[Question] Terrain.con File

[turnpipe]

How do you tweak this file?
What are the recommended settings.
I can't find a Internet post or article on the subject.

terrain.create TerrainEditable
terrain.patchSize 128
terrain.subdividePatches 1
terrain.primaryWorldScale 4/0.0025/4
terrain.secondaryWorldScale 16/0.64/16
terrain.patchColormapSize 512
terrain.lowDetailmapSize 512
terrain.detailmapBaseName "Levels/dragon_valley_pr/Detailmaps/tx"
terrain.lowDetailmapBaseName "Levels/dragon_valley_pr/LowDetailmaps/tx"
terrain.colormapBaseName "Levels/dragon_valley_pr/Colormaps/tx"
terrain.lightmapBaseName "Levels/dragon_valley_pr/Lightmaps/tx"
terrain.farSideTiling 1000/500
terrain.farTopTilingHi 1000
terrain.farTopTilingLow 1000
terrain.farYOffset 0.4
terrain.terrainWaterColor 0.2/0.215686/0.184314
terrain.init

else
terrain.create Terrain
terrain.load Levels/dragon_valley_pr/terraindata.raw
terrainCuller.setUseStitchedLods 0
endIf

[Rhino]

if you want to change any .con file by hand use any text editor, like notepad thou I personally use the crimson editor.

Thou you don't really need to edit the file by hand apart from if your making a 4km^2 map or some other thing, but for normal mapping, best just to let the bf2 editor edit it.

[marcoelnk]

you already tweaked this file to suit 4km maps as i can see...all you have to do is save it .
if you open your map again in the editor the tweaked file will be overwritten again so before testing it ingame you will again have to edit your terrain.con

[turnpipe]

Thanks for your replies.
I don't see any difference when i change these values.

terrain.farSideTiling 1000/500
terrain.farTopTilingHi 1000
terrain.farTopTilingLow 1000
terrain.farYOffset 0.4

[e-Gor]

Thanks for your replies.
I don't see any difference when i change these values.

terrain.farSideTiling 1000/500
terrain.farTopTilingHi 1000
terrain.farTopTilingLow 1000
terrain.farYOffset 0.4

If you look closer at the file, those lines are inside an if statement, and are only run in the editor. To see their effect in game (and it might not be visible in the editor), you'll need to open up the editor and resave compiled terrain, to get it to update the terraindata file. And if you're doing that, you might as well just change them in the editor rather than messing around manually editing it.

[turnpipe]

If you look closer at the file, those lines are inside an if statement, and are only run in the editor. To see their effect in game (and it might not be visible in the editor), you'll need to open up the editor and resave compiled terrain, to get it to update the terraindata file. And if you're doing that, you might as well just change them in the editor rather than messing around manually editing it.

Hey man thanks.
going to go try it.

[Rhino]

its far easier to change thous settings in the terrain editor, then you can see the effects as you change them

[turnpipe]

its far easier to change thous settings in the terrain editor, then you can see the effects as you change them

Do you ever have a problem when it don't write to the .con files?