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General Forums => Terrain Editor => Topic started by: bbosen on November 04, 2004, 10:51:26 AM

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: bbosen on November 04, 2004, 10:51:26 AM

I want to enhance one of my maps so the farmland looks like jungle. With the old Terrain Editor I stumbled on the way to do this, but I can't figure out how to do it with AH2 TE.

How do you use "tiles"? Can I use the tiles from the old Terrain Editor somehow?


Regards,


-Peabody-

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: JB73 on November 04, 2004, 05:27:41 PM

new TE no "tiles" available AFAIK.

some have "hacked" or modified them somehow dont know what the right word is.

the new TE is supposed to be making custom tiles available in the future, with a 3d editer. read the news forum and the TE posts, they talk about it there.

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: bbosen on November 04, 2004, 09:04:12 PM

Thanks JB73!


-Peabody-

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: NHawk on November 05, 2004, 08:42:09 AM

HINTS:

shpfilter.txt
select
Save Texture
savedtex
texsrc

Or go to the link below and get the default tiles.

:D;)

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: FalconSS on November 05, 2004, 02:15:14 PM

You must first change the name of the shpfilter.txt in order to get all of the available shapes to show up (example) shpfilterok.txt this is what I did to mine.:aok

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: bbosen on November 12, 2004, 03:21:37 PM

NHawk wrote:

"HINTS:

shpfilter.txt
select
Save Texture
savedtex
texsrc "


Well.....  Thanks, but I guess I need more than a "hint". Is there someplace where this is explained in complete sentences? I've kicked these files around and clicked on all of the [in]obvious places to no avail.

; (


Regards,


-Peabody-

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: zmeg on November 12, 2004, 04:43:03 PM

Tiles can still be put in through the texsrc folder but the size and names are differant. Every tile is made up of 4 subtypes combined in any 1 of 256 possable ways to create 1 tile. Each subtile is 512 X 512 and all must tile with each other. The numbers for farm would be terr0003, terr0103, terr0203 & terr0303. Transitions are done automatically. Now the downside, all objects on the tile will still be there so you'll have farmhouses & barns on your jungle tiles. Also they don't automatically show up in the game, every player has to delete the terrxxxx.TCA files from the cache\stdshape folder.

Title: In my earlier reply
Post by: FalconSS on November 12, 2004, 07:15:46 PM

Change the name of the shpfilter here you will get all the tiles when you hit save texture it places them in savedtex folder just click and save each one to get the full set or visit AH terrains, follow zmeg's instructions to use. hope this helps.

Title: These are the original tiles
Post by: FalconSS on November 12, 2004, 07:21:30 PM

But w/these you have something to compare numbers and sizes w/when adding your own, hopes this helps too.

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: Skuzzy on November 13, 2004, 09:51:58 AM

As a recommendation, I would not expend any effort trying to put in custom tiles just yet.  I can pretty much assure you it will get broken when we add native support for this feature.

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: FalconSS on November 13, 2004, 11:18:08 AM

While we've got here Skuzzy could we get some insite on when native support may go into effect for this feature, just curious. <> and thanks

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: zmeg on November 13, 2004, 11:27:18 AM

2 weeks.

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: bbosen on November 13, 2004, 12:46:50 PM

Thanks everybody.

I think I'll wait awhile before I do anything fancy with tiles, to give HTC time to standardize things.

THANKS HTC!

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: Skuzzy on November 13, 2004, 01:36:19 PM

Now Falcon, why would a geek like me have any idea when this stuff is going to happen?  :)

Title: Jungle Tiles instead of farmland
Post by: NHawk on November 13, 2004, 02:10:42 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Skuzzy
......  I can pretty much assure you it will get broken when we add native support for this feature.

Not if you use the right natives. :)