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Subject: Terrain City Tut

tjohn opened this issue on Mar 26, 2005 · 14 posts

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tjohn ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 3:33 AM · edited Thu, 27 February 2025 at 1:30 AM

It occurred to me that I haven't seen a tutorial for making terrain cities here before, and since there are so many newbies lately, I would make one. Sorry about the fuzziness, I hope you can read it OK, I had to crunch it down quite a bit to get it under 200 k. I'm assuming some familiarity on the reader's part with the terrain editor, so if you get lost, ask for directions, I or someone can help, I'm sure. John

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tjohn ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 3:36 AM

Why won't this idiot thing post an image without text?

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

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RodsArt ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 3:59 AM

I think you're right, first One I can remember. Nice mini-tut tjohn! Thanks. ICM (LOL, I just give the damn thing a dot.)

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tjohn ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 4:01 AM

:^) I'll try to remember that, ICM.

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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

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CrazyDawg ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 5:57 AM

tjohn just a little note. when you use the posterize you don't really need to hold the ALT key down. If you click on posterize and hold the mouse button down then drag the mouse to the right or left it does the same thing. Great tut as well :)

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Mahray ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 6:27 AM

Thanks, I'll have to give that a go sometime.

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Lzy724 ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 10:27 AM

Yeah!!! Something even a blonde can handle! Thank you for this! Now, how about tackling windows for me! :)

MoonGoat ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 12:37 PM

Great little tut! 724's window suggestion makes me tremble with glee.

danamo ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 1:32 PM

Sorry Dawg, but you're wrong! If you do as you just described, you end up with some dandy terraces, but it's not the same thing at all. The method tjohn uses causes the terrain to become blocky or "pixelated" and you end up with a terrain that looks like cubes.

tjohn ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 4:04 PM

Danamo is correct. Try it CD, you'll see the difference. :^)

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

Ang25 ( ) posted Sun, 27 March 2005 at 9:17 AM

Hey who made that crack about a blonde? I resemble that remark, anyhow, I do want to try this, if I succeed then it truely is blonde worthy ;P

Incarnadine ( ) posted Sun, 27 March 2005 at 6:03 PM

This is a very useful technique - I have made several background cites this way!

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FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Wed, 30 March 2005 at 5:03 PM

Um, nice tut and just what I needed right now, but it would have helped me a lot if the three images hadn't been stuck together into one big image. By the time I reduced the image enough to be able to see it on a page, it's almost too small to read the text. Bummer! Fran

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