making terrain *solved*

(cpthank) #1

is there a way to make terrain without easygen :?
i searched forum ,google and sticky tut
i cant find the answer i need :frowning:

someone can help me >.<? thx

(-SSF-Sage) #2

Yes. And there is a pretty simple solution. Itā€™s FATE. Fairly simple to use and quite powerful too. Unfortunately it never got ready, but itā€™s useful though.

(kamikazee) #3

There is also the ā€œmanualā€ approach. That one relies on two GTKRadiant 1.4 features: vertex editing and ā€œaxis lockā€.

You create your pattern of triangles first, then restrict movements of the terrain to the Z axis by clicking the X and Y buttons. That way, you can only drag the terrainā€™s vertices up and down when you need to alter the height of the terrain.

(89blitz) #4

You could try ā€œFATEā€ its a good tool but it lags a bit for big terrain :cyclops:

(VossieJr) #5

I canā€™t download FATE on the server thatā€™s standing aboveā€¦ :?

(]UBC[ McNite) #6

I d still use EasyGen for good terrain, because its simple, fast and efficient.
This is the best and most quick tutorial I know for EasyGen. Both TheRiver II and TheRiver II Redux have terrain done with EasyGen, and then manually tweaked a bit.

If you dont want EasyGen, do your terrain by hand, check out my map Warbell for completely handmade terrain.

(VossieJr) #7

You created warbell with ownmade terrain?? :o

But because Iā€™ve got windowsVISTA I canā€™t use easygen eatherā€¦ :frowning:
so thatā€™s why i need to try to find an other wayā€¦ besides with triangles

(aburn) #8

I once read about makeing terrain from simple patch meshā€¦ this is also an ideaā€¦ IDK about its efficeincyā€¦ butā€¦ you can try itā€¦

Make a BIIIIG brush and than hit Curve->Simple Patch Mesh

Than from there you get a planeā€¦

Hit V

and start editing your terrainā€¦

BUT I still recomend just manual aproachā€¦ makes it really BESTā€¦
I did itā€¦ and terraing of 4096x4096 was ready affter 1.5 hrsā€¦ with Dot2Prod Textureing :smiley:

(cpthank) #9

thx all :smiley:
now i have problem on terrain textures
how to make them ā€¦ like texture1 fade to texture2 :? (english bad :oops: )
i checked goldrush.map but i dont understand -_-

(aburn) #10

check this outā€¦

May be too much for you ATM :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue: but READā€¦ readā€¦ and you will get it :smiley:
http://www.simonoc.com/pages/articles.htm

(-SSF-Sage) #11

Fate gives you nice fading and it does it automatically. You can make just a few clicks and you have made a nice terrain. Remember to make the triangles big enough, so you wont have like 20000 brushes! :slight_smile:

(Tyrlop) #12

how? i have fate myself. i dont see any texture fadings?
:?

(TNR360) #13

I do what kamikazee said

(cpthank) #14

thx aburn :smiley:

but damn im noob dont know how to install new version q3map2 0.o
i tried to cover GTKā€™s q3map2 :expressionless: but no works
i would like to try DotProduct2 :stuck_out_tongue:

(cpthank) #15

sry double post 0.0
my friend solved my problem :slight_smile:

Thx all help!
terrain works good :smiley:

(murka) #16

OT:is the terrain for a new tj map?

(aburn) #17

For DotProd2 I have a few questionsā€¦ which version of radiant do you use?

I can tell you in a few steps what to doā€¦ so u get started with that stuffā€¦ it is really greateā€¦ whatever anyone other saisā€¦ I think this is the best way to make nice and predictable terrain textures :stuck_out_tongue:

I am not a guru in that thoā€¦ but I will get you startedā€¦ if you want that.