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Author	Topic: How do I add a new terrain so the mission editor can see it
Bryan Russell Pilot	posted 11-25- 06:43 PM I guess the title covers it. I can get the terrain to show up if I manually edit a MIS file., but haven't been able to get the mission editor tp select it Thanks, Bryan IP: Logged
Michael Pilot	posted 11-25- 08:48 PM I'm afraid I can't answer your question, but does this mean you've got that massive piece of Europe into the game? The one you've been posting pictures of? IP: Logged
Bryan Russell Pilot	posted 11-25- 09:55 PM Not really. I finished the SM File creation part last night and only had time to give it a quick test before bed time. SDOE loaded it ok, but unfortunitly the file didn't have any references to the LODs (DOH!) so I ended up in void land Interesting thing is that when the planes hit 0 altitude they spontainiously exploded, so I guess poodles below sea level netherlands terrain might have to wait for a fix from MH (unless its different when actual polygons are there. The size is only 10k x 10k at the moment becuase I want to make sure that anything that goes wrong is my fault, but this can easily be made as big as you want by changing a couple of numbers (SDOE permitting). I will probably go for a 500k x 500k since SM files size/memory usage gets a tad big quickly as you increase the area. 500k x 500k is about the area represented by the current dover terrain, except full scale. Its about 10x as big length and width wise and 100x as big area wise. I'll give the 2M km^2 (1500x1500) a go but I'm pretty certain it will cause a meltdown. The 500x500 probably will as well, but its not that much effort from now to check it. Bryan IP: Logged
Lector General	posted 11-26- 03:51 AM Hi Bryan Take a look at the "Island" par file or the "Rhineland winter" Zoy made. I think you will get the hint very fast...unfortunatly I can't look into it (I cant unpar here at my office). C-ya! Lector IP: Logged
Michael Harrison General	posted 11-26- 03:53 PM What you need to do is create a mini-terrain .sm file which you then place in the media/missionseditor/ folder If you unpar the FS terrain you'll find maps in there for each of the terrain databases. IP: Logged
Bryan Russell Pilot	posted 11-26- 06:31 PM Thanks Michael, I also found that I needed to add an entry for the new terrain in "Media/missionseditor/MissionEditor.ppf" and a string in the "media/StringTable.ppf" file. IP: Logged

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