C&C desired on this room in my game

Started by TerranRich, Sat 24/05/2003 03:48:07

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TerranRich

i've been here well over a year and have never posted anything in this forum...until now.

I have started designing rooms for Chapter 2 of my game, and I've done one room so far.



Forget for a minute that all the trees look identical. That will be fixed shortly. It was just a temporary thing to plan the scene out. It is obviously at twilight, as I wanted it to be dark, but still enough for the player to be able to see things. By the time the player walks out into the urban area of this world, it will be fully night. I am also going to try to make the mountain texture match with the ground texture. They are technically the same texture, but the slopes in altitude in the terrain causes darker colors to appear. I'm going to have to find a better texture than that. :)

What do you guys think? Anything I could add/change/remove? Hmmmmm??? :P
Status: Trying to come up with some ideas...

Quickstrike

It looks like a scene from "The Wrath of Kahn".  It looks wonderful, except the ground looks too flat.  Add a few small hills and some rocks, then it will be perfect!
"You know something people,  I'm not black, but there's a whole buncha times I wish I could say 'I'm not white'"-Frank Zappa, "Trouble Every Day"

Neole

It looks great! Like you said trees could be differnet and aso make them different heights.

Miez

Great scene! the ground could use some detail (unless it is covered in low groundmist, which could be very nice as well) and maybe add some tiny lights to the dropship/shuttle thingy (unless of course, it is completely shut down). I'd love to see a game made using graphics of this quality.

Synthetique

the trees in the back makes the mountain look a bit too small.. but i like the rest of the pic.. :)

SLaMgRInDeR

Perfetion at its best (apart from the trees)! i cant wait to play this game! if you;re starting chapter two, why not elease a demo of just chapter one?
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Ali

Trees are tricky things aren't they? I think you should get rid of most of them, and only one or two - that'd look more bleak. Either that or add loads more to create a real forest look with a lot of variety in height and so on.

I think it would be quicker and more effective to get rid of most of them though. The whole image looks really great, but the trees look very much like they've been equally spaced across the scene.

And just to be really picky: The shadows might look a little more natural for a panoramic scene if they were softer.

These are only minor points, the scene is still better rendered than some of the commercial games I've played.

agsking

Very cool, It has great atmosphere! Is that ship floating
or did it crash? It looks like it's hovering.

SLaMgRInDeR

i thonk it must be hovering as its shadow is not joined to its edge on any sides.
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TerranRich

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Quote from: SLaMgRInDeR on Sun 25/05/2003 20:29:11
i thonk it must be hovering as its shadow is not joined to its edge on any sides.
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Actually, the bottom front of the shuttle curves down, and it's really touching the ground.  ::) :P

Here is a new version of the room:



This time I made the flat terrain not so flat, got rid of some trees and changes others, and gave the shuttle a more realistic tilt to it, to make it look like it had crash-landed, which it has. :)

Whadda ya think?
Status: Trying to come up with some ideas...

scotch

Looks better,  I think perhaps you should put a little fog in, at long distance.. and maybe tone down the jaggedness of the foothills so they blend with the ground better. I like it as it is though :)

agsking

Yeah a little fog would be nice but it's still good now like scotch said.

Neole

The new ground looks great! Shuttle looks very unfomfortable though, off-balance.

TerranRich

Quote from: Neole on Mon 26/05/2003 06:49:07
The new ground looks great! Shuttle looks very unfomfortable though, off-balance.

Unfomfortable? Do you mean uncomfortable? If so, that's because it crashed...it's supposed to be off-balance and half lodged into the sand.

Hmm, well I tried adding fog to the scene but it wouldn't work. Does anyone know if it can be done in Paint Shop Pro, and if so, how? As for the jaggedness of the mountains, I'll fix that. :)
Status: Trying to come up with some ideas...

Privateer Puddin'

fog would be done in the 3d render, surely?

TerranRich

Well, all the terrain is too high for the fog to appear. I would have to find a suitable 3D object, then apply a fog volume texture to it, which would take hours to render. I'll do it post-render :)
Status: Trying to come up with some ideas...

Synthetique

move the mountain waay back so it seems big enough..  ;D

ratracer

Terran, good work. From my own experience and problems, I also must say that I quite like the camera angle, simple but effective.
The terrain is  very greyish, but that's gives a desolate and deserted look to the planet, which is probably what you wanted... but perhaps a few small rocks scattered around would make it better... I don't know.

At the present moment I am also trying out a desolate landscape (without spaceships) and yours is much better - I guess I'll "steal" some ideas...
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TerranRich



Here it is with some fog. This took over 2 hours to render! With a brand new 3D nVidia 32MB video card! :P

As for the mountains, if you looked at the scene from an alternate perspective, you'd see that the mountain is WAY too big in scale with teh shuttle and trees. And I did not intend to spell "the" that way just now. ;)
Status: Trying to come up with some ideas...

Scummbuddy

Man, this is so beautiful.

Hehe, there is a shadow for a tree that no longer exists in the bottom right...

If this ship made an emergency landing there recently, then I would suspect some dragmarks in the sand, and some sand blasted around the ship, but since you didnt make that, I guess it has been there for awhile.
I dunno, I just suppose I'd think about how the ships been there, and how the wind works on the planet, and then I'd make the sand go up and settle on different parts of the ship.

Very nice atmosphere.
- Oh great, I'm stuck in colonial times, tentacles are taking over the world, and now the toilets backing up.
- No, I mean it's really STUCK. Like adventure-game stuck.
-Hoagie from DOTT

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