How do I go about creating a level built into terrain. Say a house built into a hill... eg the hobbit?

I don't want to use blocks as terrain, I want to use a real terrain (model would be fine).

Think a tunnol or something going under a mountain.

u cant use standard terrains to do this (unless u want to hav multiple terrains for it, but that wouldn't look very good anyway). i would recommend building it as a model in MED or any other modelling tool u hav (i recommend blender www.blender.org) and giving it a polygonal hull (my.polygon = on; in the house's action).

hope this helps

julz

Yes, ok, but my house is made out of blocks. How would you build that into a model perfectly?

u could import the file for the house into MED and export it to whatever format u need (depending on what modelling software u are using), then build ur terrain around the house. then delete the house and the remaining model should fit the house perfectly (if i understand what u want to do).

i hope this is helpful

julz

Julz: This wont work with a terrain file, whereas you cannot delete terrain verticies.

I think, this is what you mean vartan:


Idk how you'd do it though... You could make the terrain a .mdl file but youd have to do some scripting. You'd have to take the .HMP, then export to 3DS in MED then import it back as .MDL.

Not to mention that method is EXTREAMLY hard to do in MED

And nearly impossible for the verticies to align correctly

you can just create a terrain and convert it into a model (you can do that in med, it should be under "edit", but not sure) and then you delete the polygones where the tunnel should be. to see which polygons you have to delete, save the house as single file and import it in MED into your terrainmodel so you can check which polygons you have to delete.

Yes. But you loose terrain chunking and other options that makes terrain so useful.

Use this method instead: Create your terrain as needed and let the space where your building will stand at zero height (flatten it). Then create a model based hill on top of the building to cover it. Use the same texture scale as in the terrain.

you could create a screenshot from wed (top view) and incorporate this when creating the heightmap for the terrain

Another option

Create a terrain where you want your house :
just create a flat area in the terrain , and create a model constitued by
- a piece of terrain
- the house glued to that piece of terrain (easy a boolean object operation can do the trick)

after that place the model(piece of terrain with house) on the flat terraine area and modify your real terrain to fit well with the model.

i don't know if someone has understood the idea