Creating Cliffs

[Tutorial]

category
General Half-Life 2/Architecture

description
A quick run through a technique on creating displacement cliffs.

keywords
cliff, cliffs, creating cliffs, displacement, displacements.

Creating cliffs is very simple if you know how to use the displacement tool, you just have to get used to doing it sideways on.

First of all make a brush that will become your cliffs



Now select the cliffs and bring up the displacement window, select how detailed you want it to be by changing the value in the Power box, I chose 2 for this example.



If you use it now the brushes will raise up, you need to change the axis to Y or X depending on the direction you want.



Play around with the cliff until you get your desired look and feel.



Finally, if you used a blend texture then some Paint Alpha will give it that extra touch.



Blink

[Hellraz0r]

uhh sarp, yeah uh just wondering how u blend

[slayera]

In the displacement tools there is an paint tool. Right click and hold for one texture, left click and hold for the other texture. But first you must be using a blended texture. Just filter for 'blend' and a few should show up.

[InternalRage]

Cheers Blink, and SlayerA,

[Imagine]

Nice tutorial! I have got some neat ideas for a map now.

[Russell]

There are many tutorials out there on how to create cliffs but this is a good tutorial.

[Minibiccy]

yeah quality job guys... love it

[Grantax]

Interlopers.net now has 200 tutorials.
But you're skipping some things, like that they have to press the 'create' button, and how to blend. (But most people should understand that when you said 'Paint Alpha', it's the button in the displacement window, if they've actually TRIED to look for it)

[EagleStrike]

Nice easy too read tutorial, I wil be trying this out very soon on one of my own maps, but I will not be puting it too regular use...

[mainblz]

How do you sew the cliff wall to a ground on top of that cliff?