HQ and Skins on a terrain upgraded from AH2 to AH3

[artik]

Hi,

I upgraded my isrv1 terrain from AH2 to 3 and I have several issues:

1. HQ object had become a giant ketchup or whatever bottle? Should I just remove one and put HQ there or I miss something?
2. Skins - I had embedded skins in the AH2 terrain I moved them to new one but they seems to be extremely reflective, the way they shouldn't be.



The texture folder contains only basic diffuse texture - I didn't included specular Map - so it should use default... Shouldn't it?

What am I doing wrong?

[Devil 505]

This is what the game does for skins without the specular maps. It sucks for sure. What you can do, is create spec maps for the skin and reload the whole skin to your new terrain.

[Easyscor]

Hi,

I upgraded my isrv1 terrain from AH2 to 3 and I have several issues:

1. HQ object had become a giant ketchup or whatever bottle? Should I just remove one and put HQ there or I miss something?

The beer bottle indicates the AH2 object name doesn't match the AH3 named object. For instance, there are no 1 mile x 1 mile city0 or mega cities in AH3, only 4 mile x 4 mile cities so each of them is replaced by a bottle.
If you used the AH3 TE to convert the terrain so you'd have the AH3 .oba file, most of the conversion is automatic, including replacing your HQs and 1 mile square Cities.

If you do it by hand or want a quick comparison

old   new
aaafac0   aafac1m00
amofac0   amfact1m00
bacfac0   trptm1m00
battery   bah0
city0      city4m00
fth0      fth2
fulfac0   ref2m00
hq0      hq1m00
lafld0      laf1m00
mafld0   maf1m00
port0      port1m00
rdr0      rdr2
rdr1      rdr2
rdr2      rdr2
rdrfac0   rdfct1m00
safld0      saf1m00
town0   town1m
vfld0      vb1m00

[artik]

Thanks! Now it is clear

[artik]

For the skins, do I need both _S and _E or _S is enough?

[Easyscor]

You can try it and see how that will look but I'd be inclined to follow Greebo's tutorial.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,378949.msg5045819.html#msg5045819

As you will see, that thread is still very active today and the skinview is very good.

It's the Normal map that throws most folks off but it's definitely needed if you make any changes to the diffuse map, for panel lines etc.

[Devil 505]

For the skins, do I need both _S and _E or _S is enough?

If you want the skin to look correct you need all 3 spec maps, _E, _P, and _S. On my skins featuring painted surfaces, _P and _S are identical. _E should be almost black for paint as it handles environmental reflections. 

[artik]

Thank you, it helped me a lot - also it seems that I need only _S - as by default many come without _E

Some preview:

IAF S-199 (109G6)  Over Sea of Galilee



IAF S-199 (109G6)  Over Makhtesh Ramon





IAF Spit


P-51D - need some work on _S map - old one too bright


Bozon - especially for you Mosquito VI





Royal Egyptian Air Force C-205 over Suez Channel





Royal Egyptian Air Force Spitfire in Delta's Country Side:

[Easyscor]

Very nice!

 

[onehippie]

Where to get this fine terrain
quite nice

[artik]

Where to get this fine terrain
quite nice

I didn't continue to working on it due to lack of time. Actually my PC is now down and needs repairs but if you want to I can send you the sources/kinda-working terrain

And mostly the terrain was created with makeahmap + skins

[onehippie]

Thank you kindly artik
not sure if id be any help with terrains
though would be honored to fly under Zion colors
if you have a link