Niborius on 10/6/2013 at 11:30
Hi Taffers,
I've been wondering, where all of you FM builders get your inspiration from when making a mission. I usually get mine from photos/artwork, real life locations, and my favorite will have to be from my dreams.
On a side note, there was this topic about Thief location like pictures, but I can't find it anymore, it was a great topic where I got lots of inspiration from, does anyone still know the name of the topic? It was quite popular at the time.
So anyway, where do you get most of your inspiration from?
Niborius on 10/6/2013 at 14:18
Yep, that is the one :) Thank you!
Xorak on 10/6/2013 at 21:32
I usually get ideas from photos as well. I like going through books of Baroque or Gothic or Romanesque architecture. There's thousands of good ideas in them. Or even just googling something like medieval rooftops and seeing what comes up.
For instance I completely built this for the last contest, but I couldn't properly fit it into the dimensions of the contest with enough room to make the landscape around it:
Inline Image:
https://imageshack.us/a/img13/7884/pic2bsd.jpgThough I've also started two different horror missions which were inspired by the Cthulu boardgame Mansions of Madness. When I lay out the tiles for Mansions of Madness all I can think of is how it'd make an awesome Thief mission. Like this:
Inline Image:
https://imageshack.us/a/img40/4968/pic1lj.jpg
bikerdude on 11/6/2013 at 10:50
Where is that cathedral located..? look awesome..
R Soul on 11/6/2013 at 11:31
I did a Google image search for 'unusual cathedral' and found Las Lajas Cathedral, Colombia.
Xorak on 11/6/2013 at 21:35
haha, yea that's it.
Could just grab the picture's url and do an image search as well.
Cardia on 12/6/2013 at 08:27
Usually i let music inspire me , it fills my head with new places, new storys new atmospheres...etc, right now i´ve been listening alot to the british music producers so known as Autechre:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCNrZabzXXo) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCNrZabzXXo
but also playing other games can influence me, for exemple Tomb Raider and Quake games are a Reference to me.