Gensurf terrain tool and tutorial

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:46 pm

is gensurf the same as easygen ?

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:34 pm

PKM wrote:is gensurf the same as easygen ?

As I recall, Easygen creates a mesh based terrain that has a pretty high polygon count. I don't remember if it is compatabile with MOHAA mesh format. Gensurf creates pretty low poly count brush based terrain that works with any Q2 - Q3 based engine. It's not as pretty, but doesn't have a big performance impact.

Post by **Rookie One.pl** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:04 pm

EasyGen creates the terrain out of brushes. It does work for MoHAA maps if you turn off the fancy alpha map shaders.

And after importing to Radiant you have to retexture it yourself.

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:18 am

Thanks, Rookie One. I haven't played with EasyGen in a long time. Maybe I'll give it another try. I still have it on my old PC.

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:49 am

i believe i used easy gen for my battlelinc map. like rook said you have to texture yourself once in radient .

Tod001 · Post by **Tod001** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:21 am

Also, here's a filefront link to the Trolley map:

Most excellent map, look foward to bot conversion..........

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:42 am

PKM wrote:i believe i used easy gen for my battlelinc map. like rook said you have to texture yourself once in radient .

That wouldn't matter to me. I wind up changing textures or creating new ones 4 - 5 times, on every terrain.