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General Forums => Terrain Editor => Topic started by: danny37 on June 16, 2009, 12:10:46 AM

Title: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: danny37 on June 16, 2009, 12:10:46 AM
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?
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: mrmidi on June 16, 2009, 07:28:05 AM
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.

 :salute

midi
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: danny37 on June 16, 2009, 10:36:49 AM
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. :rolleyes: :noid
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: Denholm on June 16, 2009, 10:54:42 AM
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.
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: mrmidi on June 16, 2009, 12:56:50 PM
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.

 :salute

midi
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: danny37 on June 16, 2009, 11:47:30 PM
i have the swamp textures edited and they work fine,its just the farm ones. :salute
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: mrmidi on June 17, 2009, 07:28:09 AM
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.

 :salute

Midi


Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: Dux on June 17, 2009, 10:24:29 AM
Danny, post the problem texture in the Screenshots forum (where you can attach images) and we'll have a look at it.
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: danny37 on June 17, 2009, 01:10:14 PM
ok,posted them in screenshot forum. :salute
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: Dux on June 24, 2009, 10:24:14 AM
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.

???
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: danny37 on June 24, 2009, 12:23:41 PM
    :(   well thanks for checkin them anyway. :salute
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: mrmidi on June 24, 2009, 12:54:17 PM
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


 :salute
midi
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: Dux on June 24, 2009, 02:01:10 PM
I'll forward them, Midi. :)
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: mrmidi on June 24, 2009, 06:47:15 PM
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.

(http://www.mrmidi.net/images/AH/farm.jpg)

 :salute

midi
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: Dux on June 24, 2009, 06:48:58 PM
lol!
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: USRanger on June 24, 2009, 07:52:33 PM
Now the next question is...Danny...dude...what's up with those terrain tiles man?  What are you trying to create exactly?
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: danny37 on June 24, 2009, 11:23:23 PM
Now the next question is...Danny...dude...what's up with those terrain tiles man?  What are you trying to create exactly?
lol...they look better than in the pic and it goes along with the rest of the terrain,but eveidently im not gonna get to use them as my TE wont reconize them.
the terrain is the island of OAHU.
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,265744.0.html
and is for the ava,if its accepted that is.something different from just the ordinary green/dark green terrain we have.
Title: Re: TERRAIN EDITER BUGS
Post by: USRanger on June 25, 2009, 05:31:23 AM
It looks like the new terrain system is coming pretty soon.  You might want to wait and check it out before submitting a new AvA terrain.  Since the new terrain tiles look so nice, you might want to use the defaults instead of custom tiles.  It will save you mucho file size that way.  Just a thought.  Good luck on your project bro.  I look forward to some pics.