[Tutorial] How to make Howling Fjord-Styled Mountains

[Herbalism]

Hey everyone

There are many different mountain styles and steps. In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create a Howling Fjord themed mountain.

*Note: I used Noggit 1.3 in this tutorial.


Alright, let's begin.
Select "Raise/Lower" and "Smooth". Raise your Brush Radius to 20-30.
Raise three small things, everyone being of different size. Now it should look something like this.

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Next, switch over to "Flatten/Blur" and select "Linear". Use Shift+RMB on top of the area to make it flat but mouldy. Then use CTRL+RMB on the sides to make it a little rounder. You should have something that looks like this now.

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Lower your Brush radius to 5-15. Go to the sides and use Shift+RMB on a couple of places to get a few flat areas on the sides.

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I marked it out with red to make it a little clearer.
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Now we can let the texturing (painting) begin.
Hit "U" to enter 2D mode and easier texturing. Think a little, what do you want your mountain style to be? Desert-like? Forest-like? Snow-like?
I will pick snow in this tutorial. Load the necessary BLP's and select some good stone texture for your sides.

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Now lower your Radius to something around 4 and your Hardness and Pressure to 0.19. OPTIONAL: Lower Brightness/Darkness. Now begin texturing the sides. DO NOT TEXTURE THE FLAT AREAS.

A good tip for this is to press F7 to see chunk and ADT lines.

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Great, now we can start working on the flat areas. Enter 2D mode and select whether you want something snowy, grassy or perhaps dirty, I don't know, it's your choice. I will pick snowy in this tutorial. Keep your radius at 4.0 and the Hardness and Pressure at 0.19.

Now lower the Brightness/Darkness to somewhere around the middle to get a little darker look on it.
OPTIONAL: After adding the dark textures, you can lower your brush radius and add some brighter textures at some spots.

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A useful thing I noticed: If you go for making something snowy, pick snow as your base texture.


There you go, now you have your own Fjord-styled mountain!

Hope this helps!

Herbalism

[Reflection]

Approved. Well done!

[davidfaca]

Awesome post!

after few minutes practicing and following that guide my fjord style tests doesn't hurt my eyes too much.

Highly recomended for those who want to start texturing!

[Bjarke]

Exatly the way i used to do when i did worldbuilding :] GJ Tho, try add more 'sharpness' to it Its too blur'd out, it looks bad

[Herbalism]

Thanks Lol, 100 views and 3 replies. Yay for leechers eppersdance:

[MadameGrip]

Pepperdance ftw!eppersdance:

[svedin]

Nice work

[MadameGrip]

Sorry to say this, but this is NOT howling fjord This is basic mountains, this is howling fjord:

[Herbalism]

It's quite similar to Howling Fjord. Although, if you lower a bit of the platform a little and then blur it, it would become something like that. Sec, I'm gonna try.

[MadameGrip]

I tried to make blizzlike howling fjord for my original xaeron, and no, it will create spikes in-game which ruins the whole epic effect We need some tools that can render the chunks :P