====== Beginners' Guide to Heightfield Effects ======

^  Author | [[user>Dead.Rabit]] |
^  Date | 6 June 2007 |

====== Peak ======

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this is a very pronounced effect, (i had to buff it down a little).

it makes large round mounds at the tops of hills. or peaks.

====== Fractal ======
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makes the surface bumpy, not the worlds prettiest effect but useful to dot around on boring places.

====== Terraces ======
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this will make a hill go up in steps/stages.

====== Erosion ======
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my favourite of the lot. it makes those jagged edges on hills, not great as units cant often traverse it, but a beautiful effect none the less.
of all the effects this one probably takes the longest to render.

====== Lakes ======
similar to fractal. however makes divots, and these divots can intertwine, it'd make a great effect for meteor stricken areas. (moon landscapes)

====== Sea seed ======
nice and simple, fills said area with water. if I'm not mistaken this takes priority over most things, so the texture will probably have sand in this area. i don't think it affects the heightmap.

====== Mountain ======
fairly straightforward, makes mountains, these are great for semi traversable land.

====== Plateau ======
not the best thing for spring, makes a flat plateau with steep cliffs all around it. although if a mountain of higher land is next to it, they will overlap and its not the nicest of effects, use carefully, and surround by lower land

====== Volcano ======
amazing effect of creating a volcano. placing adjacent squares will merge them into a super volcano, takes a long while to render however, and occasionally makes a mistake when merging 2 adjacent volcanoes together. delete the appropriate volcano seed.

another point is, that i don't think the default climates have a special texture for volcanoes, which spoils it a little bit, however read the climate tutorial and add it to one of the existing climates. the texture for arctic seabed would be a good texture to use.

The End

p.s. i am not a godly user of L3DT and use it about once a month. feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
D.R




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