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Terrain Editing Loading a Hightmap (Help)

by AllynMcelrath · in Artist Corner · 07/30/2005 (12:58 pm) · 6 replies

Hi, im new to Torque so please excuse me.

Now i have read all the info i can find about using your own PNG as a hightmap in Torque.

But, for some reasion when i load the PNG file, It dosnt seem to tile correctly. It was my understanding that when a Hightmap is loaded it tiles infinitly. While mine is a highley Sculpted Map, for a contained area, im not sure why All the distortion between the image in this, Stright strip. (It seems)

The Hightmap in PNG format.
members.visi.net/~mcelrath/Errors/T3errain.png

How Torque Treats it when loaded in to "New map" using the Terrain Teraformer.
members.visi.net/~mcelrath/Errors/Minimap.jpg

What that area looks like in game.
members.visi.net/~mcelrath/Errors/Spikes.jpg
If anyone can tell me what im doing wrong, you would be my new Best friend.

Please be discriptive for me, i still dont know where all the options are in the Editor.
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Torque Owner Eric Johnson
#1
07/30/2005 (3:07 pm)
A couple of things I can think of that might be the problem are... If your using Adobe for the PNG creation make sure to use 'Super PNG' plug-in instead of PS's default. You have to create a tiled PNG Torque dosen't tile it for you that I am aware of.

Torque Owner AllynMcelrath
#2
07/30/2005 (5:03 pm)
"You have to create a tiled PNG Torque dosen't tile it for you that I am aware of."

I dont understand this, I dont realy want it to tile, I wanted it to be the entire map, But it didnt do this.

Is there some setting im not seeing?

Ill try this plugin, but where can it be found?

Torque Owner Eric Johnson
#3
07/30/2005 (9:26 pm)
superpng

Well if you don't want tiling then you need to stop the terrain from tiling (this can be done pretty simply with script- do a search). The only reason I said to tile your png is because the terrain tiles so you'd need the png to be tiled also.

Torque Owner AllynMcelrath
#4
07/31/2005 (9:43 am)
I tryed the superpng, it didnt change anything, does the same thing.

Ryan Jaeger
#5
07/31/2005 (10:01 am)
256x256 - 72dpi - rgb 8bits/channel - non-interlaced - png always works for me.

Torque Owner AllynMcelrath
#6
07/31/2005 (10:09 am)
Thanks ill try one thats that size ETC...