{"id":406,"date":"2015-08-08T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/?p=406"},"modified":"2015-08-11T00:05:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T23:05:37","slug":"dev-blog-7-photography-for-faesholt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/08\/dev-blog-7-photography-for-faesholt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Blog #7: Photography for Faesholt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howdy!<\/p>\n

Dan again. On top of the technical mumbo-jumbo I generally do, my day-job as a photographer\/extreme sports bum tends to leak over into Althas. Since I get around a lot I tend to collect a great many “scrap” photos, however, these make perfect reference photos for the artists, which leads neatly onto today’s blog post.<\/p>\n

Today I’m going to show off a few reference shots we are using for developing the landscape around Thenodar. The main inspiration for Thenodar\u00a0is northern Europe, and specifically northern England and Scotland for Bordrima.<\/p>\n

The following four shots are being used for developing Faesholt, the forest we recently released a few in-game screenshots of.<\/p>\n

\"Faesholt01\"<\/p>\n

— Rusland Moss, Lake District, England<\/p>\n

Near to my spawning ground, I of course had to squeeze in a shot of this area somewhere. Luckily there are some nicely mossy (no prizes for guessing where the forest’s name came from) and wizened trees in these parts, giving a pleasant Tolkienesque feel to the woods.<\/p>\n

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\"Faesholt02\" \"Faesholt03\"<\/p>\n

— Strathyre, Scotland<\/p>\n

Both shots above are taken in central Scotland, most of the forest around there has a very “raw”\u00a0 feel to it. None of this new-fangled plantation nonsense.<\/p>\n

The former photo has generated a lot of ideas for the river gorge areas on the north side of Faesholt. The latter shot gives a general idea of what we are aiming for the transition to surrounding low-lands and foot-hills to be.<\/p>\n

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\"Faesholt04\"<\/p>\n

— Le Giffre, Sixt-Fer-\u00e0-Cheval, French Alps<\/p>\n

Cheekily this river isn’t exactly somewhere you would call “Northern Europe”, however it looks about right. Bite me.\u00a0 Geologically speaking,<\/p>\n

its reasonably similar: rocky, shallow and mainly carrying melt-water.<\/p>\n

That’s about it for this week, though there are plenty more where these came from, as my long-suffering hard-drive will vouch for.<\/p>\n

Till next time,<\/p>\n

Stay knarly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howdy! Dan again. On top of the technical mumbo-jumbo I generally do, my day-job as a photographer\/extreme sports bum tends to leak over into Althas. Since I get around a lot I tend to collect a great many “scrap” photos, however, these make perfect reference photos for the artists, which leads neatly onto today’s blog… Read More »Dev Blog #7: Photography for Faesholt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epochgames.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}