Terrain

Snapper576

81 Posts

#90760

Posted Feb 07, 2013

I am going to make an outdoor map SO I was wondering howto make terrain and a sky and an entrance that fits in.

Gemarakup

1,183 Posts

#90761

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 29 minutes later

Make the surrounding brushes for the sky and texture them with the skybox texture. In the map properties, choose a skybox name. Add an env fog controller, and for the ground, make it bumpy with the vertex tool. Texture the ground however you want. I suggest a grass material. Add clips so the player won't go too far and in the background, and add skybox models. I hope this helps.

Snapper576

81 Posts

#90763

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 1 hour later

Thanks!

josepezdj

2,386 Posts

#90766

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 1 hour later

@yishbarr: that's kind of a messy advice, if I may say.

Skybox: there are 2 different kinds, 2D and 3D. The easiest way is the 2D skybox (which is what yishbarr was referring to), though this one doesn't allow skybox models since it is applied in flat surfaces by texturing a brush's side with the texture toolsskybox, then opening your map's properties and selecting one of the stock skys (you can also use a custom one too, there are many in the internet, by simply dropping the files into your materials/skybox folder). The 3D skybox does allow 'skybox models' and a lot of stuff as yu can see in the wiki.
Terrain: you create out of displacements, and these are made by the Face Edit Sheet. You can select a variety of textures for displacement (or can make a custom one), search for 'blend' in your texture browser to find those that can be used here.

iWork925

1,080 Posts

#90772

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 2 hours later

yishbarr wrote:
for the ground, make it bumpy with the vertex tool.

Dude is you stupid?

Use displacements.

Gemarakup

1,183 Posts

#90773

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 16 minutes later

iWork925 wrote:
yishbarr wrote:

for the ground, make it bumpy with the vertex tool.

Dude is you stupid?

Use displacements.

Dude, I is hammer starter, and wrote this non tutorial on phone.

iWork925

1,080 Posts

#90774

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 5 minutes later

Oh I sorry. That seem like good excuse to give bad advice. My bad.

josepezdj

2,386 Posts

#90777

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 15 minutes later

iWork925 wrote:
Oh I sorry. That seem like good excuse to give bad advice. My bad.

Gemarakup

1,183 Posts

#90780

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 1 hour later

Not excuse. The person needs help. I is saying what I is know. Be my guest and give the person good advice. I is say that.

iWork925

1,080 Posts

#90782

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 23 minutes later

yishbarr wrote:
Not excuse. The person needs help. I is saying what I is know. Be my guest and give the person good advice. I is say that.

So its ok to give advice even if you have no idea what you're on about? Jeez.... In that case snapper, disregard the displacements. Terrain should be made by using the carve tool!

Gemarakup

1,183 Posts

#90785

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 4 minutes later

Maybe the buttons in the game should be connected by a cable instead of inputs and outputs.

Gemarakup

1,183 Posts

#90788

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 17 minutes later

What happened now is that we invented the first neurological digging double chat room forum.

FelixGriffin

2,680 Posts

#90798

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 5 hours later

Ignore all these people. You can make nice terrain by opening the Face Edit tool and clicking on the flat ground, then switching to the "Displacement" tab and clicking "Create." Once the displacement is created it won't seal the map from leaks, so you need to add another brush under it. Then you can start using the Paint Geometry tool to manipulate your terrain.

Snapper576

81 Posts

#90800

Posted Feb 07, 2013

Replied 39 minutes later

Thanks I am am just reading this thinking how stupid it is when people start arguments like that!

Gemarakup

1,183 Posts

#90816

Posted Feb 08, 2013

Replied 8 hours later

Good to know. Arguments usually starts when someone gets insulted in this case.

msleeper

4,136 Posts

Admin

#90919

Posted Feb 09, 2013

Replied 1 day later

yishbarr wrote:
Not excuse. The person needs help. I is saying what I is know. Be my guest and give the person good advice. I is say that.

If you yourself are not going to be giving good advice, then simply don't give any. Giving out "newbie information" is a terrible idea, because more often than not you perpetuate half-truths and partial solutions.

It's great that you want to help. Just make sure you're helping the best way that you really can.

Gemarakup

1,183 Posts

#90922

Posted Feb 10, 2013

Replied 3 hours later

I agree with you, but I really didn't know about displacements when I wrote this.

msleeper

4,136 Posts

Admin

#90969

Posted Feb 11, 2013

Replied 22 hours later

Then you shouldn't have posted in the first place. That's what I'm saying. Not providing any information at all is better than providing possibly bad information. Trust me, someone would have (and did) provide the correct solutions to the problem without you giving your "suggestion".

Gemarakup

1,183 Posts

#90980

Posted Feb 11, 2013

Replied 4 hours later

Well, I had no idea I was giving bad information.

Ace_StorM

75 Posts

#90983

Posted Feb 11, 2013

Replied 1 hour later

But that's the problem. You're new and you don't know how to handle Hammer perfectly. And that's okay. Nobody is going to hate you because you're not an instant-pro. What's not okay is that you give bad information assuming that it's the perfect solution to a problem. You might think that you know a problem's solution but you should keep in mind that there might be better solutions that you don't know since you're new.

Wouldn't you be confused, if you needed advice on something and a beginner gave you some that is completely unreliable and that would cause problems?

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