Top Ten Terrains Poll

[Celaquil]

Top 10 Terrains Public Poll

After having heavily debated upon how to properly approach the reincarnation of the Top Ten Terrains list we've decided that all the current terrains on the list are going out the window, and are going to be replaced with an entirely new rooster. This will also be the case for any future updates to the list, as to make a point that if you want to make the list and stay on the list, you'll have to keep terraining.

For reference: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/terrain-board-267/top-10-legendary-terrains-65435/

We have also decided to let the public vote this time around (normally decided amongst the jury). All we did this time was eliminate some terrains that didn't meet the standards (in our opinion), leaving a total of 17 nominations. This has caused one little problem though, which brings me to

Rules for voting

We have decided to lay down some simple ground rules.

• Maximum ten votes per user
  • We want your top ten terrains and the poll function only allows single vote or multiple choice (unlimited).
  • If you cast your vote for more than ten terrains (read: less than ten is fine) we will disregard your vote entirely.
• Members of the Terrain Jury will not vote
  • Basically we will only cast our vote if there's a tie break that needs resolving.
  • It also seemed fair since some of our terrains are among the nominees.

Nominations

Here be them nominations folks.

Nominations:

1. fladdermasken's Ballclops

2. Oziris' Forest Terrain

3. elredir and Megafyr's Co-Terrain

4. Keiji's Skull Terrain

5. Johannesr's Ion Storm

6. Johannesr's Shade Terrain

7. Keiji and fladdermasken's Co-Terrain

8. fladdermasken's Poem to Sky

9. fladdermasken's Fisherman's Bliss

10. fladdermasken's Come To Me

11. elredir's Plains of Sand

12. elredir's Castle Terrain

13. CoBrA_B's Post Apocalypse Terrain

14. Azurot's Emerald Renewal

15. Azurot's Satyr Terrain

16. Azurot's Cave Terrain

17. 2_P's Blue Drop Terrain

That said,
Happy Voting!

 

[Vengeancekael]

God, I love fladder's style.

 

[GhostWolf]

I am not one for polls and votes, but I must say I am impressed.
These images hardly even resemble WC3, in a good way.

 

[I3lackDeath]

Having no background knowledge about Terraining at all, my eyes tell me they are all impressive.
There are those terrains that are gentle to the eye, and those that transmit an atmosphere (and of course those that pull off both).

fladder's work is visual poetry.

Oh, and Keiji, your previous avatar had much more class and style.

 

[fladdermasken]

Yay! If you want full resolution pictures I made this.

User	Terrain
fladdermasken	Ballclops
Oziris	Forest
elredir/Megafyr	Entrance to Hell
Keiji	Skull
johannesr	Ion Storm
johannesr	Shade
Keiji/fladdermasken	Co-Terrain
fladdermasken	Poem to Sky
fladdermasken	Fisherman's Bliss
fladdermasken	Come to Me
elredir	Plains of Sand
elredir	Castle
CoBrA_b	Post Cataclysm
Azurot	Emerald Renewal
Azurot	Satyr
Azurot	Cave Ruins
2-P	Blue Drop

 

[Doomlord]

I can't even believe these are created with World Editor

May I ask how one creates such lushful, breathtaking terrains? What do you use as "ingredients"? Is there any third-party program involved?

 

[Celaquil]

Mostly no, or at least there shouldn't be.

Most of what you want to know can be learned by this thread: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...e-terraining-hives-terraining-section-184427/

Oh, and Keiji, your previous avatar had much more class and style.

I agree.

 

[Doomlord]

Mostly no, or at least there shouldn't be.

Most of what you want to know can be learned by this thread: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...e-terraining-hives-terraining-section-184427/

Thanks a lot. This truly opens a new view on Warcraft III terraining for me.

 

[Footman16]

Shouldn't there only be one entry per user? Seems a little... Fairer that way. Either way some "epic" terrain can be achieved only through clever use of hq doodads.

Truly good terrain requires a certain skill which a few of these possess.

Also doesn't the top ten terrain depend upon what you believe is really good terrain? These are all terrain screenshots what about really well done playable terrain? I just think that the poll and general thread isn't very precise.

 

[PurgeandFire]

@Footman16: They had a nomination thread for it. It wasn't really up to them so much as it was up to us (users).

 

[Footman16]

Still seems unfair. If we nominated it then the poll creator should've just taken the one with the most votes.

 

[Magtheridon96]

It's about the terrains, not the people.

