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Topic: Water... I need WATER!!!!
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Nat
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posted 03-20- 01:23 AM
   
gggrrrrr piece of shit message board..OK, just wanted to say I can add water to terrains now, I was going to explain how, but this shit keeping timing out on me, so maybe it'll let me post this little message ------------------
7./JG3 "Naturlich"
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wakeup tailgunner
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posted 03-20- 05:27 AM
It did!  and I think I can hear splashing noises somewhere out there in Russia IP: Logged |
ArgonV
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posted 03-20- 07:47 AM
Yippie! This means you can add land to large amounts of water now yes?  IP: Logged |
Rendsburger
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posted 03-20- 09:38 AM
Well, whe had 2 days of snowing here in North Germany since Sunday,this will be enough water for you Nat.
Maybe you can explain here what you have made.Rendsburger IP: Logged |
wakeup tailgunner
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posted 03-20- 09:46 AM
In short, what Nat has managed is to get the river in Stalingrad to be water. Befoer, there were problems gettign a terain tile to have 2 properties. You either had solid water, ar watery land. Nat has managed to create a tile with both material properties. This means that the terrain has the correct properties, and does away with 'solid' rivers!We can also have islands in the water, without untidy bits too. I built islands on an all water terrain that were airfields, but did it by effectively embedding another SM. This works, but is messy. Especially when the SM you embed is a large river! p.s. After 2 days of snow, and playing with the tundra terrain, I would think you'd had enough of the cold  IP: Logged |
Rendsburger
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posted 03-20- 10:03 AM
wt,
anyone says that whe have spring since today.I knocked him out.
I remember of the last Friday,Sunshine,10 degrees C,i saw the first birds coming back from their winterholidays in africa...Ummpf,where is the guy who told me whe have spring now... Rendsburger IP: Logged |
Nat
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posted 03-20- 01:36 PM
OK, the basics of how it's doneMax Version
in OPS select a tile that should have land and water properties and export it.
Import it to max and texture map it with the correct terrain tile texture.
Select the faces that a mapped as water and detach them
Export the tile
In OPS copy the tile you're working on, and paste it onto the Group that contains all the tiles, The tile will appear again in the same place with a second reference to it at the bottom of the Group list, just make sure it has the same tile number as before, if it hasn't then rename it back to it's proper name.
Select the original tile again, and import the Land part of the mesh that you just split in Max.
Select the tile you pasted into the group and export it as a LOD
Using Lodhack convert it's material value to 2 (lodhack <lodname> material 2) and then improt it once again into OPS to the same tile.
Now import the water part of the mesh that you exported from Max and you're done. What you've done through all this is split the tile into 2 parts, converted the water part to water material using Lodhack, and then put them both in the SM. This will be easier using AC3D because you can export the tile from AC3D as a LOD and work on it, missing a whole section from above and saving alot of time. IP: Logged |
Rendsburger
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posted 03-20- 03:37 PM
what´s lodhack? and where can i get it!Rendsburger IP: Logged |
Nat
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posted 03-20- 04:17 PM
they are part of hippies parfile tools, do a search of the tech forum for ol-7, thats the latest versionIP: Logged |
Rendsburger
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posted 03-20- 05:19 PM
I have ol-7,but there is only smd and olc included.
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Nat
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posted 03-20- 06:13 PM
check your mail Ren, I've included a batch file I did to make big jobs quicker aswell.One point of note here guys though, I'm working through the terrain adding the water, but please don't expect this to be 100% perfect, meaning the river bank wont be exact matches between water and land, the terrain wasn't built for this so the joins don't match the banks perfectly in all places, but still, it's water and land together and is the next step in full terrains, now that I have worked my way through this, in the future the new terrain models will be refined to make it more accurate. We're learning something new ech step of the way, going from basic terrain to full terrain, each step has it's problems and as with building aircraft, early ones were nothing like the new ones, same with terrain, we'll get better IP: Logged | |
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