I love bush. Do you love bush?

[L[0ne]R]

Silly titles aside, I'm finally getting around remaking those ugly old bush sceneries.
This is what I've made so far and I want your opinion about the art style.

[CCalp]

I really like it! However, I'm not really what you would call a picky person in terms of graphics, so my feedback won't be much of a use. :q
Just my few cents...

[Falcon`]

Make that gostek smoke and it looks like pretty illegal picture in most countries.

[duz]

Nice work! I like it.

[You Got Served!]

Cool stuff looks great keep up the good work!

Though I have to disagree. The old bush sceneries are not ugly but I do like what you've done.

How do you guys refer to shameless constant camping? Many times have I raged because of being killed by a shady bush!

President bush!
Bush bandit!
Anders!! <[aka Camper(SWE)]

 

[Bistoufly]

Very nice! It looks pleasing to the eye.


Can you make several versions of it. With different time of day, lighting, season, ... + small variations for each?

[L[0ne]R]

Thanks for the feedback so far, glad you like it. I'll keep updating my progress here.

Can you make several versions of it. With different time of day, lighting, season, ... + small variations for each?

Definitely not time-of-day or lighting - those kinds of things can already be done by adjusting color and brightness of the scenery. Also it's a good idea to keep lighting relatively uniform, otherwise silhouette of the scenery gets lost. What I will try to do is make different bushes diverse enough to cover more bases, and a bit brighter and less vibrant so they're easier to color. I might include grayscale versions of each if I can think of a good clean naming scheme for them. Maybe "-bw" suffix?

[Home]

Looks good so far, I also think sceneries with one color in it (like most vegetation) should be gray anyway, it's a nice idea. It is easier for map makers and allows easier diversity in coloring. Maybe add instead versions with different shading.

[L[0ne]R]

Made another one, and tweaked the shape of the first bush to be less square:

[Viral]

That's a fine bush you made :b I only hope is not cut straight on the bottom so it's easy to rotate and use on different surfaces :3

[L[0ne]R]

That's a fine bush you made :b I only hope is not cut straight on the bottom so it's easy to rotate and use on different surfaces :3

Thanks. At the moment it is cut straight at the bottom, but I get what you mean. I'll try to address that in the final versions without making it look bad on existing maps.

[Name]

Actually it looks good. Well done.

[Control]

Pro bush.

[CheeSeMan.]

Nice. Though to be honest sometimes I like em no bush.

;-)

[CottonTheMoth]

That looks freakin' sweet man! I think just to preserve stability in the longterm and avoid server complications it would make more sense to apply these to HD retitled versions of the maps only. Ace work though, it's real perty. Nice use of subtle shading.

[machina]

Nice work I only fear that overdetailed bushes and trees will cause a too great contrast to ground and background textures those are quite simple in the end.

[L[0ne]R]

Nice work I only fear that overdetailed bushes and trees will cause a too great contrast to ground and background textures those are quite simple in the end.

Thanks. I found that a problem on the old and ugly maps because new sceneries only make their ugliness more noticeable. Outside of that bushes seem to match the maps well enough. I agree that trees are a bit too detailed though and shaded weirdly. That's something I'd like to address at some point too, probably after other non-HD sceneries are finished.


For now, here's a progress update:
I was out of commission for a couple of weeks due to some personal problems, but I finally did some work over the past 3 days. Got rough versions of 5 other bushes remade with 2 more left to go. Once the other two are done I'll go over them again, tweak, add more detail and make them look more consistent.

This is what it looks like so far:

[homerofgods]

Bush number 5 looks to me like it's illuminated in the middle, as if light hits the tree. Anyone else think the same?

[machina]

This is what it looks like so far

There are quite huge differences in details between some of those bushes if you zoom in. First and second surely extremely differ from rest of graphics. The second one is way to rectangular. It's probably something that you have overseen but if you zoom you can see its contour being truncate weirdly. Sixth has a little bit less pixels as well but it will make.

Besides, nice job

Bush number 5 looks to me like it's illuminated in the middle, as if light hits the tree. Anyone else think the same?

Maybe, but not so much in the end.

[darDar]

There are quite huge differences in details between some of those bushes if you zoom in. First and second surely extremely differ from rest of graphics. The second one is way to rectangular. It's probably something that you have overseen but if you zoom you can see its contour being truncate weirdly.

Got rough versions of 5 other bushes remade with 2 more left to go.

come on

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I like the cartoonish look of the last one.