Recreating Velious

[Hezron]

I've decided to cross-post this over here in the P99 forums from my guild forums. I've received a lot of encouragement there and hoping the rest of the community will enjoy this as well.

My goal: to recreate a realistic-appearing version of Velious. This is being done using a combination of several programs: photoshop, maya, mudbox, and terragen 3. I'm learning this as I do it and given that fact I think it's going along very well. My modeling of the continent comes from the map image of the overall continent which actually looks a good bit different than the image in my head if you were to line up the individual zones together.

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My ultimate goal would be to render a fly-through of this as well though the render time would be crazy-long.
First up, the entire continent was sculpted up in mudbox. Then, I imported it into terragen to begin building the continent, adding in the snow, breaking it up, adding in constraints, etc.

Without further ado:

The scars of Velious. ToV would be located within the far left valley.

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The three main islands of Iceclad Ocean

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Time to work on populating the continent. I imported the terragen continent into maya to build my objects onto the actual continent for scaling. First up, the Tower of Frozen Shadow.

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ToFS added in after UV texturing and a dock added in. Scale is difficult to appreciate but I have added trees to give a better sense of it.

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Building and adding in the Eastern Wastes bridge really gives it a Velious-feel I think.

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Added snow coverage to the new bridge.

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I have some more posts to add in as well to catch up. Will do so as I have time for it at work.