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created How to make terrains for games
on 09-18-2011 12:19 AM
Well I promised that I would make a tutorial showing how I make terrains, I ended up recording over 4 hours of video tutoring at 1080p split in 3 parts.
Just wanted to share with the community and I hope it can help some people out there 
Preview :
Terrain test :
Links :
Part 1 :
Part 2 :
Part 3 :
Part 4 :
Part 5 :
Part 6 :
Part 7 :
Part 8 :
Texturing :
Part 1 :
Part 2 :
Part 3 :
Part 4 :
How to import a terrain to UDK :
Final result :
Sorry for my terrible English on the side note xD
Last edited by choco; 12-13-2011 at 04:53 PM..
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, triangle,
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Thanks a lot for taking the time and uploading all this!
I have been messing around with Worldmachine for a while now, and this should really help giving my terrains that finalized feel.
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, null,
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wow
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, polygon,
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Wow this is great! Thanks a lot for all the effort you put into it |
, dedicated polycounter,
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This looks like a lot of fun. Can't wait for the rest of the videos!
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, spline,
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I'll definitely be following this. I was wondering though, could you use these techniques to make a terrain that isn't square. A better example would be this picture: http://static.desktopnexus.com/thumb...gthumbnail.jpg
I assume I'd build a base mesh similar to that shape and follow the rest of your steps? |
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wow big thanks for this!
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, vertex,
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Awesome post! Thanks for this!
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, vertex,
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Your terrain looks kickass but from what i gathered in the wip thread the polycount is extremely high. I have my doubts about the practical usability for anything that goes beyond a portfolio showpiece. There is a reason why the regular terrain in CE uses lod steps for the tesselation. The guideline from Crytek is 50k tris on screen for terrain.
My personal workflow is that i sculpt my base terrain in sandbox then export it to GeoControl, run some filters for erosion or whatever on it and from there it goes back to sandbox terrain. I'm sure you can do it similarely after all your steps. You can even bake your terrain texture and import it into sandbox. So the end result shouldn't look that much different but run a lot smoother.
Completely ignore everything that i wrote if you already do it like that. Part 2 and 3 arn't up yet.
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, line,
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Steppenwolf
Your terrain looks kickass but from what i gathered in the wip thread the polycount is extremely high. I have my doubts about the practical usability for anything that goes beyond a portfolio showpiece. There is a reason why the regular terrain in CE uses lod steps for the tesselation. The guideline from Crytek is 50k tris on screen for terrain.
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He won't actually use the model in-game.
He's just using it to generate the texture maps and a heightmap, which he then apply to the CryEngine/UDK's terrain.
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, null,
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Awesome, what are the islands in the distance made of? They planes or models?
Last edited by snow; 09-18-2011 at 06:50 AM..
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, triangle,
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thanks part 2/3 is up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRHSbiF6chU
part 3/3 will be on youtube later today
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, triangle,
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dude you are awesome!
you terrains looks F amazing!
(ﾉ￣∀￣)ﾉオオォォ
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, spline,
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I haven't had a chance to watch these yet but a big Thank you for taking the time, much appreciated.
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, triangle,
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whoa @_@ i was wondering if i would ever learn your technique. I saw ur stuff on the WAYWO thread. Thanks a million for posting a whole thread about this man!
I will for sure soak in some of this knowledge!
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, triangle,
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Very very kind of you |
, polygon,
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sweeeet |
, spline,
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thanks a bunch dude!
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, polygon,
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just watched the first two, awesome job, thanks! can't wait for the 3rd video to be uploaded
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, triangle,
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This is really interesting. Alot of respect to you sir!
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, dedicated polycounter,
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These are awesome. Thanks for uploading!  |
, polygon,
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Why youtube!?!?! Can You upload them to megaupload or mediafire as well, please?????
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, dedicated polycounter,
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Computron
Why youtube!?!?! Can You upload them to megaupload or mediafire as well, please?????
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why would he?
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, spline,
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Paunescu.Daniel
why would he?
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So they can be easily downloaded and watched in a video player that isn't Flash-based, such as VLC or Quicktime. So they can be watched offline. So you can have them for future reference stored on your computer. For a multitude of reasons.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Swizzle
So they can be easily downloaded and watched in a video player that isn't Flash-based, such as VLC or Quicktime. So they can be watched offline. So you can have them for future reference stored on your computer. For a multitude of reasons.
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they can be downloaded off of youtube as well
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