I'm in need of some tips...

I see all kinds of great city's so i thought lets make one but i want it to be bueatifull and im not that inspired.

(its a elven city,just plain elves kind of human elves/blood elves)

so plz can you give tips or place some of your best city pics in my threat..
like what someguys did with the wooden things..... :(

thx in forward :D ^_^

• Scatter your buildings, dont make them all strait together.
• For elven villages, add many tree's. Alot of tree's. Once again, scatter them, dont allign.
• Dont have it flat only land, make it bumpy, and rough in some places.
• Use your imagination - I can provide more later, just woke up.

I will provide pics later, sorry.

wood dosnt look so good elven. and as the NE dont realy have cities, thats a no go ares (howver, if you wish to make a gaint city out of the anciants models, id be very impressed) so id sugest trying a high elf city, muroc lover os currently makeing on, and you can see what hes done, careful and imagaintive use of culumbs and arches are essentail. there are a lot of useful things you can get in the essentail terrain DLs thread. such as table no legs, and the half arch oinkerwinkle made for me. if you do attempt a high elf city, then i have one map, that is not a city, but has soem architecture i spent some time on, and im fairly happy with the results, that you may want to look at

looks good but its not what im looking for,
this city of mine is a kind of hidden city, its like hidden in the trees but the city will pop out ones you find it well the story is that this guy found the city(he just followed acedentaly put up signes) and he comes to the gate when he goes in it shoul be a huge elven city with merchants and people doing stuff just a real city no camp or fortress warrior city a normal city(bit of paradise city).

in which case, perhaps this peice by Murcielago) is what youre looking for

I don't want to brag, but i suggest you check out my city tuturial here, it could work (just scroll to the bottom).

Mozared

:o yeah that pic looks great!!! thats the point im looking for but its till a bit of a wood/night elf town :( thats not good for my case but it is really nice i could use the guy who made it..... ^_^

now im not that good at making a plan for a city so i need someone to make my city for me :( i can make citys but im not very expierienced with placing the structures... :(

just try planning your city on paper if it really doesn't work out. then make it in the world editor (as shown in my tutorial ^_^ ).

Dan zal het wel lukken maat :D

Mozared

I don't think using others ideas is a very good tool for learning to terrain, if u give it time, u can make your own.

Tutorials aren't used for learning people my idea's, but to teach them the basics of something; if your talking about my tutorial.

Mozared

Why would that be directed at you? I clearly directed it to the guy who started the forum. BTW I'm not a fan of those tuturials, they're really limited. Terraining is not limited... They're a million different ways to create one thing.

Why it would be directed at me? well i suggest that you use the "quote" function if you reply to something like 5 posts back. that's more clear, thank you. BTW what's "limited" about my tutorials? i've made only 2, rest are just tips and have nothing to do with terraining. my waterfall just shows the basic way to make a normal waterfall, which many noobs can't so i decided to help them out. and my city shows (once again) just the basics of building a city, ofcourse you can go any way with that.

Mozared

But your not listening, your 'basic' way is probably one out of a thousand different ways to make the waterfall, and if you try to go any more 'basic' you'll end up with something any noob terrainer would already know.

All fine but this is the most basic way, also the way blizzard used. and as far as i can think of it's just 1 of the 2 or 3 different ways. unless you count doodad placing, but that would be stupid.

Mozared

An idea i often use when making a map...

I try to look at other people map, blizzard or people here... and try to find "what makes this maps look good"

Try making something easy and simple at first... making a "huge and really cool city" right now would almost be impossible if you do not have any experience.