Creation of a Terrain

To create terrain:

1. In the File View panel, right-click the prebuild folder and select New Terrain in the list.

   For example, in Expeditions:
   

2. In the appearing window, specify the main parameters of the new map:

   For example, in Expeditions:
   

   The parameters here are the following:

   • Name – the name of the map.

     NOTE: Names of levels must start with the level_ prefix, names of references must start with the ref_ prefix.

   • U Blocks and V Blocks - allow you to specify the dimensions of the map (the width and length), in blocks. Each block is equal to 24 meters.

     • U Blocks – the number of blocks along the X-axis.

     • V Blocks – the number of blocks along the Z-axis.

     WARNING 1: The player will experience the "invisible wall" effect near the edges of the map and some space near them will be unusable. Due to that, minimum recommended dimensions of the map are 5 x 5, in blocks.

     WARNING 2: In Expeditions, very small maps are also not recommended since the default Drone has the No Flight Zone near the edges of the map. The default value of the noFlyZone parameter for the original Drone is 150 meters from the edge.

   • Max height (m) – the maximum height of the level.

3. When creating new terrain, the system creates the new data.stg file and prompts about that. Answer Yes.

   For example, in Expeditions:
   

If the creation of the initial terrain was performed successfully, you will see that the Scene View panel now contains the following hierarchy:

The Terrain section there contains subsections that correspond to both tools (brushes) that you will use during editing terrain and all objects that you will add to the terrain.

However, the main window of the editor will display only the grid and the initial terrain will be not visible.

To display the terrain, double-click the terrain preview in the Terrain panel on the left (A). After doing this, the terrain will be displayed in the main window (B).

For example, in Expeditions: