C&C Generals : World Building : Hill Building

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So, I've started to make my map. In the screen below you can see how I'm planning out the start of the map. I've spent quite a bit of time already making sure all the bases are about the same time. Quite a few of my maps have been a bit 'wonky', giving advantages to certain players.

The raised circle in the middle will form the cliffs that I drew on my sketch map. I'll hack these apart using the Ramp tool later on.

Early stages of map making, main levels for bases have been marked out.

Route planning

Part of the success of a map is the playability. Importantly, your map needs to be accessible for collumns of tanks and troops. If you have too many choke points on a map, seige tactics will need to be employed creating long drawn out matches.

Below you can see the development of different paths around the map. I've decided to add some bridges from the edge bases into the center. This will add interest to these areas of the map.

Route planning, creating ramps making the map easy to navigate.

Ramps

Using the ramp tool is really straight forward, click and hold where you want the start of the ramp, and drag to the end of the ramp. Select a width from the options menu and hit Place Ramp. I selected ramp widths of 75 which are plenty big enough for 4 tanks to pass through.

A ramp width of 75 is nice and wide, wide enough for four tanks to drive up.

Smoothing

Once all the ramps are in place, a little smoothing can be done. This just makes the ramp look a little more part of the landscape rather then splodges. Also see how I ruffled the border of the bases slightly, this'll make a nice cliff face later, rather then a smooth flat thing.

Try and do all the hill editing first, before adding ANYTHING else. Make sure your happy with the hills, since you can really complicate things later on if you try editing hills after placing objects, and texturing cliffs.

This map is ready for some roads and bridges.

Author: Markavian
Last edited on: 16th Jun, 8:29 pm
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