New terrain: Wastelands

Post by **freim** » November 15th, 2005, 10:03 pm

Currently working on some new tiles.

Further plans are to make some more variants and a "dead/dark forest" to go with them.

Making dead trees was kind of tricky though, might take a while.

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » November 15th, 2005, 10:22 pm

I'm loving the skeletons, and the transition with the lava is spot on. Otherwise its kinda meh. Maybe it should look more like: This

aelius · Post by **aelius** » November 15th, 2005, 10:25 pm

The crusted over lava is spot on. Impressive, as always.

- b.

Thunderblade · Post by **Thunderblade** » November 15th, 2005, 10:30 pm

WOW!

Very nice, indeed!
We're working on dark forests in the ideas forum, but they are more like misty or foggy forests... Anyway, dead woods would be very interesting...

scott · Post by **scott** » November 15th, 2005, 10:49 pm

Reminds me of Starcraft

Post by **Darth Fool** » November 15th, 2005, 11:19 pm

mmm...chocolate...

dreampilot · Post by **dreampilot** » November 16th, 2005, 12:08 am

The crusted lava seems more defined then any of the other Wesnoth terrains. It seems to stand ut almost as much as units.

It looks quite nice just not sure I think it fit together well with the other wesnoth terrain I've seen.

-> What i might be working on · Post by **Eleazar** » November 16th, 2005, 1:23 am

I think it's a great idea. It's especially nice how the lava glows around the edges.
My only complaint is that the texture looks as if your perspective is from right above. I compressed the texture about 50% vertically in my photoshop edit on the right:

hands · Post by **hands** » November 16th, 2005, 1:33 am

The gamma in your second image seems a bit muted, but I agree that the perspective should be at more of an angle.

P.S. I like the addition of the new terrain. There didn't seem to be a good transition terrain between lava to just about anything else. I like the random parts too (bones, lava peeking through).

Post by **Kestenvarn** » November 16th, 2005, 2:30 am

This terrian would be especially helpful for use in underground maps, I think. Hopefully folks are still working on the multihex stuff, though...

The skeletons are a nice touch, but look slightly silly after you notice the little bits of lava peeking through the normal wasteland tiles.

Post by **Jetrel** » November 16th, 2005, 3:06 am

Thumbs up on Eleazar's edit idea. We should really do this for all terrain textures.

Post by **freim** » November 16th, 2005, 8:41 am

Jetryl wrote:Thumbs up on Eleazar's edit idea. We should really do this for all terrain textures.

Right. I will modify them. I actually did this somewhat, but not by as much as 50%, and it apparently wasn't enough to get the desired effect.

Post by **Jetrel** » November 16th, 2005, 10:57 am

another trick - on the near side, draw about 3-5 pixels of visible thickness to the mat of lava, giving it height.

Post by **freim** » November 16th, 2005, 11:29 am

Jetryl wrote:another trick - on the near side, draw about 3-5 pixels of visible thickness to the mat of lava, giving it height.

I did. Look at the trans to the dirt tiles. I have a special trans towards grass, because the grass have height also, so they overlap a bit more in an irregular way. Towards "flat" tiles the mat of lava have more height.

Post by **freim** » November 16th, 2005, 12:44 pm

Scaled 50% height.

This look better perspective wise and I think they fit better with the rest of the terrain in Wesnoth. I have a nagging feeling it lost some of the "look" however...

Still need some trans clean-ups.

Edit: what it probably lost was it's more defined look. Which kind of clashed with most other terrain, so it's probably a good thing