Little advice needed on creating cliffs

[WeissberV]

How would I go about creating a decent cliff edge or side? Everytime I try myself they turn out to be ugly as hell, I must be doing something wrong.

 

[PBarnum]

top of cliff
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bottom of cliff

Use my quick ASCII drawing as a guide. Make 3 (or more) brushes connect as shown, then use the displacement tool.

 

[thesupersoup]

Displacements are your best friend when making cliffs, there's no way around it.
That ASCII guide is definitely a good starting place. Give that a go with some power 4 displacements and then slowly mold the shape you want from that. Remember you can set the displacement modifier tool to work along the X-axis and the Y-axis in addition to the face normal, so take advantage of that too.

 

[WeissberV]

Thanks, I'll try that next time I'm in SDK.

 

[jon50559]

The ultimate technique when creating terrain is definitely: http://www.littlelostpoly.co.uk/devblog/?p=295

And an explanation of the 'subdivide' tool: http://halflifestorm.com/?page_id=225

And have fun!