Aces High Default Tile sets.

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I'm wearing out my shoe horn.................

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Took a weekend and many pots of coffee to get the NE corner finished.

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Back into the mountain range stuff.....at least this is the last time on this terrain..weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeee.....

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Mountain prep = scoop it all out like water would.

There really is a grade all the way to the water. You set it up with the bulldozer tool and descending dots of raised surface along the tan lines in the pictures set to gradually lowering elevation. Then you roughly fill out from the ridge lines down to meet it and run a smoothing tool back over to set in the scallop in each ridge line side. Simple, just time consuming as preparation for laying on or cutting in all the side runoffs. I've reached the point where the side runoffs are like freehand adding floral decorations to a cake after it's been prepped and frosted. For me that takes minutes compared to the time spent prepping each valley.

Frankly terrain build is exactly like creating a theme based cake or a giant wedding cake after the foundation is out of the oven and cooled down.

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Prep all done and now for the decorations and sprinkles....

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Right when I was patting myself on the back for getting half way thru the last bit, I realized I needed to add two glacier cut valleys to make spanning the side cuts easier.

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Finally that's done.......





Almost 3 months to the day I imported the RAW file and popped up the base land mass.

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Now I get to have some fun.

Building the world is a PintheA and burns you out. It's repetitious, mind numbing, and frustrating becasue the limits of the polygon size makes you constantly compromise on your imagination. It's one giant shoe horn it in and hope you can do something later when you paint it. Now that it is, what it is, I get to lay down all the feilds, play with the micro terrain for the GVs, and doodle on it. And I get to drive around and fly around on it "a lot"....derp....

I forgot the HTC crew is the 6 drones in knight land, what a shock when I pulled up on that rise and zoomed in on my target....oopsies Hitech.


The tank town pit on fjordma.

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More of the Pit....














And why did I paint all those dry washes with that stone tile? So tanks get to drive on rocks....

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I know what I'm doing for a few days now.....

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A country a day.....

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Some of my fun shoe horning in the feilds and towns since the glacier cut valley's are where they are..........

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Laying down bases and strats thankfully doesn't take near as long as creating the world to set them down on.

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I just want to say really nice work. 

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The next step is where I get to spawn to every single field and visually inspect the local area for "whatever"......weeeeeeeeeee.   





Since I've been listening to GVers now for three terrains over three years, this is a new feature for my terrains. Almost all feilds have two inbound spawns, a few only one. I'm setting a spawn from the local field out to meet those inbound spawns to get people at each other sooner so they don't spend up to 30 minutes wandering around missing each other in a 3 square mile area. Even with GVDAR they can't find each other... At least with this tile set and the trees tiles I limited this build to, a player will have to work overtime to get hung up in a tree........