Easier Terrain

[ihsan]

If you were to make all terrain brushes detail, you may as well not compile the -vis phase.

I prefer to use a combination of FATE, EasyGen, Nemesis' Terrain Generator, and GTKgensurf when I find it; but then again, these are all Windows/Linux only.

AFAIK, none of these can fold beyond 90 degrees as i have done in the demo. None on these can, for example make a cave.

[TVR]

Technically, that wouldn't be terrain, it would be an interior... Blender isn't completely the method to use, EasyGen is to be used for texturing with more than one texture.

[torus]

Or, you could just use an .ase model, and it would be much smoother, and you wouldn't hit the max_map_vis. Just look at what can be done with Brokenworld or Silvion. You also have much more flexibility with the UV map.

[TVR]

Speaking from a Q3 engine perspective, you'd want to use easygen to generate a metashader for texture-blending.

Speaking from the Darkplaces' perspective, you'd use easygen to smooth the height map, then import it into GTKgensurf for decimation, and auto-hinting.

From any perspective, phong shading + vis calculation is still a must for terrain.