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[moraldi]

Hi guys,
I want to build an outdoor environment but, using the DeleD, I don't know where to start. I've completed the following sketch:



As you can see I need to build 4 low poly islands without the use of a height map.
Each island must have some hills, areas where the player have to follow a road to reach there etc.
A. Can you advise me for a method to start build such an environment using the DeleD? (a small tutorial would be a great help for me!)
B. Do you know where I can find resources in order to "steal" ideas for such game environments?
My goal is 40 levels for my latest game.It is a project I am trying to finish in my spare time, just for fun

Thanks in advance.

[trucker2000]

Hi Moraldi,
I would suggest using a grid for the islands. You can manipulate them just like any other poly to make your hills and such.
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[Nocturn]

Yeah, depending on how detailed the islands should look the grid object with the magnet tool is possibly the best way to do this in DeleD.

[AWM Mars]

Depending on how you host these levels, you may want to consider making the islands as individual models, rather than create all the islands into one build.

As already suggested, using the magnet tool is probably going to be your greatest asset. Depending on how many polygons are in your grid, willl determine the resolution/smoothness of your hills etc.
You can however, use a low polygon version of a high polygon mesh, to hang a high resolution material over it.

Search for XNormals, that will give you some idea.
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[harper]

Hey Moraldi,
take a look how i built my island, you know it:

Make a poly, split it sometimes (here it is only 16x16), and use "magnet"
on some vertices:

[moraldi]

thanks Harper, this makes things a little bit more clear to me.
Could you please give some details about texturing? How did you get smooth transition between dirt and grass.

[harper]

It seems you are a week-end-worker, like me!
Oh, yes, the shore-texture. I used 3 textures: 1. grass, 2. sand, and 3rd i made a "transition" from grass-to-sand-texture. When you modelled the island in the form you want, add a water-plane, and then split the polygons near the shore-line as needed and fill them with this special texture - and rotate them to look correct.

[moraldi]