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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Terrain tutorials?

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Nemesis_0_
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Posted: 21st Nov 2007 21:46
Ok so i've been fooling around with things like landscape creator today, and then started thinking, which lead me to the realization that i cant even comprehend how terrain works at this very moment in time. i was searching around the forums for tutorials and couldnt find anything... does anyone know any websites that may have some good information about different aspects of terrains???
Zeus
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Posted: 27th Nov 2007 13:49
There is one in Game Design Theory about the RPG I am sure.

BatVink
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Posted: 27th Nov 2007 15:15
Advanced Terrain (part of DB Pro) also includes a example program. You'll find it in the DB Pro folder.

jason p sage
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Posted: 20th Dec 2007 19:22
Did you make any progress yet? I'm working on Terrains a lot lately - and so are a few others I know - we've been hammering on them - that's why I ask.

david w
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2007 01:53
check here its got alot of terrian stuff

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=100645&b=1
wind27382
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Posted: 24th Dec 2007 04:48
ok do anyone know how to increase the default world size of darkbasic. I noticed this was a post o n terrains and was wondering if anyone else has had this problem

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jason p sage
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Posted: 24th Dec 2007 05:15
Quote: "increase the default world size of darkbasic"


What do you mean by World Size? The Advanced Terrain "Size" Maybe?

if so - change the scales, mess with tiling - Value of 16 works for bigger stuff...

I don't know what you mean exactly. Careful on Texture size though - trying to get a lot of "detail" usually chows vid ram if you use a huge super texture .. say 4096x4096.... I had better luck with advanced terrain's staying in the 1024x1024 "texture" range.

wind27382
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Posted: 24th Dec 2007 05:44
not quite i builot a mountain and turned it into an object. but after i go so far it disapers on me. i have the polycount showing and when i go past the distance it disappears. so i'm kind of fustrated the only thing i can think of is it's to big. it's big so i can fly over it but it keeps dissapering.

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jason p sage
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Posted: 24th Dec 2007 06:41
then play with SET CAMERA RANGE CamId,near,far

Also - You should be able to scale the mountain also.

Look at fog commands too. If you set fog on, and its color to match Backdrop color - and you make em both same color blue for example - You might like the Hazy Sky look.

wind27382
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Posted: 24th Dec 2007 17:58
hey i made a thread with my question i don't want to take over this one. but i still need help if you wouldn't mind going to my other post

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 03:43

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