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Personally I love much more natturaly looking hills and cliffs. So I never use ussual "Apply One/Two" cliff tool.
Apply ground tools - how I call it - raises/smoothes/lowers ground gently.
Here they are:
The first one called Raise. What it does? Raises.
There's many ways to use that. So many...
A Simple ground:
Same ground with litle Raise job.
looks better huh?
Basicaly it's same as raise tool with opposite meaning.
Only usefull stuff I'm doing with it, is rivers.
A Tip: When you create any map, choose "Initial water level - Shallow Water"
Then when the map is created, use Raise tool to cover all water.
Later when you need rivers, just use lower tool to get 'em
I'll keep this tool for the end of tutorial, it's my favorite
Noise tool creates ugly hills and deformates ground.
Smooth tool polishes all edges, attemts to math all terrain in same size.
So those two is perfect couple.
First noise your terrain
Then smooth it:
Doesn't really look like something changed... Just more edges. Oh well, I use this tool rarely anyway.
This lovely tool grabs terrain height on where was it clicked, and by dragging applies same height on other place. This can create different cliff heights, ramps [using with smooth tool] and even craters [ I'll show later ]
So here's this simple map with plaetau:
The hill levels I've added doesn't really shows up. But wait 'till I swich some terrain tiles:
Now how's that? Let's add some doodads to make this litle place more alive.
NOTE: Blizzard's doodads nearly all is oversized. Same with some units. For better effect reduce size 2x of things you place. I did it for rocks, flowers, cattails and critters.
Were done with this map. Now lets pratice to use theese tools with other things:
This time I took barrens theme.
Cliffs is made with Raise tool, litle shuffled with Noise, polished with Smooth, and then one pixel by one pixel raised with Raise again:
Crater is done like this.
Make full Raised Circle. O
Then Using Plaetau press on lower ground, and delete part of the circle, including center. Make it look like this C
After this, your circle should be nothing more than hills oval, and entrance. Use plaetau again, press on one of hill, and cover the entrance. Now you have full circle with low middle - Crater
Some more on Island Theme:
Comments are welcome
Happy terraining, with new style.
___________________________
Best Ideas Comes When You're Not Thinking
-> The Land Of Wonders
-> Simple Equipment System TuT
Apply ground tools - how I call it - raises/smoothes/lowers ground gently.
Here they are:
Raise Tool
The first one called Raise. What it does? Raises.
There's many ways to use that. So many...
A Simple ground:
Same ground with litle Raise job.
looks better huh?
Lower Tool
Basicaly it's same as raise tool with opposite meaning.
Only usefull stuff I'm doing with it, is rivers.
A Tip: When you create any map, choose "Initial water level - Shallow Water"
Then when the map is created, use Raise tool to cover all water.
Later when you need rivers, just use lower tool to get 'em
Plaetau Tool
I'll keep this tool for the end of tutorial, it's my favorite
Noise Tool and Smooth Tool
Noise tool creates ugly hills and deformates ground.
Smooth tool polishes all edges, attemts to math all terrain in same size.
So those two is perfect couple.
First noise your terrain
Then smooth it:
Doesn't really look like something changed... Just more edges. Oh well, I use this tool rarely anyway.
Plaetau Tool [again]
This lovely tool grabs terrain height on where was it clicked, and by dragging applies same height on other place. This can create different cliff heights, ramps [using with smooth tool] and even craters [ I'll show later ]
So here's this simple map with plaetau:
The hill levels I've added doesn't really shows up. But wait 'till I swich some terrain tiles:
Now how's that? Let's add some doodads to make this litle place more alive.
NOTE: Blizzard's doodads nearly all is oversized. Same with some units. For better effect reduce size 2x of things you place. I did it for rocks, flowers, cattails and critters.
Were done with this map. Now lets pratice to use theese tools with other things:
This time I took barrens theme.
Cliffs is made with Raise tool, litle shuffled with Noise, polished with Smooth, and then one pixel by one pixel raised with Raise again:
Crater is done like this.
Make full Raised Circle. O
Then Using Plaetau press on lower ground, and delete part of the circle, including center. Make it look like this C
After this, your circle should be nothing more than hills oval, and entrance. Use plaetau again, press on one of hill, and cover the entrance. Now you have full circle with low middle - Crater
Some more on Island Theme:
Comments are welcome
Happy terraining, with new style.
___________________________
Best Ideas Comes When You're Not Thinking
-> The Land Of Wonders
-> Simple Equipment System TuT
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