Something Old - Something New
I thought it might be useful to make a comparision between my very first attempts at making rivers and waterfalls and my current ones.
Let's take a journey over the last couple of years...
All the links will open in a new window or tab.
7/27/2007 - First ever river and waterfalls. [More]
11/14/2007 [More]
09/12/2008 [more]
Still fairly basic detailing at this stage:
1. Use Mayor valley tool to make riverbed
2. Single road tiles to flatten
3. Plop water
4. Plop waterfalls
5. Big grey rocks
6. Small grey rocks
7. Logs
09/13/2008 - My Magnum Opus [More]
We now have 'white rocks' added to the terrain detailing tool box.
I pretty much continued to make streams and rivers the same way until the arrival of the PEG PPond Kit... This was to be a major change to the way I detailed streams and waterfalls.
05/01/2009 - First use of PEG PPond [More]
Still using the old technique of plopping the water first and the rocks and other details on top. The shorline sand and pebbles look a bit 'painted' due to using 'click and drag'.
05/03/2009 - An early PPond to game water transition. [more]
OK - this does not look too bad, but at this point I am still using the paint the water first and then paint the shore down the side... this method is about to change...
Yeah OK, but we can do better...
Oh this is nice too... but now I am getting distracted... 
[more]
06/01/2009 - This is where my terrain detailing technique changed for ever... [more]
At this point I need to give credit to Paeng, who has an excellent tutorial on terrain detailing.
The secret is here... the - Paeng Terrain Detailing Method - How to Build a Blend in Scene [Linky]
I prefer to call it the spotty dotty rocky (don't go potty) method.
The main difference in technique is that the river edge is marked out with a 1/4 PPond tile and then all the other details are brushed in, the main water is the last thing to be brushed in.
But it produces much better results...
I have basically been refining my technique ever since, which brings us up to date, with how I am currently terrain detailing my rivers.
5 Comments
Recommended Comments
Sign In or register to comment...
To comment in reply, you must be a community member
Sign In
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In NowCreate an Account
Sign up to join our friendly community. It's easy!
Register a New Account