 

[Almia]

Voted for everyone. Damn, those are good eyegasms I just have experienced.

 

[Doomlord]

Voted for everyone. Damn, those are good eyegasms I just have experienced.

Well

• Maximum ten votes per user
  • We want your top ten terrains and the poll function only allows single vote or multiple choice (unlimited).
  • If you cast your vote for more than ten terrains (read: less than ten is fine) we will disregard your vote entirely.
• Members of the Terrain Jury will not vote
  • Basically we will only cast our vote if there's a tie break that needs resolving.
  • It also seemed fair since some of our terrains are among the nominees.

 

[Almia]

Oh damn.

 

[DivineLight]

i see you're in trouble Almia

i vote for:
elredir and Megafyr's Co-Terrain
Johannesr's Ion Storm
Johannesr's Shade Terrain
fladdermasken's Poem to Sky
fladdermasken's Come To Me
elredir's Plains of Sand
elredir's Castle Terrain
CoBrA_B's Post Apocalypse Terrain
Azurot's Emerald Renewal
Azurot's Cave Terrain

well all terrain is awesome but since i can only vote for 10 terrain
so i can only vote for 10 terrain

 

[Fiend_68]

I love Elredir's Castle terrain and Plains of Sand, as well as Azurot's Cave terrain and Emeral renewal.

 

[Almia]

i see you're in trouble Almia

i vote for:
elredir and Megafyr's Co-Terrain
Johannesr's Ion Storm
Johannesr's Shade Terrain
fladdermasken's Poem to Sky
fladdermasken's Come To Me
elredir's Plains of Sand
elredir's Castle Terrain
CoBrA_B's Post Apocalypse Terrain
Azurot's Emerald Renewal
Azurot's Cave Terrain

well all terrain is awesome but since i can only vote for 10 terrain
so i can only vote for 10 terrain

Kill me please.

 

[DivineLight]

if i Kill you now, that Karassu guy will laugh at us so no..

back to topic
so all of this terrains will be reincarnated version of Top 10 & Legendary Terrains
i don't think this terrains can beat them

 

[twat]

I like how you can actually set up and convey surreal art in the most static high fantasy RTS game of all times. really. pretty sweet brain candy you guys

 

[Dr Super Good]

Are any of the images anti-aliased in HD? They could look like this.

 

[Magtheridon96]

I love all of these! ^_^

FEELS.

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

And I thought the terrain I'm working on is above average. This also makes it seem that blizzard cliffs were never a thing in WarCraft :O

 

[deepstrasz]

Photoshop allowed?

 

[fladdermasken]

Either way some "epic" terrain can be achieved only through clever use of hq doodads.

Truly good terrain requires a certain skill which a few of these possess.

wat. Don't know if compliment or slander, but if this is the "LQ terrainers are more pr0 than HQ terrainers" dance again I'm gonna cry. Different approaches, different times, different mediums. To some degree the same techniques. Think pixel art vs. graphical design in photoshop.

Also doesn't the top ten terrain depend upon what you believe is really good terrain? These are all terrain screenshots what about really well done playable terrain? I just think that the poll and general thread isn't very precise.

Nope. This is what the terrain board has predominantly been for the last seven years. Some really good playable terrain art has come and gone, but if you involve things like mech and functionality it's more a subdivision of mapping. So if you want something else, make your own list. Maybe in the map section, like templates.

so all of this terrains will be reincarnated version of Top 10 & Legendary Terrains
i don't think this terrains can beat them

Not the legendary terrains, the top 10 terrains. The divide came into place when the legendary terrains grew outdated but still reminded people of the glory days of terraining back in '06 and '07. And IMO most, if not all, of these terrains show techniques the current list of terrains don't/couldn't.

If you're talking charisma-wise, it's in the eye of the beholder.

Photoshop allowed?

There's no image editing or 3rd party tool involved. It's straight from the editor.

 

[Kyrbi0]

1. fladdermasken's Ballclops
2. Oziris' Forest Terrain
3. elredir and Megafyr's Co-Terrain
5. Johannesr's Ion Storm
6. Johannesr's Shade Terrain
7. Keiji and fladdermasken's Co-Terrain
11. elredir's Plains of Sand
12. elredir's Castle Terrain
14. Azurot's Emerald Renewal
16. Azurot's Cave Terrain

Very amazing, all of you! Great work, all the way around.

Elredir's really reminded me of Journey, which I played (*sniff* and beat) recently. The Cave was super-schweet too.

 

[Han]

where's is the download link !!!

