Terraform Editor - Does it actually work ?

#1 Works just fine. Perhaps you are trying to use it on Atlas terrains?

#2 I'm trying to use it with a copy of the water terrain demo. Won't that work ?

#3 The terrain and water demo uses atlas terrain so editor won't work

#4 Sorry , double post there. Anyway, I've read here on the forums that the starting point for a new project is either demo, or terrain_water_demo. So, I want to create a new terrain using one of the existing demo projects and work from there. But now it seems that TGEA crashes if I try to delete the existing ATLAS terrain. How do I simply delete the ATLAS terrain and use the terraform editor to create a new terrain that I can work with? Sorry for the dumb questions.

#5 Try, File > New Mission from the mission editor.

#6 Hi Frank !

This is one solution, what I'm using.

1. Download the TGEA port of starter.Fps for example. ->unpack it to your sdk/example/

2. Then make a copy of it which you rename whatever you fancy (MyGame etc.)

3. Then modify the main.cs file at root of the example folder to look like this:

$defaultGame = "MyGame";

where the "MyGame" is the folder you renamed at the step 2.

4. Then start the game /editor

5. From the menu load the barracks

6. After the mission has loaded press F11 to start the editor

7. From the file menu click: new mission

8. When the new mission has loaded save it like XXXXXX.mis (XXXXX being the name of your choice)

to the folder (muy importante !!!!!) /MyGame/data/missions/xxx.mis

9. Exit the editor

10. Browse to the folder /MyGame/data/missions/

11. And delete every other file (xxxx.ter and xxxx.mis) than which relates to the name
you gave at the step 8. e.g MyMission.mis

12. That's it.

A clean build to start on.

I think there's better ways to do that but we've gotten this far with that,

I hope it helps you since our team has no need/use for that Atlas Terrain either. (perhaps in the future).

Cheers !!!!

#7 Addendum: After the step 8. you created/saved your own mission e.g MyMission.mis

at the /MyGame/data/missions/

there should be two files among the others: MyMission.mis ,MyMission.ter.

Don't delete these, but any other files found in this folder but not those two.

MyMission.mis is a file that tells the engine/editor what's included in the game scene.

MyMission.ter includes the geometry data/elevation etc. of the terrain object (Geo/Legacy), what you've possible modified.

Later on after you've painted the terrain etc. the editor will create files with an *.ml extension

(remember to save, OFTEN),

these files tell the engine what MATERIALS you've used on your terrain.

I always keep a couple of back up's of my /data folder if something goes wrong (as it usually does) :P

Cheers Again !!!!!

#8 Thanks Petteri!

#9 Frank, another thing you can do is
go to example\terrain_water_demo\data\missions.
edit the simple.mis file
comment out the current Atlas2 terrain like this:

//new AtlasInstance2(NewTerrain) {
// position = "-151.417 7.48933 80";
// rotation = "1 0 0 0";
// scale = "1 1 1";
// detailTex = "~/data/terrains/details/detail1";
// atlasFile = "~/data/terrains/arcticBlended.atlas";
// lightMapSize = "1024";
//};

and add the legacy terrain like this:

new TerrainBlock(Terrain) {
rotation = "1 0 0 0";
scale = "1 1 1";
detailTexture = "~/data/terrains/details/detail1";
terrainFile = "./simple.ter";
squareSize = "8";
bumpScale = "1";
bumpOffset = "0.01";
zeroBumpScale = "8";
position = "-1024 -1024 0";
locked = "true";
};

save the simple.mis file and the terrain_water_demo will have editable terrain.
You'll have to look down and hold down the 'S' key to move upwards because you're goin to spawn below the terrain.