Underground buildings and caves?

#1 If you are trying to use the landscape as walls for your structure then I would suggest that you place the structure on the terrain and shape the terrain around it to form your walls.

#2 Yeah but i need the landscape to over the top of the buildings too

#3 Yeah but i need the landscape to over the top of the buildings too

#4 If that is the case then you might want to think about making the whole level with dif and dts parts and removing the terrain from it all together.

I have tried the set empty on terrain parts but I never got any good results.

#5 Caves can be done with terrain and .difs. A little creativity goes a long way. oh btw, be aware if you are doing this in the design phase becuase when you close it up. It gets really dark..
afterlighting
before lighting

so if you making alot of caves. or a big cave, take into account the need for lighting

#6 I think i understand what you mean but....

So there is no actual way to have terain as say a roof??

#7 Not without some kind of modification with the engine, as it would require 2 terrains interactions. you can also use single difs and create mini caves. ill post a pic later of a example of a minicave. :) i have one in my arena


this is actually inside the mountain.

#8 Thanks Edward...I did manage to work out some kind of underground complex although what I really want to do with my game just is not possible with the level editor no amount of creativity will allow me to do exactly what I want which is quite important ....so brings me to my next question....Has anyone modified the engine to allow what im asking or know of another program that I could use to allow this. as i need multi levels of terrain?

#9 I think, based on what I've read of TGEA that Atlas terrains are supposed to support Caves. But you'd have to use a different tool than the standard top down terrain modelers to create the cave.

Do you need collision on the roof? If not you could model a .dts in a modelling app to look like the mountain/cave. Then use a simple collision mesh to create the interior collision. You probably wouldnt be able to walk on the terrain above the cave, but with clever thought into it.. you could overcome that.

I'm trying to do similar things with tunnels going through mountains. So far what I'm doing is to model difs as the tunnel and cut holes in the terrain with set empty. Not sure what I'd do on an atlas terrain, since I cant see where you can create a whole in them.

#10 Take a look at the Lighting system feature Demo in the FPS STarter Kit. It has a simple underground walkway there.

#11 whups, kinda raised the dead there. sorry.

#12 I am looking for a way to put caves and stuff like that in my game how is it down is there a program to do it or how does it work

tbarlow