Need help modelling the ground surface

Will Faucher

Hey,
So I am currently at the stage where I need to model the ground level for my environment. However, I'm sort of stumped. Normall I would block it out in UDK and paint the textures and use advanced texture blending on the ground itself. However, this is for a render in Max, and I'm not quite sure how to proceed.

I was thinking about modelling the entire ground level, unwrapping it, and them texturing it. Would this be a viable solution? This environment is not exactly small, and the ground level would probably need to use a massive texture size, perhaps something like 4096. Are there other solutions that are more efficient than this?

Thanks alot!

pumbaa

Since your used to UDK I guess your familiar with tiling textures? Id go that way judging from the info you provided. Break the tiling up with vegetation and decals.

Good luck!

Will Faucher

Thing is, my terrain has texture variations. Stone, Grass, Riverbed, moss, etc.
I can't simply pop on a simple tileable texture and be done with it...

Shogun3d

You can use masks or vertex blending, both has advantages and disadvantages and there are a lot of tutorials around. This one is the first to come to mind.

http://www.hourences.com/book/tutorialstextureblending.htm