WIP Beta released Black Hills A desert world 1.2.3 1.0

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This map is going to be amazing! Can't wait! (but don't rush, just don't give up)

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Here's some progress on the runway.

It's roughly 1500 ft long. If this seems too short to you, just mention it.






sunset
The flare effect is probably a little too much.




some things to note

I considered making an entire little town a few days ago. After doing some experimenting, though, I concluded that designing and constructing such a town is out of my reach. Thus, I've changed my goals a little. My current goals involve constructing a run down motel, a few generic foundations, a shed or two, and some easy to place abandoned railroad tracks.

 

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That looks awesome man, can't wait.

 

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Been watching this from the first and been hoping that this awesome map gone a be released some day...
Good to see that its still progressing,its getting better and better !

 

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Thanks

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some more objects

 

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Needless to say this map looks absolutely amazing! Might I ask what you're modeling your buildings in?

 

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I'm using sketchup. Really, I should learn how to model in a better 3d program, but, for my purposes, sketchup usually works. After I've released a beta, I'll probably run all of the models through blender to create better collision meshes.

 

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coincidence

 

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I love to see tumbleweeds in this awesome map. Thanks and keep up the good work.

 

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This looks awesome! can't wait for you to finish it! Keep up the hard work dude!

 

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This map looks so cool! I can't wait for it


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thanks
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but... everything's coincidental

I'm messing around with this idea. Through experimenting, I found out that an animated flat plane with a transparent texture doesn't look very much like a tumbleweed. With this being the case, though, I now know how to animate things in blender. With this knowledge, I'm going to try making a tumbleweed from a simple sphere. If this looks decent, it'll show up in a picture.

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new stuff

I've now got a pretty good looking cube-map for the car reflection. pics

no green bumpers!



In relation to other things, all of the materialcs files have been organized.


Also, here's an alpha- this isn't at all final / Because of this, I not changing this thread from wip.

credits
world machine, gimp, sketchup, blender, crazy bump, various government agencies, various users on wikipedia, cgtextures, torque3d, torque3d forums, lots of tutorials, and various indivuals.
When I release a more final version, I'll clarify the "various."

Please note that this version is a few days old. Thus, it lacks an updated cubemap.


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Remember"this map is not optimized or finished"

If the textures don't look right, run the cleanup.bat file.

Also, if you adjust the terrain textures or heighmap in any way, the game will generate a new basetex.dds. In case you happen to do this, copy and paste the basetex located in the downloaded zip over the generated one.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/62rmy53hlm6b03q/blackhills%282%29.zip

 

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O god yes. Really appreciate the time and effort you are putting into this map man, don't have time to try it tonight but glad to see an early version. Keep up the good work!

 

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Beautiful level man, nice attention to detail !!

 

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Another World Machine buddy. Well done on the map, it looks awesome as always WM has been. Can't wait to cruise around it soon!

I want to import a terrain I made in WM too and since you followed similar steps to what I am about to do, I wanted to ask you some questions:
1)I had issues with max height in the import tab. In WM I used the default (2625), but in Torque3D, the heightmap is way too scaled down with 2625m as max and correct x/y dimensions (2 meters per pixel in this case). I wonder why this happens? And I don't want to add a higher value to make it approimately, correct, because I want it to be precise.
2)When I apply my own detail textures, they are shown as pure white on the the tab and black after the import, maybe because they are jpeg format?
3)I have issues with my RGB texture maps. They are correct, no doubt about that, but whenever I apply textures on the corresponding channels (R, G, B), they are messed up. For example, I put grass on the red channel and rocks on the blue and they are placed opposite, after the import (Torque3D trolling, maybe?). Could you also help me here?
4)How did you start creating the map? Did you use an existing one, like dry rock island, or completely new level?

I would be really grateful if you could help me.

 

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Another World Machine buddy. Well done on the map, it looks awesome as always WM has been. Can't wait to cruise around it soon!

I want to import a terrain I made in WM too and since you followed similar steps to what I am about to do, I wanted to ask you some questions:

1)I had issues with max height in the import tab. In WM I used the default (2625), but in Torque3D, the heightmap is way too scaled down with 2625m as max and correct x/y dimensions (2 meters per pixel in this case). I wonder why this happens? And I don't want to add a higher value to make it approimately, correct, because I want it to be precise.

This is a problem with torque 3d. Over a particular height, something like 1700m, it will pull the terrain down to a lower value. Even if you set the terrain to 10000m, no increase should be seen. Of course, my game might just be glitchy. This was a problem that I ran into as well . My solution was to adjust the heighmap's contrast in gimp. Since you are more of a perfectionist than me, however, I'm not sure what you should do.

2)When I apply my own detail textures, they are shown as pure white on the the tab and black after the import, maybe because they are jpeg format?

For a terrain paint to show at all, it requires a diffuse. Also, if there is a detail texture, there must also be a macro. Otherwise, the texture doesn't work. The opposite is also true. Your texture probably lacks a macro.
If this isn't the problem, just reply back, preferably with a picture that the shows the texture window box thing. This problems could be a few things, like a misplaced materialcs, incorrectly sized texture, or something bizarre.

simple texture type overview

diffuse color-can cover the entire map or just a small bit
macro 100meter or more greyscale texture that breaks up tileing
detail 2-8 meter greyscale texture/ can be very repetitive If this texture contains any color, it will add its color with that of the diffuse color. This can be used to add very small specks of brown dirt to a green diffuse.
normal self explanatory

Regarding the texture's format, I don't think jpeg should be a problem.

3)I have issues with my RGB texture maps. They are correct, no doubt about that, but whenever I apply textures on the corresponding channels (R, G, B), they are messed up. For example, I put grass on the red channel and rocks on the blue and they are placed opposite, after the import (Torque3D trolling, maybe?). Could you also help me here?

This is probably torque3d trolling you. Unfortunately, I can't really help you here. Since I'm not very acquainted with rgb textures, I just use a greyscale texture for each layer.

4)How did you start creating the map? Did you use an existing one, like dry rock island, or completely new level?

Originally, this map was small island. After clearing everything that I couldn't reuse, textures, terrain, and so forth, I had a nice, basic template. After I had this template, I put it in a new file, gave it a new name, and reassigned a lot of things.

I would be really grateful if you could help me.

If you need any more help, just ask.

However, you can probably get more knowledgeable answers from Miura.

 

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Thanks a lot for taking your time to answer!

Yes, Miura has helped me a lot in RoR too. And you are right, he knows really a lot!

Time has come to become noob in terrain making again, lol.

I just feel we should be in contact, because you use the same program as me, so any problems would probably be similar.

 

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im officially in love with this map, its so much fun to just accelerate in one direction and see where it goes

my opinion:

high speed a+
offroad a+
hillclimbing a+
flying a
being beautifull a+

this cant get any better, but i guess ill be proven wrong

 

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That's how I felt a few months ago.

I agree

Let's hope I can prove you wrong.

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Also, here's a new barn. ~800 polies



messing with pointlights

During the daylight, these lights create a relatively convincing ambient effect.



Also, I should probably mention that none of these pictures use any of the post effects.

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edit

The terrain textures have been adjusted to look sharper from the 3rd person view.


Also, if anyone happens to have a textured low poly rust bucket sitting around and wouldn't mind it being used, hit me up with a pm. Otherwise, I guess I'm going to figure out how to make one.

 

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That looks really nice! I like the barn! You have got really great modelling skills.

I forgot to ask you one more question about the vegetation. I can see you used your own. I used the game's default ones, but whenever I edit them to change their colours and save them again, the game crashes when trying to load them. So, I can't understand what's causing this. What format is your vegetation textures?