Modular Terrain City Scape GuideMod-terrain can be very useful for designing cities. The rate of build expansion is much higher than standard bricks due to the size and lack of detail. However, the lack of detail is not necessarily a bad thing. You can keep the city looking detailed and exiting with mod-terrain by following this guide.
First thing to do is make sure you’re working with the correct texture. If you’re working with a managing host, he/she will tell you the correct texture, if not then usually go for a ‘ramp print’ style. The default one has a little too much glow so I tend to go for something a bit stronger.
Next, you want to get some inspiration. If you already have some inspirational buildings that you’d like to use, great! If not, have a look on google maps. I usually base a city around a real life city, head over to google maps and use street view to find a nice building which will translate well into Blockland. Usually something quite blocky is nice and works well.
If you’re not building directly onto the map, you’ll want to start out by placing 4 64x64 baseplates down, into a square shape. Using mod terrain it’s important to keep your buildings natural to a city’s plan; creating the same square shaped buildings over and over can tend to make a map boring. Mix up the shapes of buildings, add public areas to towns such as parks or plazas.
Now you want to work on getting the right foundation to the building. You want to use this as a plan for the rest of the building, try and keep a 4x grid. Remember to ALWAYS conserve bricks. A 4x cube is the same height as an 8 ½ cube or a 16 ¼ cube.
When I first used mod terrain, I noticed a horrible glitch, where the 4x bricks can be built inside the standard mod terrain pack (this was very annoying as I couldn’t build all my maps in one big zone) however, we can use this glitch to our benefit and fill gaps in which are smaller than 4x.
When constructing walls, always remember to indent. Nobody wants to see some ugly flat faced buildings. Always indent. This may result in having to use the above method of filling gaps, but your build will look much nicer.
When placing windows, indent them a stud and colour them different to the walls, this tends to make the windows stand out more.
When adding a roof to your building, if you’ve indented your walls a lot you may not be able to easily get a flat roof. Adding an 8x ¼ layer of bricks to the top of your roof will make a stylish and easily coverable feature to your roof. I recommend then adding blocks to represent ventilation units.
I may update this guide later on (I will probably add photos tomorrow)
Let me know if you need any help, PM me or reply here. Hope you find this guide useful.
MOD TERRAIN RESOURCE LINKSFurdle’s Solitude Modular Terrain Apocalyptic City
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=272573.0Furdle’s Modular Terrain Grand Theft Auto
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=265279.0GSF Mod Terrain MegaThread Download Page
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=187620.0
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