Tutorials:Creating A World That Doesn't Suck/Sculpting

Sculpting	Everything you need to know to sculpt your world.	Terrain Painting	Painting your world like a pro, with technique suggestions from creators.
Advanced CAW	Painting your world like a pro, with technique suggestions from creators.	Custom Content	Setting up CAW's CC framework, CC links, and more.

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Sculpting : Basics

Sculpting is a very important aspect of world creation. You can make your world that much better by having realistic or interesting sculpting, giving texture to your terrain, or you can ruin it entirely by having cliffs that just slope steeply, without any texture at all.

Generally, when you learn each tool, you will use it in conjunction with many others, to get that perfect look. Below are links to video tutorials with audio , done by the author of this material to help get you started with your sculpting.

Sculpting Cliffs by TVRdesigns

The Tools

To really understand these tools, you need to view each as a seperate application. If you try and understand them all together, for one, this section would be very confusing, and for another, you would not learn all that much about what each tool can do on its own. There is a softer version of each tool listed below, that I didn't include descriptions of, because they function exactly the same as the main tools, except with lower fallouts and opacities. This effect can be achieved just as nicely with the regular brushes, so it doesn't really matter which way you get there, as long as you get the desired end result.

Flatten

This is probably the most important tool, as you will tend to place lots on a flat surface, so as to allow users to place custom lots without distorting lot edges. To use this tool, you simply click, hold down, and drag over where you want your flat area to be. Generally, you only need to use this tool with Fallout and Opacity set to 100. This is because even if you get your flat edges done, this tool doesn't make the cliffs for you.

Hill

This tool is used, mainly, for making hills. However, if you use it properly, you can make cliffs with it, as well as flowing fields. This tool will mainly be used to create texture, where previously, it was smooth. It is used

Smooth

Smooth is very useful in conjunction with most tools, for the simple fact that it helps to lessen angles that the other tools create in the terrain.