Game Development Reference
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Chapter 12
Creating and Editing
Zones and Terrains
This chapter helps you discover how to create your own area in a game world
called a zone. You will learn how to create a landscape (terrain) for that zone
using a simple but extremely effective feature called heightmaps. You will then
learn how to take your basic landscape and make it more interesting by covering
it with grass and textures.
Creating a New Zone
A zone is an area within an MMO game world that can be used to separate a
particular in-game region or separate areas based on weather or topography. So
you could have a city mapped into a single zone or use a zone to contain a
particular weather or terrain feature, such as a desert or mountain world. It is
common to have topographies overlapping each other; an area starts off as
generally flat and then becomes mountainous as players move to the edge of the
zone.
Depending on the size of your game world, you may also have a game region
located in more than one zone. Zones can be spread across servers. If you have a
particular city that is in one zone only, you may find that many users visit the
same location, which could create performance issues.
There are a number of zones already created in Realm Crafter. For this example,
you
'
ll create a new zone called Test.
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