What do you think about this terrain

[mearrin69]

Cute. That's a fast elephant. Smart too, cuts the corner. The pig's a road hog, though. Is this something you're planning on distributing when done?

Anyway, I'm interested in seeing how your terrain develops. I've been thinking about turning one of my city maps into a real 3D map for rendering/flythroughs, etc.
M

[lmbarns]

Cute. That's a fast elephant. Smart too, cuts the corner. The pig's a road hog, though. Is this something you're planning on distributing when done?

Anyway, I'm interested in seeing how your terrain develops. I've been thinking about turning one of my city maps into a real 3D map for rendering/flythroughs, etc.
M

Well you drive the elephant by holding down the go button, so you can cut corners There's actually 30 different rideable animals, from goats to donkeys to giraffes and horses. lol

I made a tutorial for making these terrains but it never made it through moderation. Here's a quick rundown of my process:
Start with a grayscale heightmap:







Then flip the texture image horizontally and vertically

Here's one of britannia from ultima online:


Once you have both a grayscale image and a textured version of the same image, you go into blender and do these steps:


In blender you use the heightmap to displace a plane, then use the textured image you made to give it texture which gives stuff like: