How about this background?

[Samuli]

Phew. Some 4.5 hours it's been, but I finally made it (yet the bg is not finished). The very first background I've uploaded here, so please be gently with your C&C.



You might want also click here to see the same image twice as big.

My own comments:
- needs more furniture, when I make up some cool puzzles it'll be easier to add appropriate objects..
- some parts are maybe a bit too bright
- that desk thing and the closet left to it might need some saturizing
- psychedelic painting will be replaced with a portrait as soon as I come up with some characters

This background might appear in a game I've been about to begin to work on.

[DanClarke]

ok its pretty good but:

-The door is too small.
-the wall and floor texture looks 'blurry'
-you appear to have used the same texture for the walls and the floor
-the room looks a little dull, perhaps a window would make it look a little more interesting.

[Samuli]

Tanks for the comments.

Actually the door is pretty ok sized for a character I'm going to use. That means those other objects are maybe too large.. Damn..

In fact I didn't use the same texture for walls and the floor. I generated a texture for  walls with photoshop and got another texture from the net for the floor (it should be marble).

And yes, true, it is somewhat blurry.. Maybe that's why all the furniture doesn't seem to fit in..

What do you mean the room is dull?!?! There's the plant and everything! No, seriously, I'll add objects as soon as I come up with use for them (in the game that is). Oh, and it should be a little basement style. It's going to be a prison like room.

[Ginny]

I'd just like to point out that I very much like the psychadelic painting! I take a weird painting over a human portrait any day .
You might want to add a window. I think making the door somewhat bigger (not too much) would make it fit both in the room and with the char.
What bothers me is not the current lack of objects detail, I'm sure you'll add more, but the whole image seems busy with textures. I can understand that it makes sense to have textures in all of those places, but it hurts they eye. Maybe it's just too much brightness on the carpet. Still, if it's possible to tone down the textures a bit on the walls at least, to make it a bit more subtle (if it's just plain walls), or to define it more (if it's wallpaper, though I dounbt it). As for the textures themselves, I like them, except for the one on the bed and carpet, it's a bit too bright and eye hurting.
Overall a great background, nice perspective and lack of ceiling (this always gives me trouble), and I love the plant (is it supposed to look a bit neglected and "not in it's prime", since it's a prison like room?) and the painting very much!

P.s. I'd suggest for the bed to use a different color, since the reds mix together, and to make the texture go:

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instead of:

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as it seems to be now.

[Pet Terry]

Looking how the carpet is placed the room looks really narrow! You may want to move the carpet so that you can't see the other side of it and then it wouldn't have to be under all those furnitures. You also may want to change the colour of the ceiling so that it fits better to the rest of the room. Also some ceiling light would be good.

Other than that, nice work

[Samuli]

Heh, thanks for the comments.

You might want to add a window.

I've thought about this, but the room is supposed to be very sterile and maybe even depressing (like the plant).

As for the textures themselves, I like them, except for the one on the bed and carpet, it's a bit too bright and eye hurting.

True, I'll do something about right away.

You may want to move the carpet so that you can't see the other side of it

A great idea! I'll see what I can do about it.

I'm not sure if I want to add the ceiling, after all, wouldn't that make the room a little bit too small, even claustrophobical? Although it should be a depressing room.. Hmm.. I'll think about it..

[InCreator]

Hm. Nice room! It looks almost ready, all you have to do yet is to play around with this a little.
Few suggestions here:

* door perspective (upper edge of the door) is a bit wrong, compared with walls. It should/could be (almost) horisontal.
* Colors. Use them. Like, make bed green or blue, for example. Even if this is meant to be very boring room, colors always attract and make overall look better. I'm not suggesting to draw a rainbow, but add a little variety and use some cold tones.
* Shading/shadows. Where does light come from?
Ceiling is pure black, so It can't come from there, yet shadow is directly under bed. Add a light source and make some areas of room lighter and darker. (Maybe just only darker, It's pretty bright already)
* It may help a bit to improve this bg - make opposite walls a bit darker.
* Save your picture as PNG format, so AGSers could see clearly every pretty pixel of it. JPG blurs things down.

Overall, I like this room. Show some more artwork of yours!

[stuh505]

The perspective seems to be from within the room so I think you should crop the perspective so you can't see the ceiling

[Phemar]

I haven't read the othre topics, so forgive me if I'm repeating...

1. That door looks a little too small.
2. I don't like the texture on the bed.
3. Everything in the room is lined up against one wall, but then again, it is a very narrow room, and you wouldn't be able to fit anything on the other walls....

Good job, keep up the good work! (I feel like a 1st grade teacher when I say that...)

[Samuli]

Again thanks for your comments.

I did some fixing, but I'm in a hurry, so I'll upload the improved version maybe tomorrow or monday. Anyways, I somehow had time to make another one. Here goes:



And a large version:



Yep, the doors suck and there could be a little more of everything. Yet I hope you like it!

[..]

Not sure I like the way how the grass just suddenly ends underneath the arch.

[Damien]

That's great!
The arches and shading make me think that it was made in 3d program.
the only critisism I have is that the bush behind the arches looks too flat.

Schubert: I think that are some walkbehind bushes, not grass.

[..]

I see now... That was quite difficult to see though.

[Phemar]

I don't think the bushes are hard to see at all 

This background is clearly 10000x better than the bedroom...

The only thing that bugs me is the tree, it looks a wee bit too flat...yep yep yep....

Udderwise, oi lub it!

Berry gud bakgwownd if yoos aksking me!

[Hollister Man]

Compared to the shadow of the arch (light is shining on the left side, but darker on the right) the shadow of the tree is in the wrong place, that's why it looks flat.  Move the shadow to the right side and that should do it.

[stuh505]

Hollister man:  huh??  the light is clearly coming from the right side, this is consistent in the arches and the tree...

anyway, the only problems i have are with the flat bushes in the back, and the arches need to be smoothed out i think