'Photocraft' ;) Terrain

I got bord waiting for blizz to hurry up with that 1.17 patch so I decided to do a little "Photoshop Terraining".

Using photoshop on terrain is cheating.

He specificly said he used it moron.

I know that, moron, but it's still cheating.

Your the God of Terraining? I don't see people being drowned and you building an Arc because someone decided to use photoshop.

if you accuse him of cheating then i assume that somewhere there are some "rules" of terraining. these i would like to see.

terrain is about seeing what effects you can achive with the WE. if useing photoshop to enchance the effect of terrain is cheating. then it would be logical to say that useing any external sources to enhance the effect of the terrain is cheating. so custom models is cheating, useing photoshop to edit in a new sky (used when a pic is taken from a zoomed out position playing havok with the sky box). also that any custom models models used are "cheating" makeing my project the biggest cheat there is.
unless its for a competition, then i fully support the use of photoshop or any other similar programs, as makeing a screen shot look better with whatever programs you have at your disposal harms noone.

back on topc. i like the pic, but other than bluring the pic slightly i cant see what you did with photoshop. i assume you changed the preferances makeing the field lines gree instead of white

Duh, he said he used it, then it's not 'cheating'.
If he used it and didn't tell us he still wouldn't...ahem...cheat, but it would be kinda.. what should I say.. low?

How the $#@! would I get that effect without using photoshop? And what I did...
I forgot to change the color of the lines in WE so I recolored them in photoshop, and I made that by combining to cropped screen shots (manually croped), and then I created the blur effect, smudging the ground up, and drawing with a 1-px green brush down. then bluring over the whole thing. I got the idea from that movie "The 13th Floor". If you've seen that movie, you'll really apriciate this.

it's called a Mobius Effect...placing a textured object over it's 3D grid/wireframe and erasing the parts of the textures object to show the wireframe underneath....

I don't get what your trying to make in the picture.

I think he is trying to sort of recreate the effect they did in the movie The 13th Floor. That's why he said it was inspired by the movie. Although I don't think I've seen it. The picture's kind of small but you should be able to see the wire grid mountains in the back. Link is here .

Well now that I've seen what it's suppose to look like:
(These just helpful to make it look as close to the pic as possible)


-Shoot it from a more downward angle.

-Match the mountians as in the pic, with like more strait up and down mountains rather a long cliff.

-Make more of a bigger transition between normal terrain and wire grid. More suttle I should say. Like go from |Normal | Mix | | | | |||||||||Wire|||||||||

-Add a lens flare since your already using photoshop.

-(Optional)Instead of a blood elf walking with a magic wagon make it like a peon walking into a shimmering portal or that demon waypoint thingy...I can't remember name.

I mean maybe you just want something that looks like the picture but not actually duplicating, but I'll give you a rep point if you can match the picture on a scale of 1-10 and score a 9 or better.

I wasn't aiming to match the cover art, I was aiming for a Warcraft version of the scene in the movie. However, one of your points is valid, there does need to be more of a trasitional area. I use Photoshop Elements, which doesn't have a lense flare(or a burn tool for that matter), so I have to do alot of that stuff manually(with gradients for the flare... and a black paint brush 80% transparency for burn substitue. you get the idea.) but I like Elements better, because it gives you more precise control over your image. However, Elements' Photomerge system sucks, so I had to do alot of manual fixing.
Here's what the Image looks like straight out of the Photomerge with out any of my work on it.

can't you cut like a little peice out of the grid where you want more of a transition and paste it over what you have so fair and use some type of blending option. Thats what I would do.

Actually, photoshop does have both a lense Flare and A Burn tool.. look in "paintbrush Options" for color burn (And other cool things) and in effects for a lense flare