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Big Man
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Posted: 19th Mar 2006 22:05
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hi

To tell the truth I have never really tackled a full 3D game before but I am a very compitent coder so I should be alright there.

In my game it starts off in the arctic, I want to get a snowy terrain but I dont know how to go about doing this I have created a pretty good terrain in Magic world but i cant seem to save it as .x format and I ideally dont want to get a converter.

Are there any other ways of creating this sort of terrain that you could tell me about or can you save as .x in Magic world.

Any help would be great.

Cheers

BM

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FeelX
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Posted: 19th Mar 2006 22:25
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Hi,
Magic World is afaik a matrix editor, so you can't export it to the DirectX format if the editor doesn't support it (and it doesn't if i remember right). But what you can do is loading the matrix with the included loading function.
Tip: Center the matrix at 0,0 in the editor, I remember a bug whith a offsetted matrix where the get ground height() function didn't work correctly...

P.s.: Please excuse my english
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Acolyte Entertainment
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Posted: 19th Mar 2006 22:56
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I find it a hastle to apply terrain collision to an X object. so what i would do is use a matrix and randomize it.
if you have mountaions and such that you want then it will get alot more difficult.
this is where height maps come in. I found this snippet of code that takes a bitmap and makes it
into a 3d matrix depending if certain spots are darker or lighter. if you are interested in this please reply for the code.

good luck,
~Snowfall

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Big Man
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Posted: 20th Mar 2006 08:07
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yes please

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Big Man
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Posted: 21st Mar 2006 17:15
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snowfall are you there?

I said yes please

BM

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Acolyte Entertainment
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2006 02:22
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Ah, sorry, yeah. here ya go:



at the start of your program use:



and here is the image you can test out on:

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2006 03:42
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maybe you could make a really thin, quite large box in a 3d modeller of your choice. Then add bumps and mountains, then make the sharp points rounded and smooth to give the snowfall effect. Grab a texture that looks like snow, then when you load it in game, just give it a huge scale factor. Might take up a fair bit of detail, but its worth a shot.

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Big Man
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2006 21:20
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Thanks snowfall

@Silent knight That might be a bit more trouble than its worth.
Thanks for the idea anyway.

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Big Man
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2006 21:24
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Wow I just tested what you gave me snowfall and it is really good thanks man

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