Make terrain a big block instead of plane

[Scony]

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[Scony]

PoC:

[Scony]

An alternative would be to add soft edges

[smix8]

I suggest doing it like in many other 3D RTS games by extending the terrain mesh beyond the border of the map so that the actual cutoff of the terrain is hidden behind either the fog of war or the possible camera constrains.

E.g. here is how it looks for an Age of Empires 4 map. The yellow border constraining the playable area while everything that extends outside is just set dressing.

[Scony]

I suggest doing it like in many other 3D RTS games by extending the terrain mesh beyond the border of the map so that the actual cutoff of the terrain is hidden behind either the fog of war or the possible camera constrains.

E.g. here is how it looks for an Age of Empires 4 map. The yellow border constraining the playable area while everything that extends outside is just set dressing.

That sounds like a good idea but the question remains - what about edges? how to present them? I'll try to experiment with that anyway but if you have any suggestion or you're able to check how it's done in AoE4 I'd appreciate any information.

[smix8]

In AOE4 the visible edges are those yellow symbol lines while some distance fades with the fog of war until full black.

In Age of Mythology the map borders are hard edges that fake some depth terrain into the ground.

[Scony]

In AOE4 the visible edges are those yellow symbol lines while some distance fades with the fog of war until full black.

In Age of Mythology the map borders are hard edges that fake some depth terrain into the ground.

Perfect, thanks!