Author Topic: Mini-Island  (Read 1444 times)







Credit to Sentry who helped with half of this

Constructive Criticism is appreciated


A little square, try making more variety in the height of objects.

If thats a volcano I would make it much more rounded. Other than that I like it but it would be cool to see more mountains and maybe a village!

If its gonna be mini you might as well use more plates and put more effort into shaping the island and flat terrain. It looks ok right now but there's multiple things you could do to improve.

1) Stop using 2x wide plates and bricks. It severely limits the detail level, and since this is small scale, there's no reason to do that. Don't be afraid to "spam" 1x1 plates in order to get the look you want, again, since this is small scale.

2) The terrain design itself is a bit unrealistic but passable, I guess. The volcano needs to be redesigned to utilize more steep changes in height, to signify it as a mountain rather than just a high hill. Points on the large cauldron, though, which is about the right size and with extra shaping (rounding off, etc) would be perfect. Also consider extending the mountain/volcano so its more like a range rather than a pyramid placed in the middle of flat terrain. See picture:



As you can see, its not just a single peak; it runs along like a crest. Unless your volcano is meant to be a cone, I think this design would look better.

Could make use of some smaller bricks like 1x1s.

If anyone built this on any given Mini Empires server, people would drool over their stuff as is. Most MERP players can't build worth stuff :I

The trees look great, but lack some variety
Island is kinda plain in shape. Add a Pangaea or an inlet to let ocean water into a bay.
People love waterfalls. Make a tall mountain, put a lake on the top of it, then have the water go down the side of the mountain, and into a river that dumps off the side of the island OR into the above mentioned bay
Use ramps to smooth out the edges of stuff.
Use more transitional colors. Dark green in the middle of a forest, light green around the edges, dark sand/mud near that, then sand.


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Not bad!

I find it hilarious how this is getting more criticism than something that was made entirely with LSG and duplicated cone trees.

Not bad!

I find it hilarious how this is getting more criticism than something that was made entirely with LSG and duplicated cone trees.
he asked for constructive criticism

he asked for constructive criticism
Yeah, that's somewhat what I was referring to by some strange thought process.