The Picture #3

[Celaquil]

Welcome to the third round of The Picture, an unofficial contest hosted by the terrainers simply to challenge and improve the skills of our beloved community of artists. The Picture have been portrayed in different forms and from different people in the past, first time ever by me as in true spirit, an unofficial contest, then by ~Void~, that times moderator, which was a huge success, not long ago I, in my time as moderator, hosted a mini-contest with this strange formula as the theme, and now I am bringing my baby back to where it belongs: Down to earth fun challange for all terrainers to take part in.

The Rules:

# You can not change anything already present in the map provided:

- You will be provided a map for download as an attachment to this post,
this map has a preset camera and terrain objects,
you can not alter these and you have to use the preset camera for your terrain.

# You can add anything you want into the terrain:

- The challange of this contest is to use the already preset camera and terrain object,
together with doodads of your choice and terrain of your choice where the terrain have not already been edited,
to make it unique and good looking. You can, as thus, add and edit as many doodads as you want,
change the sky and fog, edit the tiles, increase the map bounds, but not decrease it.
And change all the ground terrain that is untouched by the host.


Judgement:

- The terrains will be judged by the provided host when the set finish date have persisted, he will also announce the winner.


Date:

This contest will be ending at the date of March the first/01.03.11/dd.mm.yy

Good luck to anyone participating!
Oh and; Remember... This - is The Picture!

 

[Dr. House]

YES! its back sorry for caps but as if posted something about it in the terrain contest 12 thread and now i see it here just makes me happy if i could +rep you i would but i already did.

 

[johannesr]

Nice, i have always wanted to take part in a "The Picture" contest

 

[Cihparg]

Hmm I guess I could give it a go.
Sounds rather interesting, to be honest.

Just to make things a lil' clearer here I got few questions;
- Is the fog allowed to be editable, also what about the sky?
- I believe modifying the terrain map is not allowed?
- Also, what about global terrain lightning?
- Tilesets are editable if I am not wrong?

 

[CoBrA b]

Awesome! Gonna get started on this right away!

 

[L2love]

Anyway we can get a version without all the UTM models on it?

 

[Celaquil]

Hmm I guess I could give it a go.
Sounds rather interesting, to be honest.

Just to make things a lil' clearer here I got few questions;
- Is the fog allowed to be editable, also what about the sky?
- I believe modifying the terrain map is not allowed?
- Also, what about global terrain lightning?
- Tilesets are editable if I am not wrong?

Ah yes, I will update the main thread to clarify these, how could I forget...

Anyways:

Yes, you can edit the fog and sky.
In terms of making it larger, you can, but not smaller.
I guess global terrain lighting is edable.
Of course you can edit the tile sets.

And no L2Love.

Though I will consider doing a blank map with no imports on it for the next round, if anyone else favors that.
(Would also spare me HELL of a lot uploading time.)

 

[Oziris]

There are some nice models in that UTM.
Thank ye Keiji for starting the picture #3 ^^

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Ahh sweet, this is back
I'm definitely going to enter, been a while since I've done something terrain related

 

[Lightofholy]

Hey i got a question, since you listed 'You can, as thus, add and edit as many doodads as you want', is unit considered a doodad?? Let give a example.., let say i want to add a Footman, is it necessary to change it and classify it into doodad or no need?

Sorry if it is a silly question, i just want to confirm it. Thanks in advance.

 

[Celaquil]

No need, I honestly didn't think that would be a problem, seeing as I can't fathom the idea of having units in a terrain, and even IF one wants to have a unit in a terrain, one can do so much more to that unit if it is set as a doodad... But yeah, you dont need to clarify anything of that, or change it into a doodad if you for some wild reason want it to be a unit.

There are some nice models in that UTM.

Oh and yeah, there might be some... Abnormal doodads in the import section, seeing as I used the UTM before as my main terraining pallet,
Just importing everything I wanted for each terrain and saving it as I went on. Now I've started another idea of just importing all the models
really like into one map, so that kind of out-dates this one, but still, you might get some founds here.

 

[Cihparg]

I got something done by now, it isn't much but here's my first wip.

