[THW Terraining Challenges] Challenge #3

Arcany · Sep 27, 2009

Challenge #3 - Air

The third Terraining Challenge brings along an elemental theme, more specifically: The element of air. For this challenge, go crazy on the air/sky/wind theme.

Now, for the challenging part: Do not show any ground, floor or whatsoever. I do not want to see any landscapes; this challenge is all about air & sky.

Inspiration

Some inspiration for y'all:

Rules:

Your terrain must follow the theme: Air
Your terrain may show no floor or ground. Floating islands and stuff are allowed, but no tiles. No landscapes. No ground editable in terrain palette may be visible, but grounds and floors that are made of doodads are allowed. So basically the bottom ground must be completely obscured by fog, subject to far-clipping, outside camera field, or made invisible by some other means.
When commenting on somebody elses terrain, be constructive; otherwise, don't bother posting at all
Only one entry is allowed.
You are allowed to use custom resources as long as they are available to the public for download.

Date:

This Challenge will start September 27 and conclude October 11

Good luck to you all, I hope to see many entries. If you have any ideas, questions or sugestions for the challenge, please go here: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/terrain-board-267/terraining-mini-challenge-142949/

Revolve · Sep 27, 2009

Hehe nice idea

I might do one of these, will see, but I wish luck to all that attend! I ill give you contrctive comments

Rocker742 · Sep 27, 2009

I'll give it a shot :thumbs_up:

EDIT: ITS.. SO.. HARDD >_>

Oziris · Sep 28, 2009

Why does it say Challenge #2 - Air? When it's Challenge #3 - Air?
Anyway, i'm not good in air and far more busy with the big contest. Good luck everyone.

thedeathunterxx · Sep 28, 2009

arcany u should become a terrain moderator.

Your good at setting up contests lol =p

Arcany · Sep 28, 2009

Come now, I am merely a humble terrainer^^

Hugget Sukker · Sep 28, 2009

You are humble and you've obviously got the skills of rallying, coaching, teaching, and you name it. It's the enthusiasm and dedication - something I guess you need as a mod. Great challenge.

thedeathunterxx · Sep 28, 2009

and that killa kirby is win

Oziris · Sep 28, 2009

Isn't this a little too much off-topic? The theme is a Terrain Challenge. Not choosing moderator.

Arcany · Sep 28, 2009

and that killa kirby is win

>;D

But yeah, Oziris is right. I'm very flattered by your comments, but this isn't a mod election campaign. I'm okay at the place I am now, and I hope I can continue being an addition to the community

Keiji is doing a great job, he's not as childish as Void was at times (The way he left us was the top of that), he takes initiative and is very professional and serious about his job around here. *Cheer* at Keiji

Lancer1111 · Sep 29, 2009

I don't have much to do in next weeks, so i'll give it a try.. but this air thing makes it hard..

meOme · Sep 29, 2009

Arcany said:
[*]Your terrain may show no floor or ground. Floating islands and stuff are allowed, but no tiles. No landscapes.

I'm a bit confused. Your first inspirational pic shows a "floor" those astronauts are standing on. The second shows a "ground" on top of the islands where the buildings are build on. So is there a kind of floor that is rule conform? How do you make a floating island without a kind of "ground" on top of it?

Hugget Sukker · Sep 29, 2009

No ground editable in terrain palette may be visible, but grounds and floors that are made of doodads are allowed. So basically the bottom ground must be completely obscured by fog, subject to far-clipping, outside camera field, or made invisible by some other means.

Arcany · Sep 29, 2009

No ground editable in terrain palette may be visible, but grounds and floors that are made of doodads are allowed. So basically the bottom ground must be completely obscured by fog, subject to far-clipping, outside camera field, or made invisible by some other means.

Yeah, what he said^^

I'm going to borrow this description btw

meOme · Sep 29, 2009

k, thx for the clarification.

I'll join if I feel like working on something other than my current map. ^^

Arcany · Sep 30, 2009

Want to buy entries!

meOme · Sep 30, 2009

What about custom models?

Arcany · Sep 30, 2009

All general rules are stated here: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/terrain-board-267/terraining-mini-challenge-142949/

But yeah I guess it's a little inconvenient, so I'll post those rules in all challenges until this info thread gets renamed and hopefully receives a sticky.

meOme · Sep 30, 2009

Arcany said:
All general rules are stated here: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/terrain-board-267/terraining-mini-challenge-142949/

There's no word about custom doodads in there.

But the first challenge was "no imports", so I guess "with imports" is standard? But which imports? Anything we want or a certain list of usable custom doodads? Like this?

