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Terrain Questions (3)

by Jim Evans · in Torque Game Engine · 02/09/2005 (9:36 am) · 7 replies

1) How do I punch a hole in terrain... I built an interior in hammer and got it in torque. It has a hallway that goes in and an elevator that goes to an underground section... but... the terrain blocks up the hallway... I did manage to cut a hole in it once.. but it was like a deleted poly and not the shape I needed cleared.. I basiclly need to make a square hole in the terrain.

2)Can I change the height map or whatever it is so the whole terrain is flat unless I customize it, I want to start out with flat terrain.

3)How do I add my new map after I saved it to the mission select screen.



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Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
Torque
#1
02/09/2005 (9:39 am)
1) set empty... I beleive thats the only way to do it (the way you did it before I assume)

2) yup... I'd suggest doing a search on the forums for this

3) save it to the missions folder

Torque 3D Owner Robert Blanchet Jr.
#2
02/09/2005 (11:20 am)
When you place an interior in the mission there is a property you can set to automatically clear out the terrain that occupies the same space as it does. This way you don't have to manually clear out the terrain yourself.

Torque Owner Jim Evans
#3
02/10/2005 (12:34 am)
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Torque Owner Ben Siders
#4
02/10/2005 (10:31 am)
Jam, if you have the time (and energy), could you link here to the answers you've found in other threads/forums? It would be very helpful for anybody else who runs into your same problem and goes searching for answers.

Robert:
Is the property you alluded to something you have to set up in the Interior, or in Torque when you place it? I'd run it and check for myself but I don't have my demo with me at the moment. :)

Torque 3D Owner Robert Blanchet Jr.
#5
02/10/2005 (11:00 am)
When you are in the mission editor its a property you can change. You don't have to do anything special in the export process.

Torque Owner Jim Evans
#6
02/10/2005 (5:20 pm)
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Torque Owner Steven Peterson
#7
10/27/2005 (12:22 am)
Quote:When you place an interior in the mission there is a property you can set to automatically clear out the terrain that occupies the same space as it does. This way you don't have to manually clear out the terrain yourself.

This is exactly what I need. Unfortunetly when I tried the option in TGE+LPK 1.3.5-"beta" it did not work. Nothing happened. :-(

When I try using the "Set Empty" brush even with a 1x1 brush, it is far too clumsy and imprecise for knocking out the small hole I need.

Any Ideas anyone?

Thanks,
Raven