posted 11-21- 04:48 AM               

The terrain is see-through

Try Again

Tried to map the tiles with a supertexture tile, and AC3D won't accept them.

Mapped them to a dummy 256x256 tile, and set teh texture co-ords up.

The test tile was RED. Bright RED

So....how do I do this?

When I look at an existing terrain in AC3D after I run SMD to break them down, I notice that the terrain tiles all have a different colour. The texture index is set to 1 in all cases, but they use a different colour. WHY?

Is this related to the problem I have?

I would like to know before I go and change every single tile over to a different colour whether or not this is significant.

Nat has built terrains, but ge used Max and imported OBJ files into OPS. Are there properties that OBJ files don't replace when you import to OPS?

I'm baffled!!! Anyone got any clues?

posted 11-22- 05:02 AM               

Thanks for the advice Nat. The red tile thing was self inflicted! I had changed the base material stuff in the lod while trying to fix the invisible tile problem.

I got rid of the red now....

then I found out why the tiles were invisible in the first place.....

When I imported the textured tile into OPS, it re-sets the switchin to 10,000. Don't know why, but it does! You set a terrain tile switchin to 10,000 and you won't be able to see it ...... DOH!!!!!!

posted 11-27- 10:22 AM               

A terrain has all it's tiles using the same texture index, and gets it's texture from a property reference. Presumably, this avoids needing 400 texture index values for all the textures.

It's super .... SUPER BIG!!!