Quanon Posted March 30, 2014 Author Share Posted March 30, 2014 Thanks for the offer Canderis. The landscape is slowly forming. Taking it in steps. Show spoiler (hidden content - requires Javascript to show) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuckfromPortal Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Ooooh Lovely, no if only I liked Malachor V and didn't think it was hogwash and unnecesary . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quanon Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 More Malachor madness. I'm at home rightnow being sick. So decided to do some relaxing photoshop work on the Malachor skybox thing. It's shaping up nicely; started to add some swirling fog. Some tweaking will be needed on the gradient that colors the clouds. Don't like the blue tint at the top anymore. Other stuff is the gradients across the rocky peaks. Some have a more redish tint, the central one is bugging me for a reason Anyway here's a preview of the big sky so far: Show spoiler (hidden content - requires Javascript to show) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kainzorus Prime Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Gimme! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Looks excellent, Q! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrob41 Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 One of the techniques we learned about in art class was Atmospheric Perspective. Basically, the closer the mountains are to the viewer, they will have more contrast, and be closer to natural color. Each further row of mountains back, should have less contrast, be lighter, and start to blue shift (at least in Earth's blue atmosphere; on Malachor things might green shift?). The clouds will do the same thing, but it's harder to tell (since they don't have rows). I can see that you're trying to do that with gradients. Eventually, the furthest row of mountains and the clouds should be almost the same color, brightness, and contrast. Any horizon line would be almost impossible to see, since it would look like the ground and sky were merging. Here's some examples I Googled: https://www.google.ca/search?q=creating+atmospheric+perspective&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=FUM8U8uNKMns2wWoyYDYCQ&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1412&bih=917 Keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quanon Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 Thanks for those helpfull tips Redrob41. I hadn't thought about that effect just yet. Been fiddling with the skybox some more. Taking in the advice. The furthest mountains now have grey/ green overtone. Have adjusted the gradient for the sky. It's brighter at the horizon. It all work better together now. I've also applied some light blurring on the things more distant. And worked on upping the contrast on the front peaks. Now to test the thing in the game. I'll add in some screenshots later on Show spoiler (hidden content - requires Javascript to show) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sithspecter Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 That's a huge improvement and I didn't even think the last one looked bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDR Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Oh my. That is great! Amazing job Quanon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuckfromPortal Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 beautiful improvements, I like the chaotic natural spires and how they look like they would create canyons underneath or be the upper bits of a canyon area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kainzorus Prime Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Yay, contrast! No more ****ty gray with more gray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen Guardian Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Looks awesome! Nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quanon Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 Malachor is slowly growing into a somewhat bigger project. I've been messing around to get a new and bigger skybox into the Malachor area. Though somewhere, somehow I screwed up Or the game crashes or my own made placeable doesn't appear in the game. Not sure if the fault is within the model or me being clumsy with the files involved. Being a bit miffed about that setback I started to work on the cliffs and rock texture of Malachor. Slowly replacing them all with a new look to match my skybox textures. Preview, note floors still needs to be replaced and it looks just a tad darker on these screens then it is in the game: Show spoiler (hidden content - requires Javascript to show) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Holocron Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Nice work on the rocks. I'm sure the floor will look great, and I'm sure you'll figure out a solution to the skybox problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Looks good, Q! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logan23 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 NICE! =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quanon Posted April 14, 2014 Author Share Posted April 14, 2014 Hello all! I've been slowly altering all the textures for the Malachor surface. Taking me awhile to tweak everything to perfection I also made few mistakes as in things looked abit to differant and some nasty obvious tiling on my textures. Allthough I must say, some parts of Malachor, the uvwmapping is sloppy. On one big cliff the texture is very large, turn a corner and the same texture is suddenly used rather smallish, wich gives this odd over repeating effect. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground. Ugh... and there's not much I can do about it either. Enough words; some screenshots! Show spoiler (hidden content - requires Javascript to show) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kainzorus Prime Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Not too keen on the blue marble with white bits. Maybe if its pattern was smaller, it would look better. As it is, it reminds me of ham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos K Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 ^I agree. My suggestion would be to make it darker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDR Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 As long as you get rid of the white (or make it less prevalent), then it will be alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Fett Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 As it is, it reminds me of ham. Wow... Just... Wow. xD As for you skybox Q, definitely a vast improvement. Definitely worth giving your pig a stroke, what what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Holocron Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 I'd like to see what that marble texture would look like if you made it greyscale. Could you post a shot trying that out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quanon Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 Not too keen on the blue marble with white bits. Maybe if its pattern was smaller, it would look better. As it is, it reminds me of ham. ^I agree. My suggestion would be to make it darker. As long as you get rid of the white (or make it less prevalent), then it will be alright. Aha, yes, the tiling is rather far to obvious, though I really like that particular kind of marble Wow... Just... Wow. xD As for you skybox Q, definitely a vast improvement. Definitely worth giving your pig a stroke, what what? Hahaha, rub it! Dang you! Rub it real hard! I'd like to see what that marble texture would look like if you made it greyscale. Could you post a shot trying that out? Well, I could do that, though already 90% percent of all the Malachor textures is overly greyish. On this texture blue is the main tone, even in the orginal. But I'll do some more test runs. Speaking of test runs. Playing around with a trial version of FilterForge. It creates textures and there's a large database. I've been playing around with swirly obsidian rock. Show spoiler (hidden content - requires Javascript to show) It's just testing the waters; I've created more variants, more swirly, less so. Bigger swirls, tiny swirls... You get the point One thing though, is I'll have to adjust the colours and the contrast. It just pops out to much compared to the other textures. Stay tuned for more updates, thanks for the critiques guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos K Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 It shouldn't be too fancy. I've always seen Malachor as an emotionless haunting place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhaboka Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Some stately elegance for the Academy is nice, though, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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