Walls

[Blunkanthrust]

My first attempt at trying to do something a little fancy

[Hoihe]

Looks nice. A bit thinking ahead but where do you plan to have this area located?

[Blunkanthrust]

Oh I was thinking it would be in a mountainous region, I haven't looked at any maps but perhaps pushing further into the north? I'd be open to ideas suggestions, I hadn't really thought as far as it even being accepted to be honest, there is a damn high standard on our server. I think I'd need one or two designers to go over my map/maps afterwards and help me tweak the textures also.

I'm also wanting to design some nice UD stuff or at least experiment with some UD-esque content and designs.

Are there areas of Faerun that people want to explore that havent been taken or considered yet? I'd be up for trying to design something that people want to see, this current project is really only to see if I can get a working prototype. People seem to be reacting positively so far so who knows I might get the green light at some point when I submit it for consideration

[Hoihe]

If you ever decide that rocky is bad, snowy is good...

[Blunkanthrust]

Did a quick snow conversion for you

[Hoihe]

Hooray!

You're my second hero!

[Blunkanthrust]

Are there lots of snowy areas lacking on the server?

[Hoihe]

The more the better. Snow that isn't cold is something I enjoy.


Snowy areas are the ones south of Nashkel.

[Blunkanthrust]

Snow that isn't cold? as in an area that isnt sub zero but just a bit chilly?

[Hoihe]

As in virtual snow :p.

[Blunkanthrust]

Oh I see sorry bit slow on the uptake. I've decided to keep going with it as a snow area for the moment also the one thing I have noticed is the dirty snow and icy dirty textures look much better than the default snow texture which looks like it was designed to burn a whole in the eyes of the builder with the gamma intensity of it !

[Blunkanthrust]

Some more textures and details:

Trying to create ice crags using low pressure solid colour


A curious snow leopard investigates the remains of some travels who perished long ago on the mountain trails.

[Blunkanthrust]

Designing a path through a precarious ravine and what the walkmesh allows you to do are two very different things haha but I'll keep pressing on for something quite interesting. The grass is purely a marker point for me to know the route.

[mrieder79]

A very neat idea, but when you are doing a ravine, make sure you build up, not sink down. If you sink down, the camera angle will keep getting messed up and the player will become frustrated. Better to make your path, then raise peaks around it.

[Blunkanthrust]

Ah damn! I guess the quick fix here would be to raise up the traced out route:



then use the flatten tool to bring up the drops and rebuild peaks.

Thanks for the advice !