Detailed Terrain

Hi there i am creating a terrain and i want the opinion from you guys to get feed back thanks.

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Textures are lo res, and it looks like you are using the default unity grass and trees?

Also, the bright green grass doesn't fit into the grey brown ground.

 

Thank you for your opinion.

 

If it's for mobile then it's OK. Nothing wrong with Unity's grass and trees, use them if you like.

The lighting does look more off than it should because of the contrast between the grass and the trees.

 

Well i haven't done any lighting mapping yet, thanks for your opinion.

 

When I saw the first picture, I thought, "Wait, isn't that a scene from Alan Wake?" After a second, I realized it wasn't... But good job on it! It clearly looks professional.

Some of the things (rock, handrail) look a little naff up close, but everything looks great to me other than that.

 

Ha don't worry i made it lol, thanks it's not that professional. There is more to add.

 

Terrain looks nice, are you using the assets from the bootcamp demo?

 

Yes

 

Looks like it. But he ought to mind the licenses if he wants to release commerically.

Other than that, it looks great.

 

Not going to release it just want to show with the correct stuff i can make a good terrain.
Thanks for the compliment

 

Is there a different license for Bootcamp than the regular example projects license?

 

We want a web player!

 

I might make a Web Player but I haven't learnt the Dropbox thing yet. FYI this map will be quite large. Ill do a Web Player or free download on part one area.

 

hi there,
you should definitely lightmap the whole scene, lower the saturation of grass and go for a better (high res) rock texture.
i also would add fog and raise the ambient light: have a look at your tree’s bark: it is nearly black.
also go with a more atmospheric lighting: may be some yellowish directional light and purple or slighly blue ambient light.

may be you would like to have have a look here to get some inspiration on lighting, effects etc.: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/122146-After-(Fantasy-world-2)
well, he uses pro but after all, there is still a lot to learn from.

anyway: a pretty nice start.



lars

 

Yeah, I agree. Some of the textures and lighting are a bit off.

 

just some words about grass:
from the screenshoots i can not say whether you use billboards or not – if so i would suggest to skip that and uncheck "billborded" in the grass setup window.
but what i can say from the screenshoot is that grass looks pretty dense which might be a huge performance hit due to the high number of drawcalls and the vast amount of overdraw. in order to keep the number of draw calls low use a low resolution detail map (terrain --> set resolution) i think that an accuracy of +-1m or even +-2m should be ok which would lead to:
terrain 500m * 500m --> detail map resolution: 512px = +-1m accuracy
terrain 1000m * 1000m --> detail map resolution: 512px = +-2m accuracy

working with low resolution detail maps really easily lowers the number of draw calls by up to 200.

lars

 

Doesn't that also reduce the quality of the terrain?

 

less accuracy doesn’t mean less quailty.

 

What's the point of the map accuracy, then? I thought it had to do with the quality of terrain: i.e more accuracy = potentially better quality.

 

hmm, are you kidding me?
of course more accuracy gives you more potential on sculpting and decorating your terrain, but you will always have to find the right balance between ehat you might need and what this would cost. accuracy on grass or any other detail meshes is very expensive. you might better go with some exactly placed single game objects instead of drawing grass with a precision of +-0.25m as far as draw calls are concerned (in unity free this is of course limited to very low poly plants = game objects (about 300 vertices i guess) due to the fact that you can only use dynamic batching).

lars

 

Want to help me and team with our MMO? Will give you more practice

 

Dude, you're never going to get any where.

 

Sure i guess i can help you

 

Check you emails.

 

Well in last few months I got 3 games to beta for other teams, registered my company, paid off a bunch of bills thanks to freelancing, i think i am getting pretty far.

 

Yet in the time you were here you have not completed 1 project? That seems pretty far. Every week its a new concept, new story, new gdd, new team.

 

Shut up, we've all been here needlessly before.

 

Looking fantastic, by the way!

 

Thanks SevenBits, don't worry about KheltonHeadley he ripped me of, he is nothing but a scam... and i am happy thank Prion Games want me to join.

 

Guys dont ruin he's thread for the love of god if you want to argue do it thrue pm's but dont ruin the OP thread, btw i really like the new pictures, id love to try a webplayer .

 

I like the potential, everyone starts somewhere, these may look A-AA now but I feel with more months of work he can be AA-AAA, that is why I asked him to join for such a large project, plenty of practice and honing his skills.

I am not even going to waste my time...........

 

I ripped you off? Lol. How? Did you pay me? Did you give me anything? No. Not even close to being ripped off. Explain to everyone how I am a scam, you were the one who wanted into my dropbox. But anyways, back on topic. Nice terrains.

 

Is it just me or are those assets familiar? :L

 

Very familiar.

 

Not, he wanted into my group folder so we could "share" files.