Spring RTS Engine

I don't think it would work, since it probably tries to place a FEATURE, not a unit (and commanders don't have corpses)

That doesn't stop him from creating a new feature definition that uses the armcom model, though...

Update

Here's the latest Render this is only one Island 16x16 in the new map format.

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there are meant to be trees in there but i don't know why they aren't there

which map converter are you using?
Because on the metalmap posted earlier, the green channel isnt used to assign tree positions....

IMSabbel wrote:which map converter are you using?
Because on the metalmap posted earlier, the green channel isnt used to assign tree positions....

Those are ingame screenshot, the metal is always green.

I think it might be worth making the hills a bit more brown, seeing as they appear to be quite high; making them more cliff-like then rolling grassy hills.

Possablie... BTW you still seem to have grass going into teh water? whats up with that? Are you rendering the hill out then pasting it into your map? If so try inverting the render verticly and then pasting it in.

aGorm

Dude! What did you do? Did you switch to that other program?(l3d or whatever it's called) I have looked at that, but doesn't make as good of looking maps as terragen. You should switch back to terragfen seeing you know how to use it. Just take a look at the map file I made with it. 10x better then the other program in quality.

http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=1473

Torrasque wrote:

IMSabbel wrote:which map converter are you using?
Because on the metalmap posted earlier, the green channel isnt used to assign tree positions....

Those are ingame screenshot, the metal is always green.

I _know.

But i was talking about the zip file on the first page, which contained the raw metalmap (i.e. in bmp form)

I was using terragen

ok how does this look rendered in terragen using TA 3D's surface maps

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mind you the original didn't have any beaches just had straight grass to ocean so do we want beaches

Love the cliffs, they look much better.

You don't necessarily need to add beaches, but it is clear that you can see tha the grass looks strange at the boundary with the water. Perhaps just giving it a bit of a "peetering out" of grass into dirt, which then sinks below the water?

Stuff off I liked the beaches.

yah. beaches do A LOT for the visual quality.

Just add a terrain shader in terragen for terrain very little above sea level with low steepness...

WHOOPS! I bumped the power strip for the computers. Sorry to the people on the computers next to me!

WOW! It looks soo real... About the shore, you could add a surface texture that is confinded to certin hight limits so it only shows up there(something like a dirt/mud color), but you don't have to. Otherwise its looking sweet. The colors are simular to LUSH world, but I made them to look more like the river valleys in China that look almost identicle to it(Might have even been Cavedog's insipration for making the those maps).

TARevenger, I know you were looking for/making a commander statue. Well I was board and came up with this if you or anyone wants it. Its the Evo TA commander model, a quick base, and the first 3 wreckage textures from the type shown, arranged in a sorta shaded format so it will look better in game if your comp supports shadows. Though for some reason it was mirroring it in game, maybe it's because I was testing it using one of aGorm's maps that has features and it was using their settings.

http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=1589


**Also if you want the map to have a shoreline, tell me and i'll be happy to add a shore/mud surface to my surface map file. Just send me a message and i'll get right to it.**

wouldn't bronze textures fit it better?

Sure I could make textues, but that would take forever......... Heck if i'm going to do that, I might as well make the model better. Also this gives it a kinda funky stone effect. Lets think "traditional" here. The bronze version allways looked a little funky. Can someone post a sc of it in game on a comp that has shadows enabled please?

For Terragen I found a pretty nice way to make beaches.
Just make a beach layer in the surface maps like so (assuming you make the water level=0:

make sure to place you water layer farther down on the surface heirarchy, and adjust the transition sharpness to however smoothly you want the sand and water to blend.

I have 2 images rendered in terragen with beaches let me know if one of them looks good enough to use or needs improvement

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Can someone post a tutorial somewhere for placing features in maps wreakages, rocks and custom features?

Lets see it in game first.

They LOOK cool.
But it depends on the hight of the water. Eventually i would lower the max height of the sand texture a bit, but without the ingame water, its hard to judge.