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Multiple terrain blocks

by Jonas · in Torque 3D Professional · 03/20/2013 (5:13 am) · 8 replies

Hey,

I am having a issue with my project in regards to multiple terrain blocks.
The terrain blocks in Torque seems to have a 90 degree edge on the sides, i guess to work as bounds,
however this becomes a issue as i want to have the player be able to move over many terrain blocks.

I have done alot of searching on the issue but so far it have raised more questions then answers.
Is there a known fix for this? if so could someone please point me to it.

Engine version: T3D 2.0 MIT // No source changes made

Best regards
Jonas
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    Torque Owner Lukas Joergensen
    WinterLeaf Entertainment
    #1
    03/20/2013 (7:16 am)
    Someone had a repository with paging terrains etc, you'd want to have a look at that. Can try and dig up the blog.

    Duion
    #2
    03/20/2013 (7:19 am)
    Can you make a screenshot? When I tried to merge multiple blocks for testing, this worked, the only bad thing was, that the texture did not fit seamless.

    Torque Owner Lukas Joergensen
    WinterLeaf Entertainment
    #3
    03/20/2013 (7:19 am)
    Ah The T3D Terrain Master should be what you are looking for, don't know what the state of it is tho.

    OOTB, it's pretty cumbersome to have multiple terrainblocks :)

    Torque Owner Richard Ranft
    Roostertail Games
    #4
    03/20/2013 (7:36 am)
    The skirt is actually on every cell of the terrain block - you can see them from beneath. I think it's to help hide possible gaps between cells.

    I'm with Duion on this one, though - the main issue I've seen is that it's almost impossible to hide the seam between two blocks.

    Duion
    #5
    03/20/2013 (7:41 am)
    The cells are objects that scale down in detail if you move away, took my some time to figure out. If you move away from a terrain cell after some time it halves the polygons and if you move further then it halves them again and so on, something like this.

    Torque Owner Richard Ranft
    Roostertail Games
    #6
    03/20/2013 (8:09 am)
    And they are culled when not in frustrum or are blocked by an occluder or are not in view through a zone portal, etc....

    Torque Owner Jonas
    #7
    03/20/2013 (8:58 am)
    Thank you very much Lukas, I will have a closer look at it in the morning but on first glance it looks good.

    @Texture seam issue - This is definitly a issue im having a hard time finding a solution for. Will definitly have a more indepth look at it once i get multiple terrains going.

    Best regards
    Jonas

    Torque Owner Jonas
    #8
    03/20/2013 (9:03 am)
    Double post....