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1. Re: Terrain skirts and decoration techniques

   

   Reply by armagon · Sep 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   Yeah, the diffuse WM generates doesn't look that good inside the engine. I'll try to use a different colorization macro or replace with real textures.

2. Re: Terrain skirts and decoration techniques

   

   Reply by armagon · Sep 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'm using the diffuse from WM, as well the normal. Instead of displacing a mesh in Max or Blender, i'm using the Mesh Output device: http://www.world-machine.com/learn.php?page=devref#PRMO

3. Re: Terrain skirts and decoration techniques

   

   Reply by Eric Chadwick · Sep 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   You could export a heightmap and splatmaps from World Machine, and use those on subdivided planes, with tiling diffuse textures. We have several methods here: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/MultiTexture http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Landscape

4. Terrain skirts and decoration techniques

   

   Topic by armagon · Sep 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   In this amazing talk in the GDC Vault: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1277/HALO-WARS-The-Terrain-of The developers used a tileable terrain to create a good sense of depth in the maps. They called that technique terrain skirts. In Battlefield: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015676/Terrain-in-Battlefield-3-A They seem to use a…