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Kedumba

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2010 01:24

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Hi,
I'm using the Free version of DBPro and I'm learning it slowly. I'm currently playing with the Terrain commands and I am using the example shown in the Help file.

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rem Make Simple Terrain
TerrainNumber=1
make terrain TerrainNumber,"land.bmp"

rem Position The Terrain
position terrain TerrainNumber, 0, 0, 1025

rem Texture terrain
ImageNumber=1
load image "grass.bmp",ImageNumber
texture terrain TerrainNumber,ImageNumber

This works fine. Is it possible to NOT tile the terrain texture? In other words set it to only tile once? For example, I have used L3DT to create a Terrain. This program creates a Heightmap and it also creates a Texture file which textures the terrain. When I use the texture file, it is tiled on my terrain?

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luskos

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2010 12:49

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Quote: "When I use the texture file, it is tiled on my terrain? "

You have the program, can`t you tell ?
I suggest you use advaced terrain, search about this in forums.
And my second advice is, begin with some project not involving terrain.Try 2D at first.With no basics it`s easy to give up at some point.

Where there is a will, there is a way.
I often edit my posts, that`s who i am

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Kedumba

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2010 20:36

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Quote: "You have the program, can`t you tell ?"

Sorry for the badly worded question. I'm in transition from day to night shift and that combined with home commitments, I have currently been awake for a little over 26 hours straight and my brain is a tad fuzzy

My question is simple. The example given in the DBPro Help gives me a terrain that has a texture tiled over it. I would like to have that texture not tiled. I cannot find any references to a non-tiled terrain and I am wondering if this is possible.

I will try a search on advanced terrain.

Thanks

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chafari

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2010 21:17 Edited at: 22nd Mar 2010 21:18

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@Kedumba
The terrain method you are seeing, is the old method and works with a tiled texture...now there is a free plug-in, that makes advanced terrains, and you can texture your level with a big texture without tile.

cheers

I'm not a grumpy grandpa

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Jane Doe

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Posted: 24th Mar 2010 10:20 Edited at: 24th Mar 2010 10:21

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I use L3DT also. You might want to research memblock mesh terrain or memblock terrain. It's a bit more work, but you can do some nice things with it and it lends itself to using L3DT. The terrains below were made this way.