Scaling Terrain

[Shinobi]

I've been working on my map which is largrly terrain based, anyways I made all the terrain for the 3D skybox in my main map so the vertices would line up..

problem is when I go to scale the terrain by 16 for the skybox the terrain gets all skewed and ugly.. So is it posible to scale terrain or am I screwed?

 

[mrmonkah]

Im not sure but i think the displacements dont change, so for example if you create a block, give it a noise of 16units then when you scale it down, the noise will still be at 16 units so you get VERY jaggy looking geometry. I think you have to stick to making hills from displacements that only raise and lower a few units.

 

[Raeven0]

Or you could use the fairly obvious "Scale" field in the displacement editor...

 

[Shinobi]

The terrain scale tool doesnt seem to scale, it just seems to flatten the displacement

 

[Raeven0]

If it's already at one-sixteenth scale, it will seem pretty flat

Works nicely for me. Or, rather, worked when I used it some unknown amount of time ago.

 

[Shinobi]

it's at regular scale, I set it to 0.0625 in the displacement editor,, the terrain doesnt change in scale, it just conforms more to it's orginal cube shape,,,

 

[DrDevin]

Scale the displacement to .0625 then go to the displacements properties and change the scale to the same thing, it should work fine.

 

[Shinobi]

did that,, almost works, but there's irregular prfound scewing


I'll just consider it a lesson learnt

 

[Shinobi]

I think it may be due to corrupted displacements,, I just tried it with new ones
and DRDevins method work,,, thanks for all the help guys