Edit: Something is ruining my picture quality there.

Edit 2: Anyone knows why in the hell is the picture quality lowered ?
That appears to be happening to ALL pictures on my comp.

 

[Celaquil]

Must be something related to your screen, cause over here that screenshot looks completely normal, can't say its really bad quality, looks fine to my eyes.

 

[Cihparg]

I'm pretty sure its NVidia's doing but I just cant figure out ~what is doing that.
The pictures look OK only in MSN so that's a mystery there.

 

[Bernkastel]

Rhar, i'll participate because i can
-Also my world editor crashed after 10 minutes. SROAwsdpfkogdörpgo

 

[Koeky]

this is worth a shot, I already have a nice idea on what to create here

Edit: my editor keeps crashing when I try to open a map, so doesn't seem like I can join this...

 

[Bernkastel]

I had problems with adding doodads as they mostly were scale of 100, so i changed them in the object editor before adding them, just to tell to others if they experience the same

 

[The_Olorin]

Gona hop in and give it a try

 

[Cihparg]

Garshillan, sad to point this out for you but...
It could've been done easier.

Go to Doodad Palette and disable "Random Scale - Symmetric".

EDIT: Yet another WIP uploaded.
I progress slowly and upload every WIP I get to see fitting.

 

[Bernkastel]

Oh well D:

 

[Celaquil]

Ah yes, you will find nearly all the doodads I am using on a regulare scale to always have the max and min scaling set to... Well, the max and the min scaling. Cause I, like I reccon all true terrainers should, disable the random scale and manually scale each doodad, this gives me the freedom to have the doodads just as I want them to be, and give me much more control of how my doodads will look in the end. To some this might appear to be tedious, but making terrains of quality IS tedious, at times.

 

[Cihparg]

Well I do not know what is causing that picture lightning adjustment but it appears to be greating higher photographic theme for the pictures

 

[Bernkastel]

Yeah, only problem i had was that my first attempt of doing anything stopped in adding a scale 100 bone which killed my editor

 

[Oziris]

Wow, you've given us some poor tileset to start with. >.>

 

[Celaquil]

In what sense does that even matter?
- Seeing as you can change up the tileset as much as it pleases you.

 

[Bernkastel]

I wish i'd remember to save, i guess i have to put autosave on... As i just got a nice knockback, i was about to post a wip. And then i started to play with clouds. And BANG, nearly all over again.. <.< Well.. I 'm going to add it to this post a bit later then..

EDIT: This shall be the very first wip i am going to show, it's rather messy, but cant help it. Also i got to find some other doodads to be used for some parts as it looks pretty much like spamming the same ones, adding custom textures aint allowed. Right?

Here it is

 

[Celaquil]

It isn't?

As far as I am concerned, you can use whatever you want, as long as you either upload it or provide a link for it's download,
unless it's provided by THW, then no link should be provided, unless asked for.

 

[Bernkastel]

Brhrh.. I think i'm going to pass adding any textures then. I also thought that i might change it from a desert to something else.. Not sure though

 

[Oziris]

Wow, Nice entries!

Here is mine ^^

 

[Cihparg]

So you are doing ashenvale type terrain.
Good choice~ So yeah, if you are going to use that fog perhaps add rain to there? I see it somewhat fitting to that fog and tileset pick.

 

[Oziris]

Of course, but rain is one of the final touches.

 

[Cihparg]

Well but ofcourse.
It can be rather hard to do rain first rest later.

 

[-W3SK3R-]

I'm going to join this, here is some WIP from me. I'm making something like nerubian kingdom in the Northrend.

WIP #1

WIP #2

 

[fladdermasken]

Do you really have to post a WIP consisting of tiles only?
Really now, please don't make this a trend.

At least add some substance and content so we can see which direction you're taking

 

[-W3SK3R-]

Don't worry i will edit my post in quick time. I just want it show that i will going to use the Northrend tileset.

 

[Cihparg]

Do you really have to post a WIP consisting of tiles only?

Well as it is counted as terraining everyone is free to do so.

