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Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting [message #480065 is a reply to message #480041]

Sun, 24 March 2013 09:16

Aircraftkiller
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"zunnie": Come back and troll a bit harder when you have some talent.

Reaver: You could work at a high level of polygons if you wanted to, so long as you use MeshLab or some other method of decimation to reduce its polygon count. I used a flat plane in Max with a displacement map applied to it. I don't remember what the polygon count of the plane originally was, but I didn't work past subdivision level 1 in Mudbox. That left it around 67k.

The level of detail you'd get from MB would also be dependent upon the size of your map. If you made a small map, you could get a lot of sculpted detail into the terrain without needing to decimate it too much. You'd definitely have to reduce it as the terrain gets larger.

Regarding textures, you could cut up the terrain to match any textures you develop for it, but that wouldn't help you much if you were making a large environment. Once you start getting past 50 meters, you'd need something bigger than 2048x to keep it from being blurry when you get up close. So you're really better off just using the mesh you create with a set of tiling textures versus trying to paint the entire map with a single texture in MB.

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		Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Aircraftkiller on Sat, 23 March 2013 12:54
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Generalcamo on Sat, 23 March 2013 13:02
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: zunnie on Sat, 23 March 2013 23:52
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Ethenal on Sun, 24 March 2013 09:44
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Ani on Sun, 24 March 2013 22:46
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Reaver11 on Sun, 24 March 2013 03:52
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Aircraftkiller on Sun, 24 March 2013 09:16
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Gen_Blacky on Sun, 24 March 2013 20:36
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Aircraftkiller on Sun, 24 March 2013 22:02
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Ethenal on Sun, 24 March 2013 23:56
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Gen_Blacky on Mon, 25 March 2013 13:01
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: c0vert7 on Wed, 27 March 2013 14:44
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Jerad2142 on Sat, 20 April 2013 14:27
		Re: Mudbox terrain sculpting By: Mad Ivan on Thu, 25 April 2013 18:34

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