Cliff Modeling

Hey can anyone give me a link or if you have one a cliff modeling tutorial please and thanks.

I saw a tutorial over at halomaps titled "cliff modeling tutorial" if that helps, but I doubt it. Alot of the tutorials over there suck. I'll make another video tutorial when I can, but don't count on it soon. For now, look at the models of the bungie maps in spark edit to see how their constructed.

Agreed, halomaps hosted tutorials are shit.

Well, most of them.

My advice would include using vertex modelling to make them, but if its too long and repetitive you can take a quick fix and tesselate your cliffs a few times, use some random displace map. Then vertex chamfer some of those there sharp verts.

im pretty good at cliffs im getting better but if you want ill record myself next time im making cliffs its not the best but you will get the idea on how to do it if you want

heres a tutorial:

make a plane.
Y-aligned (vertical)
convert to editable poly
grab one of the side edges, and hold shift, and move th edge out, do this like 5 times or somehting
then select all the top edges, and hold shift, and drag em up, then drag em to the back a bit.
then hold shift, drag em up again, and drag em to the back again.

do that again 2 times.

go into vertex mode, select all, apply noise modifyer, fuck with the values till your thing gets distorted enough.

drag some verta manually to make it look more natural, or fix any weird ness the noise could have made.

done.

go kill yourself.

lol tweek i know your awesome and all but i dont like your method the cliffs are very hard to get natural

i just create each polly individually. it is slower though.
if i were u i would try tweeks method better because tweek is awesome

Id luv it if the person who made the BSP for snow grove (I think it was arteen) made a modelling tutorial for terrain, cliffs, and bases.

That map was bitchin.

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but i dont like your method the cliffs are very hard to get natural

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drag some verta manually to make it look more natural

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i dont like moving verts. its just hard to get the natural feel once you moved them to a certain spot. and the cliffs are just straight on one suface for a whole line...same everything no variation ..anyways i dont think arteen is around much anymore

hey guys help me out ive been searching the web like crazy ive found a few tutorials but they are either displacement or height map or tessellate till you have polys off the wall