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<blockquote data-quote="Tonden" data-source="post: 7468020" data-attributes="member: 6963972"><p>[ATTACH]99630[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]99631[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif'">Hi all </span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif'">I thought that I would share a screenshot of one of the many things we have been working on for the Dark Sun project and explain on how I came up with it.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif'">When we first started this project I didn’t know how to make a custom model let alone a custom time or tilesets. So we started off with a tilset that someone else had created. However as I learned more aboutmaking models and tileset I decided that it might be nice to create our own. </span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif'">So we talked it over and decided to just do addons for the standard Desert tileset. However the tiles that we have been creating are so different from anything in the standard Desert tileset that if we left it as an override, we would have to rework all the older tiles to try and match them up with what we are creating, which would be even more work for us. </span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif'">This led us to splitting off from the Desert Tileset override and creating a totally custom tileset for our project. That said I’m still glade we went through everything that we did because we learned a lot.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif'">So for our custom tilset we decided to go with flat tiles instead of uneven tiles</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif'">-Uneven tiles are tiles that are raised a little higher on the corners, while not raising the middle edges of the tile. This helps to create an uneven ground look to a tileset.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif'">The reason for not going with the uneven ground was because it makes a tileset look really bumpy and since we are creating a desert with blowing sand we felt that the ground would be more level. Which is why we went with flat tiles but we still added in tiles that are raised and/or lowered in the middle of the tiles to give the ground a little uneven look about them in places which can be seen in picture#2.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif'">After deciding on making a custom tileset and going with flat ground I created raised ground terrain along with slopes/hills. As you can see from picture #1 I went with an uneven edge along the top of the hills. The top wasn’t that bad to get it to look the way I wanted,but rather the bottom was a little more of a problem getting it to blend well from the lower ground to where the ground starts to slant up. All in all as you can see in picture number #3 I think it didn’t turn out too bad. </span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif'">Well I thought instead of just posting a screenshot that I would take the time to give some background on how and why we did what we did.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonden, post: 7468020, member: 6963972"] [ATTACH=CONFIG]99630._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]99631._xfImport[/ATTACH] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Liberation Serif]Hi all [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Liberation Serif]I thought that I would share a screenshot of one of the many things we have been working on for the Dark Sun project and explain on how I came up with it.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Liberation Serif]When we first started this project I didn’t know how to make a custom model let alone a custom time or tilesets. So we started off with a tilset that someone else had created. However as I learned more aboutmaking models and tileset I decided that it might be nice to create our own. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Liberation Serif]So we talked it over and decided to just do addons for the standard Desert tileset. However the tiles that we have been creating are so different from anything in the standard Desert tileset that if we left it as an override, we would have to rework all the older tiles to try and match them up with what we are creating, which would be even more work for us. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Liberation Serif]This led us to splitting off from the Desert Tileset override and creating a totally custom tileset for our project. That said I’m still glade we went through everything that we did because we learned a lot.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Liberation Serif]So for our custom tilset we decided to go with flat tiles instead of uneven tiles[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Liberation Serif]-Uneven tiles are tiles that are raised a little higher on the corners, while not raising the middle edges of the tile. This helps to create an uneven ground look to a tileset.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Liberation Serif]The reason for not going with the uneven ground was because it makes a tileset look really bumpy and since we are creating a desert with blowing sand we felt that the ground would be more level. Which is why we went with flat tiles but we still added in tiles that are raised and/or lowered in the middle of the tiles to give the ground a little uneven look about them in places which can be seen in picture#2.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [FONT=Liberation Serif]After deciding on making a custom tileset and going with flat ground I created raised ground terrain along with slopes/hills. As you can see from picture #1 I went with an uneven edge along the top of the hills. The top wasn’t that bad to get it to look the way I wanted,but rather the bottom was a little more of a problem getting it to blend well from the lower ground to where the ground starts to slant up. All in all as you can see in picture number #3 I think it didn’t turn out too bad. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Liberation Serif]Well I thought instead of just posting a screenshot that I would take the time to give some background on how and why we did what we did.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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