Terrain resolution

[Rick]

Is there a function to get the terrain resolution? Not seeing one but never know sometimes with LE If not what are the work arounds for getting it?

[Roland]

its in the sbx file

Terrain {
altitude=500.000000
resolution=2048
meterspertile=2.00000000
hiddentiles=0
...
...
...

Have not tried it but maybe with GetEnitityKey( terrainEnt, "resolution", "" ) if you get hold of the terrain entity.

[macklebee]

in lua and bmax you can get it as terrain.resolution... since that probably doesn't exist for c/c++ you probably have to use what roland is suggesting...

[Rick]

Cool, doing this in Lua so I'll use terrain.resolution. Thanks guys.

[Rick]

When I output the value of terrain.resolution for a 128x128 with 1 meter per tile I get 82309936. When I'm generating my grid I'm looping through the entire terrain and so for a 128x128 1 meter per tile I setup my loop from 64 to -64 stepping by -1. What is the relationship between 82309936 and 128x128 1 meter per tile in such that I can get the x & z values of the corners of the terrain?

[macklebee]

what version are you using? sounds like you need to update since this was a reported bug for 2.43... and was fixed at that time...

[Rick]

I am indeed using 2.43. Bugger. Thanks.

[Rick]

So upgrading worked. Now is there a way to get meters per tile because that looks like it affects the size of the terrain as well, and I would need to know that.

[macklebee]

hmmm... i wonder what it could be?

 

terrain.resolution gave the resolution... i wonder if terrain.meterspertile gives the meters per tile?

 

and yes, meterspertile does effect the size of the terrain... essentially the meterspertile is nothing more than the X & Z value that is used to scale the terrain. so terrain.scale.x would return the same thing as meterspertile and terrain.scale.y can be used to get the altitude.

[Rick]

thanks