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Multiple terrains per mission file

by Paul Yoskowitz · in Torque 3D Professional · 03/14/2011 (12:43 pm) · 10 replies

Im trying to work with multiple terrains per mission file and seeing how this works with the map trigger issue in a earlier post.

While i was reminded of bug that i posted about earlier, i also noticed that there is a definite line where the 2 terrains were butted up against each other. besides hiding it with hills, trees and grass, is there a way to "weld" the different terrains together to get rid of that line? I dont see one, nor have i been able to find one on the forums, but i was curious incase ive missed something simple.

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Torque 3D Owner Andy Wright
BrokeAss Games
#1
03/14/2011 (1:36 pm)
how do you mean a line ? its not possible to stitch/weld the two together its just a case of aligning the texture settings so they match up as close as you can, and getting the height nodes together. its a bit of a bitch but havent found a better way myself yet

Torque Owner deepscratch
DeepScratchStudios
#2
03/14/2011 (1:47 pm)
snaps are your friend.....

Torque 3D Owner Paul Yoskowitz
WinterLeaf Entertainment
#3
03/14/2011 (3:02 pm)
@Andy - thats what ive been doing. There is a seam between the 2 terrains thats visible and your right, its rather a hassle making them line up, esp if you are dealing with a terrain thats not perfectly flat. Thats why i was asking.

Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#4
03/14/2011 (3:21 pm)
You might try overlapping the two terrains....

Torque 3D Owner Paul Yoskowitz
WinterLeaf Entertainment
#5
03/14/2011 (3:58 pm)
I have and it gives a weird distortion where they overlap

Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#6
03/14/2011 (4:24 pm)
That's interesting - I hadn't tried it so I didn't know. Is it a z ordering issue do you think? Perhaps a modification to the terrain class to force blocks into a particular z order would help.

Just thinking out loud - last time I tried to get two terrain objects into a single mission the second was essentially an instance of the first, so that any changes I made to one were copied to the other. I think that was 1.1b1 or b2....

Torque 3D Owner Paul Yoskowitz
WinterLeaf Entertainment
#7
03/14/2011 (4:27 pm)
Im not sure honestly. i just thought that since T3D allows for multiple terrains in an mission that there might be a way to get rid of that seam between them.

Torque Owner Quinton Delpeche
Gobbo Games
#8
03/14/2011 (10:39 pm)
I was using a Beta of L3DT which supported multiple terrains and ended up with the same gap/line that was mentioned here.

I tried various options and even followed the guidelines of the L3DT developer ... but to no avail ... I eventually gave up.

Was planning on tackling it at a later stage again ... at least I known I am not the only one. My terrains were 100% lined up as I created the large terrain in L3DT and then used the export multiple terrains option.

Torque 3D Owner Bryan Sawler
muteki corporation
#9
03/15/2011 (9:42 am)
The best way to get rid of a seem is to hide it. You can remove individual cells so the seems don't all HAVE to be at perfect squares which makes it a bit easier to make look realistic - then you just hide with a river, foliage, etc.

Mountains also work (work up a huge mountain on 1 terrain, OVER the other terrain, and have a static mesh cover the overlap where the mountain hits the ground (like say, ancient temple, army bunkers, etc.).

It's not an easy task but it's doable with some planning.

Torque 3D Owner Paul Yoskowitz
WinterLeaf Entertainment
#10
03/15/2011 (10:06 am)
@Bryan - thats the plan for now. since alot of this will be on the OTHER side of a map trigger, it should fairly simple to hide. It just seemed that there should be a better way.