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Offline enrico

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« on: December 30, 2001, 10:39:00 AM »
hi all,
I am a novice in designing AH terrains. I have rapidly surfed some msg on this forum, and i have to ask a couple of things.
1) Is the max resolution of the terrain mesh 1 point every 1/2 mile, i.e. the green crosses in the terrain window, isn't it?
2) Somebody in a message talked about different testures from the ones shipped with the editor: where can i get (or can I paint from myself) them?
Well, that's all. Thanks for the assistance!
Happy new year
enrico

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« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2001, 12:15:00 PM »
Hello enrico

   
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1) Is the max resolution of the terrain mesh 1 point every 1/2 mile, i.e. the green crosses in the terrain window, isn't it?
 

Yes
 

This is snapshot of a early version of the Editor but the Grid Squares are the same.

The Crosses ( Blue or Green ) are spaced every 2640ft ( 1/2 mile ) apart.
That is the smallest area that you can select.
Crosses turn Blue when in the Center of a Grid Box and turn Green when on the Grid Boxes Lines.

The X and Z coodinates show you how many feet away from the Center of the Map.  Grid 10.24 / 10.24 is the center of the map so X=0 and Z=0

   
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2) Somebody in a message talked about different testures from the ones shipped with the editor: where can i get (or can I paint from myself) them?

Here's a quote from Nuttz

   
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You need to make the tiles in an art program, I personaly use Corel0, some use Photoshop, But any art program will do.
NUTTZ

The tiles supplied by the Editor are automatically apart of your terrain when you select them in the Editor.

They are located:
C:\Program Files\HTC\aheditor\terrains\textures

Any terr00??.bmp that you place in your "My Map" Folder ( name of the terrain you are building ) will automatically replace the original one with the same name.

Example   Copy terr0000 from the C:\Program Files\HTC\aheditor\terrains\textures and place it in the folder of the terrain you are building.  Now open it with Windows paint and change it then save ( make sure it is save as 256 color )
Now run the edit and you'll see that the water color has changed.

Pokie

[ 12-30-2001: Message edited by: pokie ]

Offline Broes

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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2001, 12:20:00 PM »
There are tons of textures out there on the net. If you set AH boards so that you can see ALL messages (in profile) you will find alot of links to them in this editor forum.

AFAIK one Tile is 1 mile... 25 x 25 tiles in a grid square. Each tile is bordered by 8 green crosses and a blue cross in the middle.

Each of these points can have an alt designation and one Tile holds one terrain texture. If you want to use different terrain textures, you have to copy the terr00xx files into you map directory.

GL!

Broes

Offline enrico

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« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2001, 10:28:00 AM »
Thank you all for the help

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« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2001, 10:45:00 AM »
I've looked for the directory "texture", but it doesn't exist, nor in the editor directories neither in the game directories. I'll try to create it and build up some tiles, could you tell me their size in pixels?

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« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2001, 12:40:00 PM »