Making interesting geometry?

ProselyteCanti

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Mar 27, 2014

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• Mar 29, 2015

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So, I'm starting to find that while I can make pretty decent layouts, I have trouble making good geometry. I'll make a layout that's good for gameplay, but pretty much devoid any detail (everything looking blocky, entire rooms with only one or two textures, ect).

So I guess my question is, how does one stop their maps from looking incredibly uninteresting?

 

Last edited: Mar 29, 2015

wareya

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Jun 17, 2012

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• Mar 29, 2015

• #2

a) Map from reference
b) Rip off other maps
c) Lots and lots of practice and effort

 

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takabuschik

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Apr 14, 2013

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• Mar 30, 2015

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-Use tilted geometry (like a building built diagonally- from north-west to south-east, instead of the normal on-grid structures)
-Make some round structures (silos like granary or like dustbowl 2,1)
-Look at official maps architecture

 

henke37

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Sep 23, 2011

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• Mar 31, 2015

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Add things poking out. Windows, doorframes, beams, sheds, balconies, random props, more than one texture per wall, tiny height variations, displacements and closed off areas that you can only look into.

 

Kraken

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Dec 21, 2014

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• Mar 31, 2015

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henke37 said:

closed off areas that you can only look into.

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Don't make them look like you can enter them. That's important.

 

Kill_the_Bug

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• Mar 31, 2015

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Kraken said:

Don't make them look like you can enter them. That's important.

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Better yet - make them so you can't enter them! < I was actually being serious there, lot's of decorations outside the playable are can do wonders for your map.

 

Last edited: Mar 31, 2015