Terrain making - Revision history

Steevithak: /* Notes */ added link to orphaned terrain splatting page

2020-09-10T17:16:15Z

‎Notes: added link to orphaned terrain splatting page

MakoBot: Removed 'Template:' prefix from template includings and/or changed external-link into internal-link

2011-06-10T23:44:09Z

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Ideia Boa at 00:32, 22 May 2009

2009-05-22T00:32:09Z

Max Ping at 10:27, 5 January 2009

2009-01-05T10:27:28Z

Max Ping: Removed stuff about 90degree rotion of terrain tiles as this is now redundant

2009-01-05T10:26:13Z

Removed stuff about 90degree rotion of terrain tiles as this is now redundant

Fu Barr: Detailed cross-region terrain editing - by Fu Barr

2008-08-01T23:16:20Z

Detailed cross-region terrain editing - by Fu Barr

Fu Barr: Detailed cross-region terrain editing - by Fu Barr

2008-08-01T23:11:35Z

Detailed cross-region terrain editing - by Fu Barr

Fu Barr: Detailed cross-region terrain editing - by Fu Barr

2008-08-01T23:10:37Z

Detailed cross-region terrain editing - by Fu Barr

Fu Barr: Detailed cross-region terrain editing - by Fu Barr

2008-08-01T23:09:48Z

Detailed cross-region terrain editing - by Fu Barr

Fu Barr: /* Creating a detailed terrain map. */

2008-08-01T23:05:44Z

‎Creating a detailed terrain map.

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		+	See Also [[Terrain Splatting]]

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	This page describes a workflow for creating large, detailed, cross-region terrains. This workflow works for me, but you may find the whole process to be a little baroque. Feel free to provide the community with a sleeker option.		This page describes a workflow for creating large, detailed, cross-region terrains. This workflow works for me, but you may find the whole process to be a little baroque. Feel free to provide the community with a sleeker option.

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−	For a slightly less baroque technique check out Max Ping's [[Cross-region ~~Terrain Making~~ with L3DT]]	+	NB: For a slightly less baroque technique check out Max Ping's [[Cross-region terrain making with L3DT]]

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-Step 7. '''Rotate and save the region textures.'''
+Step 7. '''Upload the textures to your server.'''
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-Rotate the cut bitmaps by 90 degrees and save them to disk as PNG.
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-Why do we rotate the region textures? It is my experience that OpenSimulator tends to rotate the textures when you apply them to a region, i;m sure this makes perfect sense in the code, and if you're just doing one region per sim you dont really care, but on a grid with detailed landscaping it wreaks havok with your design. You need to counter-act the OpenSimulator texture rotation with the 90 degree rotation you apply here.
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-I expect this rotation step to become obsolete some time in the future.
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-Step 8. '''Upload the textures to your server.'''
 Duh.
-Step 9. '''Making OpenSimulator use the new textures.'''
+Step 8. '''Making OpenSimulator use the new textures.'''
 You need to now tell OpenSimulator to use the new terrain textures on your grid. For example: if you have 4 regions called Region1, Region2, Region3 and Region4... you need to add a section to your startup_commands.ini that looks like this:
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-Step 10. '''Restart your OpenSimulator instance and fine-tune your terrain height.'''
+Step 9. '''Restart your OpenSimulator instance and fine-tune your terrain height.'''
 You should see your glorious new terrains appear on your regions when you restart the simulator, but it's likely that the terrains are too tall or too flat.
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 == Notes ==

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 Step 6. '''Cut the large region map into individual regions.'''
-Once your smoothing and smudging is complete, you need to cut the region into 256x256 squares, one tile per simulator region.
+Once your smoothing and smudging is complete, you need to cut the assembled region back into 256x256 pixel squares, one tile per simulator region.
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 That's it. Go forth and multiply!

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-Step 10. Restart your OpenSimulator instance and fine tune your terrain height.
+Step 10. '''Restart your OpenSimulator instance and fine-tune your terrain height.'''
-You should see your glorious new terrains appear on your regions when you restart the simulator, but it's likely that the terrains are too tall or too flat. You need to add a terrain multiplier factor to each region, to compensate. This looks like so:
+You should see your glorious new terrains appear on your regions when you restart the simulator, but it's likely that the terrains are too tall or too flat.
      change-region Region1

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      change-region Region1
      terrain load path_to_textures/terrain_for_region1.png
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      change-region Region2
      terrain load path_to_textures/terrain_for_region2.png
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      change-region Region3
      terrain load path_to_textures/terrain_for_region3.png
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      change-region Region4
      terrain load path_to_textures/terrain_for_region4.png
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      terrain load path_to_textures/terrain_for_region1.png
      terrain multiply 0.45
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      change-region Region2
      terrain load path_to_textures/terrain_for_region2.png
      terrain multiply 0.45
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      change-region Region3
      terrain load path_to_textures/terrain_for_region3.png
      terrain multiply 0.45
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      change-region Region4
      terrain load path_to_textures/terrain_for_region4.png

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 Step 1. '''Sketch the contours of your map.'''
-This sketch should be a birds-eye view only, 3D-ness should remain in your minds' eye.
+This sketch should be a birds-eye view only, 3D-ness should remain in your minds-eye.
 I cannot stress enough that the secret to good terrain is imagination, and in my experience the fastest path from imagination to workable idea is pen and paper. So, raid the laserprinter and dont be afraid to sketch several versions to see which one does the most justice to your vision.