Make a brush/selection of 256x256 units in the XY Top view.



Now go into Patch - Simple terrain mesh. Now set your density, In this case 8 vertices per length.



Select OK & you will see your brush/selection has turned into a set of triangles ready for terrain creation. All you do now is simply press V & all the necessary vertices will appear.



Using the left mouse button & the 3d camera view, Move these vertices about up/down left/right to make your terrain, Try not to make drastic changes in height or your terrain will look triangular.

The vertices will move in the distance your grid size is set to, If you want a fine movement go to Grid - Grid 1 & your vertices will move in 1 unit bits.

Once youve finished moving your vertices about, go into textures - find a texture you want & apply it. Simple. It wont be long before you create vast & varianted terrain in matters of minutes.

i always move the vertexs in the top down view randomly around in hammer so i can get some nice effects

'Move these vertices about up/down left/right' ...

Although I'd rather not stick to the principle of 'each triangle the same size and shape'...

Trickering around with the vertexes sidewars and so gives some more felxibility...

slaps 6th whatever this is CoD mapping. Nice tut by the way korn.

But its got nothing to do with hammer fgs....

U can do that in hammer

I figured it out for myself years ago

hehe the terrain editor in UnrealEd 3 makes this look pretty sad. of course, it's a lot more complicated, too lol. it scares me!!

You can easily enough get the same effect, you just need to build the mesh yourself. Looks like a nice feature though, would certainly save some time.