Hi fellas,
I played around with
EasyGen a little bit but wasn't really satisfied with the results I got. If you have already used it, I would like to share some opinions.
Pros: EasyGen is very convenient for creating terrain and saves a lot of time. Terrain blending comes for "free" since EasyGen automatically creates the meta shader definitions. Everything can be changed easily. So: very nice program.
Cons: The examples you'll see in the tutorials are always something like "Surround a couple of structures with nice looking terrain". That's fairly easy to do. But, if you want to add tunnels to the terrain created with easygen you are in trouble. I guess that it is very difficult to align "custom" made structures with the terrain. Additionally, you end up with a lot of brushes for the terrain (hurting FPS). Particularly, you'll have too much brushes in large flat areas and too few in small rough areas. Additionally, the structures in GtkRadiant look like a mess since there are so many brushes. I know that you can import your map in EasyGen and create the terrain around your structures, but that will not work out properly I guess if you have tunnels.
Any opinions about EasyGen? Did somebody use it and has some tipps and tricks to offer?
cheers
breli