Displacement library

Displacement library 2016-02-21

YM

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Displacement library - Templates and Styleguides from 2010

You've been waiting for it ladies and gents, here it is for you to use.

--About--
This is a library full of displacement templates that I've made for you to copy into your maps and alter how you see fit to create all sorts of fantastical natural maps. I decided to get down useful starting points for displacements after realising that they might encourage people to play with displacements more, having a starting point already can be less daunting than starting from scratch. I don't want anyone to rely on this alone for their displacements, but rather to use it as a tool to learn to become self-sufficient or as a time saver.

--Usage--
  • Once downloaded extract the single .vmf to your \steamapps\<USERNAMEHERE>\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc folder.
  • Simply open the .vmf in hammer, browse through and find one you want to use then copy/paste it into your map for modification.
  • I recommend that you spend a bit of time making them fit nicely together once you use them, as they are not designed to all fit together in every possible combination.
  • The style guides are there as an artistic reference of how valve's main styles are constructed. I wouldn't recommend using them directly in your maps but they are there if you want to use them in what ever way you can think of.
 

YM

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I dug this up again because I think everyone making maps here could benefit from looking at the gravelpit displacement cliffs. I recreated a sample here, but you should definitely all look at gravelpit's cliffs. Go on, go open it up in hammer and take a look. If I can learn something from them, you definitely can too.
 

seth

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Forgive me for not understanding, but what exactly am I supposed to be seeing in gravelpit?

I dug this up again because I think everyone making maps here could benefit from looking at the gravelpit displacement cliffs. I recreated a sample here, but you should definitely all look at gravelpit's cliffs.
 

Bull

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Very cool, thanks a lot!
 

YM

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Your cliffs probably look like this:
NwweFAB.jpg

When they could look like this:
cliff.JPG

See how this one has interesting shapes going on? And if you look at it in profile it looks like this:
cliff2.JPG


(Actually gravelpit does less of this than I remember)