devWAM • Terrain Making Tutorial

coffeycup created Terrain Making Tutorial on Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:35 pm

Cesm asked me to put together a tutorial on terrain for C2, so here it is.

http://coffey.polygonized.com/terrain.html

Toshiba-3 on Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:17 pm

Very good work, sir ! And thank you for the effort.
I used the same technic to make the terrain for the Bretret track project.
Don't forget that you can also optimize the terrain via 3dsMax. I don't know whether Action3D Reducer let you optimize smaller parts of the terrain or wheter you only can optimize the whole model, but 3dsMax is great to have different optimization parameters for different poly selections.

Anyway the exemple in your tutorial has a very good polycount in comparison with its size.

coffeycup on Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:35 pm

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I don't know whether Action3D Reducer let you optimize smaller parts of the terrain or wheter you only can optimize the whole model..

If you have sub-parts, you can select them individually and apply different amounts of reduction.
Or you can just select the whole model and do it all the same amount, either way.

TTR on Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:43 pm

Thanks for the effort! Say...are you gonna use that map? it looks good! :grin:

cesm20 on Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:46 am

thanks for the tuturial coffeycup, even tough i am not sure if i am going to use these programs, since they are demos (shareware), and besides indeed 3dsmax does the same thing that those programs, BUT the tuturials will still be usefull of course, thanks anyways!