Terrain Inspiration Thread - with images

[enetheru]

Kinda reminds me of that map..

[PepeAmpere]

Kinda reminds me of that map..

Yep

[enetheru]

[smoth]

I would hate to cut that lawn

[enetheru]

[PicassoCT]

This is implementable. All you need is a gaiaUnit, which basically consists of a rockyPieces collection, and a well executed randomgen, seeded with the mapCoords (so its deterministic always the same feature at the same coord).. and there you are.

+You have controll over the direction it falls when it gets Killed.

[enetheru]

[enetheru]

Zion National Park, Utah

[enetheru]

Big Bend National Park, Texas

[PicassoCT]

Zion National Park, Utah

Not so fast.. not so fast..


http://springfiles.com/spring/spring-maps/echo-canyon

[enetheru]

Not so fast.. not so fast..

http://springfiles.com/spring/spring-maps/echo-canyon

looks like it could do with some detail splatting and normal mapping

[PicassoCT]

Uses splatmaps.. but doesent have normalmaps.. seems i m doing it wrong.. anyone of the gurus ready to tell me where i turned towards the dark path?

[enetheru]

Uses splatmaps.. but doesent have normalmaps.. seems i m doing it wrong.. anyone of the gurus ready to tell me where i turned towards the dark path?

I was just looking at the screen shot. I'll download the map and have a better look.

[enetheru]

[PicassoCT]

watermap feature yes..

terrrain nooo.

[Anarchid]

Maybe doable with parallax. If not parallax (because vertical stretching), maybe doable as a feature cliff (loosely matching terrain + nonblocking unselectable irreclaimable feature + reclaimable features for overhangs [if any]) ... +parallax just because parallax is so cool.

I think spring suffers too much from vertical stretching for things like this, but then there's enetheru and his feature exporter thing. With some imagination, you can make starcraft-cliff features with it rather easily.

[enetheru]

I think spring suffers too much from vertical stretching for things like this, but then there's enetheru and his feature exporter thing. With some imagination, you can make starcraft-cliff features with it rather easily.

I'm not sure features as terrain is quite viable yet.. because of the shading differences. it would stick out

just another reason I should learn to code.

[PicassoCT]

To the lua, to the mouse, till sweat drips down my brows-

Remember my fear of coding like a distant phobia now.. take a deep breath, cause today is the day, you ll do it.

[enetheru]

To the lua, to the mouse, till sweat drips down my brows-

Remember my fear of coding like a distant phobia now.. take a deep breath, cause today is the day, you ll do it.

haha, i have absolutely zero time for anything at the moment.. i think i'm even in negative time(putting things off that i should do to do other more fun things)

I need a holiday

[Anarchid]

I'm not sure features as terrain is quite viable yet.. because of the shading differences. it would stick out

1) That's what decals are for.
2) They are SUPPOSED to stick up.
3) And yeas, i'm trying to conconct a techdemo for this, but i always get dragged away by other stuff (nerfing things and promoting compatibility-breaking callback extensions mostly)