Themed Hideout Competition Submission Thread!

Theme: Overgrown Cliff-side Village
League: Standard

The hideout is intended to be a sort of cliff-side village that is partially civilized and completely overgrown. I've used Vagan's hideout base because of one main feature; the ocean view off to the far right, which gives the hideout the feel that it is high up and overlooking the ocean. It also seemed like a reasonable challenge to transform Vagan's default hideout into something entirely different, having to cover up literally everything from the default hideout, such as the walls of buildings and the statues around the stairs. I've made sure to conceal just about every single feature of Vagan's default hideout

Most of my hideout was made using palm trees and regular trees from Tora, large rocks from Haku as well as other random trees that give shadows from other masters, mainly from Tora and Catarina. Just a note for anyone that comes into my hideout, you sould definitely have shadows turned on, as it makes the hideout look 100 times better.

I've always preferred to have my hideout fairly compact, having all my masters in one area, all the crafting benches in another, having the stash near the map device and so on. Because of this my hideout focuses on just a few detailed sections, rather than a large sprawled out labyrinth of some sort.


The first image is what you immediately see upon entering the hideout. The waypoint is positioned in the center of the hideout which quick access to the mapping area or the masters without having to go all over the hideout. Because of this, the crafting benches have also been positioned around here. The waypoint gives off a calm glow that fits nicely with the dark green colours of the surrounding trees. I've used some of Haku's decorations, the large boat remains and the plank debris, to create a wooden flooring around the area.




Here's a closer look at the workbenches. I don't particularly like the look of some crafting benches, in particular the Armourer's Workbench, so I've decided to cover it up with an anvil and a table to make it still suitable but not contrast with the theme of the hideout. I also combined the Bowmaker's Tools with the bow rack from Leo to make it look more like an actual bow-makers workbench,




This is the hallway that connects the three main sections of Vagan's hideout, lead by stairs going up and down to the other two sections. I've tried to make it so that it's still fairly covered as to hide the remains of the default hideout, but I decided to leave some of the stairs going upwards uncovered because I felt it looked more appealing, as it's leading up to the more civilized area of the hideout.




Here is the most used part of the hideout, the mapping area. I have the map device, Leo and my stash within close proximity for convenience. I placed some crates and barrels around here to make it seem like more of a stash or loot area. I again used some of the boat remains and debris to give a nice wooden flooring, as well as some rugs to make it seem more homely. This area of my hideout is personally my favorite, as it ties together the whole theme of the hideout in one single screen.




The map device has some extraction machines, a bird cage and other decorations to make it seem more steam-punk. It contrasts with the rest of the area quite nicely and I feel that it looks amazing in-game, as it has some ghostly fog and other effects around it. The ocean view I mentioned earlier is also here, however it unfortunately is cut out of the image on the forum, though if you want to see the whole thing theres an screen-cap in the imgur album (linked at the bottom).




The masters area, just above and to the left of the waypoint. I had to split it into two images to fit it on the forum. I made this area like a small village, surrounded by slum buildings and a small stand next to Vorici. I don't really like the default bricks in Vagan's hideout (much like everthing else), so I replaced it with the path decorations from Tora to make a nice, mossy tiling. There are pipes around where the division in Vagans tiles is, as they overlap with the path decorations. I think that it suits the hideout fairly well while still doing it's job of hiding the annoying line. I put Catarina in the hideout because I feel that the light green glow she gives looks nice with the area being covered in shadows.




The other half of the masters area. Here we have Zana in her own small hut surrounded in books, as well as Haku next to a crucible. Not much else to say about this, it's just the same as the last image.




If we zoom in we can also see the books and shalves inside Zana's hut. We can also see some exiles inside the slum building sitting around a table playing a game of poker. I thought it was a nice detail to add :)
(also, one of the exiles seems to be holding a fishing rod, Krillson!?)




For anyone who'd interested in getting a better look at my hideout, I've made an imgur album with some fullscreen and higher resolution images to better showcase my hideout.

http://imgur.com/a/WCDCN

'the book depository'

http://imgur.com/a/2jJxU

NAME: The Hidden Basement

THEME: Steam powered (Steampunk) grim basement

LEAGUE: Standard

I love the overall darkish theme of Path Of Exile, so I wanted my hideout to fit in well. The hideout is a steam powered grim and gritty basement where bad things happen.

It has a big torture room and a jail, mysterious steam powered machines, pipes, steam powered map device, the air is dense and you can smell the fear of everybody who ever stepped inside it's walls.

Above this horrifying place is a tavern called The Siren which is located in the City of Sarn docks. Drunken songs sang by Sarn sailors, misfits and criminals and everyday fights help to cover up the screaming and moaning of tortured victims.

