how can I make this more realistic?

[Sovjetspy]

I suck at graphics

How can I make this realistic. for an amateurs game project and is sposed to look like a Russian missile base with anti aircraft missiles.


Here is a real one



I want the layout approximately like this but with more buildings and maybe vehicles and stuff.

If you want to play with the image yourself that would be great.

[igjoe]

color the buildings to fit the surroundings, add slight blur to them so they don't look computer generated (don't go overboard with it) and maybe a little film grain to them so they blend a little better. This is a lot to go over so my suggestion would be to find tutorials online. Google works great, best of luck!

[jerryb]

hi,
I am assumming it the desert picture you want to edit and make realistic ... a couple of things first...

1. the roads that you put in look fake.. they look artificial probably use the clone tool or the patch tool to put realistic roads...

2. use real pictures! those drawings are very obvious artificial .. find pictures and do copy and paste and then modify them to
blend in better with the background

3. generally when looking at a base that has sa defenses .... the sa component is really quite obvious and I don't see that
inyour top image .. so what you need to do is look at what some of the sa base look like.. for example... a sa3 site will be a shape of
fan pattern with the radar at the apex .. plus in a desert environemen they be berns around each missle launcher ..
look at this webpage it shows what typical sa3 site looks like
http://dlr.thexhunters.com/richard/sa3.jpg
and there a discription at this site ..
http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/v ... =12oru5cau

note: that bottom picture looks like a sa10 sam site..! not sure if the site layout is typical for desert envrinment you may want to double check on that
maybe...

4. now this link has graphic, but not pictorial, of various missle launchers images ... I don't know what copyrights are on these need ask the website about it.. but the maybe usable .... could probably cut and then using blens and opacity and little noise blen them into your desert background ..

5. this link has some poor quality pictures... that might be usable of missles and radars.... again check for any copyright restrictions..

6. now if you have a good library with a good militarty section... maybe easier to find missle layouts, aeiral views and such..
to find things on the internet, although it there,, sometimes can get very hard to find ...

anyway those are some of my thoughts..

I suck at graphics

How can I make this realistic. for an amateurs game project and is sposed to look like a Russian missile base with anti aircraft missiles.


Here is a real one



I want the layout approximately like this but with more buildings and maybe vehicles and stuff.

If you want to play with the image yourself that would be great.

[tkgd2007]

Yeah, recolour the buildings so they sorta match the overall yellowish tone, add a blur to them to get rid of the Aliasing (jagged edges), perhaps paint shadows for the buildings, and you should be on the right track.

[Sovjetspy]

I really suck this embarrasses me

This is the foto I want to add a SA10 missile site over it. It needs to be here because the 3d land scape is already except my missile site. On the fotograph there is a missile or gun position but not like SA10.



SA10 sites all look different but the radar is very distinctive and and the launchers look like this.


tower radar


phased radar


The launchers need to be in earth walls like this


can anybody help???