sculpting terrain in a prefab?

[DMC]

Other than bashing away at the ground with a tool is there a way to sculpt terrain? For example making a nice smooth hill as found in game, for your house or other prefab to sit upon.

 

[BeeBeeBee]

Make a hay bale or use a scrap wood frame.

Place it down and it also flattens the terrain for you.

Be sure to recollect and recycle for maximum coverage.

 

[Cpt Krunch]

Other than bashing away at the ground with a tool is there a way to sculpt terrain? For example making a nice smooth hill as found in game, for your house or other prefab to sit upon.

Ive done this myself for prefabs.The easiest way i can think of as you described it would be

EDIT: not sure you can export from world editor, I think I actually exported from a game save, rest is the same.

Open world editor in any map with hills that look like what you want

Select a hill that you want with the blue box and export it as a prefab

Open prefab editor and merge your prefab to the hill

OR

Open world editor

Place the your prefab on the hill how you want it and save that as a new prefab.

I would recommend grabbing Pilles prefab editor for getting the rest of the settings like zombies, copy air or not etc.

 

[Gazz]

Not yet. I believe A18 has terrain modification tools but I'm no level designer.

 

[DMC]

ok, thanks guys... I had been thinking about the whole take a hill from a map etc... will give it a try for sure. I hope A18 does include said tools

 

[n2n1]

I use in built-in editor which should be unlocked in the .dll (from Alpha 15).

If you're talking about creating prefabs.

https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?47459-A16-Unlocking-In-Game-Prefab-Editor-(Terrain-Tools)-dll-mod

 

[DMC]

I am talking about making the terrain in your prefab to look like the terrain in the game... Yes i can make it snow ground if i want i can make it burnt forest etc.. but i want a faster and better method for say making a sloping driveway to a house on a hill, where the house and hill are all part of the same prefab. Does that explain it better?

 

[n2n1]

Ah, you want to do it in-game, not make a new prefab to add it later, when generating.

I was talking about creating a new one.