Wow this is great! I need to make an arena map for the map I am developing right now anyways. I want it to be a separate playable map similar to the arena in Fable The Crucible where players can ally up to fight waves of increasingly difficult enemies, or where they can do a PvP in FFA/teams matches etc. So this would be a great exercise for that arena, and I may or may not use this one I am making now. But I will plan to make a couple smaller arenas with major differences in mood, feel and play style. I will edit this post with some pictures soon.
Edit: I haven't started on the arenas yet but I made the lobby area for the arena. This is where the players would select the game mode, buy potions and equipment, etc. Let me know what you think of it so far! I dont think it looks very good personally, and don't really know what to add to make it look better...
Sure the top-down is below this. Yes the lake is very plain actually, I had intended the terrain to only be seen in those screen shots so I didn't bother putting many doodads on the lake in this small terrain map. Thanks for taking a look at the shots and giving me some feedback!
Edit: Also it may seem instinctive that I put the trees how I did but I have a lot of practice in terrain making from Warcraft 3, and have been doing it in Starcraft 2 for quite some time now as well. So I suppose I have a little experience in making a map look nice and still be playable by having focal points like that. I also try and think of logically where trees would grow and of course trees grow next to each other because of how they reproduce. I'm glad you feel I placed the trees appropriately, anyways let me know if you think of ways to improve my terrain! Its always good to learn new tricks and try new types of terrain, this was my first shot at snowy terrain as I recently got HotS. I look forward to the later exercises as I am best at forests and mountain areas, so it will be great for me to get help from those who are more experienced than I at types of terrain I've not done before.
Hey I'm new to the forums here, first post actually. But I saw this topic and decided to give it a try. I used Haven and the Kaldir tile-sets, four textures from each as the rules stated, and this is what I came up with. A forested lake area, if you cant tell 8 textures have been used its because of the amount of blending I did with them... Anyways here's the screen-shots let me know what you think, and ways to improve it!
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Doesn't the WTE come every Monday? What do you mean early?
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Wow this is great! I need to make an arena map for the map I am developing right now anyways. I want it to be a separate playable map similar to the arena in Fable The Crucible where players can ally up to fight waves of increasingly difficult enemies, or where they can do a PvP in FFA/teams matches etc. So this would be a great exercise for that arena, and I may or may not use this one I am making now. But I will plan to make a couple smaller arenas with major differences in mood, feel and play style. I will edit this post with some pictures soon.
Edit: I haven't started on the arenas yet but I made the lobby area for the arena. This is where the players would select the game mode, buy potions and equipment, etc. Let me know what you think of it so far! I dont think it looks very good personally, and don't really know what to add to make it look better...
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Sure the top-down is below this. Yes the lake is very plain actually, I had intended the terrain to only be seen in those screen shots so I didn't bother putting many doodads on the lake in this small terrain map. Thanks for taking a look at the shots and giving me some feedback!
Edit: Also it may seem instinctive that I put the trees how I did but I have a lot of practice in terrain making from Warcraft 3, and have been doing it in Starcraft 2 for quite some time now as well. So I suppose I have a little experience in making a map look nice and still be playable by having focal points like that. I also try and think of logically where trees would grow and of course trees grow next to each other because of how they reproduce. I'm glad you feel I placed the trees appropriately, anyways let me know if you think of ways to improve my terrain! Its always good to learn new tricks and try new types of terrain, this was my first shot at snowy terrain as I recently got HotS. I look forward to the later exercises as I am best at forests and mountain areas, so it will be great for me to get help from those who are more experienced than I at types of terrain I've not done before.
The lake more specifically:
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Hey I'm new to the forums here, first post actually. But I saw this topic and decided to give it a try. I used Haven and the Kaldir tile-sets, four textures from each as the rules stated, and this is what I came up with. A forested lake area, if you cant tell 8 textures have been used its because of the amount of blending I did with them... Anyways here's the screen-shots let me know what you think, and ways to improve it!