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Posted by ReNo on Mon Nov 8th at 10:03am 2004


This is a discussion topic for the article "Displacement Surfaces 1: The Basics" by ReNo which can be found here

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An introduction to terrain creation






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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Nov 13th at 12:26pm 2004





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Posted by Leperous on Mon Nov 8th at 11:00am 2004

It's a bit of an annoying tool; I hope there is some way to justify the edges with those of surrounding faces...



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Nov 8th at 11:09am 2004

The sew tool will do that for you, but I chose not to talk about that in this tutorial. I'll cover it (multi-brush terrain) in the next tutorial smiley



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Posted by Anthony on Sat Nov 13th at 4:02am 2004

Works quite well this effect. Hammer 4 sure is opening up a lot of possibilities...



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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Nov 8th at 5:39pm 2004

Love your new tuts, Reno ... you're really keeping us up-to-date !

So much to learn, and what a lack of time ... !



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Posted by Asuka on Tue Nov 9th at 7:10pm 2004

Very nice tutorial.



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Posted by RiffZifnab on Wed Nov 10th at 5:17pm 2004

FYI I had some problems using displacement surfaces and the transform tool (prep for a 3d skybox). So scale the brush down first then use the displacement tool. I have yet to get sew to work, but selecting multiple brushes and then creating a displacement map seems to work ok, just use a larger spatial setting so points on both side of the brushes are modified. Thanks for the good tutorial, I look forward to the next one.



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Posted by Fakedawg on Tue Nov 30th at 4:07pm 2004

This was a very helpfull read! Thnx a bunch for providing this tut smiley



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Posted by Leperous on Thu Dec 9th at 2:26pm 2004

Note that the size of "each" displacement map is determined by the size of the brush- (2^power + 1) points which you can manipulate are created equally spaced, which may mean some are stretched in a certain dimension. So in most cases you should create square brushes instead of rectangular ones, and sew the surfaces together.



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Posted by Guessmyname on Tue Dec 21st at 6:53pm 2004





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Posted by thesilence on Thu Jan 6th at 11:29pm 2005

Good tutorial, i like the use of hammers full extent (to what i know)



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Posted by Crono on Tue Jan 18th at 12:50am 2005





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Posted by KoRnFlakes on Tue Feb 15th at 3:17pm 2005

A good tutorial, pretty nasty tool though if you ask me, takes forever. its hardly codradiant, that was far quicker & simpler.



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Posted by PCPro32 on Thu Mar 17th at 5:51pm 2005

Very helpfull, a great tutorial. Precise and yet still easy to use. Thanks for taking the time to write it.
Also. nice screenshots. the help make the tutorial even more simple to follow smiley
Would give you a 10. but wouldnt want to give the top score on my first rating. lol



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Posted by ronnyb on Thu Feb 16th at 10:11pm 2006

Nice



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Posted by HrnyGoat on Wed Feb 22nd at 7:04am 2006

Great job. I was able to catch on real fast. Sure beats using VM displacement in HL1 mapping.



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Posted by JCameron47 on Tue May 23rd at 5:14am 2006

Works out good. Don't like using it right now, but I'll just have to get used to it. Thx.



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Posted by TZ on Tue Oct 2nd at 6:10am 2007

I found this really really useful, thanks alot!




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