Hello! I recently commissioned someone to create a 5000x5000 sized terrain for my game. His asking price is R$20K. Now, I’m new to commissioning people for work, so I don’t know what the right price would be for this type of work. As of right now, he has been working on it for around 4 days now, and this is the supposed final product:
EDIT: This terrain is supposed to resemble a swamp. Kind of like Swamp Fever from Left 4 Dead 2.
Another Edit: From the comments, it seems like this was put together with little effort. While you’re here, could you give me some opinions on this terrain? This is what I started before I commissioned someone else:
I originally only asked for the terrain, then he said he would do the trees for no extra cost. I intend on adding more to this as well. He is only building the foundation of the map.
No, mans tryna scam you. He’s probably not even very experienced, I mean just look at the pictures. Get a better builder or just pay him like 1k. Not worth 20k, even if it is 5000x5000.
Well, that’s the thing. I don’t know the level of detail when it comes to terrain. All I know is that I have lots of trouble sculpting terrain, which is why I commissioned, and most of it, bad or good, looks the same to me haha.
I am also a little skeptical, because he asked me just to give him R$6.5K for something completely unrelated to the commission. That definitely flew a red flag which is why I’m here on the forum asking for a second opinion.
One more thing as well, should I tell people how much I have when talking about commissions, or should that matter stay private and they come up with their own price?
Well, I must be dumb then , I honestly don’t know why it looks bad. It looks natural to me to be honest. I appreciate your input though. I’m definitely gonna make sure I don’t get ripped off now lol
It’s not really that high detailed. I dont do building, but that’s 100% not worth it.
2, is easy lighting tweaks. I could do it in a few mins and would probably only charge 50R$ for it, maybe 100R$
and #1 is legit the terrain editor with no lighting
i dont play fortnite nor like it, but it looks like the fortnite minimap imo
If he did just use the terrain editor and place a couple trees in, I can just do that myself. I have some experience with terrain, but I figured someone else could make it better. I’m beginning to just steer in the direction of creating the terrain myself.
Would you like to learn together? I’m also trying to do terrain, I’m not doing super well rn but it’s urgent for the project. Maybe we can do some tests and terrain together
Well, 5x5k is pretty large, but I’d price it looking at how much effort it would take to replicate.
The map itself you could just shuffle through seeds to find something similar; it doesn’t look sporadic like someone painting it manually, but it also doesn’t look polished enough like it was thought out objectively beforehand. It’s not a good overhead map imo, I’m not sure what gameplay you are applying to it, but it doesn’t look like it would serve well in a zombie game. Normally you’d draw it out for tactical purposes first, then fill in details later. Looks like that step was omitted.
Assuming they didn’t make the tree assets themselves, someone who’s familiar with terrain tools and lighting should be able to replicate this in under two hours. They said four, so, is R$5,000/hr worth it? That’s $17.50 an hour by DevEx rates.
, I honestly don’t know why it looks bad. It looks natural to me to be honest. I appreciate your input though. I’m definitely gonna make sure I don’t get ripped off now lol
