Blocks & Decoration Make the Terrain flow better

[stormconure]

Just a fun idea i thought up that would make terraria look more natural!

Terraria terrain is very blocky. Yes, i realize that the point of the game is blocks and stuff, but i think it still looks too unnatural. The look of terraria could be much more smooth with just a few little changes to the way blocks interact with each other.

Here is how terraria looks now when a slope ascends 1 block:

Here is how it could look with visual tweaks:

Also, any items on a slope like this will slide down it.

Is this a good idea? Tell me what you think!

PS: how do you make sprites bigger?

 

[stormconure]

Just edited the main post a little.

 

[Evil BooB]

Do you have any pictures that don't require a microscope?

 

[zimberzimber]

1.3 will have smoother worlds with better world generation.

 

[stormconure]

Ok, cool. Btw how do you know this stuff about 1.3? I read the spoiler and all it said was better platform stairs... And abiut the microscope, i put it in as a full image and it cam out tiny. Dont know how to fix...

 

[zimberzimber]

It was said so in the spoilers for 1.3.

 

[stormconure]

It was said so in the spoilers for 1.3.

I read the 1.3 spoiler and it just said the world gen will be "smarter and cleaner". Nothing was said about block interaction.

 

[zimberzimber]

I read the 1.3 spoiler and it just said the world gen will be "smarter and cleaner". Nothing was said about block interaction.

Oh I though you meant the terrain.
But then how do you want the blocks to interact with each other?
Try making a clearer and bigger image.

 

[Fruitbat]

But that's how it already works, slopes and stuf make the terrain smoother

 

[stormconure]

Sorry about the image thing... I have no idea how to make it bigger. The block interaction is like if a slope ascends by 1 block, then the first block on the higher ground is slanted to look like a smooth, less blocky hill. Its kinda hard to explain, sry bout that XD

 

[stormconure]

Rather than looking like a cube, the block looks like a triangle, if that helps at all...

 

[zimberzimber]

So left is what is in your opinion right now, and right is how you want it to be?

 

[Fruitbat]

Rather than looking like a cube, the block looks like a triangle, if that helps at all...

Like I said that's how it exactly already works

 

[stormconure]

I used to look like this when ascending 1 block

It would now look like this if this suggestion was added.

 

[stormconure]

yay i figured out how to make it bigger.

 

[Leinfors]

For reference, here is Stormconure's original images, only zoomed in:

Now, that above would work . . . however, this:

Would not work. Pixels in Terraria are squares, not triangles, and the block sprite isn't large enough to make an even slope like that . . . however, it could be more smooth I suppose.

 

[stormconure]

For reference, here is Stormconure's original images, only zoomed in:

Now, that above would work . . . however, this:

Would not work. Pixels in Terraria are squares, not triangles, and the block sprite isn't large enough to make an even slope like that . . . however, it could be more smooth I suppose.

Thanks for zooming it in, i never knew how to do that.

 

[Leinfors]

MS Paint 4 lyfe!

 

[stormconure]

Does that work on ipad? Thats what i use this forum from...

 

[Leinfors]

Couldn't say, I don't have one!