Scale of Features?
Posted:
Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:49 pmby nicethugbert
What's considered a feature? I don't understand this one at all.
Posted:
Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:46 amby Aaron
Hi Nicethugbert,
I've written a
little guide here, with pics to demonstrate the settings. Please let me know if it still doesn't make sense.
Cheerio,
Aaron.
Posted:
Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:27 amby nicethugbert
Thx Aaron. It seems to me that Feature Scale and Altitude Range are the same thing. Is that correct?
Posted:
Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:12 amby Aaron
Hi Nicethugbert,
Not quite, but I can see how you would get that impression from the guide I wrote. Perhaps what I should have written was more like this:
Feature Scale sets both the horizontal and vertical size of mountains/valleys/etc in the design map. If you increase this value, the hills will get both wider and taller in proportion*.
Altitude Range only affects only the vertical scaling. Thus, it will make hills taller, but won't make them wider. This control is used to make the map steeper or flatter.
Is that a better explanation?
Best regards,
Aaron.
* Random musing: Maybe I should change the extent labels for the feature scale slider from 'vast' and 'tiny' to 'mountain' and 'mole-hill'. Hmmm...that may not work across all (or many) cultures.
Posted:
Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:59 pmby nicethugbert
That I understand. Thx Aaron.
Maybe just include (Height and Width) and (Height Only)?