The great mine

[Piwlady]

Okey, this is my newest terrain. The Great Mine and something around it. I wont yet tell you where this is going to be and what is the purpose of the stuff around the mine.
I hope you like it...

Everything is definetly playable

For more cool terrains -> My PLAYABLE terrains

Entrance

Great Mine

 

[chilla_killa]

Looks awesome. You could use it for the new Solo Mapping Contest.
I love the terrain +rep

 

[Piwlady]

Thx, Nice if you like it
And it has it's own purpose already

 

[sadvisor]

Looks good. Except for the ground textures.

 

[AKAIMAX]

How did u make the lava?

 

[Bernkastel]

Hehe.. The purpose shall remain.. As mystery... And the lava is made.. With.. Actually i'm not sure do i know all the parts of it.. I'll prob let Piwlady the explain <.<

 

[Piwlady]

How did u make the lava?

lava cracs tile + LCracks model from utm (named as lava cracks (scary) in utm) and then a lot of orange glow model. Vóila!

wc3's own ground textures sucks pretty much. someday there will be bettah ones

 

[Wolfe]

It looks a little flat. As if the ground was man-made. Also, the first screenshot is lacking detail/fog. Oh, and, try to make the tiles a little more random.

Good job otherwise. =D

 

[Piwlady]

It's not supposed to be any random and its supposed to be pretty flat. it's man-made ^.- Fog is like that because... erm... i wont tell you.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Well its a mine, its hot, its in the presence of lava, and theres most likely a bunch of dirt and other randomocities in the air, so yeah it would have a thick fog like that

 

[Piwlady]

I will see what i'm gonna do to it. Changing of tiles will happen one day

 

[punwisp]

Wow, looks nice, though I personally think the red dog should be thinned some, it seems a bit too much

Also nice job with that red glow where the lava is suppose to be

 

[Piwlady]

Thx. I will see what im going to do to fog... if i thicker it it wont look so good in other parts of map... oops did i say map? nvm

 

[Kimm2y]

Good job, but you need work with small detailes.

 

[Bernkastel]

It's still a WIP and Piwlady, you have failed! Damnation! Doomed for eternity!

 

[Piwlady]

Thx for all comments. I will most likely do something next week.
Btw, that place is DARN HUGE. You will see how huge it is When i update...

 

[Piwlady]

Updated, added some details, and it's not so flat anymore.
Updated screenies in first post.

 

[Celaquil]

Alright then Piwlady.

Your terrain is quite interesting, it has a cave effect and feel that I dont often see in cave terrain maps. And your use of the Moria doodads is nice, I could easily see even more flexible use of them moria "balins tomb" and stairs doodads, for better looking terrain.
But there are some parts of your terrain that stand out, badly.

Firstly, and most obviously, those pink crystals COMPLETELY ruin the overall feel of the terrain, and look nothing but hideous in your terrain, this also slightly applies for those (Outland?) torches that are completely black, give them a bit more color and they would look a lot better. Latly, you have a far to low rate of details on the center of the paths, where you've used tiles, which could be done better.

To sum up what I would do:

- Remove the pink crystals. (or replace them with more fitting ones)
- Tint the black torches.
- Work on the tiles, randomize them more.
- - Work on the empty spots in general, fill them in with small rocks, corpses, ANYTHING; just dont leave any open spots that look odd.
- More detailed ruins, by use of more Moria doodads.

 

[Piwlady]

I will replace crystals with someother colored ones ( i wont leave 'em because they mine those crystals )
Dunno how those (Yes, shamanyouranus's Outland Braziers) torches gone black. But I will check 'em.
I change tiles when i make custom ones. ( and i'd love to know how i can get more than 9 tiles :O )
I will look at those empty areas. But i wont will all because there must be room to fight
( It's going to be in a map )
I see what i can do with those Moria doodads...

Thx a lot I will do something to all of this... things tonight

 

[Celaquil]

You can still have walkable doodads where there is supposed to be "fighting" like small rocks or grass, or something.

 

[Piwlady]

Update! Done stuff what Keiji Suggested.
Filled empty parts, added details and changed crystals ( To orange from pink

 

[Celaquil]

The crystals still stick out a bit too much, you might want to tint them a bit darker. And I would give up on those damn outland torches, they ARE too dark. Try making your own, like CW did in his Diablo 3 map at some point, or was it that one over at wc3campaigns? Ah well, just change them, appart from that this is really looking like a good playable terrain.

 

[Just_Spectating]

looks fun to play on

 

[Bernkastel]

There is a problem in the braziers.. They dont take any lightnings or fog.. They just stay as there would be no fog or lightning

 

[Piwlady]

I see what I can do. I personally like those braziers..

 

[RaijinSpark]

Why would u put a paladin there? great terrain btw

 

[Piwlady]

Paladin just visited there because i wanted to show how HUUUGE it is ! Thx!

 

[Oohforf]

This does give me the "mine" feeling really, but it REALLY reminds me of Molten Core from WoW!

 

[GhoSTMaN-Fu-]

umm, reminds me of Jak & Daxter somehow lol, but still looks really cool , might I ask the inspiration for this? if thats not a dumb question, lol

 

[Piwlady]

Inspiration? Erm... erm... maaaybe it's Black Rock Mountain instances in wow, dunno.

 

[Insincerity]

What irritates me the most is that the brazier things aren't affected by fog.

 

[Deolrin]

I can fix that with shamanyouranus' permission, I think.

 

[Piwlady]

That would be damn nice :O
I think i should PM to him then.

 

[Piwlady]

Bumb

I made entrance. Everything still playable.
Pics added to first post.
Comment and critic please.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

That entrance looks great - keep working on this as a whole

 

[Bernkastel]

You are not going to show everything are you?

 

[Piwlady]

You are not going to show everything are you?

Only mine related stuff

 

[Marsal]

hmm so sweet very nice work man

 

[Oziris]

Reminds me of a place in Dragon Age called The Deep Roads! Its brilliant.

 

[Piwlady]

Thanks man
As you say it now... it does a little:O
I didn't have played DA:O When I made this place though

 

[ashbringer753]

reminds of Heroes of might and magic dwarven mines anw this is pretty much awesome! 5/5