My first land [unfinished]

[Jasir]

Hi there
I would like show you some screenshots from my work. It is my first land. Is completely without trees etc just ground. I hope you enjoy it.
 ...I add next pictures in time


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[SirFranc]

Brilliant! i am myself surprised to see such a level around!
You used Arathi Highlands alphamaps for the ground i guess, or Emerald Dream ones... ?

[Jasir]

Brilliant! i am myself surprised to see such a level around!
You used Arathi Highlands alphamaps for the ground i guess, or Emerald Dream ones... ?

Thanks a lot!

I use Alterac dirt, rock base and two grass from elwyn. For better look I use black texture too. Unusual combination I know
But I'm not decided yet which trees I should use. Big choose.

[[G]hositt]

Brilliant! i am myself surprised to see such a level around!
You used Arathi Highlands alphamaps for the ground i guess, or Emerald Dream ones... ?

Thanks a lot!

I use Alterac dirt, rock base and two grass from elwyn. For better look I use black texture too. Unusual combination I know
But I'm not decided yet which trees I should use. Big choose.

Alphamaps = pre-generated maps added to the ADT

And yeah it looks cool, even though I'm partially against alphamapping on this basis but yeah I love it, please continue XD

[Jasir]

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Alphamaps = pre-generated maps added to the ADT

And yeah it looks cool, even though I'm partially against alphamapping on this basis but yeah I love it, please continue XD

I didn't know what alphamaps means, thanks for explanation. I thought so he want know which textures I used
But I created it completely in noggit from flat ground. I did not use alphamaps.

[Herbalism]

It might just be me, but I'd like it more if there was some dirt under the grass, would make it feel more realistic. Other than that, GREAT job!

[Eluo]

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Alphamaps = pre-generated maps added to the ADT

No?
Alphamaps is a common word ,used in 3d environments.
They are working not with black &white in wow ,but with black and blue.
Each texture layer you are drawing with noggit creates a alphamap on every chunk of your adt up to 4 layers
So alphamap is just another word for texture if you want so. Has absolutely nothing to do with alphamap generation.

@topic
Nicely drawn textures, really love the detail
I can see that you draw them by hand...had to be not easy.
And i must say , congratulations i think. You are the first one to get good looking textures on your first attempts
No really, respect. You took time to look at blizzards stuff or do you already have worldbuilding knowledge , maybe in other games? Or are your a painter?

Im really intrested
And! Keep up the great work!
If your doodadplacing has as much dedication as the textures ... well then whew

[Jack]

I just realized what the hell you guys are talking about.
Alpha maps are something totally different than heightmaps.
What you mean is heightmaps.

Alphamaps are 2d information about the opacity of something. This is used in textures and has nothing to do with geometry.

Heightmaps are 2d graphics with informations about height implemented in the greyscale.

[Jasir]

Nicely drawn textures, really love the detail
I can see that you draw them by hand...had to be not easy.
And i must say , congratulations i think. You are the first one to get good looking textures on your first attempts
No really, respect. You took time to look at blizzards stuff or do you already have worldbuilding knowledge , maybe in other games? Or are your a painter?

Im really intrested
And! Keep up the great work!
If your doodadplacing has as much dedication as the textures ... well then whew

Thank you
It is really difficult if I want textures more sophisticated but I just have to do it properly!
Yea I checked Blizzard stuff, but sometimes I work in photoshop (rather photomontages ) and previously I did in editors for other games.
But I have little fear from my doodadplacing

[[G]hositt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_mapping
Premature Phaggots
Anyway, cya

[Jack]

This being the second time you responded with unrational and offensive messages I will ban you from this community for 1 week, maybe that'll make you rethink about your behavior next time.

Anyway, to clarify things here a little:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heightmap




What you guys are talking about is actually a sort of heightmap, in case you're talking about the texture layers that can be exported and imported in worldbuilding.

We should get back to the topic now though.

[SirFranc]

I would really like to know the painting technique used for this land, more i look at it and more it reminds me of arathi highlands/emerald dream textures...

Because i really want to do something like that...

[Jasir]

I would really like to know the painting technique used for this land, more i look at it and more it reminds me of arathi highlands/emerald dream textures...

Because i really want to do something like that...

When I was on lecture in school, I made some screenshots for you, how I paint mountains.

It isn't everytime same procedure, but in principle is it like on schreenshots.

[spoiler:1wldpbzb][center:1wldpbzb]First. I made some hill...

next I paind places with stone texture, but with little permeation...

I prepare some smaller hills...

I use dirt with small radius to make stone places irregular and stone texture with no permeation to the center...

Last step is grass texture in small radius between stone places...

And this is the result...

A little exhaustive i know [/center:1wldpbzb][/spoiler:1wldpbzb]

I hope so it will be helpful

[Jack]

Oh, the last step is substractive working, nice one
really adds a lot to the look

[Steff]

And what about the graß vaiations?
You coud amke a tutorial from this stuff. Would be nice