[article] Displacement Surfaces 1: The Basics

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An introduction to terrain creation

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

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

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

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

Very nice tutorial.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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
Would give you a 10. but wouldnt want to give the top score on my first rating. lol

Nice

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

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

I found this really really useful, thanks alot!