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General Forums => Terrain Editor => Topic started by: Reynolds on October 31, 2006, 01:22:19 AM

Title: Basics
Post by: Reynolds on October 31, 2006, 01:22:19 AM

Alright, I have a map I want to edit, bob4. I have the editor. What now?

Title: Re: Basics
Post by: SkyChimp03 on October 31, 2006, 01:26:04 AM

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Originally posted by Reynolds
Alright, I have a map I want to edit, bob4. I have the editor. What now?

You cannot edit any map made NO res files.. Gota make your own map.

Title: Basics
Post by: Denholm on October 31, 2006, 09:27:39 AM

In other words, you can not edit the terrain's .res file. You have to have all the individual terrain files such as .elv, .oba, .typ, etc... So, unless you get the creator to send you the terrain files, there's no editing that terrain.

Title: Basics
Post by: Reynolds on October 31, 2006, 07:13:26 PM

Alright, well can someone walk me through the basics of making a new one? That help file that comes with it is just way too confusing :(

Title: Basics
Post by: Kermit de frog on October 31, 2006, 10:08:51 PM

I'd like to contact the person who has BOB04 map files needed for modifying it.  Can someone point me to him/them?  Thanks.

Title: Basics
Post by: SkyChimp03 on October 31, 2006, 11:29:16 PM

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Originally posted by Kermit de frog
I'd like to contact the person who has BOB04 map files needed for modifying it.  Can someone point me to him/them?  Thanks.

CM staff made it

Title: Basics
Post by: detch01 on October 31, 2006, 11:54:51 PM

BoB04 was one of the terrains I made for the CM Terrains Team. It was purpose built and the next iteration of the terrain (BoB06) is derived from it. Because of that I'm not willing to put the source files for the terrain in the public domain.
However, the heightmap is a pull of USGS DEM data using Ogre's MapMaker utility and field placement is more or less geographically accurate, although some fields have been combined. I don't have the raw DEM data or Ogre's utility, but I suspect you can find both still on the net somewhere. The USGS has updated their data and format, and there are utilities linked to on their site that you can use to pull heightmaps out of their data.


Cheers,
asw

Title: Basics
Post by: Denholm on November 01, 2006, 12:08:08 PM

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Originally posted by Reynolds
Alright, well can someone walk me through the basics of making a new one? That help file that comes with it is just way too confusing :(

Here's some tutorials.

Terrain Editor:
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182825

Object Editor:
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=188450