[?] Size, Scale, Level size ?

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The Iron Dreamer
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[?] Size, Scale, Level size ?

Post by The Iron Dreamer »

NOTE:I've used the search on the PR forums and BF2Editor forums, and Google. No luck. I may not haven't typed the right question/words.

It about when creating a new terrain in the "Create new terrain".
So basicly my question is what're the difference between the combinations?

Size: 256
Scale: 2
Level size: 512

Size: 512
Scale: 1
Level size: 512
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Size: 256
Scale: 4
Level size: 1024

Size: 512
Scale: 2
Level size: 1024

Size: 1024
Scale: 1
Level size: 1024
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Size: 512
Scale: 4
Level size: 2048

Size: 1024
Scale: 2
Level size: 2048
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Size: 1024
Scale: 4
Level size: 4096
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pfhatoa
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Re: [Question]Size, Scale, Level size.

Post by pfhatoa »

This thread should be in the modding section. Anyway: The "size" is the number of pixels the heightmap has on each side, e.g. a map of size 512 is a 512x512 pixel sized heightmap. (The heightmap is a black-white picture describing the elevation in different shades of grey)

The scale is how many metres each pixel represents in the game.

So the levels real size is pixelsize*scale. And the result, is exactly what you got there!

The difference between does settings is how high resolution the map is. If you say want to make a 2x2km map. The best choice is 1024*1024 pixels with a scale of 2m as you will be able to detail the terrain more. If you had done the map in 512*512 and a scale of 4m it would be unnecessary hard to model the terrain.

I hope that's answer enough.

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The Iron Dreamer
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Re: [Question]Size, Scale, Level size.

Post by The Iron Dreamer »

yup just saw the it was in the wrong section... Sorry about that.

Thanks for the answer.
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Outlawz7
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Re: [Question]Size, Scale, Level size.

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Thread moved.
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Amok@ndy
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Re: [?] Size, Scale, Level size ?

Post by Amok@ndy »

CRF did explain that with some nice pictures https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f189-m ... s-2km.html
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Re: [?] Size, Scale, Level size ?

Post by KP »

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