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http://www.world-tourer.com/images/mush ... desert.JPG

I like that one

the problem is that the only rocks we have to work with are the static rocks which I've placed in the ground around the FOB to give credence to how its a high area (as well as giving some cover) with the idea of being on a bed of rock, or overgrowth rocks. now I hate overgrowth rocks tbh, I've used a few, but they just look kinda naf imo.

I think you'll find the duney structure to the terrain actually gives infantry a very sneaky option, as its actually quite easy to mistake bushes for men in this map. Myself and xitude were playing around to see how well each nation's camo worked on the map, and he found it very hard to see my when I was sniper. (some fun with the sniper rifles at the FOB as well )

Building firebaes between dunes should also be reasonably secret as long as you aren't near a high point or an air asset.

adding the overgrowth rocks would probably work best as the static rocks aren't as rounded, but I'm going to avoid doing that for as long as possible (though its kinda easy to add)

map is coming along very nice!

you can stay with the trippled texture, i think you need to check out your lowdetailtexture and make a custom one, i would also advise to use a lowdetailtexture size simular to kashan (something like 1024x1024).

cheers

Nice work so far Ruddy!

Keep em comming..

change the LODSWITCHDISTANCE to sth like 300 play with the number
in general texture settings

It appears that there is some good stuff here !
Really nice work Rudd, and you made it quickly !

Amok@ndy wrote:change the LODSWITCHDISTANCE to sth like 300 play with the number
in general texture settings

Ah! many thanks mate, I was searching for an option like that.

Ripple is back

and thank you for that link Leusch, I was hoping som1 would find something like that for me.

This map is pretty unrealistic tbh, the basketball court is totally out of scale.

Brummy wrote:This map is pretty unrealistic tbh, the basketball court is totally out of scale.

quiet you, or I'll remove the Lynx from the map

change the LODSWITCHDISTANCE to sth like 300 play with the number
in general texture settings

map is coming along very nice!

you can stay with the trippled texture, i think you need to check out your lowdetailtexture and make a custom one, i would also advise to use a lowdetailtexture size simular to kashan (something like 1024x1024).

cheers

from the link given by Leusch

LodSwitchDistance: Sets the the distance when the terrain should switch to the lowdetailtexture, seems to only affect the editor. A value of 0 is good to see how your detailtextures look and what areas they cover.

The indiviudal layer options:

I'm a Photoshop n00b, so I'm going to leave teh non-rippled sand on for now. Though rippled sand looks great in the editor with a high distance set on.

Getting an editor problem atm

when I load the map up and show detail textures all my main map texture which is currently sand becomes rock, however all the files are saying sand and if I reload the map it shows correctly, but crashes if I package the map. I've gotten around this by using the build map script instead but if anyone has a solution it would keep the work moving swiftly.

EDIT, fixed the above, just got an old groundproperties file out

Also other things I can't seem to fix-

Road template fading out too soon, how do I extend this distance? I tried modifying stuff in the road template but it didn't stick.

i only use pack scripts for packing up maps cause the editor is crashing too often while packing

I decided to add an oasis at the village.

This gives me the excuse I need to add some more vegitation, though I'm trying hard to not go overboard.

Its actually quite nice, since the NE side of teh map is highlands and very arid, the SW is populated and has a water source, so it will bring nice variation to the map imo.

do you have a texture layer for a different detail texture ? sth like really smooth sand ?

I'm not sure what you mean?

Dr2B Rudd wrote:I'm not sure what you mean?

change the texture on the oasis

You cant see it atm, I need to expand it a bit, but there is infact a kind of muddy detail texture just next to teh player on the slope.

I've done the envmap tutorial, which was really simple I thought, the water does look differnet as a result, but for some reason its not coming up with any animation, I'm using the Korengal Water.con

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/ ... 42abdc.png

Dr2B Rudd wrote:I've done the envmap tutorial, which was really simple I thought, the water does look differnet as a result, but for some reason its not coming up with any animation, I'm using the Korengal Water.con

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/ ... 42abdc.png

Lower the speed of your water

the lower the number the faster the animation...

the water looks lovely in the editor, does the speed of the water animation in the editor not correspond to the speed of the water ingame?

animation speed is currently at 200