Clutter and General Layout

[xanderdunn]

• Scatter gold coins about the floor
• Include real-world randomness such as dead-ends, doors that can never be opened, chests whose keys are forever lost, etc.
• Items that must be unlocked to release their full potential.
• Think of ways to make full use of your scripting ability. Find ways to make things in the game "intelligent" and interactive. Connected. Puzzles. Ultimately, I don't want this space to be devoid of everything but the tower house. I want it to be beautiful. A sight to behold.
• Use lights that are of radically different colors. In a room that is primarily gold, put a sudden very cold-colored light.
• Can I put objects floating in the air like this:
  
• Put vegetation next to water sources.
• Put FXSwirls above fires
• Use Nordic Traps
• Invent puzzles like the one in the Luftahaaran dungeon
• Think of how people would use an area. Pipes that go into or out of a water source. Architecture relative to light sources, etc.
• Don't forget to clutter with
  • Bug jars
  • Bugs
• Make the house portion completely seamless. The user does not want to wait on loading doors to get from area to area.
• Idea: Stone floor that is in strips with lava underneath that shows through in the openings
• Watch all of the Lord of the Rings movies to get inspiration
• Make a hallway that looks like it's crumbled in and a dead-end and make it actually the right way to go.
• Navmesh Tutorials

• Use lots of animations! Use animated floors and use animations and effects on the player when certain things happen like in Familiar Faces.

Useful Items

• FXDLC1SCWallMist consider using this to block a path that the user must disable
• BoneMammothSkull* - Wall clutter for house, BoneTroll*
• MountainCliff*

Reference Locations

• Blackreach
• EldergleamCave
• ShadowGreen Cavern
• WarehouseAmbushes