IMO you need to broaden your style a lot. all of those pictures have the same underlying background idea; sweeping view with the sky sublimely 'special' (starry skies usually). It looks cool and all but I just can't appreciate most of the terrains because they're all so similar in that basic idea. You can see it in the wip2.png, the same exact underlying principle is already there - the far sky and the broad view.
Also I'd like to see you use less high res things. Sure, they're great stuff but in there I can't see a single default ground texture, hell, I can't even see a single default model (apart from the sky..maybe?). I mean, at the basic level I can appreciate the overall looks of any terrain but I do like to see good use of the things provided; comes from being an old timer I suppose. I personally do prefer the WC3 style to the current style overhaul of complete high res textures. For example,
this is one of my favourites of olden days just because it uses the WC3 style and shows it to such a wonderful extent.
Basically, he should make less "special" skies and have less "broadened" views and use crappier models? Right, not that I entirely see the logic in that, but sure.
Now I do to some extent understand your feeling about the high res doodads, as I myself had the exact same feeling before. A kind of judgemental view upon the higher resolution doodads thinking "well... Anyone can make something good with so good doodads." And that true terraining skills shone through when the terrainer used the doodads provided in the UTM to make something look extraordinarily great, using crappy models to make something good, escentially.
- My view on this have somewhat changed over the years though.
Honestly, I don't know exactly why. It's probably mostly because I no longer feel that "competetive" feeling about terraining that I once did, that feeling of wanting to be better than others, and wanting every terrain I make to be better than the previous, I've probably stagnated and found a set of doodads that I like, which happen to be pretty much high res doodads, and then I make what I feel like. But oh well, who cares about this stuff? We're here to discuss fladders terrain
Well, I agree that his style seems to be... Ahh... Ongoing, if not in every single one of the terrains, then in many of them. Though, I disagree that it has to do with his doodads of choice or his way of making the fogs and background, I more think the true way to go is to variate the themes. To do different things, all from really bright sun-sets to pitch black nights, from grand alied ruins to lush jungle forests. Simply experiemnt more, try new stuff, hell new doodads for that matter, as long as you continue doing what you do best
(terraining)
Yadda yadda yadda, good looking gathering of shit, have a napkin.
