Small Atlas terrain

#1 No does not make sense.

Atlas2 itself has chunks, so if you want to implement culling I would do it basing on those instead of trying to enforce Atlas2 to behave like tiled legacy terrains (which I would use for your approach instead of atlas as you can create and modify them straight in TGEA) ...

#2 Yeah i tried it out, and even though i can make them disappear at any distance automatically it still not giving me the effect i was looking for.


But what i am going to do is make a base terrain using atlas2 blended terrain, then i will layer a non-tiling legacy terrain over the top of it allow me to give it an extra bit of detail that can be for a entire different texture set. Them im going to make separate mountains to layer in the area i don't want the player going to, im thinking this should work, but TY for the opinion:)

Cheers
Bobby Leighton

#3 Sounds like an interesting idea, would really like to know how it works out when you are done :-)

(I thought about looking into billboard LoD levels for far away atlas2 chunks which would be great for mountains, but haven't had the time due to programming job and 60h+ per week study ... :( )

#4 Used to do something like that when i used 3dgamestudio, but it was like a curse when the LOD fetched up, or coarse i was implementing it through scripting only cause 3DGS doesn't give up its source:(

#5 K here you can See that each piece i hake has it own detail texture, so with a little careful planning and making sure the square sizes match up, other wise there is a problem with when texture are faded when, it appears different on each terrain if not careful. Also i plan to use this to make roads the same way you can sort of see from the example Ill post more as i progress.


The mountains over to the right edge that are far away and are dark extend down to where im standing, the bottom is the flowers you see, the rest is a non repeating legacy terrain in the middle. Now im going to work in my off time to play with the terrain manager to handle the more detail texture. Now that i finally came up with the money to buy Dreamer MMO products, i can finally finish the graphics mods to the engine and get it all built in one move, well a couple months move anyway:)

#6 The Titas kit (unavailable after April 6th) has support for 2 detail textures on an Atlas terrain right now. Future updates plan to include up to 4 in the immediate future (1 for each Blended terrain texture), and possibly more.

#7 I noticed that, and im in the process of tearing it apart so i can get each piece in one at a time so i can stamp out bugs as we go, thanks for the post!!:)