Platinum Arts Sandbox - Free 3D Game Maker Forum

Okay, so I'm having a bit of trouble making hills that seem smooth. All the ones I've made look pretty boxy-ish. Especially once I light the map. I want hills that turn out like this: http://www.moddb.com/games/platinum-art ... 4#imagebox So do I use the smooth tool? I tried that a little bit, but I want to make sure before I use it on my whole map.

Few other questions: When I light a map, shadows seem very boxy. Is there a way to get around this? Another question: I have a big map. You can see all the texture patterns in my buildings and such (especially my castle). Any way to sort of... blur them or make the pattern a little more... un-pattern-like? Another: How do I make invisible barriers?

Thanks

Smooth hills: While in editmode, having no squares selected, press "h", then scroll with the mousewheel up and down. That's all I know.

Boxy shadows: try playing around with K, Shift+K and Ctrl+Shift+K. If that doesn't work then I don't know how to solve this issue.

"un-pattern walls" you could try using the paint tool. I personally don't know how to change settings with that though.

Invisible barrier: select the area you want as a barrier, press "F3", click on materials and click on "Clip". (to select the area you can first fill it with a wall, and scroll up on the wall to remove it afterwards)

I do know how to make hills, they just don't look smooth like real ones do. I was wondering how to get the "flowing" affect.

And there's a paint tool?! Do you know where I can find it?

Thanks for the help

I know you press p to toggle through them. And scroll for different paint shapes, but other than that I can't actually get it to work, except on the village map...

perhaps if you set the cursor size to really small that might make them smoother, hold g and scroll.

To use the paint tool you have to find the textures with another texture inside of it mainly in the top right corner.

Ohh!! So that's what those are for! Thanks, I'll be getting on right about now to check it out

Edit: Hmmm... guess I don't get it after all.