TERRAIN EDITER BUGS

[danny37]

is anyone else having promlems with certain bugs in the TE like it not wanting to except certain edited textures,not adding the beach to parts of the terrain,putting spawns where you did not put one at?im wondering if its just my TE or if anyone else is having these kind of problems?

[mrmidi]

is anyone else having problems with certain bugs in the TE like it not wanting to except certain edited textures,not adding the beach to parts of the terrain,putting spawns where you did not put one at?I'm wondering if its just my TE or if anyone else is having these kind of problems?

Hey there danny37..

As far as not excepting certain edited textures did you clear the terrains cache?
A lot of times that is the problem with your edited texture not showing up.
It may be a useless step in the eyes of some but I'm in the habit of deleting
the terrains cache prior to working on the terrain every time.
That and make sure your textures are saved as a 8bit 256k bit map.

The TE doesn't always show the beach object..but it is there.  When you build the .res file there will be beach objects.
I have a habit of building a test .res file multiple times during the process of building my terrains.

I haven't ever come across any spawns being placed where I did not put them,
but I have had the TE not except the direction I have pointed a spawn.


Hope some of this addresses any problems you are having.

 

midi

[danny37]

yeah i checked everything on the textures many time over,seems the only ones i have problems getting the TE to reconize are the farm textures.no matter how many times i delete the cache file the TE still shows the default ones,they are all 8bit 256 color.anytime i edit anything as far as textures are concerned i always delete the cache for that terrain and still doesent work.once it even let 1 of the edited farm textures work but not the rest,then the next time i opened it the 1 was back to default again..lol..wtf.i havent checked the spawns as a test .res but in the TE it will show spawns that i didnt put in and even goes so fars as to say there are duplicate spawns for some of the ones i do put in...lol.ive made other terrains for offline use and didnt have this problem,it has just recently started happening,i even saved my terrain files and uninstalled the TE then reinstalled it and the same thing is happening.

[Denholm]

I have encountered spawn point problems. But I believe that was when I was working with roads/trains/rivers. I think when I had the TE set the tracks everything got messed up. As far as beach problems, never had any. I've never played with tile textures, so I can't pitch in there.

[mrmidi]

If I'm not mistaken I believe the "Farm" and "Swamp" textures are swaped in the terrain editor..terr002 and terr003.

I don't believe that was fixed, that might be whats happening.

 

midi

[danny37]

i have the swamp textures edited and they work fine,its just the farm ones.

[mrmidi]

Ok check inside the ...\ah2editor\cache\stdshape\ and the ...\ah2editor\cache\shplib\ check for any terrxxxx_512.TCA files if there are delete those and then start
up the TE. Other than that the only other reason I know of that the textures don't show up are they are not the correct format, not in the texsrc folder
or had an extra number or letter added to the name.

 

Midi

[Dux]

Danny, post the problem texture in the Screenshots forum (where you can attach images) and we'll have a look at it.

[danny37]

ok,posted them in screenshot forum.

[Dux]

Danny, I've looked at those BMPs up and down and inside-out and darned if I can find the reason why they don't show up in the TE... They don't show for me either.

???

[danny37]

       well thanks for checkin them anyway.

[mrmidi]

Danny I'll take a look at them as well if you like....maybe another set of eyes will help
don't know for sure but guess it couldn't hurt....

mrmidi@mrmidi.net


 
midi

[Dux]

I'll forward them, Midi.

[mrmidi]

Well I placed them in the texsrc folder for my calif terrain and went to a section where terr002 was and they where there.

Closed the editor down and opened it back up and they where still there.
Did this 5 times in a row and each time they where there so I'm not sure whats happening on ya'lls end.

here is a screen shot of the TE.



 

midi

[Dux]

lol!