Spring RTS Engine

Any chance of a predicted water height, based on zwzsg's formula?

level of grey of sea shore= - 255 * (value after -n in the mapconv commandline) / ((value after -x in the mapconv commandline) - (value after -n in the mapconv commandline))

Oh dear..

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OK doom lets check a few things. 1. Post a copy of the .bat you last described. 2. Mapconv came packed with several files: geoevent.bmp nvdxt.exe texconv.exe and of course mapconv.exe Did you unzip all of these files and are they all in the same directory? 3. Are all or your map textures in the same...

And instead of the vertical flip, just issue a -i order. Forgot about that, thanks. Doom, try putting the full pathnames in, i.e. c:\games\taspring\maptools\mapconv.exe ...etc... c:\games\taspring\maptools\texture.bmp ...etc... Dunno what mapconv will do with the full paths, so if it has a spit try...

been paying too much attention to user-maps...

Ah yes, that one. Does this significantly change gameplay/strategies, and is it bad?

Didn't hurt a bit.

Well gameplay is all important of course, and I know what you mean about the 40mb+ maps. If you haven't read all the thread on it I'm told tiles of 32 or multiple square are good.

Keep em coming.

mapconv -l -c 0.5 -x 300 -n -50 -o mapname.sm2 -m metalmap.bmp -a heightmal.bmp -t texture.bmp Only this line, no @. Then copy .smd and .sm2 files into your maps folder. Doomweaver: Is 8-bit all I need? Seems a bit limited... 256 distinct levels not enough for you? With the lowpass filter '-l' you d...

Sorry I'm not familiar with the map 'Flooded Desert'.

OK I offer what I can. Haven't been able to play test but the bases seem even with a nice place to build (too small for a long game?). Trees look good without blocking too much, and the crater looks good too. As for something constructive... I noticed these ripples in the ground.. couldn't make out ...

but it should still be visible as some kind of disturbance/texturing of the surface?

Then use photoshop/etc to open the .raw and save it as a .bmp... 8 bit greyscale has been working fine for me so far.

Yeah I had the same with a 700mb+ texture... It wouldn't compile with 15gb of pagefile and someone reminded me windows can (or will) only address so much memory to a single program... I think it was somewhere between 1.5 and 3gb... can we get some clarification from a guru here?

Which way was that?

Warlord Zsinj: SavageBT, those are minor issues, and the next Spring update won't be a long way off. Will you really go back and redo your maps once that update comes out? Why not make maps the way you want them today? Don't hold back your imagination because of bug limitations. These are limitatio...

Yeah unregistered Terragen was a problem for me too... 960x960, urgh. You could try overlaying a high res detail texture over that, I believe spring has a couple that tile in the bitmaps folder... No photoshop/etc is going to be a problem however you do your map. I'm a little confused on your first ...

I think you'll find that most people's 1st/2nd map uses massive height differences but they quickly realise this is impractical in the current version of spring for several reasons. I know they have been posted in various places but i'll recap for you. Spring seems to igore terrain angles when pathi...

Nice, though the mountain sides do look a little like layered and symmetrical jelly or drinks.

Erm, to get a perfect terragen rendering go t camera properties and tick the 'orthographic' box, set camera position to the centre and some height, and target to centre and below the camera, doesnt matter how high. i.e. for a 256x256 set camera position to x=128, y=128, z=1; and set target position ...

The texture map texture looks odd, like if it lacked resolution or something.

Yes. It was a low res blurred tex to get the colouring, then an overlayed detail map... Which may not be overlayed strongly enough. You can see it in normal gameplay just not while zoomed out. Lesson learned :/

ok thanks, but thats gonna look hideous... Ah well, Always a trade-off between appearance and usefulness