World Creation WIP: Etarek

[laevex_esre]

Etarek is shaping up. I think I have the terrain sorted now. After going through all of the Wilbur tutorials I worked through a2area's Israh tutorial and got to this point:



There are a few things I'm unhappy about:
-When I open it in Fractal Terrains it's pretty low resolution.
-It's a bit bumpier than I originally wanted. The plains have annoying dots on them.
-The precipitation erosion has left big river estuaries all over the place and they aren't completely continuous. Sometimes they stop, close up and start again.

I might fix all this stuff later and if you have any answers to them I'd be grateful.

For the moment I want to work on the climate. I'm just about to start working through The Climate Cookbook, so that will be interesting.

[Greason Wolfe]

Etarek is shaping up. I think I have the terrain sorted now. After going through all of the Wilbur tutorials I worked through a2area's Israh tutorial and got to this point:



There are a few things I'm unhappy about:
-When I open it in Fractal Terrains it's pretty low resolution.

That is, unfortunately, one of the downfalls of working back and forth between FTPro and Wilbur. There is a certain loss of detailed resolution because of how many editing channels each application uses (or so I've come to understand). You can try increasing the resolution in FTPro before sending the file to Wilbu, just be sure that you save the .mdr file at the same setting as the editing resolution. It's not a perfect solution, but it might preserve a bit more detail.

-It's a bit bumpier than I originally wanted. The plains have annoying dots on them.

Before sending the file back to FTPro, try applying a small gaussian blur in Wilbur (Filters>>Gaussian Blur>>0.5). Do this two or three times and it should smooth out those little bumps some.

-The precipitation erosion has left big river estuaries all over the place and they aren't completely continuous. Sometimes they stop, close up and start again.

Depending on when these are happening (in FTPro or in Wilbur) you might be able to fix this by using a Basin Fill more frequently. I'd have to actually play with the file to know for sure, though.

I might fix all this stuff later and if you have any answers to them I'd be grateful.

Offered what answers I could, but the best recommendation I can offer is to keep experimenting here and there, see if you can isolate when the problems start to occur and then work from there.

GW

[laevex_esre]

Thanks for the tips. Sounds like I'll just have to redo the Wilbur erosion and try and work out where the issues are coming from. I'm guessing I've used more precipitation erosion than necessary (stupid estuaries) and added too much noise at some point (bumps).

I'm interested in using an exponent too because it definitely looks better than too much fill basins. But I don't know if I'm doing it right. This is how I do it:
Select > From Height > 0 to highest
Filter > Mathematical > Exponent > 1.2

That looks about right, but I'm wondering if starting at 0 without feathering would cause an issue.