how to create spilled water

[olitech]

I going mad

I get stuck at the very start

I create a plane (in standard primitives)
And thats where the fun ends

oh sorry..forgot to mention...you must collapse your primitive,
then you go to polygon selection in sub-object mode

[Dynedain]

I going mad

I get stuck at the very start

I create a plane (in standard primitives)
And thats where the fun ends

Convert the plane to an editable poly (select, right click, convert to->) then you can select points, faces, edges and move them around

Once you have a shape you like, slap on the shell modifier like they said

Welcome to a brave new world of poly modeling. Soon you too will be able to model anything.

[priad]

lolol hahaha!!!

[vizuals]

Yes, kick me when I'm down

I'm a AutoCad modeler (work related)
Trying to step into a better world

[priad]

that's the good way dude.

[olitech]

Polygon modelling is the only way to go.
that's the only way i know of to create a scene like this
with only 545, 032 faces (including trees). And you're only seeing half.
The terrain started out as 1 plane...detail was added to
this plane using Elf's technique.



1 plane to rule them all

[vizuals]

Olitech......

You just made me a believer.....

[olitech]

Olitech......

You just made me a believer.....

*the spiders just caught another fly*

[vizuals]

so you are saying
this has been made with

plane -> editable poly -> and shell
(though shell isnt working for me like this, yet)

because meshsmooth does the trick but is to heavy

(btw I got the result I was looking for)
But, this is very interesting, and I will continue the path of the poly

[Da_elf]

thats the biggest sand trap ive ever seen lol

[Dynedain]

because meshsmooth does the trick but is to heavy

Instead of meshsmooth, try turbosmooth, its much faster

[olitech]

because meshsmooth does the trick but is to heavy

yup, but you can target the smoothing to the polys that need it...like below. The areas that need more geometry are msmoothed


Elf:

thats the biggest sand trap ive ever seen lol

haha..ya really!
actually, the smaller white areas are the sandtraps...that big canyon thing is a desert wadi...the site is covered with them

[dgsantana]

hi olitech, what is the source for the terrain modeling? isolines, dem, approx. displace?

looks great.

daniel

[olitech]

hi olitech, what is the source for the terrain modeling? isolines, dem, approx. displace?

looks great.

daniel

This technique called THW (the hard way) lol!
Literally started as a plane over CAD lines.
Verts were moved in plan view to rough out the
various features/areas.
Once we were happy with the (rough) geometry,
we pulled vertices up to get the elevations (also bevel/
extrude faces as described at the beginning of this post).

The geometry was given 1 meshsmooth iteration and
'massaged' some more. This result was smooth enough
for the overall elevations.

From this point, polygons were MS'd individually depending on
what features needed smoothing (camera dependent).

I built it this way to 1) control polygon count 2) control bitmap size.
You can go right down to the ground in this model and it totally holds
up. No textures over 500 pixels. Mix maps and the wonderful Cut tool.

sorry so long..already feel bad about jacking this thread!

[olitech]

Elf, forgot to mention that they keep the Wadis intact as a natural feature.
Not to mention that that's where the oil wells remain...there's about 15 on
the site!