Walls

[Blunkanthrust]

Is there a way to set walls/fences in a circle? I've been trying to make a sort of fort with the rural walls but from my very limited knowledge and playing about the only way I've found so far is to manually place them down.

[mrieder79]

You have to manually put them in a circle and make sure they line up just right by manipulating them. It is painfully slow. Just making a small town has taken a month for me before.

[Blunkanthrust]

I sort of cheated a bit and made this by slowly rotating square walls to make it look circular
I've only just started toolset wise so this is exceptionally basic and the first thing I've ever seriously tried to make so be kind

[mrieder79]

Very good. That's how it's done. Raise the ground around the pallisade just a bit. You can even have some of the bits of the pallisade underground a bit to give the impression of earthwork around it. This also applies to buildings. Put very small terrain variations around them to give a more realistic and less "flat" look.

[Blunkanthrust]

Cool thanks will do i'll post some updates once i've done some more

[DM Galadriel]

Also setting the color to black with very low pressure and painting color along wall borders adds a very realistic shadow look.

[Hoihe]

Hmm. Looking forward to it!

[Blunkanthrust]

I've tried some basic texturing and the ground variation just on this particular side. I'll try that shadow idea Galadriel thanks for the tip!

[Blunkanthrust]

Also setting the color to black with very low pressure and painting color along wall borders adds a very realistic shadow look.

How do I set the colour to just black? I'm on the texture window and I only see other colours and also on the swapper, please could you point me to it

Oh unless you mean on the terrain menu?

[mrieder79]

Good work. Looks like you are on your way. I usually throw in texture to match terrain variations. I put small variations in randomly and texture accordingly. I use placeables such as trees, buildings, boulders etc to punctuate areas and to give a "full" feeling to the area, then use terrain height, grass, and texturing to fill in the details.

[mrieder79]

Also setting the color to black with very low pressure and painting color along wall borders adds a very realistic shadow look.

How do I set the colour to just black? I'm on the texture window and I only see other colours and also on the swapper, please could you point me to it

Oh unless you mean on the terrain menu?

There is a separate button that is labeled "color". That is the one you want to use. It is separate from the textures. You can use it to lay down different colors at different pressures to give accents to areas and darken areas. It is very useful for darkening forest floors, mud puddles, and similar terrain fetures which are dark.

[Blunkanthrust]

Oh awesome! thank you I'll search for this colour option

here is some more experimenting I've done terain variation around the entire structure now and tried to show exposed earth work. One thing I seem to keep getting hit with is I'll be playing with textures and then suddenly for no reason that I can see I'll try a new texture and it just doesn't work I'll click and nothing happens, does this happen often?

Here's the current progress:

[Blunkanthrust]

that shadow tip was brilliant ! it works really well here it really makes the light variation make things come to life !

[mrieder79]

Yes. This is shaping up nicely.

[Blunkanthrust]

is there a way to render things? or does it always look a little blocky until you bake it or load it up to walk around it? oh and thank you