First Try at Terraining

Hello there! This is my first attempt at a terrain. It's meant to be a river, with a waterfall. Constructive crits are welcome. Sorry if there isn't enough pictures, it takes a very long time to upload anything with my connection.

Thats relly good for your first try

One relly noptacable thing though, is you spamed the living daylights out of cattail and lillypad doodads. Try to place them one by one isntead of dragging them all over the place. It will make things less spamy and

The waterfall you used grass WE cliffs, which look reeeely funny when in water, use the dirt one instead or look at the tutorial section to see how you can make waterfalls without using WE cliffs

You have good tile variation and one last thing is mix in some normal ashevale trees with the capopy trees, mass canopy ones look odd imo

Besides the fact there must be thousands of lilypads and cattails, it's actually good for a first terrain. Canopy trees are really bad for terrain with camera angles such as this, so add some non-canopy trees, maybe custom if you want. It doesn't need fog, but I'm interested to see what it would look like with it.

Well, I made the grass cliffs into dirt cliffs, I deleted all of the lilly pads (about 3500 of them) and all of the cattails (about 1000 of those) and then went back and placed them all individually. It still seems to have a lot of both, but without them its just boring open water. Anything else?

Oops, missed your post. I'll add the fog a dump the canopy trees.

cattail placement still needs some work, but the lilly pads are much much better now

You could also add some more rocks, make them smaller, and place them in the empty spots, perhaps surrounded by 1-2 shrubs or none at all. Flowers too.

Added fog, swaped the trees, lessened the number of cattails, and added some small rocks and shrubs to the shore.

Thats pretty good for your first try. One thing though, are you sure there isn't anything else that you could put in the water besides lilypads? They kinda bother me. :P

Well, sea weed sticks out of the water and looks funny... fish don't really cut it... the, uh, killer whale just doesn't fit in with the environment. I'm open to suggestions.

Could use a better color of fog, try teal. Also give it a good running over with the smooth tool. You can also learn alot by checking out the tutorials thread which is stickyed. Check the downloads thread for some cool custom trees too. Welcome to terraining :D

Yea, I just discovered the smooth tool about an hour ago and went over the map with it. Looks much smoother. Teal does look better, as you suggested. I have been thinking about trying to import custom objects. It didn't go well the last time I tried. Thanks for all your help, everyone.

Try importing Nasrudins stuff. It doesn't need any pathing changes and it uses ingame textures. Also remember to restart the WE after importing.

Will do. Thanks for that advice.

For lilypad placement, i would keep them close to the shore. Any farther out and they look odd. Also make it seem that they grow seamlessly.

Just my two cents...

I would personally of with a light grey fog, but there are a lot of good colors you could use.