Tips for building with ModTer?

[Kniaz]

I'm starting a new project, and it requires heavy investment in ModTer.
Anyone got some great pointers, or must-have mods that'll help me in building?
I'm mostly interested in large, open interiors for players to explore and build in.

Or, if you just have any cool builds that you've made with ModTer that you are willing to share, that'd be awesome too!
Any sort of visual references won't go unappreciated (:

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[Im_AFK]

mod ter is really easy to mess up, but I found some pretty good techniques that make it look nice

basically i use these bricks as guidelines for when i build with mod ter



wedges are good for carving out boundaries or small hills, and good for covering them too

for sloping mountains, use the flat to steep rule: start with 1/4 and work your way up, it helps make them nice and pointy

1/4 wedges make good grassy patches, they make for a decent filler to flat landscape

sylvanor's pine tree fits well with mod ter style, but that's just my preference


now if we combine all of those together...



you can put together something like this

just what i use, low detail and simple

[Kniaz]

That's awesome, thankyou!
I think the biggest problem I'm having is just proportions right now, and getting everything nicely into scale with eachother.

[Im_AFK]

yeah, i have the same issue. i found it easier to use 8x or 16x

i wouldn't recommend going above 32, since 64x does not feature a steep variation, and tends to look dumb as mountains

[The Resonte!]

Or, if you just have any cool builds that you've made with ModTer that you are willing to share, that'd be awesome too!
Any sort of visual references won't go unappreciated (:

sure

fov is weird because it's zoomed in
and it's very... jumbly
but it's cool too


there's a download to the .bls in the quoted post
a few other modter maps in here http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=288048.15

[Dragonoid.Slayer]

(Made by Conan)

[Hawt]

(Made by Conan)

made with broken images

[Jervan]

Use cubes as a base and then be creative with how you connect them via differently sized corners and wedges

[Conan]

made with broken images

the images are forever lost - they were hosted on imageshack before it went defunct, and the computer i wrote the guide on is broken.

I will find some time and redo the pictures and guide, and this time upload it to imgur as part of a large image album.