Change the water texture in Valley Of The Ancients

[devout fern]

Hi, so the title is pretty self-explanatory- and I’m not sure whether the water they currently have is a placeholder (I really hope so) but I just quickly went on ibisPaint X and changed how it looks. I know my drawing isn’t perfect but in my defence I did do this in like half an hour with my finger lol.

Firstly, there is little to no texture in the current design, and secondly it’s just an eyesore (sorry). It’s over-saturated and the hue of the water is extremely unharmonious with the whole vibe of the place.

I also don’t like the cherry blossoms in the water because they’re just so random and I don’t think they need to be there, but that’s just my own personal preference.

I added in some shadow beneath the hillsides just to give the water a bit more depth, as it currently just looks really flat. Kind of like a sheet over a swimming pool. The texture of the water literally everywhere else should be carried over to this zone as well. More highlights on the surface to reflect the sky would be good.

I made the colour purple because I wanted to keep the feel of this once beautiful valley that has since been corrupted by some dark magic, and it’s just more visually interesting imo.

Sorry for the wall of text for this very simple change, just wanted to explain my thought process.

[ashen kite]

I like
Make it happen deca @junior inlet

[amber hedge]

For “performance reasons” they can not do this they said in announcements

so dont hold ur breath

[gusty galleon]

Looks scary and honestly fits the area pretty well (dark/eerie and fog looks perfect), not sure if something like this could be implemented tho as previously noted. Love it tho.

[amber hedge]

Reminds me of Shalemont and I love it

[devout fern]

Why exactly is that when the water in other places is fine? If you don’t know that’s cool, I know absolutely nothing about coding or game design or whatever I just thought I’d put my wasted graphics design degree to some use haha. If they really can’t make it work then this will forever be my head canon at least 😭😭

[devout fern]

Thank you! Yes I wanted to add some fog to try and conceal the super blue grassy part in the background as that also didn’t match, but I didn’t want to completely cover the whole thing up. Just a slight colour change is needed I think. I agree that fog would look epic but that does feel like a bit of a stretch sadly 🥲

[obsidian garden]

This is a good idea

[ashen kite]

Honestly not sure if it still looks like that but long ago the water near ow ghosts sort of looked like that

[amber hedge]

Because Im assuming them mapping stuff is new to them, hopefully they get better with time

[empty python]

make it easier to get into the vally of Ancients, they claim a level 210 can get into the new area yet the mobs you need to kill are super freaking hard which greatly limits the amount of people who can even see the new content

[amber hedge]

Still crossing my fingers that they will change the grass texture and water texture, the map would look 10x better with those textures being improved

[hybrid crest]

The drops are tradeable , could try to buy them maybe

[empty python]

thats true for the first part you need to kill 3 level 222 enemys for the second

[junior inlet]

If we make texture changes we'll keep this request in mind

[silk wedge]

Yeah don’t be overheating our devices now 😆

[ashen kite]

@devout fern ^

[devout fern]

Yoooooo epic