Geography - How do you see TSM?

[ElCadaver]

Unhijacking thread with my first attempt at western eurpoean mountains. It's really hard to capture the look in photos, but here are some. I still have to work out how to use tallus heightmaps, to get the gravel falling down hills look.

[darrenhfx]

Looks great! What does the walkmesh end up looking like when you have that many small surface features?

How many textures did you use with your texture mapping?

[gribo]

The scale seems to be a bit too small, such detailed height map can easily span a larger area.

[HATEFACE]

kaka

[ThinkTank]

kaka

OK, we'r gonna have to bleep that.

[indio]

ElC, wow man, that's just mad. To be creating that sort of work as quickly as you have is a sign of awesome things to come. And texture control to boot!

[ElCadaver]

@ darrenhfx
walkmesh is screwed, so I made all of it walkable and the painted the snow areas as unwalkable, and my last exture covers slope >0.8 in lowland areas, so made that unwalkable too. 5 textures, could be done with less, but I am trying to figure out how best to use the the talus age and talus angle heightmaps from world machine.

@ helios
bite me, its a first run.


@ indio & gribo
In my mind I've been trying to emulate pictures I've seen in terragen with full texturing, but I've found in truth, the toolset won't map heightmaps or texture maps with high enough resolution to do that kind of thing. So yeah scale was off, and what looks awesome in world machine translates poorly sometimes in YATT. It's work in progress. Eventually I'll get the scale right, and have ridges of rocks, with piles of talus streaming down hillsides in mounds like you are supposed too. Its about finding a level of detail in WM that YATT can deal with.

[Mulu]

That would be great. The winter weather is described as being as much or more of a threat to people in the Marches than monsters are. I always wanted to do that, but NWN1 was... less than capable.

*shrugs* I'm doing it in my Silver Marches NWN1 mod. Not that hard to dupe areas with a fall/winter/spring&summer version. Just copy and paste everything onto a new map with the seasonal tileset, and then you load the mod for that season, or keep it all in one mod and use placeable triggers for AT's.

Anyway, looks nice! Figures endure elements isn't a bard spell.

[Mord]

goddamn wizards!

[Grand Fromage]

*shrugs* I'm doing it in my Silver Marches NWN1 mod. Not that hard to dupe areas with a fall/winter/spring&summer version. Just copy and paste everything onto a new map with the seasonal tileset, and then you load the mod for that season, or keep it all in one mod and use placeable triggers for AT's.

Well I should've had you do it for me then. Only ~500 areas, tell me when you're done. Surely no harder than pressing a single button.

[ElCadaver]

[ThinkTank]

Damn them rocks are some pointy duodimentional shite sirrah, smooth! for the love of gawd.

[ElCadaver]

Yeah, I'm thinking erosion don't really work, playing with terraces now

[ThinkTank]

I tend to use flatten to set up a single large collum per peak, then used a combination of smooth and raise to draw it down into a natural form. Much like tree roots. Then use placable rock faces to simulate erosion and a large light preasure, dark gray color tool to make the texture nice, stoney and forbidding.

[ElCadaver]

TT, I've made these without even touching the toolset, bar grass and trees. Thats my point, to use World machine and YATT to be able and hieghtmap and texture an area in a very short time. What I'm doing at the moment is maiking lots of different circuits in WM and seeing what translates best to terrain in the toolset. At the moment, the best is just combining two plain old perlin noise generators on different settings with things like simple displacement, terrace or ramp.