Proper Tutorials..Pictures and all.

Ive seen tutorials on how to make a map and make it look good, but ive never seen tutorials where the writer actually has used "pictures" to show how to do this work.. I was wondering is anyone going to ever take up this task and make a detailed map making tutorial, which fully explains how to make decent waterfalls, detail your enviroments and make things look generally Excelent.

Im sure willing to under take this task if some other people would love to..

Tirias

Il Dismiss that idea then..

It depends. We can't cover all areas of "Creating a map".
But we could set up some senarios.
"How to make a waterfall like this:
Pic - Waterfall in WC3 with beautiful suroundings.
Okay, to start out, use Lordaeron Summer and set it to X and X
Now we have this landscape:
Pic - Flat, non-edited, landscape."

Ect ect.

A general thing on how to make pretty terrain, compleete with pics and stuff be really cool. "Terraining-the tips and tricks"
If i was better at it I would write one :(

Id love to be able to write a tutorial on this like you 2 have said, maybe in pdf format or something.

Basically it would be x pages long with x pages for each section, maybe a section on

Choosing the right Tilesets and options (few pages)
Creating a basic layout
Making Effective Rivers
Making Effective Waterfalls
Making Towns/Villages
Detailing Environment
Enemy Bases & Camps
Summary.



That would be a basic layout, id love to do this but i couldnt do it on my own, Id only be good at the "Detailing Enviroment " & Enemy Bases and Camps.

Tirias.

You forgot to mention tools and where to get them. (Since this tutorial may be out-dated at later times, we'll have several download locations on which you can get the programs, this being at least zepirs and UMSWE).
Okay, we should have 2 sections on Doodads.
- Doodads - What is it?
- Doodads - Making your map "Doodad:ed"

Or something like that.
So... If you have msn, PM it to me.

Yeah the tools would be quite important and how to use them.

Tirias