How to start...

Hi,

I really would like to start making nice hideouts, but in fact i don't know where to start since I don't have any experience in this. I do not have a lot of creativity and I really would like to improve myself in stuff like this.
So what do you suggest for me to learn step by step doing something great?

Have you got any good tutorial video explaining how to proceed?

well first of all, you might wanna read that hideout references guide we have here! second, its very nice to first see all the decorations, cause you cant really implement much until you see the stuff you have available. i recommend just visit some nice hideouts, ppl who do hideouts are always willing to let you take a tour!

then well...i guess experiment! you can see what works through trial and error! the best advice i can give you is to first focus on the hideout outlines (for example you should for example first focus on walls, and only after that on whats inside those walls), then shadowing and lighting, and then the insides. your first hideout will probably be kinda "soulless", but its kinda easy to get a grip on how to build them so that shouldnt take long if you focus on it! most people dont even try

Can you please link the hideout reference guide? Can't seem to find it.

HO REF GUIDE:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1186285

some very nice tutorials and ideas

PoE: Hideout Improvement- Custom Decorations

Path of Hideout: Blood and gore

Path Of Exile ALL Hideouts Showcase, Choose your hideout ahead of time

Making a hideout that you like is a trial and error kind of a process, and your first one will always be the worst, but it will teach you what you want and like in a hideout. Having done over a dozen of them for me and my friends i have learnt that the first thing you need is a simple theme(dont start making caves out of a library setting if you are new to the game). This is where your likes and dislikes come into play, but i can tell you my process:

1. Go through the hideouts first and see what you like most. Are your tastes more indoor(Elreon/Zana) or outdoor (the rest), do you like the nature look (tora,leo,catarina) or do you prefer some order/straight lines (vagan,vorici,haku..), dark/sunny or big/small (maybe start with smaller). Once you have that, go to..

2.Zones/functionality. Divide the hideout into 3 areas, crafting, mapping and chill zone. Get the benches and map device out, to see how much space you will need for each. This is where the theme kicks in.For crafting is it your little workshop or do the peasants(masters and haku/tora men/women) deal with it :D Maybe you want to hide them inside other decorations.. Is the map device something you use actively(in which case you need a vendor and stash) or is is something you found at the location.. The device itself can be a part of some monument/shrine or maybe some machine.. And then the chill zone, this is where you go wild :D The heart of the ho, build a monument, market square, lounge for your friends,torture chamber.. what ever looks cool to you :D

3.Linking the zones.. Again, depends on what you started but this is where roads, walls, doors come into play. Try to create a feeling like it all just flows from one thing to another, and then the neverending part..

4. Tinkering :D Area to dark, put down a lamp or five :D too bright, plant a tree/build a wall... Are you hungry put down a fire and roa meat from Haku :D got a lot of barrels , slap in some broken ones.. Why is there spider web flooring in the gold room? Because you like it :D Just do what you like!! Who cares if it makes sense, its yours :D

There were some hotw winners where i was like REALLY,THAT CRAP?! and some that were HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO/COME UP WITH THAT :D Go through the forum here, steal what you like, improve and claim ownership :D Even the least imaginative ho will usually have something that people will like and go im totally stealing that, the rest is not so good but this i am having in my next hideout. Practice makes perfect :)

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Damjan88 wrote:

There were some hotw winners where i was like REALLY,THAT CRAP?! and some that were HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO/COME UP WITH THAT :D Go through the forum here, steal what you like, improve and claim ownership :D Even the least imaginative ho will usually have something that people will like and go im totally stealing that, the rest is not so good but this i am having in my next hideout. Practice makes perfect :)

-.-" "steal what u like" ... wow, how about "create ur own ideas" or "adapt things and form it into new ones" just copy and paste is stupid and give you nothing.

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guggelhupf wrote:

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Damjan88 wrote:

There were some hotw winners where i was like REALLY,THAT CRAP?! and some that were HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO/COME UP WITH THAT :D Go through the forum here, steal what you like, improve and claim ownership :D Even the least imaginative ho will usually have something that people will like and go im totally stealing that, the rest is not so good but this i am having in my next hideout. Practice makes perfect :)

-.-" "steal what u like" ... wow, how about "create ur own ideas" or "adapt things and form it into new ones" just copy and paste is stupid and give you nothing.

Well if you are making your own hideout why does it have to be all your creation and original? Why not use stuff that would look cool with what you have going on? More to the point how is adapt things and form into new one different than steal and improve for your place :D How many elreon cave hideouts are out there that are cool and unique, but they did start of by ripping off the first hotw :D

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Damjan88 wrote:

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guggelhupf wrote:

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Damjan88 wrote:

There were some hotw winners where i was like REALLY,THAT CRAP?! and some that were HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO/COME UP WITH THAT :D Go through the forum here, steal what you like, improve and claim ownership :D Even the least imaginative ho will usually have something that people will like and go im totally stealing that, the rest is not so good but this i am having in my next hideout. Practice makes perfect :)

-.-" "steal what u like" ... wow, how about "create ur own ideas" or "adapt things and form it into new ones" just copy and paste is stupid and give you nothing.

Well if you are making your own hideout why does it have to be all your creation and original? Why not use stuff that would look cool with what you have going on? More to the point how is adapt things and form into new one different than steal and improve for your place :D How many elreon cave hideouts are out there that are cool and unique, but they did start of by ripping off the first hotw :D

so u realy think all players looked hotw and than ripped off this ideas ? ... oh boy

Are you the hideout police or something? :D I'm not saying everything is a ripoff but it is also not all original and unique ideas that were uninfluenced by the cool stuff on display in this forum. It is more or less a giant house of mirrors in some cases, and i personally think that is ok because it did spawn some pretty neat things here :D