Can I use Terragen files for terrains in Torque?

#1 Yes the terrain generator can load a greyscale png.

--Rick

#2 Mike:

Make sure you export your terragen file as an 8-bit RAW file. Then you must open it in Photoshop or PSP, with a size of 257 x 257 (terragen's default). Save it as a .png at 256 x 256 and you're good to go...

NOTE: the .ter from terragen is not compatible with TGE's .ter format...

#3 Gibby; thanks for the info. That's a great help.

#4 Ok cool. two questions though:

1. When I get the hightmap.png 256X256, then what do I do with it? Open it in Quark? Then save it as? then export into? With?

2. Can I use the skies and/or textures from Terragen in torque?

Thank you for your time.

#5 Try this site out Jeffery it helps with using terrain in Torque.

Desmonds Tutorial

I use this to help me start building my terrains by hand. :)

John H

#6 Just a note for Jeffrey: Quark only does interiors (buildings, etc) it is not used for any terrain features.

#7 Ok got it, Thank You.

Just figured out how to get the hightmap into torque.

#8 But can I take a "Terragen" map skin/texture and put it in Torque? Or are we forced to use only 6 repeated 256px texture squares?

#9 Six? Only if you're very creative. I've come accross bugs where too many textures overlap eachother. They tend to cause dark squares at those points.

By "creative", I meant by keeping overlapping textures to a minimum, so that there never can be too many at one spot.

Granted, this is on the 1.0 version of the TGE. I don't know if later ones fix this or not.

So, no--you cannot directly import terragen textures. The best you can do is take a snapshot of it, make it tilable, and use that.

-EricF