Landscape backgrounds

[jaz]

Hi everybody,

I know this is kinda offtopic but it has some relevance to adventure gaming. Since I was tired working on my adventure game I wanted to take a little break. A friend of mine asked me if I could develop some technique for creating landscape backgrounds for an adventure/RPG that he would be able to create himself without using ugly tiles.
I gave it a shot, I found some textures I did a couple of years ago in Autodesk Animator, sketched some trees and went layer â€" crazy.

This is the outcome.









I think it doesn ´t look bad or too generic. And it´s easy to make at the same time so he could be able to continue on his own.

What do you think?

jaz

[Minimi@school]

These remind me of C&C '95 !!! And that's a good thing. They also look abit like Warcraft I... they are pretty good detailed, and would deserve good to a rpg game, and 5 years ago these coulda been in a pro game. At this time though... technique gone further, and more detailed backgrounds have been done... but still... im jealous at this work

[Nacho]

Wow... It really reminds me the Commandos graphics... They´re perfect, as the correction of the little "mistakes" (I.E. the branches of some trees seem a little bit artificial) wouldn´t add a GREAT improvement to the image, actually, if this system works, go on with it.

[n3tgraph]

did you draw them yourselve? or did you use a landscape editor of some Strategy game?

they do look very good,

don't know how they would serve an advenure though

[jaz]

Minimi, Farlander: Right on spot! I made them with C&C and Commandos on my mind. I think that the original C&C had about the cutest GFX of all strategy games. I used Commandos pallettes for color refference too. Also rocks on picture #2 are slightly modified rip-offs from Warcraft II. I know these could be more detailed but it was a part of the deal. I had to come up with something that is easy to create even for umm.. "artistically challenged" person.

N3Tgraph: yes, I did them all by myself from scratch. And they are not meant to be used in a "classic" adventure game.

jaz

[MrColossal]

they remind me a lot of the Dink Smallwood backgrounds

i don't like how the trees have such a crisp shadow and nothing else does, not even the really tall rocks