My first small Terrian (At Last)

[steveuk]

At last ive got the hang of doing basic terrians, in future i hope to start makeing my terrians look a bit more better than having the flat ones.lol


Ok here it is,nothink special, but it is my first one..What ya think. Small Hilly terrian(need to know how to ass differnt texture colours to it now.?
Also i just found out the Terrian hills/mounds are all hollow inside, and very thin that you can see through them at most points, did i do my terrian to thin i did it 14/14 how can i fix the terrian so it not so hollow inside and ya cant see through it when wanlking towads it, as you can see the rocks from the other side of the hill.





Problem i have when walking towards the hill

Steve

[waywaaaard]

hey Steve - I am pleased that u didnt give up with mapping and I got maybe something interessting for ya

http://www.modsonline.com/Tutorials-read-352.html

download it - and read the pdf maybe gives ya some new perspectives 'bout mapping etc

edit: and here is an tutorial how to use diffrent textures for ya terrain XD
http://www.modsonline.com/Tutorials-read-122.html

just read all the tutorials on mo and you get known to most techniques

[Drofder2004]

Looking good so far.

The only problem I see in the final picture is you have a terrain raised on top of a flat terrain.

What are you trying to do?
What have you done so far?
What is exactly wrong?

[steveuk]

Not sure what happened to be honest, firstly i di 1 terrian with levels, and it wouldnt match up, it kepted overlaying. so i scraped it, and started fresh.
The one aboce is just a single brusuh i used

i went to a tutorial COOL made me on his site. See here.http://www.coolandyano.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58
I followed the excate way , nice short easy to follow, and thats how i made this terrain.. I did only use a single brush tho, so why is there another flat terrian underneath it.> maybe i had a copy of a flat one in memory and didnt know about it,and got pasted onto it somehow.>???

Anyways thanks fot the help & support, i'll keep at it..

I just want know how to add differnt type of terrians now, like have Grass/Gravell/Sand, ect on 1 terrian if possible.

Looking at CPT.Cools Reply on his forum he says i have to add non Hollow to it, how do i do that>???

Steve

[Drofder2004]

You cannot use 2 textures on 1 piece of terrain, to do that you must use alpha blending, but that is a whole 'nother level. I posted a video tut a while back, not sure if it is still hosted or not.

The second terrain underneath is probably due to an accidental copy, just select it and delete it.

[steveuk]

You cannot use 2 textures on 1 piece of terrain, to do that you must use alpha blending, but that is a whole 'nother level. I posted a video tut a while back, not sure if it is still hosted or not.

The second terrain underneath is probably due to an accidental copy, just select it and delete it.

yea there was a 2nd layer underneath causeing the problem and it was coz i was still in radiant i could see through the hill.lol when i compiled it i had errors, SP_Tool kepted crashing coz of the 2nd layer & i found a differ skybox(part of one) on the original skybox...lol so when i removed that SP_tool started to work ok again.,

here a new updated image as in game SP

Here my terrian1c.map file if anyine want to mess around with it.lol

http://dodownload.filefront.com/9697394 ... e8885d0fa5
I think the Hills are a little not to big, nut outa shape, will need to work on that.
Now a few quetions
1: how do i make a type of mountain terrian.
1a: What Brushes. textures would i need for mountain terrians.
1b: How do i blemd like Dirt into grass, and maybe add snow to mountain tops,if i use snow & mountains.
1c: Would i need to make more than 1 layer for a mountain terrian, if so,whow would i match /level them them to fit each other.
1d: how would i make a water/river feature on my terrian.

Ok think thats it, and i know you guys will say look at the WIKI tutorials, but to be honest i think Wiki tutorials are either to hard to understand, or not easy enought to follows and are not laid out easy to folow, im sure thee stuff missing from them tutorials.

If someone has time to make a STEP by STEP tutorial, like COOL did on his forum to do simple Tutorians, this would be a real big help not just forme but for others mappers as well.

Maybe Codjumper could concider in doing such a topic section on this,if not already doing so. i know it has mapping section and tutorials, but how about one like this, how to start from scratch then add bits to the terrian bit by bit.?? Just an idear..I know it a jump map forum, but we need terrians to make more better complex maps.

Anwsers comments on above idear.
I think Marshall would be a cool person do do somethink like this, but honestly i have found some of his tutorials hard to follow like the Wikis one,lol, so he would have to start off as basic,for real learners, not for people who already know the basics of terrian mappng.

Steve

Download link changed ive aded Terrian & MP_terrian . map for downloading

[Drofder2004]

Like I said, somewhere there is a "alpha-blending" video, check the tutorial sections of CoD/coD2

[waywaaaard]

o.O I posted for you the link to the tutorial for diffrent textures o.O