Arcany · Sep 30, 2009

There is a rule about it in that thread^^

You are allowed to use custom resources as long as they are available to the public for download.

doodads are resources.

meOme · Sep 30, 2009

Ok sorry, overlooked that. :ned:

Archipelago · Oct 1, 2009

So here's my first wip. Im gonna make a no import

raid1000 · Oct 1, 2009

fix the fences! they look random

ZlatniLav · Oct 1, 2009

I am in!

My terrain will pwn!

Edit:
Here is is:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/terrain-board-267/airforce-131172/

Oziris · Oct 1, 2009

Lol, ZlatniLav. Your is the best. I give you my word!

Rocker742 · Oct 1, 2009

Trying to do this kinda terrain confuses me.. :sad:

someone, quick, give me some protips.

EDIT: Here's my first WIP.. how does it look?

meOme · Oct 2, 2009

@Archipelago: Doesn't look bad, but I can't really see the 'Air'-theme.

@ZlatniLav: Well... at least it follows the theme. xD

@Rocker742: Looks... empty? I like the texture of the sunken ruins rocks, apart from that I can't say much about it. ^^

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And now let's come to my entry to this contest.
I allways wanted to do one of these doodad-abuse-pics, and this contest looked like the perfect opportunity. So here it is, my first doodad-abuse-pic ever: "Floating Naga Temple" (1404 Doodads ^^)

Something i could do to make it better?

PS: I used one imported model: The grass elevator from this doodad-pack.

PPS: Holy Maccaroni, it's 5:15 AM allready. Looks like I was way too focused on mapping. x_x

PPPS: Lol, the pic has 8 times the filesize of the map where I made the screenshot. xD

Arcany · Oct 2, 2009

Archipelago

Looking okay but it's pretty standard, try to focus on stuff in the air more.

Rocker742

The island is well constructed but the sky is really ugly, replace it with another sky. Not much else to see so far, keep it up.

meOme

I like this alot, it has potential but alot of things could be added. What I'd like to see is this structure to be on a floating island, it is rather flat atm.

Kwah · Oct 2, 2009

Wips. Camera is unsure.

Also, bottom of island will be developed if I do a shot including that.

Second shot is showing off the general structure. This is all below the map. btw.

meOme · Oct 2, 2009

Arcany said:
meOme

I like this alot, it has potential but alot of things could be added. What I'd like to see is this structure to be on a floating island, it is rather flat atm.

Well, I wanted it to be "a floating temple" and not "a temple on a floating island". And what's so bad about 'flat'?

What about this non-floating version? I think it looks less flat like this.

Kwah · Oct 3, 2009

It just looks awfully plain and repetitive.

meOme · Oct 3, 2009

hawk900 said:
It just looks awfully plain and repetitive.

I don't know if you're talking to me (although it would make me rather sad), but your criticism is not very constructive.

Kwah · Oct 3, 2009

Well, it's just far too regular. Try to shake things up a bit and add more character/texture to the piece.

That's my take on it anyway.

Rocker742 · Oct 4, 2009

second WIP :grin:

also.. I like the sky :cry:

all the other ones look really weird

Lancer1111 · Oct 4, 2009

I will base my terrain of this pic:

Oziris · Oct 4, 2009

The contest ended today Lancer1111. Sorry.

Lancer1111 · Oct 4, 2009

I'll better read next time...

Rocker742 · Oct 4, 2009

Not very many entries :cry:

.. but I like this subject and I might consider practicing doing this more :grin:

Kwah · Oct 4, 2009

To clarify, this is my entry.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...hw-terraining-challenges-challenge-3-sky1.jpg

Arcany · Oct 5, 2009

Hmm, another challenge with only a few entries and some unfinished terrain. I will make future challenges Bi-weekly.

hawk900

The doodads you used don't really match, a better matching and organised foreground would greatly improve this piece.

Rocker742

Great concept, the execution is also coming along very nicely. This terrain has potential and I'd love to see the finished pic.

meOme

As I said, I like this; but as hawk900 mentioned it is a bit plain and repetitive. It is missing some artistic value. The construction is well made though.

Archipelago
The concept is nice, but the execution could've been better. The foreground is creative but not exactly beautiful.

Terraining Challenges are now bi-weekly and therefore the deadline hase been pushed to Sunday 11-10

Kwah · Oct 5, 2009

I'll likely go through another 2-3 terrains in that much time, until I get one decent enough fer me.

Thanks for the crits, tho. I'll try to use them for the next one.

ZlatniLav · Oct 6, 2009

wHat about me terrait?

madcd · Oct 8, 2009

i'm theres alot that can be said about your terrains . . . but err . . . its diffrent . . . err . . i'll go with that, diffrent . . . .

tho rocker may i sugest the bridge ethier needs to be in scale or changed to somthing else other wise looking good . . . . . . i want my wc3 back . .

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