Lionhardt wrote:I apply on the whole map. Gameplay relevant heightmap details, like making some cliffs impassable again, after the erosion has made them passable, I do in-edtor. Abort the presets -- I have no clue
As I said, I try stuff out till it looks right
Erosion at the end is a bad idea imo. It will screw with your heightmap finely tuned for gameplay. Thus you first want to get the looks right and THEN fine tune for gameplay. Of course you first need to have your general heightmap layout done and thought out, because adjusting the heightmap in a major way AFTER the erosion and stuff is not really feasible. For two main reasons: You will no longer have large areas of teh sae height level that can easiyl shaped manually. Reapplying erosion to the map for the reshaped areas is annoying, because you need to work with masks to not double-erode other areas. At least that is how I do it.
Both approaches have their draw backs. Theoretically you can -- and ideally you would -- first block out your heightmap for playtesting. But you won't get people to play test it in that stage. So...
yeah after some thinking i totally agree on everything, like wool over my eyes. Its a constant back and forth.
would be possible to only release the map nearly finnished and polish 1-2 time but incomparably harder to what would "technically possible", which is always a big demotivatior for me.
but as a Debut, feedback was very valuable and learningcurve steep. Still need a single Replay after ~200 plays according to vault, all are bugged vs AI or hidden in the DB because u cant search for them after first update.
If the Vault would get this fix i could work so much better. Then having 1 WiP Version and 1 Release Version only would suffice. People not interessted in WiP stuff wouldnt have to bother.
And Mapmaker gets some replays during development.
