So how do you make your nice terrain?

[powdahound offline]

I usually just do the bfm fractal or whatever with hill frequency on 9 and set my hill height to about 50, then go through with paint mode and circle brush and make everything. you?

you can't really get good playable terrains just using the terraformer, imo. not for ctf at least, that stay interesting

[powdahound offline]

hey dont all answer at once... you'll overload the server

[Akira offline]

I use one of the fractals, and then a combination of smoothing, ridge/valley smoothing, turbulence, and the filter...not neccessarily all of them, though filter is a biggie for tweaking the overall look and feel of the terrrian my book.

Then it's on to the painting circle soft brush as you mentioned . I've found lowering the adjust height to 5 in the terrain editor was alot easier on my nerves :P.

Now if only I could figure out how to paint those darned roads on...

[ToKrZ offline]

Make one of these and try the import bitmap function, look around a bit then, adjust your bitmap and try again if all goes well you wont be doing hardly anything with the terrain editor except very minor details.



This is the terrain from "Number of the Beast", I think I set my hight to 50-200 , the bitmap needs to be 256x256 and saved to yout terrains/hiethfield folder

white areas denotate higher parts of the terrain and black lower points of the terrain. Dont use a grey scale image or you will loose half of the possable tones of grey, and if you set your heith field thigher than 200 or so add a smooth filter after the bitmap and even a smooth valley and ridges. The higher the terrain the more smoothing youll need to do.

toke out...........