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Ian T
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Posted: 7th Sep 2004 11:39 Edited at: 11th Dec 2004 08:38
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The Advanced Terrain Pack is a set of new commands for DarkBASIC Professional that allow users to create their own beautiful, expansive terrains with a handful of commands. The fully functional basic version is free. The advanced version has more features, such as level of detail terrains and advanced detail texturing. You can buy the advanced version at any time when you have installed the base DLL.

Get it here:

http://files.thegamecreators.com/darkbasicprofessional/packs/Terrain_Expansion_Pack_Standard.exe

Some good screenshots can be found here also.


You'll need the latest patch for DarkBASIC Professional:

http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/?f=upgrades


FAQ:

Q: How are the advanced terrains different from matrices?

A: Advanced terrains are compiled from a heightmap image. They have a single large texture mapped over them and a tiled detail texture. A light is mapped across from from any direction. Once they are created, they can be manipulated like any other object in the engine.

Q: Do I have to pay to use them?

A: No, the basic version is fully usable and in fact generally faster than other terrain solutions.

Q: My advanced terrains aren't showing / are rendering oddly.

A: Make sure you're calling Update Terrain every loop.

Q: How big can advanced terrains be?

A: Huge! Big enough that it can take an average size game character moving at high speeds several minutes to get from one side to the other.



(If you have any ideas or expansions for the FAQ feel free to post them here .)

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Cool, but where's the help file for the terrain? I downloaded it, but cant figure out really how to use it...

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Indian Homie G
If you look in your Windows programs list there should be a
"The Game Creators" entry its in there under
"Advanced Terrain Expansion Pack"
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Got it, thanks

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I have got the terrain pack installed... BUT the commands arn't recocnized in DBPRO. What am I doing wrong?

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have you registered it?


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is the bug fixed that causes a crash when you change the screen resolution of your game?

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Hmmmmm, I have downloaded the advanced terrain pack, installed it, made sure that it is registered fully, and I get the following error when I try to run my program to see what it can do, here is the line that its getting hungup on...



And the error I get is...
parameter mismatch in command 'SET TERRAIN TEXTURE' at line 9, I am pretty sure this is a newbie mistake but can someone enlighten me to what is wrong with it?

I managed to get the rest of it to get to that line, but it keeps returning the same message.

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I've also downloaded the terrain pack and the example does not installed.

It highlights line 26 - make object terrain 1 and says Could not determine parameter type of 'terrain 1' at line 26

The terrain pack has been successfully registered. Also i have the enchancment pack and thats works fine. It just the this one thats does not work.

Any ideas?

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I have the same problem as nrasool. It seems that lots of people are having trouble with it. What's worse for me is that I can't seem to re-register the Terrain system (TCA gave me instructions on how to do it, but it doesn't work ).
It's a major bug with U5.6 and I hope 5.7 will sort it out, though if someone gave me a band-aid solution in the meantime, it would be greatly appreciated.

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@Mr Underhill

Fixed it last night. What i had to do was again to remove the terrain pack from add/remove program, reinstall it again, and then register

I can now compile the example program

Please try this Mr Underhill

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Thanks, nrasool, It works now!

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Mouse ya big n00b, now go make a help file

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When will advanced Terrain plus be out?


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Has the link for the Terrain pack disappeared? I checked the one in Rich's posts, and it told me it wasn't there

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Try this:

http://files.thegamecreators.com/darkbasicprofessional/packs/Terrain_Expansion_Pack_Standard.exe

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I don't Get it. Could anybody give me an Idea of why TGC released and announced the Adv. Terrain pack as a free plugin. Many of us spent some hours learning and finding uses for it. I also purchased the buggy Advanced Terrain Generator and now, since I installed DB 5.7 it just does not work.
If I would like it to work, I'd have to go back to 5.6, but then the particle physics pack won't work.
I think TGC should release right away the free version of terrain pack as a bonus for we all loyal and registered customers.


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They already have. Check out the sticky in the DBPro discussion forum.

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I like when a positive response comes so fast.


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Why do I get A "Could not determime parameter type of 'terrain 1' at line 24" of the example file?

I'm running patch 5.7, I got the 5.7 upgrade, registered Pro online, and did that
Quote: "'You have to activate the plugin, go into the DBPro Compiler folder, and run TGCOnlineTrial.exe."


