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Re: Best program for making levels/landscapes?
markkieboy, when you add an Erosion node in World Machine, it has four outputs... height, flow, wear, deposition. Only beef I have is some of the erosion comes out too linear, have to muck it up a bit in Photoshop. -
Re: Best program for making levels/landscapes?
Not every engine comes with it's own editor. And not every team can develop their own tools & applications. He was looking for a way to generate terrain without engine-specific tools. Vig and others have posted great info in here though, which should help oneup a lot. -
Re: Best program for making levels/landscapes?
What MoP said, World Machine is great. If you need control over the shape of the landscape you can create a rough heighmap in whatever program you're comfortable with, bring it in to WM and slap some corrosion/weathering on it. I've gotten some great results with very little effort. The maps coming out of it are great for… -
Re: Best program for making levels/landscapes?
Eric: Mostly the "linear" look comes from using the "geological time enhancememt" or whatever it's called, I usually try to do several erosion passes at different resolutions to get some good variation going on. I have another erosion filter besides the main one, it's very good but I have no idea where it came from, it's… -
Re: Best program for making levels/landscapes?
Vig: You're right, in the case of the UnrealEd version that ships with UT2004, you can only raise and lower verts. However, I believe they have some funky system in the UT2007 version / UE3 that allows some kind of sideways displacement. You can use matinee to create a flythrough camera view that will play in the editor.… -
Re: Best program for making levels/landscapes?
[ QUOTE ] ...I dont care about engine specific stuff... [/ QUOTE ]You should be really as that informs the decision you'll make as to what tools you use, assuming you're talking about 'modding' rather than employment; the latter you don't need to worry about in the context of your original question. Most games that come… -
Re: Best program for making levels/landscapes?
Displacement maps are nice but can be expensive (polywise) because you can use it as just a height map OR you can select a few faces and displace horizontally. You really have to be careful with displacement maps to get good results in some areas you sometimes need a bunch of polys. /me climbs on soap box (feel free to… -
Re: Best program for making levels/landscapes?
I'm a enviromental artist and I use max8. Here is a brief run down of my workflow. Most of my enviroments end up being large outdoor places. We do pre-rendered work but I always keep my scene low poly since it effects my render times. If you are new to max then I would say stick with the off the shelf packages they have…
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