[article] Quick and easy rock formations

This is a discussion topic for the article "Quick and easy rock formations" by Finger which can be found here

Article description:

how to make rock structure from multiple displacements

A nice quick and dirty approach, and by the looks of Broken Palace, one that can get lovely results. Could possibly have benefited from a more elaborate or grand final result (you possibly sell the technique short a little with a rather boring and dumpy little outcrop here :D), and a screenshot either in game or non-selected in hammer so as to see it without the red masking, but good nonetheless.

Hah...well, it was also constructed very 'quick and easy'. Maybe I will take a little time to spice it up. Thanks Reno.

Thanks for puting this up Finger, I've been looking forward to a good cliff tutorial. Is this the same method you used for the smooth rock formations seen in Icepick?

Also, would this method work well for creating natural cliff boundaries for maps? Or is there a better method for walling off the level with cliffs?

I agree with all of ReNo's points. I'd like to see some shots of the rocks in game, or at least deselected in Hammer. Thanks!

I am awful at rocks. My first inclination is to always drool over a new tutorial.
I see no reason to alter that habit now.

Very nice! I am always scared to pass brushes through each other like that. I'd like to see some stronger proof that there are no real ill effects when you mix displacements (though I am pretty sure your right).

Also your "compositional theory" doesn't explain much about composition theory at all, and I'd venture to guess that anyone who doesn't already know how composition in 2d/3d space works they wont understand what your talking about. composition theory is a tutorial in its self, no big deal really.

I also agree that some in-game shots of this technique in action would help show people what is possible with it.

Nise i like it

Oh great little tut!! I'm in the process of making a very 'cliffy' map and I came to the Articles page to see any good ideas, and this was pretty good. I never thought of duplicating a rock and mixing them up. Very good!