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Creating Map

by Smardy · in Artist Corner · 10/08/2006 (8:25 pm) · 1 replies

Hi, I am curios if you are creating a map with the torque game engine are you able to model the landscape then import it into torque?
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Torque Owner Todd "zaz" Koeckeritz
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10/08/2006 (9:21 pm)
There are some pretty good tools inside of torque (press F11 in the demo and check out the terrain editing), but for input from the outside, you need to give it a 256x256 grayscale png file as a heightmap to use for the terrain.

The 3D Game Programming All in One book has an entire chapter on how to use external geographic data and other methods to generate those heightmaps. I just normally use the GIMP to make mine.