enfusion_terrain

[clever timber]

my beautiful 10x10 map is fucked and I cant seem to retrieve the heightmap data to produce the terrain again

and it was a custom heightmap I did manually from scratch not one imported.

idk whatcha mean? I have the terrain folder and the data. just for some reason it refuses to load it

they changed the directory order in 1.7 for how maps are configured so the way I had it prior everything is sideways now

but 1.6 update and prior never had this issue with how all the files were set.

Terrain folder (these are the original files that were working before 1.7)

so all the files are still existing like you said. but enfusion is not locating or reading any of it.

And if i shift the folders into different subfolders etc it tends to just crash tools at launch

If I shift my .ent world into the Worlds subfolder and leave Terrain subfolder in main directory and layers in main directory I get this

which either option does nothing.

[silk basin]

In case you don’t know Lou is a moderator plus part of the Bohemia team. It sounds like you have a huge issue/bug. seems like he’s offering to look into it for you.

[clever timber]

I have to have my DoungIsland_Layers subfolder in the Worlds folder I created (there was no Worlds folder prior in my map directory I had to manually create one today)

So now that I just put the DoungIsland_Layers subfolder in and the .ent file is ALSO in the Worlds folder, this is what everything looks like

Notice I have a terrain entity.

and I have the Terrain folder with all the files

therefor I HAD a working terrain

[clever timber]

i did not know

yee i was talking with him this morning

[silk basin]

All good. Sounds like he may be offering to have you send your project over somehow for them to look at. I could be wrong. I’d offer to try and help on a screen share I just don’t know when I’ll have time.

[clever timber]

i have all the data for the terrain but if I move the terrain folder into the world subfolder. it crashes with a Invalid authorization exception saying it cant find a string

OOOO

That being said yeah im willing to send files over.

@civic lava im EST Based by the way. I will DM you and if you'd like I can send over the folder in a zip

i can even open all the terrain files in resource browser as well

[tawny roost]

Hey man your YouTube Vids are a life saver

[silk basin]

Thank you always appreciate hearing they help! The large majority of the info comes from all the helpful people on this channel and the Atlas guide.

[stable pecan]

Hey guys, I need your help with setting the grass (surface) draw distance in the editor.

The problem came up when I wanted to make an airport, and the runway just wouldn't render. Can someone help me with this?

Can you tell me how you did it?

[cyan knot]

gonna go out on a limb cause its late asf; Repaint surface area with asphalt or whatever. Export textures and rebuild sat map import then lay airport and clean up?

[cerulean hare]

certainly give me a second

only for the mist right?

inside resource browser "Arma reforger" -> "Prefabs" -> "Particles" -> "Water" here you will find a couple of effects for a swamp i prefer the quick and easy "water_steam_02" while technically steam it does work for a little bit of scenic fog

[manic pollen]

Does anyone here know of any good vanilla assets for creating tunnels using the new "Holes Tool"?

[cerulean hare]

yup, just a sec

[cerulean hare]

just done on that looks like this

[manic pollen]

Do you also know a few involving earth?

[cerulean hare]

this is what it comes down to. use those mine assets for the base and upcale it, same with the concrete pipe

[cerulean hare]

as in a dirt tunnel

[manic pollen]

Already tried this Prefabs but im not happy with it 😄

[cerulean hare]

pretend i'm an ai for a sec what do you like the tunnel to look like, materials, size, general look

[manic pollen]

something like that but i dont think it´s possible with Vanilla Prefabs

[cerulean hare]

well ill come back to this in 40 mins, gonna experiment alittle

i got some ideas

[manic pollen]

Thanks mate

[floral wharf]

Can you flip trenches upside down? Never used them , just wondering if they would work for your tunnel

[manic pollen]

Well that Sounds interesting. I´ll try haha

[manic pollen]

Yea it look pretty good. Thanks! The Topside looks a bit weird, but that's okay.

[floral wharf]

I'll have to give it a go sometime.
You could also have rocks on top of you wanted a different surface on ceiling or walls.
I have used rocks inside underground bunkers for a varied surface. Looks okay sometimes.

[manic pollen]

I'm going to try out a few different things to see what looks best. Rocks are so basic... 😄

[cerulean hare]

i got this thing down but i need to find something to replace the floor with

[bleak geyser]

Hey guys, is there a way to get this leaves generator to go on top of a road?

experimenting and figured this would be good for putting leaves along the kerbs

[twilit prawn]

Hey currently establishing a community. It's gonna be a Life/RP community. My skills are sorely, coding, so i will build the server. What i need is someone that is good with map knowledge and terrains.

Message me if interested!

[bleak geyser]

I would post this is in #creators_recruiting instead my guy, more likely to be seen and get a response. Will just get lost in here.

[twilit prawn]

Apreciate it mate, can be hard to navigate this discord 😄

[solemn dune]

so anyone figured out how to start making terrains ? 🙂

[buoyant lark]

#arma3_terrain

for some videos and so

its a while from ready i think 😄

[solemn dune]

coolio 😄

[buoyant lark]

oh i should post in #world_editor

[lament crown]

oh, now THIS is the most important channel

[fringe pasture]

oh hey this channel exists

[neat trellis]

Hope this helps people get a few steps further into making terrains in Enfusion.

1. File\New world
2. Save world (needed to make a terrain object later)
3. Bottom-left, select the 'Create' tab, next to Hierarchy.
4. Search 'GenericTerrainEntity'
5. Drag it into the game perspective window
   4.1 - Switch back to Hierarchy tab from the Create tab.
   4.2 With object selected in hierarchy, Bottom-right - in the Object Properties: Set X, Y, Z co-ords to 0 for each
6. Right side of screen - Object Properties: Right-click 'GenericTerrainEntity', under the search 'Filter components' - Select 'Create new terrain'

For a quick test, set Terrain grid size to 1024 - keep everything default. Select 'Create'

You now have access to the Terrain tools! Either:
A. Press the mountain button on the buttons toolbar
B. Tools\Terrain Tool

Terrain tool will appear in the bottom-right. You can now import height map, sat map etc.
Supported file types are .png and .asc for heightmaps

Credits to a twitch streamer called 'theemperorfox' who I was watching do this

[true hearth]

Can this be pinned till the Wikis are live?

[neat trellis]

With that I was able to get my heightmap/sat map in - https://i.imgur.com/Nayko9W.png

[stray briar]

errain grid size to 1024 ! where do you find it? I do not below GenericTerrainEntuti

[fringe pasture]

lol it just crashes for me every time I try and save

[mental pecan]

Don't save the world to a locked folder in Armareforger

[burnt torrent]

Are you guys launching this via Arma Reforger Tools in Steam and then pressing Launch?

[fringe pasture]

yes

[burnt torrent]

oh weird. I had been trying to press Create New before opening Reforger for the first time and it wasn't letting me go anywhere but now that actually worked

[left tangle]

4.1 zero all coordinates of terrain entity to 0, last time i had the entity moved collision of the terrain itself didn't work

[burnt torrent]

Kiska?

[neat trellis]

Sorta, it's Skira from Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, which is a sort of recreation of Kiska. I initially tried to make Kiska but ultimately ran into the same problems the people making the map did - it isn't fun to play on, nor has any real points of interest, so I instead decided to recreate Skira.

[burnt torrent]

Oh okay. That explains the few differences that I saw then. I had almost made an island based on that back in the A2 days but more of a temperate Chernarus type place.... actually at this point I've probably have had plans to make a terrain based on every island in the world at some point 😄

[zinc ruin]

@burnt torrent HI mate 😉

[buoyant lark]

there's too many channels on all this stuff now

#enfusion_terrain #world_editor #arma3_terrain q

[burnt torrent]

Hey Miro! Those your blender tools in the reforger tools?

[burnt torrent]

Yeah I'm not sure which I'm supposed to be posting in now. I figured terrain makers is probably more of a arma 3 thing at this point though maybe?

[buoyant lark]

whats an arma 3?

[fringe pasture]

fair

[zinc ruin]

some bLT stuff slipped to Enfusion Blender Tools yeah ... namely ASC import/export ... the rest is more game assets creation focused

[burnt torrent]

Nice! I'll have to try those out. Congrats to you and your coworkers on the release! It's looking great so far!

[zinc ruin]

Thanks mate, glad to hear!

[humble apex]

I imported my hightmap can only go to cord 3000

😦

[grave basin]

Anyone else's world editor crashing when saving?

[fringe pasture]

save to your own folders

[grave basin]

oh

[fringe pasture]

not the default ones

yeah lol

[grave basin]

doh

😄

Yeah that worked, thanks

[raven lance]

Can't save read only stuff. 😛

[grave basin]

yeah I'm coming from UE4/UE5 so I'm too used to that haha

[buoyant lark]

cant paste/copy paths into the file selector stuff in workbench ;_;

and it doesn't use the native file selector and instead uses the one from qt

[lone sinew]

That's the Codemaster's game island isn't it

[grave basin]

Dragon Rising?

[buoyant lark]

strange question for the BI boys.... do you guys happen to have some (basic) mapping of A3 objects to some Enforger thing? I'd like to see if I can just write basic converted of old object list to new ones.... 😄

Well... it imports 😄

[sinful brook]

Saareema?

Or what the name was

[buoyant lark]

its the saaremaa that is NOT AT ALL saaremaa 😄

but i liked doing that port from BF2 PR because it took like 2 days i think.....

[sinful brook]

It been a long time since I played pr

[buoyant lark]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=902483985 it confused people so much

[sinful brook]

Try operation marlin

[buoyant lark]

because its not at ALL like the real terrain.... but its the BF2 pr

[sinful brook]

Is it easy to do

What about obbjects

[buoyant lark]

from the BF2 pr ones? No

[sinful brook]

Tress houses

No the editor

Workbemch

Workbench

[buoyant lark]

@left tangle if you're feeling bored... how do the surface masks work? Is it a black/white mask per mat or global color banded surface mask like RV?

Can the old ones be imported somehow?

[whole onyx]

Importing Heightmap the heightmap does nothing for me.

[fringe pasture]

black and white mask

[whole onyx]

Yes indeed

[fringe pasture]

drop on a material on the right

right click on the material and import the black and white mask

[whole onyx]

Will try, thanks man

[buoyant lark]

asc definitely works here. I was not telling it to resize heights and am telling it to flip Z

[fringe pasture]

can i not paste screen shots here?

[buoyant lark]

need permissions

use www.getsharex.com or so and let it load to imgur

[whole onyx]

Had to start my tools up again but I think I might be a bit blind 😅 can't see the option for material

[fringe pasture]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/936515575612596234/976253771174781038/unknown.png

[whole onyx]

Thanks

[fringe pasture]

it would be pretty easy to convert the color masks to individual b/w masks

[buoyant lark]

ye i just wanna include it gtt by default

[fringe pasture]

oh yeah

[buoyant lark]

i cant remember if already do it for UE4 export... i basically never finished that 😄

[fringe pasture]

you make that

[left tangle]

yep, grayscale masks, one for each surface

surfaces are in .emat file (TerrainMaterial material type) and are organized in Paint tab within Terrain Tool, to which you drag'n'drop them from Resource Browser

[buoyant lark]

merci, i guess i gotta check the specs, bit confused with the pixel formats and so

IE mask export being 4033 for a 4096m terrain with 2 cellsize

well i wont be bored this weekend 😄

[sweet sedge]

it is because similar to overlapp in a3

[buoyant lark]

ye but in a3 your importable files didn't have that, so I'm wondering if I can make sure to include it

[sweet sedge]

but here it is more inteligent in how it goes together

[buoyant lark]

for ref, i "just" want to make GTT be able to give pretty okay starting files for Enfusion 🙂

[sweet sedge]

ground textures?

[buoyant lark]

heightmap already a-okay, just gotta make it export to PNG for satmap

[zinc ruin]

be more precise... you want to just place objects on terrain right?

[buoyant lark]

attribute mask based on either OSM data or https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org ground classification

[sweet sedge]

ahh

yeah

so each surface each gets a grescale and the blendinig is a bit more complicated.

[buoyant lark]

Yeah. Pretty much take a list of existing terrain builder style .txt and place "similar" entities (at least vegetation and so) VERY ROUGHLY on similar spots on enfusiont errain

[fiery bluff]

lidar! this is the way

currently trying to get things roling

[sweet sedge]

adanteh thehre are generators for that in the software thaht are pre made

[zinc ruin]

IT'S BEEN GAMIFIED MUHAHAHA

[sweet sedge]

just give us some time to put out all stuff thtte next few days

[buoyant lark]

ah coolio

[sweet sedge]

i will have an example terrain anyone can do whatever with that works

and give it out as components you gotta put together

[buoyant lark]

well i gotta crash in any case, so far it looks coolio

nice job on this

[sweet sedge]

it is fun to work in soon as you get the basics

now, what you would easily figure out adanteh, is if you open the layer files

in herarchy you make layers

in there you can place objects

then edit that and see how the matrix is and you can convert object placement from a3

[buoyant lark]

you mean the .layer file itself?

[zinc ruin]

definitely possible you just have to use correct prefab names(.et) ... I got Tanoa into Enfusion this way, using python

[sweet sedge]

yes

the layers files are text of the netities in them

[fringe pasture]

is there just brush tools or can we mass place forest via mask?

[buoyant lark]

that was my plan... 😄

[sweet sedge]

so you should be able to do that if you want

lancer

do this

on menu on top is a squiggly

lets you open vector tool

there you can make polylines

[fringe pasture]

can I use images?

[sweet sedge]

make a 100x100m or so one and let me know when you have

no i am showing you how the basic is realy kwik

to apply a generator

in the vector tool you can make polylines or vectors

a polyline is same as in a3

roads and rivers use vectors

[zinc ruin]

nope ... but in QGIS you should be able to convert raster to vector

[sweet sedge]

forest generators use polylines

[tawny pike]

When Nogova ? Just joking.

[sweet sedge]

in prefab library under generators you find stuff to add

you simply drag them onto your newly created polyline or spline in hierarchy

save first

[rancid isle]

is there lakes above sea level in enfusion?

[sweet sedge]

yes

and flowing rivers

[rancid isle]

awesome lol

[sweet sedge]

and you get wet from it

as well as rain

go see

[buoyant lark]

... Can I have underwater terrain?

[zinc ruin]

sure

[rancid isle]

id play around in-game a bit more, but it looks like the old 1650 super isnt cutting it anymore

[wintry cypress]

fr

[paper ermine]

how do you add the imported asc to the viewport?

[rancid isle]

not for running on ultra

lol :)

[zinc ruin]

#enfusion_terrain message

[wintry cypress]

the game has gone from being mostly cpu dependent to gpu, which is a good thing, I just need to upgrade gpu now lol.

[rancid isle]

yep.. 3060 is in my shopping cart as we speak..

[paper ermine]

thanks

[wintry cypress]

anyone else's world editor crashing upon launch? any fix.

[sweet sedge]

launch it from folder, not steam mght help

[wintry cypress]

ok

[rancid isle]

im assuming this will be explained in documentation.. with time?

im also curious if lighting classes are set up in a similar fashion to a3

[fringe pasture]

well this is easy https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/435852895070715924/976260072135077929/unknown.png

[rancid isle]

i've been looking at the weather systems but i haven't been able to get anything to work yet lol

[sweet sedge]

yes lancer

[buoyant lark]

Last question for this night. You mean workbench will have convertes from RV attribute mask to the mat masks or am I misunderstanding?

[sweet sedge]

no

i was talking about object placement conversion

if you have source files for your a3 map, you are ok. conderping a TB project. forget it

what you do is split your 5 colours situations into 5 greyscale masks

and import each

after adding the surfaces you want in the stack in world edtor

you just drag them from resource browser

[buoyant lark]

Names get matched right?

[sweet sedge]

no you import each

[buoyant lark]

Like it imports based on which names your mats got

[sweet sedge]

and if you are smort, you import, save, then do the next

dont ask tools problems here pls

[fringe pasture]

So for importing forests im looking to import the mask with the Shapefile import button?

[sweet sedge]

no

personally

when i do a shape

this is what i do

i will already have imported 3 surfaces in the area

so say i add a forest shape

with decidous trees

i quickly paint under the trees with a huge brush

you can make your own brushes

[rancid isle]

yeah i was wondering, how does brush creation work?

[sweet sedge]

i mean just spreading the surface nocely with a brush with a low setting sort of like spraypaint

you can make 500x500m shapes in like half a minute each

[sinful brook]

How will the object library be when people start uploading object mods to workshop will they appear in your library that you can place them on the map or will you have to import them your self somehow (talking about buildings, rocks, trees etc)

[sweet sedge]

i am not entirely sure as i have yet to use the public builds

[sinful brook]

For exmpl people upload buildings from a3 and you whant to make map with them

[sweet sedge]

i dont even have the game in my own steam yet :3

[sinful brook]

Lmo

Hey blud

[sweet sedge]

you will be able to use things on your maps

[fringe pasture]

Can I import vector shapes for use as forest/road/river/lake masks

[sinful brook]

What you think what's the biggest terrain possible to make but to have good fps on it

[sweet sedge]

you will be able to make your mod depend on stuff similar to what you are used to but this is off topic to here kinda

not sure i can make a recommendatioin thehre

the question you should be asking is how big can you possible make a map and iit be good

[sinful brook]

Okay guess u will have to find it out my self

Hahaha

Ye but

[sweet sedge]

nont really

[sinful brook]

Like what you think

In term of size

[sweet sedge]

you just have to find the balance of what is realistic

[sinful brook]

Jm

Km

[sweet sedge]

i have had 60km maps in testing

i could finish them

i might have some screenshots actuualy i can show from years ago

[sinful brook]

Pleasw

Well i was thinking on making real world terrain

Is it possible to have a satelite image overlay

[sweet sedge]

it is absurdly easy if you use instant terra and enfusion

that is my combo with photoshop inbetween

that was my workflow for some of everon areas

[whole onyx]

Probably already asked what file type for satellite?

[sweet sedge]

png or tif or something

[sinful brook]

There is a good plugin online for high resolution satelite image for free

It's called fireshot

If anyone needs it

[whole onyx]

Have used QGIS but edited it so it's a BMP xd

[sinful brook]

This plugin just download it like a picture I think it's png format

[sweet sedge]

if anyone know my A3 maps they might recognize this:

[sinful brook]

I saw this idk where

[whole onyx]

Wow

[sweet sedge]

i never posted that anywhere

[sinful brook]

I think

The map

Not picture

[sweet sedge]

oh theres an arma 3 veresion

[whole onyx]

Vidda right?

[sweet sedge]

but the point is porting doesnt really work

yes

but recreating is much better

and relatively fast if you can manipulate thte source files

[fringe pasture]

Can I adjust the brightness of the satmap somewhere?

[sweet sedge]

when importing

please take a screenshot of the import diaog cause i donæt remember it top of my head

i doont have tools here

there is a setting to use the right colour mode

[fringe pasture]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/435852895070715924/976265036215488522/unknown.png

[sweet sedge]

turn off in linear colour space

tile texture size do 512

[fringe pasture]

for an 8k map?

[sweet sedge]

it is not the size of the whole map

well just try

but that linear thing should fix the sat

[fringe pasture]

yeah that fixed the colors

but 512 lowered me to 4m texel density

[sweet sedge]

ah

but it doesnæt need to be very high and you still get similar looking distance anyway

[fringe pasture]

any blending options between satmap and detail textures?

[sweet sedge]

yes

youll figure it out

its simple

just make sure when you edit materials in WB and looking in WE at the same time, to save the materials.

it isn't automagic. you still kinda have to work on it. you cant simply throw some colours in there and hope they don't look too bad

[fringe pasture]

wait, is it color matching or real blending between the textures?

OK so theres Detail, Middle, and Sat afaik

[vagrant radish]

Does the engine support rivers above ASL and underground structures/carving?

[fringe pasture]

can i blend sat into detail and middle?

[sweet sedge]

yes

like i said you will find out

[fringe pasture]

sweet

[sweet sedge]

just play with things

remember to always have all the panels visible

cause clcking on different things in WE will make them do different things

[fringe pasture]

Ok, The only thing I hate

not being able to paste directories when looking for a file to import

[buoyant lark]

Yeah the non native qt file browser is a pain too

[fringe pasture]

I'm kinda confused as to why roads are like 2 meters above the spline level

[sweet sedge]

because not enough verts

they dont follow the terrain

they follow road curve

and they can modify the terrain annd do smoothing themselves

[brittle girder]

does anyone know how this engine wants the mask image set up? I try to import it and it says "No surface masks to import were found in the import directory"? I have it set as a png and called mask.png?

[sweet sedge]

that bit is confusing

do this

[fringe pasture]

yeah but I placed the splines at terrain level and they are raising terrain level by like 2 meters or more

[sweet sedge]

in the panel where you select surfaces, select thte surface you want to import a mask for and select prio. mask import

[brittle girder]

okay im looking for that right now not seeing it. I only see the part where to import and export terrains which just defines the path as to where the mask lives instead of the actual mask file

[fringe pasture]

drag those surfaces into the paint tab. then right click one of them and do what blud said https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/936515575612596234/976253771174781038/unknown.png

[brittle girder]

gotcha ok will attempt to do that now 👍

is there a way to change the render/view distance for WE?

[odd yew]

Is there a detailed tutorial for making a terrain then using it in reforger

[paper ermine]

there's supposed to be documentation coming up very soon

[odd yew]

That would be nice. I really want to get into devolving stuff. But it feels all overwhelming with all the channels and stuff

[brittle girder]

phenomenal thanks again @sweet sedge u the man

[paper ermine]

also are you supposed to do anything after importing the heightmap? for me nothing happens on completion

[sweet sedge]

always let it sit a little between big operations

make sure to not do much when the thing is doing stuff like generating textures. (says in the upper right corner)

definitely don't do anything that will alter surfaces then

[odd yew]

Is there an asset library with like trees and stuff

[sweet sedge]

yes

prefab library

never place anything but prefabs on the map

now if you wanna make a forest.. see earlier

[odd yew]

Could you link it please, the see earlier part

Also how would you apply gamemaster to your terrain to test it???? Or something along that lines

[sweet sedge]

i really have no idea

[brittle girder]

I think u have to add the Eden entity but im not 100% sure on that

[sweet sedge]

i just know about maps but nothing else to be honest

[brittle girder]

Ok so these locked folders in the examples in the screen shots above we cannot see them in the explorer right? so when we set up our folder structure I'm assuming we place everything wherever the project file is that we created but that's also not visible in my explorer

Basically I'm still trying to figure out my materials.. I have them all custom made from substance painter.. but i'm still not sure exactly where they go to show up in WE. I don't have .emats created for them yet so maybe that's required in order to see them?

[terse bear]

quick import Chernarus

lol

[rich socket]

Any issues with the workbench crashing when importing a skybox?

[dire ruin]

hi, im trying to have the copy of the Eden map so I can make changes on my own copy on it etc, how can I do that?

[burnt torrent]

Atlas Reborn!!! 😄

[feral olive]

Anyone know the max terrain size? And the max change in elevation the engine can handle?

[burnt torrent]

Don't think anyone knows yet

I think the max for 2m was something like 12-15km total size though or else it runs out of memory

[rancid isle]

i still havent figured out how to actually playtest the terrain and set the lighting up

[burnt torrent]

throwing together a quick tutorial here. Some of you are much further along than me probably though but might be helpful for people trying to catch up in the chat: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1viZSm7OquK8vhahskP0Bthy9uQufmz2PA01g1SHzFd0/edit#heading=h.53pum3epvxer

[short helm]

I feel the camera movement is weird

am I the only one?

@fringe pastureYo how was you able to add water in your Vector tool?

like in the shape you put

[fringe pasture]

uhm

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/435852895070715924/976260072135077929/unknown.png

[short helm]

yea

[fringe pasture]

the directory there

[short helm]

I cant see uh

[fringe pasture]

drag one of those onto your spline or polyline

[silent pebble]

i got a 20x20km map, had to save, close program and open again to get past invisible barrier

[fringe pasture]

PrefabLibrary/Generators

[short helm]

?

for water?

[fringe pasture]

anything in there can be dropped on any polyline or spline in the Hierarchy

[short helm]

K

Gen added

[sweet sedge]

you can make your own presets

[fringe pasture]

roads, rivers, lakes, forests, walls

[sweet sedge]

for everything

[fringe pasture]

ect..

[short helm]

Welp I cant add image

Create LakeGeneratorEntity

under ShapeEntity

if im rioght

[fringe pasture]

no idea what your saying

[short helm]

I dont understand you also uuuh

Can you actually screenshare

will be actually easier

[fringe pasture]

Have you made a polyline?

or a spline?

[short helm]

Polyline

[fringe pasture]

is it listed on the left?

[short helm]

Yeap

PolylineShapeEntity_2 etc

[fringe pasture]

now go find the river thing

[short helm]

Join sub_alpha channel

[fringe pasture]

with like .et at the end

[short helm]

Imma screenshare

Ok so you see

so after this I drop where the .emat

[fringe pasture]

wrong water

[short helm]

Which one

[fringe pasture]

PrefabLibrary/Generators

anything in there

you got a microphone?

[short helm]

yea

[short helm]

Ok btw for the road Ive found but the texture doesnt appera

@sweet sedge How did you make the road im actually curious I did a Polyline and dropped a Asphalt texture I moved a bit so it upper the ground but no texture of road appear except a semi transparent block

[burnt torrent]

Did you draw a polyline in the tools?

[short helm]

yea

I did

I cant send screenshot sadly dunno why

[burnt torrent]

Is it more than two vertices?

[sweet sedge]

Use spline for road

[short helm]

Oh

Ooooh it work but it still transparent normal?

welp

it crashed

[pallid elbow]

How do i use satellite map

[feral olive]

What sort of satellite map? Is the map a black-white gradient, or a texture showing Greenery and water ect?

[short helm]

@sweet sedgeHow to make appear the road it transparent for me

[pallid elbow]

what do they mean by satellite map

and how do i get one

[short helm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/694280610381824139/976332329071042602/unknown.png

Started to understand how it work !

Still need to learn how to make the road visible

[pallid elbow]

how did you do that

[short helm]

Do whatg

[pallid elbow]

the terrain

did you do it by hand?

[short helm]

Once I will learn more I will do a Docs that explain

and yes

by hand

[pallid elbow]

alright

[feral olive]

Brilliant

Is it a distribution paint for plants?

[short helm]

No paint needed

you can juste do Polyline

once done

put your Tree in it

and it spray naturaly

[pallid elbow]

bro im so confused on how to use this

[short helm]

Dont worry I was also !

[pallid elbow]

im more of a blender person

oh ok

[short helm]

Blender is usefull

you will be able to do building and Import

[feral olive]

Hmm, can't tell if your terms are different to spintires'/mudrunner's
Or if it is a different system

[pallid elbow]

oh ok

[short helm]

Those are differant

I still need to figure how to make road visible

it so bothersome

[feral olive]

Can you say 'make this area a random assortment of these three trees with slightly different sizing'
With the polyline?

[short helm]

it randomly assorted

want me to show you?

Join sub_alpha

@feral olive

imma show you

[feral olive]

😂 on the train so unfortunately I can't, but will be taking a look later today!

[short helm]

Ahhhh rip

[pallid elbow]

how did you do texutres

[flat owl]

Question for ya'll, how do you actually place a character down and walk around in the map?

[short helm]

Hmm

Didnt tried yet

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/972810529850687508/976335210041970698/unknown.png

[flat owl]

Hm

Welp

Time to do some digging

[short helm]

Im pretty sure

you add a Character

from Lib

[pallid elbow]

how do you get textures lol

[short helm]

Ok road work

now I need to get rid of the grass hmmm

Fixed

amazing

[tardy hemlock]

@short helm gotta do the trees like X-CAM

[short helm]

?

you lost me here

BRO

IT SO FUN TO USe

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/972810529850687508/976337192840478770/unknown.png

[pallid elbow]

how do you make a depression in the terrain

[short helm]

Sculpt

tool

[river chasm]

ALT + Left Click

[pallid elbow]

how do you make the entire terrain one texture

[short helm]

You need to paint it

with the texture

[pallid elbow]

oh

ok

[short helm]

i didnt found a better way yet

[river chasm]

no

[short helm]

pretty sure there is one

[river chasm]

go to paint tab

right clic kyour texture

fill surface

[short helm]

there

dude knew a way

[flat owl]

How do the generators work? I'm trying to generate a forest, but the polyline area that I drag the forest generator on isn't doing anything

[short helm]

Hmm

[pallid elbow]

how do you make water

[short helm]

weird

cuz it did work for me

@pallid elbowPolyline

[flat owl]

I'd post screenshots, but I can't in this channel

[short helm]

yea

Upload it on a random discord

and then copy the link

and paste it here

[pallid elbow]

how do you use a polyline lol

[short helm]

Vector tool

Height map?

[flat owl]

What about it?

[short helm]

Nah was just curious..

[flat owl]

Hang on

I gotchu

[short helm]

OH GOD

it look cool

[flat owl]

WELCOME TO HELL

[feral olive]

Beautiful

[short helm]

how you removed the damn fog

[flat owl]

uh

It's about 1/10th the size

hahahahahahah

It's 1km^2

[short helm]

OH

I see lol

[flat owl]

I tried to generate a 20km one

thing kept crashing

[short helm]

Engine crashed?

[flat owl]

So we're starting small lmao

[short helm]

yea

you used satelite map no?

[pallid elbow]

how do you even use satelite map

[flat owl]

Yeah, sat map was my basis for height map, and I just erm... borrowed the arma map texture for my sat map

[feral olive]

Ah that's a shame that it's not handling larger maps well

[flat owl]

Yeah, It seems like the limit is <1024x1024 for size, and a terrain size no larger than ~10km^2

The issue is anything larger and it crashes, or if it doesn't crash, the invisible wall and fog make it impossible to work on

Eitherway, I still don't get forest generation, but I should probably paint the group first shouldn't I

[feral olive]

Fog should be disablable? Id hope

[short helm]

I think we are able

but we need to find it

[flat owl]

How did you end up removing grass?

It appears that there's no sand texture for me to paint

[short helm]

I used another surface

[flat owl]

Or at least, I can't find it

[flat owl]

Another surface? Wdym?

[short helm]

I used Dirt texture

and not grass

[flat owl]

Ah, I see

[short helm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/694280610381824139/976346836384235540/unknown.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/694280610381824139/976346862938374164/unknown.png

It so fun

[flat owl]

Hm,. interesting

I'm having an issue with certain textures being unable to paint certain areas

[jaunty bronze]

man i have no clue how you guys are getting started 😭

[flat owl]

For example: I'm trying to paint a path texture along the surface

But for whatever reason, the dirt_01 and dirt02 textures just aren't being painted

it's weird

[naive haven]

reached max amount of textures per cell?

[flat owl]

Yep

I just realized that's what it was

How many can you have per cell?

[mental lion]

how did you get stratis in so quikclyt!

[mild ermine]

Hi, I'm trying to modify Eden's terrain but for the moment impossible, do you know how to do it?

[mental lion]

is that Montana?

[flat owl]

lmao this is a 1/10 scale model

it is NOT good

it is NOT pretty

[mental lion]

😦

[flat owl]

and i do NOT know what I am doing

hell, I don't even know how to get an ocean into this map

Speaking of, anyone have any clue?

[mental lion]

the fact this game isnt even a day old and people are going nuts doing this stuff is impressive.

I wonder how big the maps can be

[junior latch]

if i try to save my world, the Editor instantly crashes.. :/

[burnt torrent]

It might be the folder you're trying to save it to

[junior latch]

Ok. This was the Problem, thank u

[left tangle]

5 per block (or cell as you might know it)

[left tangle]

editing of packed terrains, either official or once you pack and publish your own, is locked

[mild ermine]

thanks

[sterile atlas]

I figured out how to do water right away but unfortunately im not on my pc for the rest of the night

i remember it being simple

I'll be up around 10:30 EST if you still need help figuring it out, good luck!

[static imp]

just go into the world entity I think and add a water material / behaviour material or whatever it's claled

called*

under environment I think

[jagged loom]

@static imp lmao hi Ben. Knew I'd see you here

Its Michaels

[static imp]

Oh thought it might be but wasn't sure 😂

How are you?

[jagged loom]

I'm good. Debated calling in sick today to play more forger ngl. I'm really excited at the possibilities we've been given for the future man.

[static imp]

Yeah the tooling is pretty excellent

[silver radish]

can anyone tell me how to create a prefab?

[fiery onyx]

may we get this pinned?

[left tangle]

in short you drag'n'drop Entity from Hierarchy in World Editor to Resource Browser, give it a name and there you go

[grizzled island]

Since this is still heightmap-based I'm guessing we still can't have overhangs or tunnels as part of the terrain?

[feral olive]

Would love a reply to that question above.

[left tangle]

no tunnels, but as the engine is always evolving, who knows 🙂

[soft heart]

Did anyone figure out how to add the ocean yet?

[pine echo]

anyone successfully get height maps working? I says I've imported one but it doesn't seem to affect the terrain world

[soft heart]

Oh my, its looking beautiful

[subtle schooner]

Maybe you have to adjust the min max heights at the import window

[pine echo]

holy mother of caverns

i wish i could send you a pic but it's not letting me

huh how are other people sending images in chat

[neat trellis]

Vet roles and Bohemia roles can, others if they want to need to upload to like imgur and link back

[grim tinsel]

I guess it is possible to do old A3 hack with making indents in the ground and covering it with custom modeled "ground" objects

But I wonder how well navmeshes would interact between each other

[pine echo]

thank you good sir

[turbid plover]

How would I go about testing/playing on a map that I created?

[zinc ruin]

as simple as

[turbid plover]

I have seen that. But it just puts the camera in the ground and I can't move at all or do anything.

[zinc ruin]

ah right you need one or both of these(taken from eden) ... @left tangle should know more 🙂

[feral flame]

With the spline discussion above, can we import custom procedural models to be used?

Houdini plug-in would be amazing for example

[zinc ruin]

nope

[mental pecan]

@ dwarden this was also useful :)

[neat trellis]

Saw my message is pinned. I am fairly active on Discord so should there be any improvements, additions I can make then feel free to @ me and I'll make changes

[feral flame]

What’s the current approach to procedural model generation for things like fence lines and such?

[rapid locust]

Hi, I was just wondering if somebody could explain to me why my height maps are extremely over exaggerated?

https://gyazo.com/36153d5c5a7c01157546b4d8c07bc74c

https://i.gyazo.com/bcd8806954e8bbf51664881de92db4cc.png

[feral olive]

Change the intensity

[rapid locust]

doesn't seem to change anything

[feral olive]

Is the 'tile texture size' correct? IE, the same as you're source heightmaps res?

[rapid locust]

now there's a good question, and the answer to that is I don't know. I have been using this website to get height maps:

https://tangrams.github.io/heightmapper/#14.75/43.5161/7.0516

but to be fair I have no idea what I'm doing with height maps at this point

[feral olive]

Right click the image in you're file browser and click 'details'
should tell you in there

Nah thats fair haha

[rapid locust]

Ah roger, that kind of res

so they need to be square

so If I set terrain size as 1024 then the image should be 1024

[feral olive]

It needs to be exactly what that drop-down says, possible the dropdown has a custom input? But I haven't played with it

[rapid locust]

ok

i'll give that a crack

[grim tinsel]

Did someone check how editor handles "non-island" terrains?

[rapid locust]

What should the Pixels/Inch be? 72 as standard?

[feral olive]

Not sure, haven't done it myself.

[rapid locust]

fair

[neat trellis]

Not entirely certain without being in the editor, but when importing your heightmap there's an option for minimum and maximum height. Tweaking that prevents the large differences in terrain you are having

[warm stirrup]

I'm trying to use the same tools but coming up with very much the same results

[rapid locust]

Tools just crashed and now it wants me to locate the reforger project

[sweet sedge]

Not possible

[rapid locust]

I'll mess around with that, thank you

[rapid locust]

Of which I can not

[sweet sedge]

No landlocked terrain n yet. Only island unless you want end of the world drop

[warm stirrup]

Blud, any tips on height map importing from tools such as Tangram?

[left tangle]

is Terrain entity zeroed on 0 0 0 coords?

[sweet sedge]

Use ASC format

[whole onyx]

How do you implement water flow from a higher point on a map?

[sweet sedge]

Draw a spline and add generator

Explained a few times in here the last day

[whole onyx]

Ah, might have missed it then. Thanks for the answer though

[rapid locust]

I'll get back you but i'm having an issue with reforger tools itself now

[turbid plover]

Thx, worked for me. But just for a while. I now still have those two managers and I could move around. Just that I suddenly can't do it anymore and the character/player is now just stuck.

[rapid locust]

I dunno if this goes into trouble shooting at this point but https://gyazo.com/c6ae0c1cce96dbb6566768adac4489a0

It lost itself after a crash

[turbid plover]

Try launching Arma Reforger and then the Tools.

[grim tinsel]

Oh, that is a bummer

[rapid locust]

Thanks that actually worked

[rapid locust]

Yes it is

[rapid locust]

how would I get an ASC, all exports come out as png

[turbid plover]

That should also be the fix for that message every time you get it.

[rapid locust]

thanks mate

[sweet sedge]

You can use png but it is not recommended

You will have to import.it a lot of times with different settings as it doesn't know min/max

[feral olive]

Is there geo tiff support?

[sweet sedge]

It is better to turn geotif into ASC in qgis

Or better yet a world.generator like instant terra where you can do important edits and resampling

I will share my personal workflow next week

[feral olive]

qgis give's a read out of
min height elevation:
max height elevation:
When you select an area to export (as the black-white gradient rescales to the selected area's max/min height)
Can this be directly entered into the terrain system, or do you have to fiddle with the intensity settings until you get something that 'looks' right?

Would be fascinating to see, cheers for that. Also I get a world generator would be beneficial but there is a great amount of real world high resolution (1, 5 and 10m) geo tiff data out there.

[sweet sedge]

Export to ASC from qgis and it is 1:1

With image formats, it is not accurate to the decimal as ASC and your source files must be exposed properly

World editor also exports ASC perfectly so you can use other world makers to work on your data

[feral olive]

Not 100% sure what you mean by that, any chance of further elaboration?

[rapid locust]

Is QGIS a better software for heightmaps?

[sweet sedge]

If you are a newbie, look at instant terra

[rapid locust]

fair

[feral olive]

QGIS worked great when I had been playing with it, never directly generated terrain (nothing like l3dt) but it handled 200gb tiff heightmaps like a champ

[sweet sedge]

There are modern game terrain tools that do everything very quickly and easily

200gb tif is a waste

[feral olive]

200gb due to the size of the area, this was a very large coastal area of real-world 1m heightmap data.

[sweet sedge]

You can only use 16kx16k

[feral olive]

Source file to be massively cropped to the area that you're map will actually be.

[sweet sedge]

Do that in qgis

[feral olive]

I had been.

[royal turret]

In regards to "Playing" in the world editor, I am getting this strange issue.
When I click play everything seems to be exceedingly dark, I stole what I could find from eden, but I still get the dark issue on my terrain. Does anyone have any idea as to what I might be missing?
https://ibb.co/1JKyj6W (This is what the issue looks like)
https://ibb.co/ncLggYM (This is my current Hierarchy)

[left tangle]

check weather tool if you have it similiar to mine, otherwise i'm not sure right now

[royal turret]

Thanks, I have it set as the same but it still seems to persist. I will play around some more, I am sure its probably just a number wrong somewhere

I fixed it!

https://ibb.co/3SpLLfR All of these are required

[whole onyx]

Hey, regarding this. I seem to be unable to set a Master cycle even if I have the file for some reason. I am probably doing it wrong but what way would I go about doing it?

[left tangle]

can you elaborate please?

[whole onyx]

I am having issues keeping my settings in the Weather tool so when I re-enter it resets even if I save a preset, I am also having issues setting a cycle. The bottom part of the image you sent.

I am sort of bad at explaining but I will probably figure it out.

[left tangle]

when you are in the weather tool, make sure to hit OK to confirm the changes

[whole onyx]

I was being a bit dumb, I mean more the date resets for some reason. Same with the Timezone settings. Cycle duration, Time and Update frequency stays the same.

[left tangle]

ah yes, because that setting is stored in the WeatherManager prefab you have in hierarchy

(at least that's my guess)

[whole onyx]

Ah, thanks for clarification then. It was driving me crazy

[pine echo]

does anyone know how to change your camera position by coordinates in the world editor?

i seem to have lost my position

[feral olive]

Select something in the hierarchy and press f

[pine echo]

❤️

[left tangle]

either F or double click on it in the hierarchy

[turbid plover]

How does one use that .conf file? I tried but it just won't let me use it.

[feral olive]

Just gotta say, I love that you guys have even included this in the tools. Many game editors skip out on the smaller things that.

[left tangle]

documentation will be your best bet, i have no experience with it

[pine echo]

is the documentation up yet?

[turbid plover]

I don't think so.

...

[pine echo]

no prob

also, is there a way to increase view distance in world editor

[turbid plover]

Why can't one send images in this channel? Seems very counterintuitive to block it.

[left cairn]

https://i.ibb.co/qx6kdr0/22.png
How to smooth the steps? This is imported ASC heightmap

[feral olive]

Yeah I think a lot of these modding channels would benefit from it

[turbid plover]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/727972049313595406/976448090217283604/unknown.png

I get this without the weather preset thing.

[sweet sedge]

You this is from using images

You have to treat them right in qgis

Or other software

[feral olive]

Oh, is there no internal 'smoothing' tool for terrain in the editor?

[sweet sedge]

You also can do that

[turbid plover]

Doesn't work on that though does it?

[sweet sedge]

But it is best to do it every ght before you load source files

[feral olive]

For sure yeah.

[sweet sedge]

It does work, use the brushes

[turbid plover]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/727972049313595406/976449968808275988/unknown.png

With this stuff

[warm stirrup]

hello dude

Im using Insta Terra and getting much better results

[pine echo]

anyone know how to increase world size

i imported a height map, but it doesn't fit into my current world boundaries

[warm stirrup]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/347468404002652160/976454455107137588/unknown.png

[pine echo]

woah

[warm stirrup]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/533321761845018625/976455778653315102/unknown.png

Its significantly cleaner than PNG as Blud makes very clear.

only thing I've got to nail down is the scale is abit 'off'

[pine echo]

Are you using this as a substitute for importing a height map?

Or did you sculpt that

[sweet sedge]

iti s easiest to use a purpose made terrain simulation and sculpting tool to at the very least process your height map

because you also use that data to generate masks

I am working on some sample files for the community and am using instant terra to create those actually

[warm stirrup]

lovely cheers

[frank iris]

What is maximum resolution for arma terrain?

[sweet sedge]

16k

[warm stirrup]

still gonna explore the F out of it, enjoying the tools

[pine echo]

Do you then import the finished terrain file as an asset?

[sweet sedge]

no

you import the data you need. such as the heightmap

then you use the simulation tools to generate your masks

[frank iris]

Cheers

[feral olive]

Is this dependent on world size, or a cap in software?

[sweet sedge]

see this?

i export that mask and that is all i need for defining rock surface on my map

[pine echo]

Oh I see what you mean

[sweet sedge]

then you just force import that into your rock surface and you are set

[pine echo]

Gotcha, I already have a heightmap

[sweet sedge]

it is recommended to do this with your 3 most important surfaces on your map

then hand paint the others

so basically underwater default texture, rock and grass

everything else you just paint by hand as you place things

this is the same island

[pine echo]

You can import colorized height maps into enfusion?

[sweet sedge]

in my workflow, i would use that data to paint my own sat map inside photoshop, using the distant ground textures in contextual locations using those masks inside photoshop aswell

no you just export it as sat map files

however you want

there are several ways you can do colour grading of it once you get the hang of it

[pine echo]

Ok ok, sorry if I'm a little slow at this, all new to me. I'm a programmer but new to engines

[eternal fractal]

Whoa this satellite map thing is nice

[whole onyx]

Might have to give Instant terra a try

[empty sluice]

after you press create terrain, in the setup box you need to raise the grid cell size...

won't let me post a picture.. otherwise i'd show it

https://i.ibb.co/7XccJnX/file.png

[zinc ruin]

well that's not really a good way ... I mean you sacrifice terrain resolution to get smoother look

[empty sluice]

is there a better way?

[zinc ruin]

first let me understand what file you trying to import

[rapid locust]

Was wondering if anyone knew how to add water to the world?

like the base sea level

[empty sluice]

#enfusion_terrain message

[rapid locust]

I think thats more for ponds

[zinc ruin]

#enfusion_terrain message

[empty sluice]

so far just trying with an .asc heightmap.. have considered giving a png height map a try.. but TB never did well with those.. so haven't tried yet

[zinc ruin]

can you share asc file?

[empty sluice]

sure

grr no file uploads.. gonna dm it

[rapid locust]

Done most of that but its mega bright, could it be something in those presets?

[warm stirrup]

yeah its blinding

[zinc ruin]

screenshot maybe ... just DM it

[sweet sedge]

PSA: If for any reason your WE is doing this:

don't do anything else

[rapid locust]

Nah all good now, managed to figure it out

but thank you

Another question now, I seem to be limited as to where my camera goes, is this a setting? and is there any way to extend my view distance?

[austere shell]

how did you fix it?

[austere shell]

after saving and re opening it worked with camera bounds being correct

[rapid locust]

For starters I clicked this
https://gyazo.com/733e0646ddeb8786645a2e1ce9457d98

It switched me to another editor

https://gyazo.com/f08f9d1320684c8ec62d086b4613ad39

I then selected a secondary resource value

I then edited these 2 values till it was some-what bearable

https://i.gyazo.com/74058f5608d8e15dd3b07eecdc59fc4a.png

Then you hit save

[woeful osprey]

What are you guys using to get your height maps?

Want to start working on a terrain so I know how to do it in the future but what would be the starting point? I'd assume the height map but then again I've only messed with Unreal lol

[neat trellis]

They're either from online sources, there are websites where you can select an area and get the heightmap from it, or generated using software like L3Dt

[woeful osprey]

okay so similar to Unreal engine then

[neat trellis]

If Unreal Engine can take in heightmap data, sure

[woeful osprey]

I was saying its similar to the Unreal engine Terrain creation thing but yea.... long story short trying to figure out how to do stuff in this workbench and just like uhhhhhh xD

[neat trellis]

Eventually I am sure people will make comprehensive tutorials to do everything, until then people are in the same boat

[woeful osprey]

yea I've been reading thru this all day xD

[noble cloud]

yeah spent hours lastnight just working out how to get terrain in then fixing its collision it was missing for some reason lol

[woeful osprey]

i'll probably work on it this weekend, My end goal is to make a "Training Terrain" that will be suitable for Infantry based stuff, Vehicle based stuff, and some long flat areas to be used later for Arma 4 (Jets & Helicopters)

[rapid locust]

QGIS is brilliant for height maps

and there are a few youtube vidoes that are easy to find that show how to use it for arma

[sweet sedge]

Tomorrow or Friday we will have a sample terrain out. It is an OK sized island anyone can build on and do what they want with. It will only have basic nature, masks and everything and every type of generator and function used and modifyable

[grave basin]

Will there be documentation also on how to implement terrain as well or is that coming at a later date?

[noble cloud]

whats the max size of terrain u can do? i seem to always crash it when trying to do 8x8km terrain creation. ?

blocks per tile : 2
Grid Cell Size : 8
Grid Size 1024 x 1024. ..

crashes on that tho

[left tangle]

• max limit is for you to find out
• make sure to save the map outside of Reforger folders (with the small lock icon)

[noble cloud]

put blocks per tile to "4" and it worked. so max ive got out so far is 8x8km

[left tangle]

i tried 32k and it worked fine, you need to play with the various values present in the terrain creation window

[noble cloud]

yeah seems it doesnt like some settings and crashes out . will keep messing with it. 🙂

[left tangle]

As I've said, please make sure to save the world somewhere else than the Arma Reforger folder. 🙂

[noble cloud]

yeah have done. its in its own folder out of the locked stuff

[left tangle]

The issue with the saving crash is reported and should be hopefully fixed in an upcoming version of the tools. 👍

[noble cloud]

yeah its all good 🙂 starts back up fast atleast lol

[kindred goblet]

How does the hand painting work, Im familiar with UE4 editor, but cant figure out how to do actually the painting

got materials already in there

[odd wren]

Managed to do a simple terrain. Once I figured out how not the most intuitive tool set but 100x better then modding a2 lol next is materials I guess

[kindred goblet]

oh lol never mind figured it out

[desert igloo]

whats a good way to place enough trees to have a forest

i mean i can place em 1 by 1

but isnt there a way to brush them or something?

[odd wren]

Just noticed this but i cant seem to move from corner to corner of the map? invisible wall!

[noble cloud]

world bounds

[short helm]

@desert iglooYou can use Polyline

and after use Generation forest

in prefeb

[desert igloo]

i dont know what polyline is

[mental lion]

Can someone recreate the state of Rhode Island? 1:1? That place could use a small war

[kindred goblet]

Cant find this

[odd wren]

Where do you change the world bounds :. Not seeing anything happen when i click would bound tools

[river chasm]

@desert igloo did you figure it out or do you still need some help?

[desert igloo]

i need some help still

[river chasm]

i gotchu, 1 secc

i guess i cant upload a screen shot

[raven lance]

Are there any transform options for the satmap? I imported mine and it appears to either be offset slightly, or rotated. Hard to tell. 🤔

[desert igloo]

DM

[left tangle]

Sorry Aaron if I'm faster, for everyone, how to create a forest (and much more);

1. Select Vector Tool
2. Click on New Polyline
3. First left click into the scene, then Ctrl+LMB adds point in front, Alt+LMB click at back
4. Once you are done, go to object properties and check Is Closed box (at the bottom)
5. Look for FG_ in Prefab Library or Resource Browser
6. Find what forest you are looking for and drag'n'drop it right into Hierarchy in WE straight onto the vector
7. You have a forest

You can edit vectors only while in Vector Tool.

[noble cloud]

Is there a reason why if ur terrain is not at 0,0,0 it has no collision?

[river chasm]

@left tangle all good!

[left tangle]

Not sure exactly why, but it is a certain "limitation" we have.

[kindred goblet]

Alright got the lighting sorted, trying to playtest it on editor cant move or am I missing spawn entity or something?

[noble cloud]

ok was just making sure i wasnt going mad 😄 lol

one last quesiton lol. the invis walls in the editor., anyway to edit them? as when terrain is at zero. it pokes out at one end so cant get to that end.

[raven lance]

Save and close the editor, and then open it again. Seems to recalculate the world bounds then.

[noble cloud]

cheers

[raven lance]

@left tangle Am I correct in the assumption that those numbers should be the same?

Currently have the oddity that things are offset. 🤔

[kindred goblet]

Mmmhmm

https://imgur.com/yPl70XL

[river chasm]

perfect

[kindred goblet]

Maybe this is the reason I cant play it 😛

[sweet sedge]

Reload the map..when you change a heightmap, you gotta

It is good practice to do that often

[fringe pasture]

heightmap imported wrong? There is a flip x or y checkmark that you need to do. Or is it a different issue

[raven lance]

Not sure, I unchecked the flip thing.

[fringe pasture]

I think the flip might be required

[raven lance]

Interesting.

I find it more strange that the resolution calc for the satmap does not match the overall map size.

[raven lance]

A flip on both X and Z. (Engine uses Y axis up) appears to have sorted things out. 🙂

[sweet sedge]

no

it resamples your source to what it needs

so the size you see there is what you want to make your source hf from then on

if you settle on that res

[flat owl]

is there any way to increase the render distance in the World Editor?

Or to at least restrict the fog?

[raven lance]

Camera settings tab at the top of the viewport.

Min and max clip ranges change when things clip out of view.

so the size you see there is what you want to make your source hf from then on
Interesting...

[flat owl]

So I'm having an issue rn

Whenever I import my sat map, my editor keeps crashing

This is the image, and i'm importing it onto a 512x512, ~25km^2 map

I've gotten the height map working properly, but the sat map is causing me my issues now

[sweet sedge]

screens

and make sure you save the satlike 8bit png

[paper arrow]

Is there any tutorial or resources for creating a sat map from instant terra data? I have my masks for rock + grass etc but no satmap for distant textures

[sweet sedge]

ill have a smoll guide for it later how to do it the most basic ways incl the files

but what you should do is export masks

one for each surface that you would use to generate the basic nature.

then import those

[primal lark]

How do you make roads?

[sweet sedge]

then import those as layers or masks in photoshop and fill them with the average colours from the ground texture middle textures

[flat owl]

You need to create a spline using the vector tool

[sweet sedge]

how to make roads has been explained a few times if you scroll up

[flat owl]

or that too lmao

[flat owl]

Any recommendations on getting those aforementioned masks?

Or generally, how would one go about creating them?

[sweet sedge]

the search function is your friend. we have gone over all the tools already for by far not the last time 😄

[flat owl]

Hahah fair enough

[sweet sedge]

in instant terra there are like 10000 things you can do to make masks

not even kidding

they have videos and tutorials for all of them and guess what.. it is called masks in instant terra too

just import your heightfield. you can export it from enfusion with roads and everything

then you can do some serious mask business in IT

or l3dt

or photoshop

[primal lark]

hmm, roads have raised the terrain for some reason

well, the parts they're on

[flat owl]

Awesome, thanks blud, i'll take a look

[warm stirrup]

All day in World builder and I have to say I'm exhausted

[river chasm]

keep going

[sweet sedge]

Roads will modify the terrain

They then follow.the spline and not the landscape

[tawdry elk]

I've made a custom terrain using l3dt and have imported the heightmap to the terrain but for some reason it has no collision?

[flat owl]

Holy hell, Instant Terra is amazing. Thank you @sweet sedge, I now have a new program to get addicted to

[noble cloud]

what do i need to change to increase distance u can see the ground texture? its white further away.

[grave basin]

Anyone else crashing when importing a heightmap file?

[sweet sedge]

I'm the.material

[hexed cape]

Gaea is also very good terrain creator. There is a free version on their site.

[sweet sedge]

If you crash when Importing height map. Try other settings. It.csn be whatever reasons

[grave basin]

Alright thanks I'll mess about

[hexed cape]

I have my heightmap imported but how does one put a material on the surface such as grass?

[tawdry elk]

I've figured out that if you go to paint mode in terrain tools you can drag and drop textures into the open area and then paint brush them onto your terrain

[hexed cape]

ty, will try!

[sweet sedge]

That is also where masks are imported

[hexed cape]

One more question. How do I up the view distance so I can see more then what looks like 500m of my map before its lost in the fog?

[raven lance]

#enfusion_terrain message

[hexed cape]

ty

[sweet sedge]

ben is going to do this a few thousand more times before it dies down

100% accurate estimate

[short helm]

@sweet sedgedid you use Squadspinne for your map or Scuplt by hand?

[sweet sedge]

no idea what squadthingy is and also which map?

[short helm]

this

it look amazing

Im talking about this

https://quadspinner.com/

Terrain generation

[sweet sedge]

oh right

someone gifted me that software

long ago

i wish they hadn't and that is all i am gonna say about it

[short helm]

This software is kinda expensive

lol

[hexed cape]

I use the free version lmao

[sweet sedge]

some might like it

[short helm]

But how did you made your Height map?

for like the background mountain etc

[sweet sedge]

i recommend this personally: photoshop, qgis and instant terra

[short helm]

Instant Terra?

Imma check this

qgis is for satelite map no?

[hexed cape]

Can not figure out how to add a skybox for the life of me.. fml

[short helm]

Neither I

[sweet sedge]

qgis for working with map data

[short helm]

Hmm

Alright

[turbid plover]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/727972049313595406/976557691008843837/unknown.png

[sweet sedge]

if you dont recreate real terrain, you dont need it at all

[short helm]

I dont so

good

[sweet sedge]

you can juse use instant terra and enfusion

[short helm]

Nice

Imma give it a try

[turbid plover]

So uh is it normal that one has to change the Enviroment Probe Entry for every new building placed down?

[left tangle]

I think there is something wrong with your lighting, you shouldn't be touching probes at all (to make them work).

[turbid plover]

ok

cause I somehow managed to get my general lighting to not look way to bright and white

but basically with trial and error :/

Is there an ETA on the terrain documentation?

[pulsar lodge]

likely when possible. Patience.