#world creator

[loreofsplit]

WELL HAI

You know I realized i never introduced myself!

Hello! I'm Split but you can also call me Lore! I'm just a silly Christian girlie who likes to draw and create stories. You can find my art and characters on Toyhouse or on Instagram. I am open for commissions as well! I draw all my own art you see on here, unless im reblogging someone- otherwise this is 100% a human artist at work!

I tend to hop between brainrots, which can often be Tales of Arcadia (mainly Trollhunters), in the form of my au DearestHunter (which you can find my original premise here!) I also have a mlp au that i like to dabble in.. thoughts could come later! Mainly I am here to try and build an audience for my WIP webcomic: Parallels! A modern fantasy story that includes monsters, angelic and demonic like entities and divine-multiverse beings.

yeahhh thanks for sticking around! I don't know what to talk about myself: i like coffee and sweets, i hate seaweed, i'm like not sure what the heck im doing but i'm here!

[blazehedgehog]

Any thoughts on the World Maker update to Mario Maker 2?

It’s nice to know Nintendo wasn’t ignoring Super Mario Maker 2, but I wish they would have put out smaller, more incremental updates. Something to let us know that more content was coming, instead of dumping these two huge updates on us and then peacing out.

Like, this is a lesson Valve used to teach mod developers, right. Update early, update often. Doesn’t matter how small the update is, push it out weekly, maybe even daily. Show that active development is occurring, that support for the project is ongoing. It doesn’t have to be a full on software update, but screenshots, or something. Anything.

Imagine a world where the World Maker update came out months ago and we knew about the run up to the final update so we could actually make requests. Like, say, being able to upload more than one World. Having better discovery tools for player-made worlds. Being able to name Worlds. Being able to more easily track worlds you started but haven’t finished playing yet.

Instead, it’s some kind of Monkey’s Paw half-wish where, like, technically Nintendo gave me what I wanted, but they twisted some of the conditions in weird ways. But that’s it! That was the final update! Mario Maker 2 is done now! Live with it! Whatever you don’t like about the game at this point is the way it’s going to stay until Mario Maker 3, if they even make one!

And in what’s become increasingly common for Nintendo, they put this update out and didn’t even tell people about everything they changed. Beyond all of the new power-ups, silent changes were made to the tagging system and leaderboard sorting. Did Nintendo tell anyone? No, fans had to dig in and find it themselves. Because telling people about ALL of the new features is apparently too much work.

But overall it’s a good update. It’s really starting to stoke my fires of creativity. I’m starting to think about what levels I want to make, because I’d like to build a full-length 8 world game, if possible. But I need to assess what’s doable.

[why485]

Messing around some more with World Creator. This tool is still surprising and amazing me. In this, I took imprecise heightmap from the real world, and then used it as a base for procedurally generated terrain to fill in the detail.

Areas are proving to be the secret sauce to getting manual control over what you want the terrain to look like. Before I learned about these, I was thinking that WC was really only good for super procedural stuff, and not really anything designed. Areas give you manual control to paint your heightmaps, and then use them in combination with the procedural filters to get the effects you want.

[the-number-26]

An Unlikely Crew (Part Two), By Nate Miller

Check out part on of Nate Millers story at The fuselage shuddered and shook as the wind and rain slammed against it, forcing a side-to-side movement that troubled even the most iron-clad of stomach…

Nate Miller's second part of his trilogy for the blog. He took the bus theme and the writing prompt to the air- creating the number 26 airship. A very creative take on the blog. ANd he brought the #steampunk genre to the blog as well

[zere-arts]

Lucian At peace 

like that would actually ever happen lmao 

[why485]

World Creator is a spectacular piece of kit. Its ease of use is unparalleled by any terrain editor I’ve ever seen. I’ve spent the past few days just learning its ins and outs, and driving my little Unity Cube Warthog around on maps I’ve generated.

Also there’s no way I wouldn’t try to make a Wake Island style map.

At this point it seems like my problems with map making have shifted to placing down things like buildings, roads, and vegetation. While World Creator’s sync tool can import vegetation, I’m very skeptical of it because the performance on imported terrains is weirdly bad with vegetation. I don’t have enough experience with vegetation in Unity to know if that’s a Unity or World Creator problem.

Anyway, placing down buildings any way other than the old fashioned way eludes me. VTOL VR has some pretty magic procedural city building, but that’s way too involved for me. Roads are a similar problem. I’ve seen assets like EasyRoads cited as the way to do that stuff, but I’ve never messed with it.

[why485]

The first screenshot is World Creator, the second is in Unity.

World Creator is the new hotness. It's amazing how easy to use this is, and it's all real time so it's extremely responsive. Its workflow is more like Photoshop than the node system of World Machine. You can also make the maps seamless by just pressing a checkbox, allowing you to tile maps for background scenery very easily.

In the second screenshot above, I imported the terrain using the kinda weird Tiny Combat Arcade methodology, but even that was much easier than it is with World Machine. The export tools are easier to use, and World Creator even gives you exactly the numbers to plug into Unity so that it matches 1:1 with what you saw in World Creator.

There’s a tool for directly importing the terrains into Unity that I don’t have right now, but from what I’ve seen of other devs it seems to work extremely well.