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My first map is going to be 480*480. I have a rough idea of the major geography of it and I've checked some terraining guides. It seems to me however that I may as well experiment with hills and waterfalls and whatnot on the actual map I intend to use them on. If something looks bad, I can edit it.
Yet, is there something I really should do first? On the level of, your map will need this and you can only include it from the start; if you don't do that you will have to start over from scratch or it would be faster to start over from scratch than to fix it.
One particular concern that comes to mind is whatever occult hacking ritual I need to perform to circumvent the 16 texture tileset cap. I haven't figured that out, only heard legends about it, and for now I can easily busy myself for a week without requiring that. Still, eventually I will need it... or right away?
So, can I start my trial and error with the terraining or is there something I should absolutely do first?
P.S. I'm sure 480*480 sounds like a bad idea for my first map but I have a vast story in my mind, one that begins and spends the majority of its first time in this land. If I started somewhere else I wouldn't be adequately sure what's going to happen or exist there. And this land IS large, large enough that even 480*480 will not be able to represent the real town sizes and such. If I could make it 4800000*4800000 I probably would, so don't try to talk the idiocy out of me
Yet, is there something I really should do first? On the level of, your map will need this and you can only include it from the start; if you don't do that you will have to start over from scratch or it would be faster to start over from scratch than to fix it.
One particular concern that comes to mind is whatever occult hacking ritual I need to perform to circumvent the 16 texture tileset cap. I haven't figured that out, only heard legends about it, and for now I can easily busy myself for a week without requiring that. Still, eventually I will need it... or right away?
So, can I start my trial and error with the terraining or is there something I should absolutely do first?
P.S. I'm sure 480*480 sounds like a bad idea for my first map but I have a vast story in my mind, one that begins and spends the majority of its first time in this land. If I started somewhere else I wouldn't be adequately sure what's going to happen or exist there. And this land IS large, large enough that even 480*480 will not be able to represent the real town sizes and such. If I could make it 4800000*4800000 I probably would, so don't try to talk the idiocy out of me