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by Adam Lindsay · in Torque X 3D · 05/19/2009 (12:58 pm) · 4 replies

Since the forum search seems to be broken and I cannot find any decent / current documentation on this.... How does one go about creating terrain for TorqueX 3D projects? I found a thread that indicated that we must use the TGE Terrain editor. Is this still the case?

I also saw that a terrain editor is a 3.1 goal (along with some other pretty lofty, although impressive goals). Is there any kind of status update/timeline for these goals? -- read: really looking forward to Foliage / Percipitation / Terrain Editing

Thanks.
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Torque 3D Owner Henry Shilling
Smokin Skull
#1
05/19/2009 (2:07 pm)
Check out this, yes it costs money but apparently makes terrains you can use.

http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/


Torque 3D Owner Adam Lindsay
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#2
05/19/2009 (8:25 pm)
Thanks Henry. I actually have a license of L3DT from the TGEA days but, I was under the impression that L3DT would only produce heightmaps and not the ter file required for TorqueX.

Can L3DT produce the ter file now or can TorqueX 3D now take a heightmap images as terrain?

I may have to dust off L3DT and check it out again.

Associate John Kanalakis
EnvyGames
#3
05/19/2009 (9:23 pm)
This has been a real pain point for me too. I really want to see a Torque X-specific solution for terrain editing. As you and Henry mentioned, the only solutions are using the TGE terrain editor and using L3DT (an awesome tool by the way). I should post a blog on this... hmmm... stay tuned!

But I would Love to see a solution embedded within the new Torque X 3D Builder. I had a couple of ideas... A) write the terrain editor from scratch (which would take a LONG time). B) find a way to embed the existing terrain editing code in TGE within the Torque X 3D Builder (.NET Interop comes to mind). I'll need to dig some more - again, it's a big pain for my game projects as well. Look out for that blog in the meantime, I'll start putting something together right now.

John K.
www.envygames.com

Associate John Kanalakis
EnvyGames
#4
05/21/2009 (12:03 am)
Okay, posted a blog that should make this a little more clear.

John K.
www.envygames.com