Mountains! And Hills!

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Skaalib Drurr
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Post by Skaalib Drurr »

Maybe a silly question, but why are there so many chopped trees on that screenshot?

Edit: Forgot to say, looks good. Very good
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Hmm....IT looks like many, but it is likely you will only see few once you walk through there ingame. I'll remove some. =)
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Post by Miklorius »

The edges (the tiles at the edge) of a mountain/hill look very rough and unnatural.

And:
Are small hills or knolls possible, with only a height difference like a table (and no need for a ladder or similar)?
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Oh wow! Absolutely amazing! Keep up the good work!
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I don't know about your second question, and I am already aware of your first (which I am searching a solution for right now). And I cannot change the edges at the north side of the hills, because rounded tiles are just not possible at edges.
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Post by Garett Gwenour »

we cannot walk up hills but need ladders?
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Post by AlexRose »

Bodacious!

I hope you also do gradients like grassy hills your character can walk over without ladders.
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Post by Hadre Taliset »

Garett Gwenour wrote:we cannot walk up hills but need ladders?
yeah, why don't you just change the code for the tiles for the ones on the edge to have the same code as a ladder tile, but look diferent, as in look the way they do now.
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Post by Thurbert~ »

Because then you'd either have to be ablet to crawl over every edge to get on a mountain (with lots of placing special tiles and scripting for EVERY edge of EVERY mountain), or you wouldn't notice these special tiles because they look like all the others anyway.
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Well, I do not really know Sam. Anyway, we can always roleplay halflings made pretty pretty stairs up the hills.
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Post by Nalzaxx »

Can you see people on the bottom bit from the top bit.

Ala hilltop forts?
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They look fantastic!!

I always RP'd and envisioned that Briar had gentle rolling hills, Islands usually do have a 'higher' interior.

Keep up the good work!!!
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Post by AlexRose »

You should be able to skid down mountain edges ;)
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Post by Adano Eles »

At the RL- Meeting the idea to use the ability of walking onto objects to create less steep items you could walk up and down came up, but will it ever come? Who knows.
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Nalzaxx wrote:Can you see people on the bottom bit from the top bit.

Ala hilltop forts?
You can't currently.
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thanks for the terraforming.
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Post by Nop »

Nitram wrote:
Nalzaxx wrote:Can you see people on the bottom bit from the top bit.

Ala hilltop forts?
You can't currently.
Actually you can. You just can't look upwards.
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Post by Samantha Meryadeles »

I always RP'd and envisioned that Briar had gentle rolling hills, Islands usually do have a 'higher' interior.
You know that Greensbriar is no natural isle? ;)

it got made by halfling hands. they carried thousand and thousands of sand and rocks and build that isle themself
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Post by AlexRose »

Nop wrote:
Nitram wrote:
Nalzaxx wrote:Can you see people on the bottom bit from the top bit.

Ala hilltop forts?
You can't currently.
Actually you can. You just can't look upwards.
Like on the roof of the gatehouse and from the balcony of the library?

That's perfect; you can make forts as Nalzaxx suggested and fire arrows down etc. and they wouldn't be able to target you xD
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AlexRose12345678910 wrote: Like on the roof of the gatehouse and from the balcony of the library?

That's perfect; you can make forts as Nalzaxx suggested and fire arrows down etc. and they wouldn't be able to target you xD

You can see the people, but from what I know (though I'm not 100% sure), you can't shoot at them.
Like you can't cast magic on something that is on a map below you either.
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Samantha Meryadeles wrote:
I always RP'd and envisioned that Briar had gentle rolling hills, Islands usually do have a 'higher' interior.
You know that Greensbriar is no natural isle? ;)

it got made by halfling hands. they carried thousand and thousands of sand and rocks and build that isle themself
They just built a dam from Gobaith to Briar. The isle itself is natural. Ask Falk for the complete story around it.
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Post by Thorvald »

Adano Eles wrote:
Samantha Meryadeles wrote:You know that Greensbriar is no natural isle? ;)

it got made by halfling hands. they carried thousand and thousands of sand and rocks and build that isle themself
They just built a dam from Gobaith to Briar. The isle itself is natural. Ask Falk for the complete story around it.
And even if not: Considering the thousand of earth quakes Gobaith has already suffered from; hills in Greenbriar wouldn't been much of a surprise.

Misjbar: I'm in love with this map. But I already told you that. It's amazing work.
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Post by Samantha Meryadeles »

You can see the people, but from what I know (though I'm not 100% sure), you can't shoot at them.
Like you can't cast magic on something that is on a map below you either.
That is right. it once was possible but had to be deactivated when npc started to shoot and cast on peoples who seek shelter on rooftops. and since they were so much better at doing that than any player char ;)
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Samantha Meryadeles wrote:
I always RP'd and envisioned that Briar had gentle rolling hills, Islands usually do have a 'higher' interior.
You know that Greensbriar is no natural isle? ;)

it got made by halfling hands. they carried thousand and thousands of sand and rocks and build that isle themself
That's not the whole truth. Greenbriar was an island, discovered by a man called Milan, The halflings build up a way from the mainland to the isle, which was a great work to be done and the condition for them to settle down there.
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Post by Juniper Onyx »

Wow, thanks Falk.

I didn't know that, but I'll add it to our History so others will not soon forget Greenbriar's history.
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Post by Japheth »

Going even further off topic, Junyper Onyx, if you want to know any more about the finding and founding of Greenbriar you can always PM me, one of the founding members.
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Post by Xonogor »

Are the pictures attached to the posts? If so, I cannot see them. I want to see what everyone is wowing.. I've been trying to for days. How come I am unable to see these ''previews"
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Xonogor wrote:Are the pictures attached to the posts? If so, I cannot see them. I want to see what everyone is wowing.. I've been trying to for days. How come I am unable to see these ''previews"
Hmm, the pictures in this posting are normal linked pics via the [img] command. Check your forum profile - maybe you have disabled pictures.
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Xonogor wrote:Are the pictures attached to the posts? If so, I cannot see them. I want to see what everyone is wowing.. I've been trying to for days. How come I am unable to see these ''previews"
Try this link:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/ ... /Hills.jpg
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Post by Xonogor »

O thank you Alex.

That looks sweet. I can already imagine a castle on a hill with a moat ;p or some secret shrines.. but yea.. looks good to me.

There isn't an option to turn off picture in my profile? So, that couldnt be?
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