Please help, want to make realistic outdoor terrain!!!

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Can someone please please please explain how to make nice looking outdoor terrain with hills and things..


I would appreciate any help!

 

[Bigcheese]

displacment

 

[Viperidae]

Supposedly there is displacement map terrain in Hammer, but I haven't figured out how to use it yet. The only way to really do terrain is the old fashion multiple polygon floor.

http://img99.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img99&image=terrain.jpg

 

[Bigcheese]

displacment

ill give you another hint. use the texture tool.

 

[Viperidae]

Ahh, I get it now, thanks BigCheese.

Marksman just forget my above post. To make terrain, just make a flat surface and under it's texture properties select the surface you want to deform. Go into Displacement, click on Create, then Paint Geometry. Then a window will come up, giving you different options and such. Just experiment! Hella fun.

 

[Argyll]

Useful tutorial:

http://www.insurgencymod.net/team/slicky/tut/tutfile.html

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Ahh, I get it now, thanks BigCheese.

Marksman just forget my above post. To make terrain, just make a flat surface and under it's texture properties select the surface you want to deform. Go into Displacement, click on Create, then Paint Geometry. Then a window will come up, giving you different options and such. Just experiment! Hella fun.

Thanks mate! And everyone else.


I knew it had something to do with displacement... but I wasnt really sure.



Time to spend some time messing arround!

 

[Icewind]

When using blend**** texture you can paint on displacement maps, but I haven't figured out how yet, does anyone know how to use blend textures

 

[Krenzo]

Does anyone have any more info? I think the displacement map support is pretty poor as there doesn't appear to be a way to import a heightmap and use that. I've found a program that can take a heightmap and turn it into a map for Hammer, so that's definitely getting me on my way. However, what about dynamic tesselation and geomod support? Does the engine not include anything like that? I found a listing of an entity in HL 2 that might relate to it (the entity of terrain morph).

 

[Nostradamus]

How do i select each surface of a box?

 

[Argyll]

When using blend**** texture you can paint on displacement maps, but I haven't figured out how yet, does anyone know how to use blend textures

It doesn't seem to be working for me either.