Hey guys, i am new at extended terrains, and god knows i tryed, but i can't make wider and backwards ramps whitout major blockyness and height problems... got any maps or at least tricks to help me?

Edit: I need ramps for dirt in the badlands tileset... thx!

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 4 2008, 5:08 pm by Dungeon-Master.

Really simple way to do it is to use the grass blend. Or does that only work in jungle? Idk ask falk.

Oh no, grass works perfectly well in Badlands, check it out:


(Yes, I know it's a little blocky, making it a bit thicker should fix that)

Just blend the grass on dirt with the grass on high dirt.

There ya go. I figured it would work I just wasn't sure. thanks falk.

Yea thank you, but, i would need somme trick to blend the front doodad ramp to make a wider and longer ramp too, i need both sides, if you can help with it too, it would be verry cool, thanks!

Ramp blending is actually quite fun, but it takes a little time, here's a little example I just made:



Notice how the cliff does not just go straight, behind the ramp the cliff is actually curved and nestled into a corner, other than that, just run through the ramp tiles, often mirroring the tiles is the best way to blend, use one tile from one ramp, and then use the corresponding tile from the other one next to it. You just have to go however long you want it. As I said, not using straight cliffs is the real trick, straight cliffs usually leads to blockiness, curved cliffs allows mirroring, and therefore less blockiness.

You are a livinng wonder for terrains, falkoner
I am using it right now, and i got 1 other question: How do you make longer ramps? (to get down 2 cliffs or more), is it only another miror and tile-playing matter?

Yeah, you just have to play around with it, here's one I made for Mystic Islands:



You just keep playing around with it, and you eventually tend to find a blend that clicks, you can make it go down another cliff if you want, but only if you want a WIDE ramp

EDIT:
Oh, you mean long ramps, well, those ones are a bit more troublesome, and you'll most likely end up using sprites to cover up some blocks, mainly around the sides, what you really want to do is have ground space in between ramps, it also generally makes the terrain look better too, but if you really need a long ramp, here's one I made in Mystic Islands:

Yea, thank you, you aer of really great help to me right now, if i ever finish this map, you will be the name in big letters players will see at game startup!

Tell me how's this terrain! I got to fix ramps and somme blockyness with sprites, but tell me how you find it!

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It all looks very good! I like the stacked cliff work, and you definitely did a good job on getting those ramps to go up two cliffs, great job so far!

Heh, the ramps are just the normal ones placed over the 2 cliffs, this was a lazy ramp job
This map will be a shooter-like opposing the players' tanks in diffrent styles of game, including: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the flag, Hold the Emmiter and more, i really hope this maps gets played over battle.net

Edit: There is a uncompleted peice in the capture the flag arena (the high dirt miror terrain) Its just hyper lazyness, since no players will see it

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 4 2008, 8:18 pm by Dungeon-Master.

I made a long ramp for the now defunct terrain ladder. It's not too blocky, only one spot, which I discretely covered up with a tree sprite. I think I can fix it now, but I'm too lazy.

This ramp is cool! I might try to make it, it should take me some minutes but... i definately could do it!