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[Summoners Rift VU art] Flowers

Marsmonkey·9/29/2014, 10:37:32 AM·10 votes·7,723 views

Cool Board!

I wanted to tell you guys that I absolutely love the new Summoners Rift art and I 'm super exited for what's still to come and all the talk about the updated map and it's story. So this could be the right board to post my thoughts on it!

I got to test the updated map on the PBE, it is amazing how beautiful it is and the unique atmosphere it brings. Way to go!

However, there is one thing that I don't like about the current map on the PBE and it may sound weird, but it is the flowers in the lanes. There are some oddly shaped blue flowers everywhere on the three lanes and I personally think these flowers could be done better. I think they look weird because of the flower art, textures and the long peduncles. I just feel they don't compete with the other very nice textures of the map an that makes me sad, I know you can deliver better quality

On the contrary, I think that the flowers in the jungles are a very good example of how good looking flowers should be like, take a look for yourself!

I've added an example of the flowers i'm criticizing down below. Thanks for the hard work and for hearing the community like you do Riot.

Cheers.

20 Comments

RiotRiotForScience9/29/2014, 8:29:35 PM4 votes

Thanks for the heads up! This is something we are continuing to work on.

Ark Angel HFB9/29/2014, 11:55:37 AM4 votes

They need some work, They look a bit flat as is...

Notice I'm not complaining about them being there. they look nice and it adds a lot to the feel. But they don't look near finished to me.

RiotRiotForScience9/30/2014, 3:05:37 AM4 votes

I just barely created a discussion to consolidate feedback on SR into a single discussion. It is located here

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=50324227&posted=1#post50324227

In the future if you want to guarantee that your feedback will be seen by the Environment team, please post it here. We will be checking this thread regularly and reading every post.

Riotalex gonzales9/30/2014, 8:35:23 AM2 votes

Thx for the flower feedback, we will address it thx.. :)

When we start a map we work really fast. We drop in temp sketch assets just to get the feel of what we want, the flowers where a first pass asset. other parts of the map are at higher phases. As we work progress some parts get far along while others get left behind a bit. its like leap frog. :) eventually we will reach a stage where the map is at a consistent level of polish.. :)

Wullf9/29/2014, 11:03:38 AM2 votes

could you post dem jungle flowers for comparison?

midorii9/29/2014, 9:30:50 PM1 votes

I agree the Lane flowers appear a bit jarring when with all the other pretty textures.

I feel the jungle flowers fit in really well tho, perhaps getting the lane flowers to blend in with the background as well as the jungle ones?

Marsmonkey9/29/2014, 4:12:39 PM1 votes

I've also posted this in the art feedback mega thread but I'm gonna repost it here.

You can find a good example for a comparison in the top left corner of my screenshot (Screen17). Near the turret there is a part of the wall that is broken, revealing the trunk of the tree behind it, next to the trunk there is a bunch of flowers for you to compare the quality between these two. You can clearly see that the texture art on the trunk and wall exceeds by many times the quality of the flower textures. Even the moss and ivy on the walls are more defined than the flowers.

I might seem to be criticizing an extremely small issue here but the reason why I'm making such a point about this is that the flowers are a big part of the SR environment and they add greatly to the vibe and ambient feel of the map. it's a shame that even the ivy on the broken walls have more detail than these flowers.

I pay a lot of attention to artistic details and so they are important to me and probably a bunch of other people who care about visual details, the flowers on SR are eye catching and thematically important so they deserve a little more love than this!

Amen summoner 13

EMOFRATPARTY9/29/2014, 4:19:20 PM1 votes

Given the abstract and painterly look of the rest of the map, I actually really enjoy the flowers. They aren't a distraction in any way; rather, they provide a nice accent and contrast that increases the overall visual appeal of the map.

That's just my opinion, but I wanted to offer a counter to your (well-stated) position.