Making great rocks

[spirit]

What's your favorite / fastest method for making rocks that look great? Which tools (of which editor) do you use?

3-point-clipping? edge-tool? vertex editing mode?

I am using this method and the vertex editing mode of NetRadiant. It works but it takes time.

[m]

This...

nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=8

And the process for my current dealio, .map1a (first import and adjustments) and .map1q (current mess) are pictured. There are existing iterations in between those two, when dealing with terrain/rocks...save save save!





There's almost no limit (aside from engine constraints) to what you can do with triangles, practice and patience with the Q2 engine.

[spirit]

I also thought about using a terrain editor but those I tried can't make stuff like caves, overhanging ceilings etc because they generate the terrain more or less from 2D height maps. Of course you could rotate stuff in-game and put different pieces together but this won't make clean brushwork I guess.

Making prefabs and copying them from map to map is also something I started (the problem is I don't have much I can re-use atm, hehe. But I wanna get some practice anyways.)

[spirit]

I've had a closer look at that Terrain Generator you linked and it's really powerful. It speeds up the creation of large structures dramatically and there even is a cave tutorial on the website. Thanks for that link!

[m]

Nov 6, 2010 9:22:08 GMT -5 spirit said:

I've had a closer look at that Terrain Generator you linked and it's really powerful. It speeds up the creation of large structures dramatically and there even is a cave tutorial on the website. Thanks for that link!

Yepper, it works very well for all sorts of terra-mapa. There's still a semi-steep learning curve to get smooth transitions and so forth but there are all kinds of shortcuts and cheats that help.

I was gonna point to a couple maps...

marics_ctf16 - q2.backshooters.com/pub/maps/q2/marics_ctf16.zip

marics78 q2.backshooters.com/pub/maps/q2/marics78.zip

marics81 - q2.backshooters.com/pub/maps/q2/marics81.zip

marics90 - q2.backshooters.com/pub/maps/q2/marics90.zip

marics_spdwy3 - q2.backshooters.com/pub/maps/q2/marics_spdwy3.zip

For a cave/tunnel dealios.

[Mikemc]

I've been thinking about either Nem's Terrain Generator, or some other one for Half-Life (maybe same one?). I really need a large asteroid for a deathmatch map.

- Mike

[spirit]

I don't know about the HL ones but Nem's tool rocks. Try it, it's easy!

[m]

Nov 18, 2010 3:04:25 GMT -5 Mikemc said:

I've been thinking about either Nem's Terrain Generator, or some other one for Half-Life (maybe same one?). I really need a large asteroid for a deathmatch map.

- Mike

I'll make ya' a large hemorrhoid if'n ya' want... Oh wait! You said asteroid, I'll make you one of those too, I give you the rocky shell you do the rest, eh?