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Screenshots of Village

03-21-2004, 12:40 PM#1
vykyng
here r some screenshots of my village. I'm sry about all the extra crap in it but i have to deal with ms paint..... :( If u can tell me wat i can do to make it look better. enjoy ;)
03-21-2004, 01:43 PM#2
Gitlich
Firstsly, those trees are a nice model, but then made that big the bases jsut look to square, you could try lowering them into the ground so you cant see much of the base or adding shrubs at the base (maby tinting the shrubs orange), a fence around the feild of corn would look good, and other farm lie deatails, stacks of hey, maby a horse and a few dogs or sheep wandering around, with a couple of villagers.
you might ahve already set the fog and sky, but you should take screenshots in game veiw settings, if you havent added fog, try a grey one, id suggest orange to match the background, but orange for is usualy accocaited with orcs.
the terrains a little flat, try raising the terrain around thwers at that gate sceen, and just generaly slightly lower the paths to give a worn effect. with the rest of it, just noise then smooth so make it slightly uneven. finaly a little varaition in the trees would be good, its a bit repetitious.
I know this is a lot of crittisisms, but these are just ideas, the terrain dose look good.
03-21-2004, 03:40 PM#3
[niro]
Yeah thoses trees are kinda big, make several variations of them and change the size and colors so its not so reptious. You may want to place a real gate instead of the walls, or you could use the low walls with something that is the same color, like use columns as the sides of the gate, add a difference in terrain raise and lower, also add shrubs and flowers and lots of enviromental things near the trees. the house look fine, you may want to place more props around them but don't over do it. Its planned well, just the variations me and glitch said would make it look much nicer.
03-21-2004, 05:56 PM#4
DoCa-Cola
Have you ever considered using .jpgs? They are a LOT smaller.
03-21-2004, 06:13 PM#5
SSJ4Goku
the trees lil big dont u think?:D but rest is good
03-21-2004, 06:26 PM#6
candymuffins
looked kinda empty, not enuff doodads, trees a bit too big, not very good screenshots too :\
03-24-2004, 11:23 AM#7
TDSpiral
Not too bad, everything looks a bit 'square,' though. For example, the farm fields, the roads, the paths, etc. Make everything all curvy, natural.

Another tip, use lots of height variations. Use raise, plateau, and smooth a lot. I usually take a size 3 brush and significantly raise a desired area, then plateau that area, then smooth all the edges. Then you can lower some other areas, too. I advise to keep away from noise, though, but that's just my opinion (especially in a village).