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Ermes
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hi people, where i can find a demo of the advanced terrain editor??? i'm really novice at this.

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Posted: 14th Jan 2005 21:24
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whaaa sorry for mystake title.... ADVANCED TERRAIN EDITOR...

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Van B
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Posted: 14th Jan 2005 21:25
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There is no editor - there is a sticky in the DBPro forum though.

The advanced terrain is a plugin for DBPro that adds commands to create the terrain from specified images - you should go looking for a heightmap creator and renderer. I'm quite partial to Bryce4, which someone posted a link to recently and was distributed on some magazine coverdisks. It's free now from what I gather, companies do that a lot with 3D software when the new version is out.


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Posted: 14th Jan 2005 21:27
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oh well. now i look at it.

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Posted: 15th Jan 2005 07:27
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There is an editor in the programme anouncements forum for advanced terrain.

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Posted: 15th Jan 2005 07:39
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Van, how did you get Bryce 4 textures to look good in AT? They always look a bit odd here - a bit too splotchy.

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Posted: 16th Jan 2005 00:03 Edited at: 16th Jan 2005 00:09
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You gotta render the image at about 5000x5000 then cut out the colour map and resize it, I usually go for about 1024x1024, but at that res you can grab much bigger areas.

Attached an example screenie, I really like the rough look that Bryce makes. That's a 2048x2048 colour map on a 128x128 heightmap.

If you want I could make one for Mercs2 - just let me know the resolutions you need.


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Posted: 16th Jan 2005 01:33
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Looks very nice Van

You could have a go with the deserty ones - I tried to render Death Valley using Bryce 4's arizona textures, it looked awful though. If you could do better, please be my guest. Around 512 or 1024 is fine for the texture - and it can either be .bmp or .jpg.

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Posted: 16th Jan 2005 05:49
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Check this one out, little test code included:

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/van-b-software/Bruce4_Desert.zip




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Posted: 16th Jan 2005 06:02
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0_0.

Will definately try that in the morning, thanks Looks amazing.

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i;m also working on a terrain editor, PACKED with features.

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Posted: 16th Jan 2005 09:40
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darn van b thinkin he is so good with his good coding skills making awesome looking products.

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Posted: 16th Jan 2005 20:18 Edited at: 16th Jan 2005 20:22
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after a few hours work i have that so far. the terrain edits itself in real time but at 7fps, so i'm going to make a function so users can select how often they want to terrain to update itself while edtting it.

I have it locked at fps of 30 (for some reason the FPS function multiplies it by 1.1 or something)

At the moment i'm working on changing the brush size, and the different brush types. after that i'm going to make a GUI to make it look pretty.

I have tonnes of features planned for it but i'll make an announcement in WIP when i;m ready, since i dont want a faster coder than me to read my plans and then code them himself before i do

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Posted: 17th Jan 2005 03:41
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i must say you need a PX cpu 15Ghz and a 5Gb vcard super ultra nvida FXXXXX to have this "advanced terrain" working for any game.....

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Posted: 17th Jan 2005 05:31
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...no you dont. the terrain demo TGC made with the freely-made terrains plug-in runs at 650-950fps on my pc

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Posted: 17th Jan 2005 06:00
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Ya advanced terrain is fast stuff really.

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Posted: 17th Jan 2005 16:26
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i've got to make a trial.

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Posted: 17th Jan 2005 16:30
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Ermes, have you tried the demo yet? - there's source code included with the terrain download, you have to go hunting for it though. Alternatively you could try the terrain example I uploaded for DavidT.


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Posted: 17th Jan 2005 19:14
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no, i haven't. let's go hunting for the demo...

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Posted: 18th Jan 2005 01:03 Edited at: 18th Jan 2005 01:04
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I'm also kinda working on a tutorial for making a game level with a terrain, but then i got carried away and decided to make a terrain editor.

-edit: ...and also th eterrain commands atm are only temporary solutions so making a tutorial based on the current ones would be pontless

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