT?>!? nooo we all fall into his hands!



one thing HT, one of the large pillars in the back to the left is floating, its kinda ugly.

 

[varsaigen]

lol. good luck Childeric. You will need it. I am just about done with my WIP. Any other edits will be done through critiques. There are a lot of great terrains here, but I don't expect to win. This is mostly a learning experiance for me.

 

[HappyTauren]

spectating, fixed that
samuraid, omfg it will lagggggz D:
everyone else, I kindly asked if I should enter *this shit*

 

[varsaigen]

If you want to, go ahead. lol Good luck if you do.

 

[Just_Spectating]

HT, if you want another award icon and some rep then join, or you can give us all a chance D:


EDIT: never mind, no award icon.