world machine!

Discussion in 'Mapping' started by supaste, Jun 7, 2006.

  1. supaste

    supaste Member

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    alot of people seem curius about what program R_yell used to create that design picture of his map so i googled it.

    the basic package is free and is 3MB

    http://www.world-machine.com
     
  2. R_yell

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    Yes that program is very useful, but I'd like to add that the complete working pipeline is this:

    paint app (like photoshop, the gimp, etc) to make gray scale height maps

    world machine to test your Height Map and add several effects (erosion mainly)

    dispgen to convert the resulting HM into Source displacements

    Anyone interested in Empires mapping should take a look at this method
     
  3. PHASER8

    PHASER8 Member

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    I'l keep that in mind when I do my next outdoor based map =D
    Very nifty.
     
  4. Tim--coop

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    Does anyone uses the nem's terrain generator ?

    I just use hammer to make displacements, but it can be a pain in tha ass!
     
  5. supaste

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    i have downloaded ansd am now having a go...


    is it one of those things that takes a long time to learn or is quite simple?
     
  6. duke

    duke Former Developer (BE Creator)

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    World Machine is excellent - I bought it when it first came out 5 years ago. It's great for getting good looking erosion and such, and there are some good macros out there for things like roads (where you feed it a black+white image of the road and it will conform it to the terrain and ensure it's horizontally flat).
     
  7. halbalbador

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    I actually made all of my displacements by hand in my map...
     

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