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Media => Mapping Center => Topic started by: Baxter on March 12, 2007, 09:20:10 am

Title: Gensurf
Post by: Baxter on March 12, 2007, 09:20:10 am: Want to make a map like ancient remains minus the phong shading, don't want to use hard tutorials to make realistic terrain shapes.
GenSurf is a "natural" terrain creation tool that converts a grayscale bitmap into a web of triangular brushes or curve patches. Used with care, it can make some very interesting irregular surfaces.
It also (If you have Exel 5 or high) can use a formula to creat a terrain surface.
Sadly there is only a windows version but i'm not sure if it would work in wine.
[ Download (http://tarot.telefragged.com/gensurf/downloads.htm) ]
[ Screenshots (http://tarot.telefragged.com/gensurf/screenshots/screenshots.htm) ]
Title: Gensurf
Post by: Caveman on March 12, 2007, 11:58:59 am: go go go. Good luck.
Title: Gensurf
Post by: Baxter on March 12, 2007, 12:04:58 pm: I'll post a screenshot of a map i'm making later.
Title: Gensurf
Post by: Baxter on March 13, 2007, 07:14:35 am: *sigh* everyone neglects my useful thread
Title: Gensurf
Post by: Lava Croft on March 13, 2007, 01:33:44 pm: Most mappers do not like generators, but rather build everything by hand, since that gives you full control over your work.
Title: Gensurf
Post by: Warrior on March 13, 2007, 05:22:02 pm: Quote from: "Lava Croft"
Most mappers do not like generators, but rather build everything by hand, since that gives you full control over your work.

Prove that Dasprid don't use any type of generator!
Well, it's simply impracticable to make the AR map without any generator.
Title: Gensurf
Post by: Pat AfterMoon on March 13, 2007, 07:31:13 pm: Quote from: "Warrior"
Well, it's simply impracticable to make the AR map without any generator.

Are you sure ?
http://simland.planetquake.gamespy.com//pages/articles/phongshading1.htm
http://simland.planetquake.gamespy.com//pages/articles/rockwall1_1.htm
http://simland.planetquake.gamespy.com//pages/articles/rockdetail1_1.htm
http://simland.planetquake.gamespy.com//pages/articles/terrain1_1.htm

If you found a generator that can produce easily the same result, please, give me the link, I'm very interested.
Title: Gensurf
Post by: Warrior on March 13, 2007, 10:13:56 pm: Pay attention to the word "impracticable". It's possible but it's not worth considering the time you will need to make each piece of the surface and 'link' them with perfection.
Title: Gensurf
Post by: TinMan on March 13, 2007, 10:42:38 pm: (http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/4181/icecaprd5.jpg)

Hahaha, nice. Me and Smokey play that Quake 2 game, Digital Paintball 2. It hasn't changed too much. :P
Title: Gensurf
Post by: DASPRiD on June 19, 2007, 10:48:56 am: Hm, I should read the forums more often...
Yes, Ancient Remains is all hand made. I did not use any generators.
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Post by: Survivor on June 19, 2007, 05:37:47 pm: Damn necroing >:E
Title: Gensurf
Post by: Warrior on June 19, 2007, 10:29:06 pm: Have you made all of those perfect-rabbet blocks by hand? lol
(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7526/arqu8.jpg)

About the trees, which modeler was used?
Title: Gensurf
Post by: Kaleo on June 20, 2007, 05:19:24 am: Quote from: "Warrior"
Have you made all of those perfect-rabbet blocks by hand? lol
(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7526/arqu8.jpg )

I found a tut on how to do that... It is done by hand, trust me.
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Post by: DASPRiD on June 20, 2007, 08:05:08 am: The tree is made in GTK Radiant, but not by myself.
Title: Gensurf
Post by: Lava Croft on June 20, 2007, 02:15:17 pm: Yeah, I guess it's hard to believe that you actually have to do something that faintly looks like work when trying to create a map. Stop using generators and learn how to properly build a map is knowledge and experience that is well worth the time invested. Using generators only keeps you dumb and unknowing of how to exactly create such environments by hand. Not to mention the fact that handiwork ultimately looks better.