 

[Lambdadelta]

Ion Storm is amazing.

 

[DivineLight]

Not the legendary terrains, the top 10 terrains. The divide came into place when the legendary terrains grew outdated but still reminded people of the glory days of terraining back in '06 and '07. And IMO most, if not all, of these terrains show techniques the current list of terrains don't/couldn't.

If you're talking charisma-wise, it's in the eye of the beholder.

yes i agree
well, this terrains is awesome as well if you ask me..

 

[Archangelic]

Is there any way we can download these terrains? O.O

 

[Celaquil]

Yay! If you want full resolution pictures I made this.

User	Terrain
fladdermasken	Ballclops
Oziris	Forest
elredir/Megafyr	Entrance to Hell
Keiji	Skull
johannesr	Ion Storm
johannesr	Shade
Keiji/fladdermasken	Co-Terrain
fladdermasken	Poem to Sky
fladdermasken	Fisherman's Bliss
fladdermasken	Come to Me
elredir	Plains of Sand
elredir	Castle
CoBrA_b	Post Cataclysm
Azurot	Emerald Renewal
Azurot	Satyr
Azurot	Cave Ruins
2-P	Blue Drop

I guess there's nothing stopping you from left-clicking the
images linked in the post I just quoted and hit "save as."
- Guess that's download enough, no?

 

[Rui]

Might have meant download them as actual wc3 maps.

I want to vote for every of them *.* they all look amazing.

 

[Daffa]

^me too, but that makes my vote uncounted :/
If it's on actual maps, ima want to see it.

 

[Celaquil]

Might have meant download them as actual wc3 maps.

Ah, well. In that case; Most terrainers don't publish the map along with the screenshot, I guess it's part of a peculiar code something along the lines of "A magician doesn't show his tricks."

Well that, and to anyone that doesn't do terraining, having the map would be useless. Seeing as most maps made for Terrain Art will look extremely weird unless seen from one particular angle. All that said, I guess it's not impossible to ask the person who made the terrain if you can have the map.

 

[Nor]

3. elredir and Megafyr's Co-Terrain
5. Johannesr's Ion Storm
6. Johannesr's Shade Terrain
11. elredir's Plains of Sand
15. Azurot's Satyr Terrain
16. Azurot's Cave Terrain

i say whoa!!! to this

 

[DivineLight]

I want to vote for every of them *.* they all look amazing.

yes they are.. i can't even make a terrains like that

I guess it's part of a peculiar code something along the lines of "A magician doesn't show his tricks."

i do want to see their tricks

i say whoa!!! to this

i say awesome.... to this

 

[deepstrasz]

There's no image editing or 3rd party tool involved. It's straight from the editor.

Really? That's one helluva editor then. I could almost swear the pictures were edited.

 

[Bluegreen891]

I voted, all I could say is beautiful, magnificent and awesome.

 

[Malvodion]

Some of those terrains look heavily edited. I don't like that.
I voted for elredir's Plains of Sand since (imo) it's the best, not-photoshoped terrain that looks great and "fits" wc3.
Some of the others looks pretty good but I've never been a big fan of the wow model rips.. plains of sand is pretty "simple" but it looks good.

 

[Filmting]

Deffintly plains of sand. Dayum that thing is pretty.

 

[fladdermasken]

Some of those terrains look heavily edited. I don't like that.
I voted for elredir's Plains of Sand since (imo) it's the best, not-photoshoped terrain that looks great and "fits" wc3.
Some of the others looks pretty good but I've never been a big fan of the wow model rips.. plains of sand is pretty "simple" but it looks good.

There's zero image editing tools involved in this. Niet. Nada. It's straight from the editor. Also the satyr in Azurot's terrain is the only WoW model of the lot.

 

[Orcnet]

They all look so pretty <3

 

[Archangelic]

Alright, one more dumb question, does anyone know where I can get rocky like terrain for the cliffs in "Plains of Sand"

 

[DivineLight]

here
just search on them

 

[Archangelic]

Thanks!

 

[ChaoticHunter]

i Want to learn how to made things like this!

 

[TheWhiteWolf]

Everything is a combination of awesomeness and epicness, so I would really feel bad for voting for anyone... Great work guys, great work

 

[Celaquil]

This thread can be unstickied now.

We are currently in the process of casting the final votes over at the Jury,
the Top Ten Terrains List will be updated next weekend, so be there to see the final results!
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/terrain-board-267/top-10-legendary-terrains-65435/