Heightmaps on Terrain?

#1 Ok, in Terraform Editor, I am getting some results finally. I deleted all the Operations except the base, then added my Bitmap, then added a very slight smooth operation and it looks pretty good, but there is still one more issue...

Everything is backwards... I have a path curving off to the right, but in Torque, it's curving off to the left. I suppose this would be beneficial if I were dyslexic, but it is making it terribly difficult to design a decent map...

#2 Terrain textures are "blended" tiles repeated across the terrain -- only Atlas terrains have the capability for a "unique" texture image. Atlas terrains are created in 3rd party software and then imported into TGEa and can't be edited in-game like legacy or mega-terrains.

Use the Mission Editor -> Terrain Terraform Editor to import heightmaps.

EDIT: must remember to refresh open pages more often ;) Reverse/flip/mirror your htmap in an image editing program and try again -- see if that helps.

#3 Ok, I design in Photoshop and flip it right before saving, then flip back to edit some more. Awkward, but it's all good now.

I have everything going the way it should and the way I want it. YAY! :P

#4
To fix the flipping applied to the heightmap, replace Terraformer::loadGreyscale with:

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bool Terraformer::loadGreyscale(U32 r, GBitmap *bmp)
{
   Heightfield *dst = getRegister(r);

   for( U32 yh = 0, yb = blockSize - 1; yh < blockSize; yh ++, yb -- )
      for( U32 x = 0; x < blockSize; x ++ )
      {
         ColorI color;
         bmp->getColor(x,yb,color);
         // compute the luminance of each RGB
         dst->val(x, yh) = ((F32)color[0]) * (0.299f/256.0f) +
                            ((F32)color[1]) * (0.587f/256.0f) +
                            ((F32)color[2]) * (0.114f/256.0f);
      }

   return true;
}

Cheers,
Rene