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Huge tracts of land

by Terry Smith · in Torque Game Engine · 03/30/2003 (5:41 pm) · 4 replies

I'm interested in creating a game with a very large elliptical island. What I need is help in laying the terrain down, preferably being pointed at a tool that will create one fractally given some parameters.

Anyone got any suggestions?
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    Torque Owner Daniel Neilsen
    #1
    03/30/2003 (6:41 pm)
    I have done a similiar thing in the past with the TGE Terrain Editor.

    How I have done it is to create a bitmap of what I want it to look like (roughly) then I import that into the terrain editor as a heightmap.

    I then use the "blend" tool to merge it with a fractual terrain to get my terrain which I can then manually clean up (should it be required)

    Hope that helps some

    James "Nycto" Frasca
    #2
    03/30/2003 (8:38 pm)
    I will usually use Terragen as a base for my terrain, then edit it with Photoshop until it more resembles my vision, and put the finishing touches on it by hand in the editor.

    Torque Owner Terry Smith
    #3
    03/31/2003 (1:46 am)
    Thanks for the replies - could someone point me at some dox regarding importing terragen maps please?

    I hate being this ignorant.... :-(

    Torque 3D Owner Stefan Rampp
    #4
    03/31/2003 (4:46 am)
    Take a look at this thread:
    www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=forums&page=result.thread&qt=5393