Nightsky

[Afflict]

Edit:// well had nothing to do but sleep tonight and frankly this background was annoying me so voila
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[Darth Mandarb]

I'm not sure how much detail you wanted to use, so this might have gone a little too far, but here's a paint-over:


- added gradiation to the sky
- added depth/distance to the ground by blending it into darker shades
- darkened the foreground cactus

I didn't touch the stars/moon.  I thought I would need to but when I added the gradient to the sky they suddenly looked much better!

Hope it was helpful.

[Tomas]

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but here are some ideas illustrated as quick edit. I actually did a more fancy edit at first but got a blue screen before I had saved it. This is pretty much the same though, but a bit more rushed.

[Afflict]

I dont know guys it just doenst seem to be pulling to what I want...

Tanks for the paintovers;
Darth Mandarb - thats really interesting not yet what I want but getting there I will play with the gradients thank you that helped a bit.

Tomas - I am quite happy with the night sky as it was, but indeed a nice paintover might take some of it into concideration..

Any fedback on the nightsky guys? Or suggestions on how to further fix the distance issue?

[Mordalles]

well, i don't know much about painting skies, but sierra-online surely does, so here is an example from space quest 1 VGA:


they do the distance really well.

[Tomas]

I dont know guys it just doenst seem to be pulling to what I want...

Tanks for the paintovers;
Darth Mandarb - thats really interesting not yet what I want but getting there I will play with the gradients thank you that helped a bit.

Tomas - I am quite happy with the night sky as it was, but indeed a nice paintover might take some of it into concideration..

Any fedback on the nightsky guys? Or suggestions on how to further fix the distance issue?

I think the problem is basically the fact that you made the mountains lighter than the sky. Look at some reference photos and you'll see that it's usually the other way round. Try painting the sky with the color you originally used for the mountains, and vice versa. You should also make the foreground cactus a bit darker to give the image more depth. Something like this...

[lo_res_man]

It is also very empty, I wouldn't  want to walk around in this backround, too empty. As well, in the latest edit, the stars cut off rather suddenly. just a thought.

[Tuomas]

I looked at the picture Mordalles provided, and it seems to me, that it does seem to be further away because there are enough details to let one figure the other is behind other. What I mean is, that in such cases, by drawing a landscape between the horizon and the frontal of it will bring deoth to it. THis way you can make the mountains to look as if they were *very* far away by adding thing in between of to look like they were very close. Try drawing an ocean with no waves. Then draw waves on 2-4 layers lik this

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and it'll look like the horizon was close enough. Then if you add plenty more layers of waves it'll look as if the horizon was further. Why? because the more sea or landscape fits before it, the more space there is in between.

[Afflict]

C&C top of page thanks

[LilBlueSmurf]

You stars are too evenly spread out.Ã,  Make some clumps and some more empty areas, by trying to be too random you actually make things less natural.Ã,  Also, having the 'glow' lines on each star doesn't look good.Ã,  I would say to keep the lines on only the biggest and brightes stars, the rest should be just fine with varying brightnesses of just the star.Ã,  I think the pure black sky looks better than a gradient in this case.Ã,  It suggests that this is really in the middle of nowhere, and in the middle of the night.Ã,  A gradient is suggestive of either a large city nearby, or that it is close to sun rise/set a lot of times.

Quick edit:

[Afflict]

Hey thanks I see what you mean!