There is a rumour that the creator of this steam powered basement was a member of Vaal engineers who built The Ancient Pyramid and Vaal Oversoul!

Album link: http://imgur.com/a/bgdwK

1. Main Room - East side




2. Main Room - Waypoint

The Waypoint can easily be concealed and powered off




3. Main Room - West side




4. The hall to Torture chambers




5. Torture chambers



Steam powered torture devices


6. Torture chambers - Fermat's room

The most horrifying room in Wraeclast - Steam powered shrinking room with spiky walls




7. The Boiler room and Jail




8. The Map Device room

Steam powered map device. The only thing missing is a Steam powered portal effect, which I, sadly, don't have.




I hope you enjoyed it and got a few ideas for your next hideout!

Theme: The Tinkerers Island Ruins

League: Standard

Base: Coastal Hideout


Sorry for all the mess, but it's so much work to clean the place up! Flies are just everywhere. I just can't get rid of them.



Album: http://imgur.com/a/q4Hpw

Paths and Railways are used to cover almost all sand. Bricks create rough stairs on the slopes.

1. Teleporter area (used to be able to teleport whole carts)
Contains most workbenches. Grindstone and Armory bench in a small smithy. Fountain and Artisan's bench are inside two devices.
The area is surrounded by overgrown pillars and walls to make it into a forecourt.


Map Device
The Map device is inside the ruins of an old Building (made with black Pillars and Church walls) . The device is inside a lot of other devices to almost cover it up. The whole Building foundation is covered by a force field.


Small Balcony
On the back of the Building on the hill was some space left, that I made into a small balcony where Leo is resting.


Gate and Furnece The entrance to the forecourt.
The lamps that can be found all over the island are done using an Excavation device and a Stand lamb and pipes always go into them.


4. Stash and Vorici
The stash is in the ruins of an old building filled with stuff. The building had no roof, so it's covered with a Large Tent. Vorici is standing guard.


5. Headstone and Catarina Inside the ship remains.
Impaled offers have to be made to power the device that contains Catarinas Headstone. (It's socketed on pipes and a Gear in the water).


6. Harbor
The ruined Harbor covers almost half the beach. It is made of Crypt Tombs and Spindles to create a harbor front. Paths cover up the sand. A few Exiles rest and fish below it between rubble and the ship remains.

Hi, everybody!



Theme: Post-apocalyptic phantom train station

League: Normal

Base: Unearthed Hideout



1. Information desk in the middle, luggage storage and departure lounge:



2. An arrival information board on the left side, on right - check-in desk and a bank in one (These guys have a very slow PCs (possibly on diesel), as my :):



3. Exit to the city and backyard:



4. Platform:



5. Diesel baggage loader:



6. Train ("i've got one foot on the platform"):



7. Exit to the platform and............ restroom (bottom right) ! :)




PS. I have a very-very slow PC so i cant take good quality screenshots, so if u want to see my HO not on minimum settings pm me in game.

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Edge of Madness: The Corrupted Outpost

Hideout Template: Immaculate Hideout Level 3
League: Standard
Theme: Corruption has spread to this remote outpost and now, disease and dysentery has taken over.

Backstory: For the past while, we have been going out and battling the corruption where ever we can find it. But, what about our own personal reasons for risking death to smite evil?

This outpost is the sad loser in the war against corrupted souls. People are dying off at an alarming rate and the problem keeps getting worse and no one really knows why. Is this outpost cursed? Is there some force that has deemed everyone here suffer beyond measure?

Why are more and more people getting sick?




The tainted well in the middle of the outpost seems to be causing the spread of a strange plague.


Next is a close-up of exiles in various stages of illness.


The crafting area.


The engine/pump room keeping everything flowing - including the corruption.


Close-up of Vorici and "The Machine"


Body count @ the_Kiln


Cycle of Life (Or is it death?)


Blood pathing down right into the fresh water supply!


Immaculate Hideout Characteristics and challenges.

The one thing I really liked about this layout was the three distinct areas, which were connected by a "T" junction (a pseudo-forth area). The other design characteristic which opens up creative options is the 3 different platform "levels", where you can take advantage of the y-axis.

The unique features to this template was definitely the water basin in the lower level. (Warning: pun incoming) So many ideas flow from this area for me.

The hardest part of this template was the half circle open area in the main area. I didn't want to populate it with anything too high that would obstruct the main view, however, I was intent on covering the whole "Solaris" look since it didn't fit with my old dilapidated outpost theme.

My idea kind of extended from the inside to the outside with the buildings, and started framing everything with the church wall decorations. It seemed to tie the inside to the outside quite well and solve some placement options for lighting effects and covering the stock tile set.

