Heroes VI Haven

[Kalah]

A Haven. Looks nice.

If you would like to take a look at the original page visit this link:
https://www.celestialheavens.com/show_b ... php?id=476

[jeff]

Most of the H-6 graphics have been good, I just hope system performance won't be the cost. By the way it seems to be more of a fort than the other picture.

[GreatEmerald]

Somehow it looks horribly fake. Like cardboard. As if the gate was not only not able to withstand a strike from a catapult, but a good punch as well.

[hellegennes]

Indeed, the doors looks quite thin. Not that it is important but... anyway...

[Kalah]

Really? The doors look thinner than the wall? Oh, no!

[oUcH]

I like it , tho roofs look to elvish to me but thats obviously of no importance.

[intipacha]

"fake - like cardboard" is the best phrase so far i'd use to describe H6 in general. thx, GreatEmerald.

[Kalah]

Well, it is a drawing. If they wanted it to look 100 % real, they'd just build a model city and film it.

[agni]

Is it lack of texturing? It does have a styrofoam cutout sort of feel to it, can't say why...

[GreatEmerald]

Is it lack of texturing? It does have a styrofoam cutout sort of feel to it, can't say why...

Exactly. There's just something horribly wrong with it and you just can't put your finger on what that is exactly. Probably it's Uncanny Valley of some sort. Possibly a mix of low-res textures, strange texture colours and unrealistic mesh proportions.

[hellegennes]

Kalah, I am going to assume that you live in the USA and you have never actually seen medieval castles and monasteries and stuff. These usually sport a gate encased inside walls. Some had doors several feet thick; others had two or more doors, between the usual several-metres-thick walls. Like this:



http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk ... l/door.jpg



Or that:



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2391/204 ... b326bd.jpg



Or even that one:



http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/97754/by ... sunset.jpg





Also, in terms of engineering, it's really a crappy choice not to enclose the door inside walls, lest you want it to give way even by pure wind-force.

[FFG]

The cardboard look comes mainly from the fact that almost all these stuctures couldn't feasibly be made from stone, specifically the crenellations.



We could make these structures today with steel but that is beside the point.

[Neidhaart]

Still, it's shiny.

[Mirez]

Is it lack of texturing? It does have a styrofoam cutout sort of feel to it, can't say why...

Exactly. There's just something horribly wrong with it and you just can't put your finger on what that is exactly. Probably it's Uncanny Valley of some sort. Possibly a mix of low-res textures, strange texture colours and unrealistic mesh proportions.

yes I had this feeling as well, it looks so... empty

[ThunderTitan]

Well it looks ok as a concept...

The door does look way too thin... maybe it's magic wood... give it some little blue pills and it becomes bigger and harder...