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Is there any good applications for easily creating 2d environments?

by Derek Traver · in Artist Corner · 12/07/2009 (5:17 pm) · 1 replies

I was just wondering... are there any applications out there that allow you to "paint" 2d overhead/isometric type of environments, that aren't tile based?

The thing that comes to my mind the most is the map editors from WarCraft 2, StarCraft and WarCraft 3. It was basically like using photoshop brushes, where everything gets blended together seamlessly.
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Torque Owner Merlin Avery
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01/22/2010 (2:05 pm)
I've coded clones of those games using my own engine and those are assets. I'm unaware of any tools that let you do it yourself currently. Those are assets are setup to blend, there's nothing really magic about it. Warcraft 3, for example, used texture stages and you selected textures for each stage and as long as the stage matched up, so did the terrain. Warcraft 2 used tiles for every terrain blend possible.

The warcraft 3 method isn't the general practice these days as people have moved over to texture splatting in 3D on height maps.