Within each room, there were other challenges; Mostly with covering up the Solaris tile set (some are quite hard to hide even using large rocks or building objects). I wanted to expand the design area as much as possible so the room looked "bigger" than the default tile set. The immaculate hideout has these "C" nooks all over the edges of the usable surface, which I used to place extended range objects. Long floor peices, buildings, colossal statue pieces, walls and other very large objects did a good job at adding more real-estate and did a great job in being efficient (in terms of limiting object total per area).

I think some of the hardest things to do with any of the hideout designs, is add some depth and dimension. All the objects sit on the same plane - which means that you cannot have carpet tiles sitting on top of a table (for example). Beyond adding trees and buildings, there is not much option to create levels in the design.

What I did to get around this, was to find objects with matching heights that could achieve a certain effect. The Vaal table and the map device is a good example. Another is using stone slabs and taller plants to give the appearance of an extruded rock face.


The other constraint was the template lighting sources were blocked out if you tried to add taller objects such as cranes, trees or buildings. I had to utilize various other objects that had lighting effects. The bird cage gave me blue, the fire/torches give you orange and other colours and effects are available through the MTX or master objects.

In order to balance the lighting, I was able to use the stock lighting for Vorici's mechanical room. Catarina's green aura was strong enough to cover much of the water filtering room, and strategic placing of fire torches and lamps took away other lighting gaps.

Other challenges. Other than Elreon's bookshelves, I had a hard time incorporating this masters objects into anything due to the poor scaling. The prison table is massive, as are other objects. Also, Leo looks like a giant standing beside Zana.

I wish there were more exile textures. 2-3 variants is just not enough. Even just different rags or clothes options would be nice.

A living scene:
I took each areas and made them as much a living scene as possible. Flies near the spoiling bodies, Leo and his crafting area look like he lives there, Water containers near the well, Exiles standing/sitting/lying around in various conversations or states of decline. The Armoursmith area looks like it actually produces metalworks... etc

There are bugs and other things running around (about 20 weta pets, blood worm, disembodied hand/head). Smoke billows out from the Kiln due to the burning catapult ball effects. Electricity charges flow throughout Vorici's machine. Very subtle use of the fog effects.

Design rules I had to follow:
-Everything needed to commit to the core theme. I needed to make sure that I was not married to any specific idea or object (a.k.a piles of gold or a "torture" room.)
-Each area needed to be consistent/mesh with the adjoining room.
-Maintain as much open space as possible and avoid the hoarder syndrome.
-pick 2-3 "features" to fully design, focus on and detail. In this case, it was Vorici's machine, the Kiln and the path of blood into the water.
-Lighting needed to be used to not only highlight, but mask.
-Be as object efficient as possible.
-Balance the indoor/outdoor objects. (for example, the sewer exhaust tube is running out of a mountain rock face. The buildings used inside were detailed to look like wall structures. Trees and bushes outside and the "tent" illustrate that you are outside the outpost.

My Hideout theme is 'Golden Granary'. I have mounds of Gold here, there and everywhere. Why? Because I'm attempting to entice a Dragon to aid me in my further conquest of Wraeclast's twisted abodes.

















Thanks for taking a gander at my H/O design. I'm very impressed by some other designs I have seen in this thread. Great work everyone. You've inspired me to continue to farm masters quests for levels and decoration points to further improve my design. Good luck!

Theme: Cozy little village

Hi, Hey, Hello !

So this is my Hideout :)
Standard League.

I call it "One Day aliens visited Wracelast and left some weird stuff"

This is the waypoint area. You can see a huge trebuchet, with fire ball loaded and ready to fire up!

This is Zana and her Stash pressure pump.


Here is the place where the aliens landed. They left a device that can teleport you to another world ! and it works !


Those looke like battle scorpions !


Barrels with some toxic acid


And those two were not suppose to sleep at work. Yea guards ...


This is the control panel.


here you can fnid workbenches



Thanks ! :D hope You like my idea :)


Have a nice day !

Hi there.
First I have to admit, this is no "special creation", it's just grown with time.
I always wanted to make something with a large throne-room, a nice garden and some kind of
"dark place" - well, this is what came out of it. While finding a name for it, I came over
"The Palace Garden", "Death & Glory" and ended up at "The King & The Witch".

- Edit: Since the contest isn't closed by now, I decided for a little rename.
"The King's Garden" ! Maybe that's a little more "appropriate" -

Here are some images (cut), the whole album is to be found here:
http://imgur.com/a/ZMc1I

first - the entrance:


Elreon's place and supplies:


downstairs:

Tora's place (to the left there's a little "Forest"):


Catarina's place (don't wanna know what comes out of that tomb once she's finished)


upstairs:

carfting site, map device & stocks


...and finally - the throne-room (Zana's place is behind it, see the album)


Thanks for watching. ;)