How do you make terrain?

(The real Billster) #1

I am a newbie to all this map stuff I would like to know how to make terrain.

Thanks

(OSIAS) #2

easygen its a program u use to make a terrian and export it into GTKrad.

im sure uf u go to their resources page they have a few tutorials and or links to anythign u will need …

(Doc) #3

Correct me if I’m wrong, but EasyGen is Windows only. Any tips for terrain making without EasyGen?

(Lanz) #4

Make a a grey scaled indexed (values from 0 to 255) bitmap where each color represent a hight value, where 0 is no hight and 255 is the tallest part. Then open SDRadiant and use GTKGensurf to create the terrain. I’ve never done it this way so I can’t really help you without checking it myself first.

(Shallow) #5

You can paint a heightmap and alphamap and use the GtkGensurf plugin to get your terrain started… Check out the Terrain Manual -

http://www.qeradiant.com/manual/Terrain_Manual/start.html

Some of the info in there is slightly outdated and the shader format it describes will be the old Q3 style (i.e. ignore it and copy one of ET’s shaders), but it will get you started. I tend to use either Gensurf or Easygen to approximately what I want, then do a lot of careful vertex editing in Radiant to turn that into exactly what I’m after.

I’m sure some nice folks will have links to other terrain tutorials too.

(Marko) #6

here’s a tutorial that might help you
http://mapdesign.ravencommunity.net/mapping/terrain_simple.htm