TADOLSON'S DESERT WORLD

I did the worlds because I hated having to empty out a world before I could play in the world.I found it easier to start a new game in an empty custom world.I've got three CAW projects done and in the game as working worlds or for bets testing.I did upload town of my CAW projects because they've been tested and the most recent one is in testing.

I've started to put in some slightly elevated terrain a bit away from the river banks.
I've started with roughing in the terrain to shape it for the world I'm creating.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3767/12284141193_0c5ceb298c_z.jpg
I outlined the raised land along the waterfront areas.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7341/12284142813_b384339f85_z.jpg
I was almost finished with outlining when I made a big mistake while saving.I never use "save" for saving my worlds and have always used "save as"with "world_lite.world"only for a first save then I would use"world-a_lite.world" and change the file name each time I save a world in CAW,but this time I typed in the same file name I loaded under by mistake and found I could delete a folder for that overwrite save and reload the world.I did my work and saved under "Logan-d_lite.world" that worked.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5499/12284144543_cfa63ea28b_z.jpg
I had to redo the outlining and save again and I didn't repeat the mistake I'd made earlier.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2885/12283998535_a9dcebba56_z.jpg
I took a final picture of the last bit of work I'd done.I've got the terrain sculpting started and I'm getting it done.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5518/12284542636_070e02d18f_z.jpg

I'm still working on early terrain sculpting in Logan with CAW.
I've started to outline raised land and fill in the outline.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5531/12317061964_0e103a5423_z.jpg
I was still working on finishing off the fist phase of terrain sculpting.I also saved it under another file name.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2823/12317064584_94f57d49c7_z.jpg
I worked on outlining and filling in on the other side of the riverbed before I saved with another new file name.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7338/12316640055_63f3eb78b6_z.jpg
I took this after I was done with the terrain and was saving under a third file name.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3802/12317069774_8345e77568_z.jpg
The terrain is starting to take on the shape it should have when the world is finished.

I'm still on terrain sculpting and getting into the more advanced sculpting in the world.I've got pictures of the work I've done today on this world.
Here's the outlining of the new raised section.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7328/12341684555_46af0114db_z.jpg
I'm starting to fill the raised section in.I was also saving when I took this picture.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7359/12341688365_0a274f1c40_z.jpg
I filled in the new section.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3809/12341842093_c48272e449_z.jpg
Here's my sculpting work so far.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7455/12342140664_c984baaca7_z.jpg

I've got a few things to do with terrain sculpting rough-in first before I can smooth things out and detail the terrain.
Things To Do
Rough sculpt the terrain.
Smooth the terrain out.
Work on the terrain detailing.
Paint in routing for camera and Sims.
Start painting the terrain for the riverbed and just take it all over.
Start laying down the roads and trails.
Place effects.
Place Road Objects.
Start painting the desert terrain over the riverbed paint.
Paint in the grassy terrain in the spots meant for grass terrain paint.
Place spawners.
Place world objects.
Prepare world for export to game for testing.
TODAY'S PROGRESS

Here's the outlining I started with to get more raised terrain.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7296/12364914703_773200256c_z.jpg
I've raised more terrain here.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7349/12364759165_360d2af65f_z.jpg
I've gotten most of it filled in and started another level around the outside edge.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5542/12365209114_a3512369b6_z.jpg
I've gotten most of today's work done.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2885/12364769425_e8de399184_z.jpg
Here's my saving with "save as" and using new file names each time I save.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3810/12364773075_a5a61888b6_z.jpg

I've done more work on my desert world and enjoyed working on it.
I did some outlining for the elevated area on the other side of the river.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7438/12383301354_2d5d7d32ac_z.jpg
I filled in the elevated area.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5502/12383304304_3af2e47e7d_z.jpg
I decided to save under anew file name as usual.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3675/12383307704_e62618a952_z.jpg
I've still got a ways to go with the sculpting on the terrain before I can get into painting the routing and apply terrain paints.

I've still got some rough sculpting to do on the terrain before I can do the detailing.
I got started on today's portion of the sculpting and got it partially done before having to save.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5507/12406930275_8f5044c5ce_z.jpg
Here's my saving screen and I use save as and give new save file names to each world save on one project.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3727/12407099043_dd00916cde_z.jpg
I did the rest of the sculpting for today.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3723/12407412944_8a418be0ed_z.jpg
I had to save as again and use another new save file name for this save.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3817/12407417554_e32ed5d322_z.jpg

I've started having to add some hills to block out the edge of the map.
I took this just before saving my work.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3807/12433511253_4879c907fa_z.jpg
I was working while this was taken.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3724/12433370795_c8c11d7028_z.jpg
I saved again at the end of my session.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3692/12433374415_23f3072b0b_z.jpg

I've got more terrain sculpting done after being too sick to do much for a while.
Here's a shot of some of the sculpting I've done so far.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5483/12449519004_58fef6789a_z.jpg
There's more of the work done.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3814/12449175613_bc5f3438f0_z.jpg
The last shot of the sculpting before I shut down.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2827/12449531814_c3ff6c211b_z.jpg
I restarted to work on some mesas and got that work started.
Here's the first one started.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2819/12541549783_19b26a75ae_z.jpg
More work got done on it.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3804/12541411285_a62cec5e26_z.jpg
Here's another one started.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7449/12541926634_0346a61360_z.jpg

I've got more done on Logan today in terrain sculpting and am looking foreward to getting past that and moving on to terrain painting after the sculpting is done.
Here's what I usually get after saving my way.It's without the (not responding)message.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7383/12563019924_f6e5fc661d_z.jpg
I worked on the second mesa and got it near to done.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5523/12562552725_fe2fe2c49c_z.jpg
I went to work on some hills near the edge of the world.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2809/12563027494_508bc06316_z.jpg