Map Making Tips Utilization of Meshes/Terrain optimization transcript

all right hey what's good ladies and gentlemen Ginger here today I'm just going to be teaching you some basic [ __ ] about map creation that you really need to know so the main thing that you gentlemen need to focus on is one optimization two the utilization of meshes basically meshes are the fastest thing to render it on Roblox and they're also very easy to render on depending on the track count which you shouldn't be exceeding uh 10K tries on majority of your models but if it's like a tank or something just separate them I'll go over another video on how to do that later so basically uh I do a lot of map making so let's go ahead and [ __ ] get started so um majority of these tools are pretty self-explanatory uh draw you can draw [ __ ] smooth smooth [ __ ] out sculpt let me sculpt it and then painting obviously changes it so it's whatever you want but let's go ahead and focus on the utilization of meshes so let's say you have something like this and you don't want to smooth it down because you think that looks horrible so here's what you do you want to go and find some meshes you can go to this from toolbox you can do whatever you want some people talk [ __ ] about toolbox but it's readily available resources and nobody should really complain about that if they do they're [ __ ] idiots so if we just type in mesh Rock scroll down find a nice little kit this will do fine usually I'll do PBR textures and [ __ ] uh go ahead and change it to whatever the [ __ ] you want so [ __ ] family so what you're gonna do is literally just put it on the side and then scale it up to fit and then what you can also do is let me go ahead and do the same thing what's that Pebble yeah go here find Pebble do the same [ __ ] so what I want you to not do is literally just copy and paste this same thing all around the whole entire terrain because not only is that going to look shitty but it also isn't going to make you look good if you're trying to get better at developing if you just saw this in a game I would literally just think the developer is lazy because all he did was rotate it now what I want you gentlemen to do is grab different variations of [ __ ] rotate it around slap it in and what you can do is stack meshes on top of each other I know that's a crazy concept but a lot of people don't do it so do some [ __ ] like that and that looks all right now let's go to the smooth tool and what we can do here is kind of just smooth it down and then if you want to match the terrain color or the rock color for which it is to this that will also make it a lot better so how you change that is you go to terrain scroll down find what you're looking for and then do whatever the [ __ ] you want with it now what you can also do is if you want to fill in some tiny little gaps let me see like her right here you can go to sculpt bring it down and then kind of just do this and Surround it and that doesn't look horrible now obviously I don't use these meshes because they kind of look cartoony and I prefer realistic [ __ ] I'm gonna go ahead and open up something that I utilize this a lot for just so I can show you an example give me one second all right welcome to my Geonosis amount so uh I worked on this with a guy named starting I will try to find him but I don't know where the [ __ ] he's at so basically what we did here is he did majority of this and I kind of copied his style up here and all he did was have some terrain like this and then stick some meshes on top of it and to me I think this is one of the best maps that I've worked on I have done a few other ones but as you can see let's find this right here he didn't just copy and paste the whole thing around he used different variations and stacked them on top of each other to make it look nice get out two different meshes in there so basically this will help improve everything you do development wise Plus it'll help with performance a lot Also let's go over how to optimize terrain very quickly all right so I prefer to use tactical Jokers terrain Optimizer just because you can copy and paste the region which is what this thing is called and move it all throughout your mouth but I'm going to leave it on the link in the description just so you ladies and gentlemen can take a peek at it so if you want to go here and then drag it down actually you can just put it through the terrain it really doesn't matter and then as I said before you can copy and paste this however the [ __ ] you want it so the reason why this optimizes the terrain is because Roblox terrain is dog [ __ ] so the more or the thicker that the terrain is the longer it takes for you to load in the longer it takes for you to load in obviously me and the side to that wrong obviously means that your game is going to run a tad bit more shitty which isn't necessarily good uh you could try to enable filtering enabled for that but that will break ACS if you use it so you're going to want to go ahead and do this I'd recommend sticking to a very small amount of these maybe a [ __ ] 3x4 which is what I have right here so then what you're going to do is you want to go into terrain copy this code and then you put it in the command bar right here wait a minute it may lag you for a little bit so I'll be back whenever it's done alrighty it has officially finished so I'm gonna go over here move this [ __ ] up and then look at that I obviously didn't cover the whole map but it has flattened the terrain out to a specified thing in the code [ __ ] somewhere around here I can't really tell it's somewhere in here I believe it's in terrain yeah terrain thickness four so you can increase that or decrease that you will now keep in mind that if your game has like shovels and [ __ ] to dig trenches this may be an issue but what you can do to help that is just put a part at the bottom of the map so that way people can't dig past it but I hope this helps and if you guys have anything else you want me to Showcase just let me know