No Dll's work for me! HELP!

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*twitch*
I run it and it just ends. No error messages or anything...
And the commands aren't showing up as commands when you type them (changing colour) but i'm not getting the "do not understabd command" thing :S


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rem out the "set display mode" command, this causes the program to crash for some unknown reason
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"set display mode" command isn't found in the code apparently... i'm just trying to run the example program that came with it :S


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Make sure you download the 5.7 version of the terrain dll if you are usuing DBP 5.7. If not you need to find the older terrain dll.

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I installed a version of the Terrain Pack and I am running 5.7 and now I am getting a strange error message:

Runtime Error 1512: Displays Not supported by available hardwar at line 0.

Yes that says line zero. I dont'e even have a line zero. I just installed this tonight, but I may have had a older version. I hope so, cause this is really upsetting me. It does not matter what project I run, or even if I run a example project they die at runtime with the same error. Is anyone else getting this???

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That message means the display width, height and/or BPP isn't supported by your hardware...

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anyone else having trouble with alpha mapped objects over a terrain? it just appears solid yet when moved away from the terrain its faded :/
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Work here. Have you tried different transparency flags? Try using 2 or 4 instead of 1. Also are you ghosting the alpha mapped object? There was a ghosting bug reported somewhere here.

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just using the set alpha mapping on command, doesnt seem to affect the model when its over the terrain
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The example program opens a window and then closes; the small test code I made fails to create terrain.

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Never mind. Found the 5.7 version. Have another problem, though. My terrain is generated flat and where do I buy the full version? (If it's under enhancements I never saw it.) Heightmap is attached; yeah, I just whipped it up in paint. Source hasn't changed.

Ok, that's weird. When I open it up in paint, it comes up normally. When I download it, it's all white.

Does the heightmap command require a specific colour format?

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The red value of each pixels rgb() is all that is checked.

[edit] Make sure it a 2 based size as well. Like 128 x 128, 256 x 256 etc. It will accept 24 bit or 32 bit .bmps That is all I have tested with.

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Given that I used white and gray and saved it as a 24bit colour .bmp, that shouldn't be a problem.

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can it be used with DBCe? if not please point me to a dll or something like this for DBCe. im tired of using matricies. thnx

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Quote: "Q: How big can advanced terrains be?

A: Huge! Big enough that it can take an average size game character moving at high speeds several minutes to get from one side to the other."


but the heightmaps can't be bigger than the user's monitor resolution (for bitmaps at least)

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Can it be used with DBC?

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No.

Also I havea question about registration as I have to reinstall it since I didn't register it.

Which email and password do I use? My account here at the boards? Because I wasn't sure if I was supposed to sure if it was the one I bought the product with because I ordered my DBC and DBP off of Amazon.

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someone should post the update

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I'm running 5.8 now and I tried to use the terrain pack for something I was making when I was bored and this is my code:


It's not much because it closes immediatly with no error, is this because I have to update Advancded terrain for 5.8? If so where can I get an update??

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nonono , your code has to be like the one of tgc inside of there help command , using there structure as it is , lemme copy paste it if i find it ...



this should do , if this don't work , rerewrite here that it doesn't , i'm kind of tired and tried to help

btw , don't update anything at all regarding terrain , just update 5.8 , terrain is included with it , you don't need to reupdate it , if you have updated , just erase reinstall dbpro , now , about commands , we are working on a update for the manual , check the sticky in dbpro forum

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Quote: "It's not much because it closes immediatly with no error, is this because I have to update Advancded terrain for 5.8? If so where can I get an update??"


In the first post I dowloaded that one and it works fine in 5.8

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I get an error saying "6". Here is my code:



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I get the same error with this:



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I downloaded the terrain pack and registered it, it works fine except the commands don't show up blue there is no keywords file.

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yea they didn't update the keywords .......

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Where do I download the help file?
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It is included with the download on the first page. Look in you start menu, its there.

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This thread should be deleted now since the advanced terrain is included in the core language as per 5.9.

If you've upgraded to 5.9 or intend on doing so then you should NOT DOWNLOAD the advanced terrain from this thread. You will break the commands.

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what is a heightmap image?

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It's a greyscale image. where it is light, the terrain will be high, where it is dark, the terrain will be low.

Just like bump maps.

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