The Path of Light - Challenge Terrain

[Belgarath]

I thought I'd post my challenge terrain here, from me vs Gilles. Enjoy.

 

[~Void~]

Where do you get that water model? I've seen it in some of MadseN's terrains too...

Oh, I forgot... lol the terrain is good but nothing too amazing. The lighting is nice, however.

 

[Belgarath]

The water's just shallow water. The main thing I was focusing on in this picture was the lighting, I seem to have succeeded a bit

 

[~Void~]

Just shallow water? Then how did you get it to be so bright, or does the light do that? I haven't played with light+water yet.

And also, everything is too bright. Tone it down a little bit.

 

[Belgarath]

Water, then stick one or two lights on it ... I made a terrain that I based off MadseN's, (I feel bad about that, but I have no ideas except that, for a big thing). I did the lighting there better.

[off-topic]by the way, for your terrain mini contest, do you still need screen shots? Cause I can make them at real good quality when I turn my NVidia settings up[/off-topic]

 

[Gilles]

That looks really good! The path could be better, but the background looks perfect.\

Had you entered that, you probably would have beat me! Although I could have accused you of copying.

 

[Belgarath]

Not really copying, just ... getting inspired. When you look at it a bit closer, it looks nearly just like the layout of MadseN. We used different placings, different lightings, different doodads, etc.

 

[Gilles]

So often it's the angles, lighting, and idea that make a terrain amazing. So making something that close to someone else's, IMO, is copying. But hey it looks awesome! That's what counts.

 

[Belgarath]

Heh, we even used different placings
But you're right, it's how it looks that counts, I mean, if someone that was 10x better than me made it, noone would care if it was inspired or copied, w/e.

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

As I said in the challenge thread the terrain is really nice!I think I am going to test this lightnings!I wanna make some too in my terrains!

 

[~Void~]

Hmm we should do a terrain challenge, Belgarath. I'll look into it, I am too occupied now :\

 

[Belgarath]

Alright, you PM me when you wanna, Void.

 

[Gilles]

Hmm we should do a terrain challenge, Belgarath. I'll look into it, I am too occupied now :\

Am I not good enough? Or are you just scared!

 

[~Void~]

[off-topic]by the way, for your terrain mini contest, do you still need screen shots? Cause I can make them at real good quality when I turn my NVidia settings up[/off-topic]

Hmm didn't catch that comment before, I would like more screenshots, but I am not worried about the quality seeing as I can run the game on 100% quality
Feel free to use photoshop on the screenshots to make them more atmospheric.

 

[Craka_J]

Very nice. I suggest making some hill variation in the background to the right though to make the forest look more immense. Don't lift the hills enough to rise above the leaves of the tress though.

~Craka_J