Terrain Questions - Stairs

[corley]

I have 2 questions.

I am trying to make a stair case, what is the best way to make it look like the stairs go downwards? I am looking at increasing the height of the playable floor in this particular room so the stairs physically go down.

How do I give the impression the stairs get darker, is there a dark shroud effect or shadow anything u can add??

 

[Piwlady]

I quote myself...

With lot's of invisible platforms, it's easy but bad way because when your unit walks on those stairs it looks like little bit laggy. Or you can make slope with hill making tool ( or what ever it was ) in terrain palettte and then just put those stairs doodads.

 

[Lexandritte]

For stairs use a stairs model. At least ones from UTM. You can also give invisible platform a model of stairs -- that way the unit walks on top of the model. Even better solution is a slope-like invisible platforms -- you have to make them yourself, though.

To give impression of descent... Well, the actual descent is required, obviously. You can set up lightning to midnight, and put some light sources on top of stairs and none at bottom -- that's the easiest way. There are also numerous "darkness" models, I'm sure with little effort you can find them on your own.