Empty Terrain in editor, howto
by Kevin Reay · in Torque Game Engine · 02/01/2003 (12:18 pm) · 12 replies
Hey,
I've been playing with Torque for about a week now and have got a (hopefully) quick question. How can I create a mission with just a small amount of terrain. In the missions I make, the terrain seems to go on for ever but I want something like I saw in Orbs, the terrain to confined to just a small area (an island). Is there anyway I can do this?
Also, what do "areas" do. I've played with them a bit, but them haven't seemed to affect anything. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Kevin
I've been playing with Torque for about a week now and have got a (hopefully) quick question. How can I create a mission with just a small amount of terrain. In the missions I make, the terrain seems to go on for ever but I want something like I saw in Orbs, the terrain to confined to just a small area (an island). Is there anyway I can do this?
Also, what do "areas" do. I've played with them a bit, but them haven't seemed to affect anything. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Kevin
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#2
02/01/2003 (4:47 pm)
You have to make code changes to turn off the repeating terrain. Search the forums for "repeat" or "terrain" for the details.
#3
Had this in my bookmarks. Seems to be what your looking for. I have yet to test it.
02/01/2003 (5:25 pm)
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=forums&page=result.thread&qt=5440Had this in my bookmarks. Seems to be what your looking for. I have yet to test it.
#4
John Quigley: I did a search, but can't find anything usefull. There are a bunch of fourm entries, but nothing that works.
I've looked at this: www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=forums&page=result.thread&qt=5440 that Jason suggested (thanks) which requires "Bryan's Terrain Manager" which I can't seem to install. All of the links in that fourm are broken, except for some really old builds of it that won't work for any new versions of the engine.
Any other ideas, maybe from someone who has pulled this off.
Also, correction: after installing the orbz demo again, it turns out that the level it not actually an island.
Thanks,
Kevin
02/01/2003 (6:12 pm)
Hey, thanks for the replies:John Quigley: I did a search, but can't find anything usefull. There are a bunch of fourm entries, but nothing that works.
I've looked at this: www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=forums&page=result.thread&qt=5440 that Jason suggested (thanks) which requires "Bryan's Terrain Manager" which I can't seem to install. All of the links in that fourm are broken, except for some really old builds of it that won't work for any new versions of the engine.
Any other ideas, maybe from someone who has pulled this off.
Also, correction: after installing the orbz demo again, it turns out that the level it not actually an island.
Thanks,
Kevin
#5
The copy I got from that link a few weeks ago is about a month old now. The readme says its from 12/20/02. So it should probably work with a recent HEAD release of torque, and probably 1.1.2.
02/01/2003 (6:24 pm)
I am pretty sure this is always the most up to date release of the terrain manager: www.jdonavan.net/terrainmanager.rarThe copy I got from that link a few weeks ago is about a month old now. The readme says its from 12/20/02. So it should probably work with a recent HEAD release of torque, and probably 1.1.2.
#6
Thanks,
Kevin
02/01/2003 (6:26 pm)
Thanks again, Jason, but it appears that that link is broken. Or am I just crazy?Thanks,
Kevin
#7
02/02/2003 (8:36 am)
I can't get to that link either. The most recent version I've been able to actually get is version 6 (from Tork I think it was), but I see in other threads that version 9 is out.
#8
My bad folks. I'll get that archive moved over to gorpe.com asap.
02/02/2003 (1:56 pm)
Crap crap crap!My bad folks. I'll get that archive moved over to gorpe.com asap.
#10
02/03/2003 (6:02 am)
I sent TerrainManager.rar over to our developer that doubles as web goddess. She should have it up within a while.
#11
02/03/2003 (9:48 am)
Great, thanks - where is your site? :)
#12
02/04/2003 (5:39 am)
The archive is now available in the downloads section of http://www.gorpe.com enjoy. 
Torque Owner Kevin Reay
I guess what I'm asking is how to set the terrain so it dousn't title/go on forever. Is this possible?
Kevin