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Distant Terrain: How to use?
Jalida
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Could somebody please explain to me how to go about using the "distant terrain france" object in my world?
I would like to get rid of that mass of land in the middle of the ocean feeling. I find it strange that in both the worlds that come with the game, sunset and river, the world is not surounded by ocean.
Anyway, I found something in CAW named something like Distant Terrain France, and Distant Terrain Egypt etc.
But once I place them in the world I can't seem to move them again, so I can't align them with the edges of my world. Plus I think they might have been designed for 2048x2048 worlds since the center square opening in them are absolutely huge.
So if that is not the option to make it so that my world doesn't look like it's floating on the ocean, what is the proper answer to get rid of this effect?
Thanks, for your help
I would like to get rid of that mass of land in the middle of the ocean feeling. I find it strange that in both the worlds that come with the game, sunset and river, the world is not surounded by ocean.
Anyway, I found something in CAW named something like Distant Terrain France, and Distant Terrain Egypt etc.
But once I place them in the world I can't seem to move them again, so I can't align them with the edges of my world. Plus I think they might have been designed for 2048x2048 worlds since the center square opening in them are absolutely huge.
So if that is not the option to make it so that my world doesn't look like it's floating on the ocean, what is the proper answer to get rid of this effect?
Thanks, for your help
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hi i have done the disant terrian and it is easy to move around u need to place two down the switch to the move tool and undo one distant terians then click the 1st distant terian
hope this helps
And the Sunset Valley and Riverview don't have water surrounding them because they have the distant terrain in them too, it's just hard to tell, because they shaped the land so well to fit it. Open up one of them in CAW to see how they did this.
Hope that helps! ^^
Tondog
Just quickly trying it, it's a real nightmare to try to allign the landscape up iwht the Terrain distant, a complete nightmare and I would expect that most of the worlds produced will remain to be islands of one form or another.
However if somebody wanted to put one together (the 2048x2048 world) and the terrain distant and get all the edges of the map to line up, then maybe you'll share it with the rest of us so that we don't have to do the basic part.
Simply create your new world, add the terrain distant object, align the map edges to the terrain distant, stop there and share it through a file sharing host please.
Thanks,
Anybody working on creating a simple map that joins up with the skirting that they wouldn't mind distributing to everybody else.
Honestly, I would do it but I've not got the talent to do so.
If you downloaded my world it gives you a good example of making your own distant terrain. Not really that hard at all.
Just look at it from Alpine peak and you will see off in the distance my distant terrain.
To answer the above poster no you will have to make your own.
Once you figure out how to use the move and rotate button, it's easy enough to get it in the right place at the location you want.
The object is too definite in its boundaries and shape. Trying to put two of them together in a nice arrangement failed because if they were turned to where they would surround my land mass, they overlapped in such a way that they couldn't meet up without looking like a clash of the Titans or some such. Sure, I could build another world based on that DT but if I was going to do that I may as well start with Sunset Valley Lite and redo it.
Then later I experimented with what it takes to stop the camera from panning out over the water. Basically you need to have mountains as high as you possibly can with your height set to 300 wherever you don't want the camera going past for two full bounding boxes, then paint the area in the two bounding box width area with camera routing paint. Even then, you may be able to see past mountains to the water in certain areas.
After messing around with all this stuff I am very, very disappointed at the craptastic job the camera routing paint does and the fact that in-game the ocean around the outside of the map isn't just blocked out if there is camera routing in front of it. As it is, I can push my camera quite a ways beyond where the camera routing paint boundary is. If I turn the camera backward, so that I'm facing the center of the map, I can back up all the way to the edge of the world. Oddly enough, the ocean isn't viewable from that angle but it sure is when I turn the camera around.
1. Place the distant terrain, doesn't matter where. I started with a large flat terrain.
2. Select the terrain and open property browser inside of CAW.
3. Set the XYZ coordinates in the property browser depending on which distant terrain you selected. Someone posted the correct values earlier in another post.
4. Start on one edge close to the sea, and try to mold a little of the edge to the distant terrain. If you will notice, some blue is showing on the distant terrain where it meets the waters edge. To me this indicates it needs to be below sea level.
5. Use the water tool and raise the water level on your terrain, just select high enough up on the small bit you molded earlier so that you can cover that blue section of the distant terrain.
6. Most of your land (not the distant terrain) will now be underwater at this point... Just work your way around raising terrain and get the edges in. In some cases you might want your hills to extend a bit over the distant terrain edge so it looks good from a distance.
7. One you get all the edges in, you can now start raising all the middle parts of your terrain and painting.
I think having most of the land underwater to start makes working on the distant terrain edge easier, since you no longer have this wide expanse of green blinding or distracting you. This is a very time consuming operation. Don't feel you have to complete it in one day, but I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with the results. Here are some pics of my terrain. Bare in mind its a work in progress.
I am working on the same problem. "I would like to get rid of that mass of land in the middle of the ocean feeling."
Have anybody found a way to use DT around a small island?