Terrain Editor

[Monovertex]

The Terrain Thread

The terrain editor is awesome.

Post here any terrains you have done with the GE Terrain Editor :thup:

 

[Daskunk]

Its fail in some ways though. Like you can't (Or you can, but I don't know how) make cliffs higher\lower then 4, use all of the tiles with ease ("Type" should be a drop down menu were you can select any tile set) you can't make cliff ramps go around corners (it as to be one side or the other) and you have to use the Remove Ramp tool which is slower because the undo button makes it bug sometimes.

Water should be placed down in smaller squares, too. Plus, I was having other cliff troubles. (Randomly it would change all of the cliff to the wrong thing)

Other wise its really good though!

 

[Monovertex]

Well, I haven't used cliffs at all, honest to be. I'm too used to lower/rise, from WE, and I think I'm going to use that in GE as well.

And seriously, not even those things won't make it less awesome for me. I mean, you get fading tiles, OMG! This is like the Grail for me, since I always disliked how I couldn't fade tiles from one to another :3.

 

[Renendaru]

You can even create custom lightning within your map, and my god is it so detailed on how many options you have...

Edit: Lighting effects are awesome.

 

[Jesus4Lyf]

Yeah, terraining is cool. :thup:
I might actually do some, now.

 

[Renendaru]

One feature I'm not too sure of in usefulness is hiding terrain cells...


Edit: This is the same terrain as before, but a bit different in lighting...

 

[chanta45]

Something that may help in building cliffs over 4, try creating a new map and setting the base height of the map at 6 instead of what its set at which is 8, and see if you can get higher cliffs.

GL! :thup:

 

[Cookiemaster]

Something that may help in building cliffs over 4, try creating a new map and setting the base height of the map at 6 instead of what its set at which is 8, and see if you can get higher cliffs.

GL! :thup:

No, the given height is only the Z-level of height-level 1. (zero being lowered, and 2 and 3 being the two you can put onto that.)

Even if you put the Z-level at 20, you can't go lower than usual.

 

[Monovertex]

Can a mod change the name of this thread into "The Terrain Thread", please. I want to turn this into the analogy of the WE terrain thread .

Also, users posting here should note that this is only for showcasing terrains. If you need help with any issue, make a new thread .

 

[tain]

how do you make underground terrains?

 

[Renendaru]

Did I do something bad?

 

[Yoshii]

Did I do something bad?

thats a recipe for epilepsy with that light

 

[Zwiebelchen]

What I seriously dislike about the SC2 terrain editor is the lack of good environmental doodads. The trees look comic style again, although starcraft is supposed to have a "realistic" look.

Don't get me wrong; the textures of the doodads are usually very good, but the general style is totally ugly. The Stones and trees look extremely weird.

I think I will create some custom tree and stone, such as medieval housing sandbox* models in the next weeks using ingame textures.

*This means that instead of creating an entire tree, you create only a trees crown, or the stem of the trees and then attach them together to complete trees and stuff - that way you can save lots of space but still can have awesome variation in doodads