[Building Guide][WE]Raising/Lowering Land

[Wrynn 1347]

Where to find them, how to build them? *World Edit Included

This is perhaps one of the most vital tools when terraforming with World Edit. It allows you to create levels in your land, making sure that your area isn't completely flat and has some depth. Although simple you have to remember that it is an extremely useful and helpful tool to make your builds look better.

 First you'll need to pick out the areas that you would like to raise/lower and get an idea in your head of what you're wanting to do. I felt that the grass beside this river looked a little odd so I wanted to raise the land slightly.

 

To start brushing you'll want to head to the materials tab in your menu and pick out any material which will act as your brush. I've picked out a stick and a blaze rod. If you use a block, worldedit won't allow you to attach a brush to the item and it won't work - so make sure you've picked out an item from the materials tab. 

 

 

Next, you want to hold the material you want to act as your brush and type of the command "/brush sphere grass 3" *3 being the radius of the brush. You'll the want to simply start clicking where you would like the land to be raised. You'll notice that it will come out it big spheres and not really look very natural yet, however we'll be fixing that in the next step. You're aiming to place the blocks down roughly where you would like the land to be raised. It'll look something like this in the end.

 

 

You can layer the spheres over one another if you'd like to raise the land higher also. If you'd like to lower the land simply type this command instead of the last one; "/brush sphere 0 3" *0 being the block we're bushing with - "air", 3 being the radius of the brush. When you right click with this brush it will remove blocks since we are replacing them with air.

 

 

Now that we've placed generally where we'd like our land to be raised/lowered we need to smooth out the terrain so that it doesn't look as blocky. This however is extremely easy with World Edit; simply hold another material in your hand and type the command "/brush smooth 2" *2 being the radius of the brush. This brush essentially gets rid of all of the nasty sharp edges that were created by our sphere tool. All you have to do is right click with it and it will even out the land. It should look something like this;

 

 

 

That's everything to this guide. It's a really simple tool which can have a lot of power to make your builds look better if used correctly. All you have to do now is detail the land to make it look prettier. Happy Building!