 

[fladdermasken]

Well as it is counted as terraining everyone is free to do so.

I know there is no rule against it, it still isn't really necessary to do it just because you are free to do so?
It doesn't really say anything about your terrain, and it's tiresome to have 80 pages of information just because everyone posts WIPs every 2 seconds.

But meh, if that floats your boat then by all means.

 

[Oziris]

Second WIP

 

[Bernkastel]

Looking rather interesting, still waiting to see what's down there ^^

Oh.. And here comes my second wip View attachment 97671

 

[M0rbid]

I know there is no rule against it, it still isn't really necessary to do it just because you are free to do so?
It doesn't really say anything about your terrain, and it's tiresome to have 80 pages of information just because everyone posts WIPs every 2 seconds.

But meh, if that floats your boat then by all means.

This...

And also, I use this post to subscribe. I really hope I can give this a shot, but I also fear I won't have the time to show you something :/

 

[Celaquil]

I know there is no rule against it, it still isn't really necessary to do it just because you are free to do so?
It doesn't really say anything about your terrain, and it's tiresome to have 80 pages of information just because everyone posts WIPs every 2 seconds.

But meh, if that floats your boat then by all means.

I don't honestly see how that is such a bad thing.

The WIP's are looking good folks, keep it up.
- Hope to see some more terrainers join in on the fray

 

[Bernkastel]

Even another wip, whaddya guys think? D:

View attachment 97679

 

[Cihparg]

Damn Garshilan, that's looking really nice, and you've used yet so low amount of time creating it!
Just a little suggestion - Which I think you already know of~

Download the black fog model from the hive and use it for the holes, no need for abyss that way.

 

[Bernkastel]

I am glad you like it. But i dont really see that what you said as a question. Aint that more like a tip? :3 - Oh lol.. Icanread.com

 

[Cihparg]

It was a suggestion?

 

[Bernkastel]

Owh... What the hell... How did i manage to read it that way.. Uhh.. xD
And it was a good suggestion actually, as i didnt think of that actually. I was more like wondering what the hell am i going to do about those eyes

 

[fladdermasken]

I don't honestly see how that is such a bad thing.

The WIP's are looking good folks, keep it up.
- Hope to see some more terrainers join in on the fray

Showing a WIP where you've only slightly altered the tiles without any substance to it doesn't suffice as a WIP I'd say.
And as stated, it's annoying when you have a whole bunch of pages later on if say you'd like to find a specific post.

But sure, if people find that compelling then nevermind me.

 

[Cihparg]

Well you might be a little true there Flad, seeing that we only SKIN the terrain~
If it was that we created the terrain and SKINNED it, then it would've been proper WIP.

Because adjusting tileset is skinning the terrain.

Double Post:
Made some new theme to my terrain, decided to use Models instead of spamming grass and other.
Everything is rather big but that really doesn't matter hmm?

Tha' bug is solved:
As you might of have noticed, the JPEG version of the picture looks better.
I have no idea why my PNG's look so friggen' crappy nowadays, but definitely JPEG is better for pictures now.
( Before PNG was better than JPEG, it's like they've switched )

Oh well, Guess it's on the lookers eye on which is better, JPEG or PNG.
I'll be posting both JPEG and PNG in the future.

Triple Post:
Worked a little with the atmosphere~ Hope ya'll like it.
( Yes the background still lacks detil just wanted to test what kind of atmosphere I could create. )

 

[Bernkastel]

Brhhrr...... Well.. Here's as far as i've got it's not that different from the last one. But here i ran in to a problem, as there's this end of the world in the left corner, i am curious that as the map is flat from the most of the parts, are you allowed to modify the ground back there? If not, then i'd like to have suggestions what to do with this end of the world. Also i didnt want to use that black fog model as it kind of ignored all the lighting there was in the picture.

View attachment 97688

 

[fladdermasken]

The rays are oddly angled, looks as if there's two light sources.
And I do believe you can alter the background, however as I'm not completely certain I'd wait for Keiji's response.

Looking interesting so far Garshilan, I'll be observing how this progresses.