More freeform
Hope this is useful for some of ya,
Mj
A cool new way of texturing LoD
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A cool new way of texturing LoD
I dont know if anyone had thought of this, but in my new map for MoH:Vietnam, (a big map for planes and things) i wanted to make a peninsula. So the first time ever, i used PSP to make my terrain, and it turned out just great. But texturing? Reeeeealy difficult. I would have had to make many different textures for each angle, ect, which explains why all MoH:AA maps are very right-angle-ish. And the fact i couldnt do paths annoyed me too. soooo in a stroke of genius, I enlarged my heightmap around 1000%, and used the textures in correspondence with the height, and then appiled the thing as a whole to my terrain!
More freeform
Hope this is useful for some of ya,
Mj
More freeform
Hope this is useful for some of ya,
Mj
Last edited by Mj on Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
That look excellent MJ , I dont understand how you did it, can you explain it in more detail, like how do you increase the heightmap and whats a heightmap anyway ?
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... looks like you got it to look much better - I'm really impressed 
I will try an explain in some detail... unfortunatley a teacher confiscated my keyboard and mouse 'cause i was playing after lightsout, so you have no pics, i'm afraid. 
Ok, since i'm lazy, here is how to make a heightmap
http://users.1st.net/kimberly/Tutorial/lodterrain.htm
What i did, was count the number of lod squares along one side of my map (in my case 32, for the whole grid) and multiply that by 256, half the original heightmap tga file size in pixels.( = 8192) So, I resized the heightmap image to 8192 pixels (height and length) Thefore we now have 256 pixels per LoD Square, and saved it as a jpg (when i first saved it is a TGA file, it was 150MB
) And ended up with a 700kb file. Make it into a texture, select the LoD in question, and apply the texture. It should come up 4 times, one of the heightmap in each quadrant. Just texture window, and scale 2, 2, and it should fit like a glove
The picture might need flipping, just use PSP for that.
Then go into game, and the white should correspond with the high parts of your terrain, and the dark, the low. If all's cool, then you can texture your image, using the heightmap as a basis (EG the black line = a river, so mud tex there, the white is mountains, rock tex there ect.) i used stock mohaa textures, and balr14's excellent textures, and made them patterns in PSP, so i could just apply them with the brush
My paths are pretty stupid looking, but thats because my PSP skills are pretty low...
I hope some of that made sense, if not just complain, and i'll try again
Mj
Ok, since i'm lazy, here is how to make a heightmap
http://users.1st.net/kimberly/Tutorial/lodterrain.htm
What i did, was count the number of lod squares along one side of my map (in my case 32, for the whole grid) and multiply that by 256, half the original heightmap tga file size in pixels.( = 8192) So, I resized the heightmap image to 8192 pixels (height and length) Thefore we now have 256 pixels per LoD Square, and saved it as a jpg (when i first saved it is a TGA file, it was 150MB
) And ended up with a 700kb file. Make it into a texture, select the LoD in question, and apply the texture. It should come up 4 times, one of the heightmap in each quadrant. Just texture window, and scale 2, 2, and it should fit like a glove The picture might need flipping, just use PSP for that.
Then go into game, and the white should correspond with the high parts of your terrain, and the dark, the low. If all's cool, then you can texture your image, using the heightmap as a basis (EG the black line = a river, so mud tex there, the white is mountains, rock tex there ect.) i used stock mohaa textures, and balr14's excellent textures, and made them patterns in PSP, so i could just apply them with the brush
My paths are pretty stupid looking, but thats because my PSP skills are pretty low...
I hope some of that made sense, if not just complain, and i'll try again
Mj
Hallo
I use a nice software for this FreeWorld3d (there is a demoversion if u wanna check it out), u can paint-sculpture the terrain & paint your textures in layers and blend them together so u get nice soft edges.
Ive used a bunch of terrainmodellingsoftwares but this 1 I really recommend.
Below is screenie from a map I started on where I used this technique.
I use a nice software for this FreeWorld3d (there is a demoversion if u wanna check it out), u can paint-sculpture the terrain & paint your textures in layers and blend them together so u get nice soft edges.
Ive used a bunch of terrainmodellingsoftwares but this 1 I really recommend.
Below is screenie from a map I started on where I used this technique.
Hmm, It looks really good. But isn't an MTEX value of 79 a bit high? Anyone with more experience care to elaborate on the effect that will have on FPS?
I don't know what kind of system you have or your settings, but I wouldn't want my map to run at 29 fps.
Oh, and that software is only $20. Probably a good investment if you are a terrain newbie like me. And it also looks like it might be more useful with Pacific Assault's method of mapping.
But I want to see what LOD is like the hard way first.
I don't know what kind of system you have or your settings, but I wouldn't want my map to run at 29 fps.
Oh, and that software is only $20. Probably a good investment if you are a terrain newbie like me. And it also looks like it might be more useful with Pacific Assault's method of mapping.
But I want to see what LOD is like the hard way first.
Diego
50%
Make your images 50% or 66.67% of your normal screen resolution size. For me, I always have to brighten and sharpen them a bit.
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