Mountain Rock Texture Demo for CAW Beginners
I usually read through this forum every day to keep up on whats new, and to help out if there is a question I can answer with my limited knowledge. I've noticed newer CAW builders strugle with terrain paint, especially on mountains, so I thought I'd come up with a recipe for mountain painting that takes care of that horrible tiling that occurs with the rock_shale_base default texture.
This is the finished product.
This is the first layer, rock_shale_base
See the tiling of the pattern? Not very realistic.
Layer #2 is the rust_rock_shale_base just scribbled on the top.
I took the default rock_shale_base into gimp and increased its saturation.
Layer #3 is moss_rock_shale_base
I scribbled this on too, placing more of it on the shadowed side of the mountain where more moss would grow naturally.
Layer #4 is rock_shale_base_dark
I placed this where I wanted extra contrast, in valleys and crevices.
Layer #5 is shale_rock_contrast
this is a little harder to see but I set my brush size down to 1 and scribbled around to obliterate the tiling effect, see next photo......
I took out all the other paint layers so you can see how I laid the shale_rock_contrast.
Layer #6 Martine_grass_spring
This texture is from Martine at MTS. this texture works great to blend grassy areas into any other texture,rock, sand, dirt, ect. I also used it in patches on the mountains where grass might grow sparsley. Now just add some trees and Wa-La, you're done!
I uploaded my altered textures to MediaFire and paced a Z1-6 in front of the file name so they will all clusster together in your terrain paint file. Here are the links to those.
Z1_rock_shale_base.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?jchyvmgzxzz
Z2_rust_rock_shale_base.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?5lezywyttjm
Z3_moss_rock_shale_base.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?ujirzzwmzit
Z4_rock_shale_base_dark.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?yzbdt1mzkwk
Z5_Shale_Rock_Contrast.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?mohyi4mwzyy
Z6_Martine_Grass_Spring.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?0rzgnqtmuzt+
When you download click on save and then download them where you can find them.
Okay now you have your files downloaded I will walk you through putting them into your game. Again, I'm writing this for beginers like I was just a few months ago.
Find your files and then open up Windows Explorer.
On the lefthand side under Folders, go down to Documents,
then to Electronic Arts,
then to The Sims 3 Create A World,
then to UserToolData.
then click on SourceTextures.
Now just drag and drop the new files into the SourceTextures file.
Now you can go forth and make beautiful, non tiling Mountains :lol:
This is the finished product.
This is the first layer, rock_shale_base
See the tiling of the pattern? Not very realistic.
Layer #2 is the rust_rock_shale_base just scribbled on the top.
I took the default rock_shale_base into gimp and increased its saturation.
Layer #3 is moss_rock_shale_base
I scribbled this on too, placing more of it on the shadowed side of the mountain where more moss would grow naturally.
Layer #4 is rock_shale_base_dark
I placed this where I wanted extra contrast, in valleys and crevices.
Layer #5 is shale_rock_contrast
this is a little harder to see but I set my brush size down to 1 and scribbled around to obliterate the tiling effect, see next photo......
I took out all the other paint layers so you can see how I laid the shale_rock_contrast.
Layer #6 Martine_grass_spring
This texture is from Martine at MTS. this texture works great to blend grassy areas into any other texture,rock, sand, dirt, ect. I also used it in patches on the mountains where grass might grow sparsley. Now just add some trees and Wa-La, you're done!
I uploaded my altered textures to MediaFire and paced a Z1-6 in front of the file name so they will all clusster together in your terrain paint file. Here are the links to those.
Z1_rock_shale_base.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?jchyvmgzxzz
Z2_rust_rock_shale_base.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?5lezywyttjm
Z3_moss_rock_shale_base.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?ujirzzwmzit
Z4_rock_shale_base_dark.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?yzbdt1mzkwk
Z5_Shale_Rock_Contrast.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?mohyi4mwzyy
Z6_Martine_Grass_Spring.dds http://www.mediafire.com/?0rzgnqtmuzt+
When you download click on save and then download them where you can find them.
Okay now you have your files downloaded I will walk you through putting them into your game. Again, I'm writing this for beginers like I was just a few months ago.
Find your files and then open up Windows Explorer.
On the lefthand side under Folders, go down to Documents,
then to Electronic Arts,
then to The Sims 3 Create A World,
then to UserToolData.
then click on SourceTextures.
Now just drag and drop the new files into the SourceTextures file.
Now you can go forth and make beautiful, non tiling Mountains :lol:
