How to enable Fit to Terrain

[klepto2]

Hi,

 

The problem:

I have a nice terrain with a nice colormap. I have created a sbx file with this terrain, the colormap with setting "Fit to Terrain" enabled.

In the editor it looks really nice but using Loadscene on the sbx file just shows the texture tiled and not streched over the terrain.

 

Any idea how to enable this? Or is it a bug or thing which is missing?

 

thx in advance

[Niosop]

If it works in the editor but not via LoadScene I'd count it as a bug.

[macklebee]

perhaps you can use SetTerrainTextureScale to fix it?

[klepto2]

Scaling works, but not as in the editor (unfortunatly).

eg: Vegetation coloring is not working.

 

thx btw your tutorials are a great read

[macklebee]

yeah using the SetTerrainTextureScale after the scene is loaded would prevent the vegetation coloring from working because its already set by the original size of the terrain texture...

 

a hack way to get around that for the moment until Josh fixes this bug/omission is to manually edit the SBX file before running your program. Remember to remove SetTerrainTextureScale from your program if you do it this way.

 

Just open up the SBX in notepad and edit the texturescale# of the particular texture# in question to match the resolution...

for example:

Terrain {
altitude=100.000000
resolution=1024
meterspertile=2.00000000
hiddentiles=0

texture0="terrain_desert_rockwall.dds"
bumpmap0="terrain_desert_rockwalldot3.dds"
texturefit0=1
texturescale0=1.000

becomes:

Terrain {
altitude=100.000000
resolution=1024
meterspertile=2.00000000
hiddentiles=0

texture0="terrain_desert_rockwall.dds"
bumpmap0="terrain_desert_rockwalldot3.dds"
texturefit0=1
texturescale0=1024

 

and then run your program and the scale and vegetation coloring should work. Its a hack until Josh fixes it, but it works.

 

--edit- it actually may need to be set to resolution X meterspertile... so in this case, 1024 X 2 = 2048... its hard to tell with the textures i have...