Level Design New map (secret :p)

[Rospantern]

Hi guys.

I'm all new to this so please treat me as a noob
Currently working on a map idea I had yesterday, but i need help since I have no idea ti make trenches. I tried to google it and searched here on the forum aswell but i didnt find anything. So how can I raise/remove the terrain to create a solid trench?

Cheers for the help.

 

[Rospantern]

I actually found a good tutorial here on the forum after a couple of searches, kinda odd it didn't show when I search the forum but when I used Google....

So bare with me as this is a Work in Progress! I'm currently trying to get a good trench line so with artillery batteries, this is what I've done so far so any suggestion of changes are welcome.

 

[Dziga Vertov]

Check out the thread "dugouts" lower in this forum:

http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=101895

 

[StmRtn]

When I saw that picture of your map, immediately tought that that is Brecourt.

 

[Rospantern]

When I saw that picture of your map, immediately tought that that is Brecourt.

Soo true

Still working on the trenches, its hard to get it as I want it and it also needs to have a good flow when you fight in them.

 

[StmRtn]

Soo true

Still working on the trenches, its hard to get it as I want it and it also needs to have a good flow when you fight in them.

Just avoid making long straight lines like you have there now, bends and curves make it intresting to fight in trenches.

 

[Catalavos]

A couple of things to consider when you're thinking about making trenches. You are pretty much stuck with 3 options: you can use the stock trenches from the HOS maps, the slightly more "forgiving" trench meshes from RS or you can set the drawscale3D to a really low number (<64) and use the terrain tools to carve them out of your terrain. If you use the stock HOS or RS meshes you're pretty much stuck with only a handful of shapes that will likely not be exactly what you want. The trenches will look very "stiff" and not very realistic. On the other hand, if you use a very small drawscale3D (64 UU's or less) you can use the terrain tools to make a more "natural" looking trench system but will be limited as to how large the map can be (small drawscale3d settings make the engine work really hard and frame rate will suffer). For this map (if it is Brecourt ;^ ) you might be able to get away with the small drawscale3D.

How large is your terrain right now and what are the drawscale3D settings?

 

[Rospantern]

The map is 400 x 352 and the drawscale are set to 64, 64 and 256.
Since I am very new to the whole SDK thing I do not know what it can handle. I've looked at some other maps such as Demyansk and a couple of RS maps to see how TWI made their trenches.

Edit: I decided to change the trench.

 

[aaz777]

i can try to model and texture some new trenches if some mappers ask me.