Wave Race: Need advice on an possible to be project.

[Rurounin]

Been playing around a bit and so far my creativity is still burning, i've hit a snag however, these tend to put out the fire.

I need advice on the rock you see in the attachment, the cliff look ok i guess but the greenery look godawful (not very apparent in that angle perhaps) and i'm clueless on what to do about it since i have little to no expreince on organic textures, any clues?



Also, ages ago i read something about textures bigger than 4x the size (in the hires zelda thread i believe), what was that about?
It would very much come in handy on this piece of rock

Depending on my flame this might become a project

[Vanit]

Well the grass looks more like palm leaves all over the island imo. Maybe you should shrink the size and see if it looks more like grass?

[Rurounin]

Damn, that advice worked wonders, the old one looked better as a texture but ingame this new one is way better imho

Thanks alot man, any clue on the higher res thingie btw?

[Vanit]

As far as I know in this current version of the plugin you can't exceed 4x the original texture size.

And I must say that grass looks very good now!

[Kerber2k]

I think it looks good, but perhaps you should add a mild dropshadow underneath the grass for depth. When I mean mild I mean dont have it soo dark it looks black. Great work, and I hope to see more work from you.

[Rurounin]

Did a quick shadow and brightened the rocks a bit, thanks for the tip, eventhough it does look better i still get the feeling something is wrong/missing.
Did the ramp too, not sure if the whole thing should be scratched or just the middle as it looks now.

[Vanit]

Well I personally think the rock with grass looks amazing .

[Rurounin]

I too came to realise that there isn't anything wrong with it, so i used it on some other rockwalls aswell

Any suggetions on the window? I can't get it to look quite right, too much reflections looks bad when they tile and just gradients looks a bit plain.

Just the sign, the people, the rider, the sky and alot of tweaking to go on Dolphin Island, that'll have to wait till tomorrow though ;P

And oh yeah, anyone happen to have any rope texture? making by hand is a pain and it dosn't look that very good.

Edit: Changed mountainwall texture. Looked weird/out of place to mix textures from scrath with those based on an image.

...and those palmtrees, anyone know of an better image to base it upon?

[Mollymutt]

WOW! That looks great! Welcome to the scene!

[Dr. Soong]

looks good.