How to paint terrain in Leadwerks 3.2?

[ddabrahim]

Hi, I'm new to Leadwerks 3 and I would like to get some help with Terrain painting.

My problem is that, when I select the painting tool in terrain editor and I click on a layer, nothing happens, can't paint the terrain. The only thing I can do is to select minimum and maximum slope and height for every layer (texture) and when I sculpt the terrain it change the layer (texture) at some point, but as there is a painting tool to choose I think we can paint the selected texture on the terrain somehow but I don't know how and also can't find tutorials. The only tutorial I find is for Leadwerks 2.x but the terrain painting just don't work that way in v3.2 as I can't choose (assign) layer to paint.

Anybody could help me please?

 

Thanks.

[gamecreator]

I'm not clear from your post: did you already double click Diffuse under Layer 1 and choose a texture to paint with? If not, I think that's what you're missing.

[ddabrahim]

Thanks for your reply.

 

If I'm double click on diffuse under layer, it only open the texture editor for me, I can't paint textures. I can add textures to layer 1,2,3,4,,6,7,8.... but I can't choose any of them to paint, I can only set minimum, maximum height where the layer start, stop. But I would like to "paint" any texture anywhere on the terrain as in 3D world studio for example.

[YouGroove]

Just click on the teh textire layer to select it, don't double click. Once selected layer you want, select paint mode , and just paint on terrain.

[ddabrahim]

No it doesn't work. I'm selecting the paint tool, click on a layer once, start clicking in the editor and nothing happening. What am I missing?

[YouGroove]

Have you changed the slope min and slope max angles fo the base layer they can influence if a texture can be painted or not depending on terrain slope.

(Note : There is no erase texture in LE3 from what i know erase a texture from terrain , make layer paint = 0)

[Ma-Shell]

Make sure the texture you selected isn't set as being a cubemap, like bfn.tex or the skybox-texture.

Try using the Blue/Green/Orange grids from the developer-folder and check whether it works with them. If so, your textures have some weird settings.

[ddabrahim]

Okay, something is happening now. Depending on min-max slope and height settings I can paint the higher layer on the top of the lower layer for example I can paint layer 3 on the top of layer 2, layer 4 on the top of layer 3 and so on. Well, It not something I was expecting, I wish we could paint any layer anywhere as in 3D World Studio.

But at least we have 16 layers to play around with.

 

Thanks for all help

[Thirsty Panther]

You seemed to fix your problem, but for others I found Aggors You Tube tutorial on terrain sculpting.

It is for the old Leadwerks but it is much the same.

For painting http://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLC272E30DD2883EC3&v=-6socw4zmPA. This tutorial is also for the older version but Aggors explains the basics well.

 

There is also a Terrain.map in your map folder which gives you a more up to date example.

 

Enjoy.

[AggrorJorn]

If you are painting with a texture layer selected, you can removed the texture by painting with the control key pressed.

[ddabrahim]

Thanks for the help, the tutorial videos are very useful, well explained. I wish that we would have all the terrain options of v2 in v3, such as base layer to blend a texture in to all layers, grass panting, visibility and shininess. Pretty cool features. I hope that they going to be implemented in v3 in the future.

 

Thanks again

[AggrorJorn]

I really want to remake those terrain tutorials for Leadwerks 3, but it feels like new features could be added any day, making those videos quickly out of date.