WastedSavior
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Swamp Tutorial
I. This Tutorial will cover how to make a marshy/swampland
Alterations to Objects:
-Create 2 new Northrend Trees, Increase size of both to 1.5, set the fixed rotation of to -1, and pick one of them and change the maximum pitch angle to -1.5
-Create new lily pad (Preferably the one with 3 variations), Tint 125/125/125
-Create a river rush environment doodad, increase size to 1.5, and tint 125/125/125
II. Shaping:
-Your gonna want to start the map with shallow water, then use the raise land tool to shape out little islands
III. Texturing:
-Depending on what your going for, you can throw in some rough dirt, blight, or some leaves
IV. Doodads:
-Lay down some trees on your little islands, and throw a few of your fallen trees in the water (The ones with altered maximum pitch angle),
-Powder the edges of the islands with the river rush
-Add some small clusters of lily pads (Note: they usually grow in calm, shallow water, so try not to put them at the base of a waterfall, i usually put them in area's that look like they'd be sheltered from the rush of a river)
V. Added Effects:
-Create a dummy unit, remove shadow, give him locust, crank up his size, and change his model to the parasite projectile, throw these around, they look like will'o'the'wisp
-you can also throw in some decaying corpses, and flies, even a grave or two
-also go to map options under the advanced tab and use a custom tint for darker water, i went with gray
- Critters! unless your going for a depressing decaying lifeless setting! you'll want little beasties to wander around, sooo go to object editor, throw down a few skink and frogs, and to make things a little more realistic, tint them 150/150/150 to make 'em fit the scene, and shrink them till ya like 'em!
Doodads (Extended Ideas)
Birds - Why not? they make the skys a little more active
Bats - Don't want a friendly environment? whats freakier then a bat?
Flies - Flies are great, you can throw them on top of a corpse, or on a mushroom
Remains Scorched - Someone got lost and died!? poor sob..
Fish Dead - oh come on! this can be used in anywhere!
Fish - all 3 of them are good try placing them in a nice river rush area, or between rocks!
Authors Notes: Remember, this is my opinion of a great swamp, many will not see eye-to-eye on everything, and id appreciate their constructive criticism, also it is always a good idea to experiment with ability models, I've stumbled across alot of great abilities or unit projectiles that look great as dummy units!
I. This Tutorial will cover how to make a marshy/swampland
Alterations to Objects:
-Create 2 new Northrend Trees, Increase size of both to 1.5, set the fixed rotation of to -1, and pick one of them and change the maximum pitch angle to -1.5
-Create new lily pad (Preferably the one with 3 variations), Tint 125/125/125
-Create a river rush environment doodad, increase size to 1.5, and tint 125/125/125
II. Shaping:
-Your gonna want to start the map with shallow water, then use the raise land tool to shape out little islands
III. Texturing:
-Depending on what your going for, you can throw in some rough dirt, blight, or some leaves
IV. Doodads:
-Lay down some trees on your little islands, and throw a few of your fallen trees in the water (The ones with altered maximum pitch angle),
-Powder the edges of the islands with the river rush
-Add some small clusters of lily pads (Note: they usually grow in calm, shallow water, so try not to put them at the base of a waterfall, i usually put them in area's that look like they'd be sheltered from the rush of a river)
V. Added Effects:
-Create a dummy unit, remove shadow, give him locust, crank up his size, and change his model to the parasite projectile, throw these around, they look like will'o'the'wisp
-you can also throw in some decaying corpses, and flies, even a grave or two
-also go to map options under the advanced tab and use a custom tint for darker water, i went with gray
- Critters! unless your going for a depressing decaying lifeless setting! you'll want little beasties to wander around, sooo go to object editor, throw down a few skink and frogs, and to make things a little more realistic, tint them 150/150/150 to make 'em fit the scene, and shrink them till ya like 'em!
Doodads (Extended Ideas)
Birds - Why not? they make the skys a little more active
Bats - Don't want a friendly environment? whats freakier then a bat?
Flies - Flies are great, you can throw them on top of a corpse, or on a mushroom
Remains Scorched - Someone got lost and died!? poor sob..
Fish Dead - oh come on! this can be used in anywhere!
Fish - all 3 of them are good try placing them in a nice river rush area, or between rocks!
Authors Notes: Remember, this is my opinion of a great swamp, many will not see eye-to-eye on everything, and id appreciate their constructive criticism, also it is always a good idea to experiment with ability models, I've stumbled across alot of great abilities or unit projectiles that look great as dummy units!
thanks for the feedback
