Creating Landscapes


Once your first five or so rocks are attatched to one of the
walls, you can then select them all and use the 'spacebar'
to clone them and cover the rest of the surrounding walls.
Simply use the 'z-axis' button to rotate them and just slide
them  into place.  Don't  be  overly  concerned if they don't
match  up  perfectly  as  they're  just  being used to give a
natural look to the surrounding walls.  Use the  'organics'
folder in textures to cover your brushes.


   

Once the rocky face is finished the next step is to add a rolling
landscape  to  cover the  center of  the  room.   I've  cloned  the
bottom  brush  of  the  bounding box and placed the new brush
on  top.   Now  with  the  new brush  selected  use  the  'curves'
option  on   the  toolbar  and  choose   'simple patch mesh'.    A
pop-up  window  will  appear  asking  for  a  number between 3
and  15.  The  higher  the  number  the  more  detail  that  you'll
be able to create but your frames will suffer.  This will turn the
brush into a flat patch just like an endcap or cone.


   

The next trick will be to create mounds with the new patch 
so  that  a  landscape  starts to  appear.  If you look down on
the patch and use the vector tool you'll see the points that
make up the geometry of the patch.  By using this veiw you
can  select  multiple  points  by  holding  down  the  mouse1
button  and  highlight  with   blue  the  desired  parts  of  the
patch.   With  the  points  selected  simply  switch  to  a  side
veiw  and  pull  up  the  grouped  points  to  create a mound.