Understanding MarbleMadness?

G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

Alright so I have another question, I am trying to understand the MarbleMadness features in the theater .ini's...

It appears that I can have more than one tileset with ramps, but are we able to have FA auto-raise/lower ground into ramps on new tilesets or just the one specified for RampBase/MMRampBase? Ideally I would like to be able to use the FA spread/raise/lower tools on grass tiles with my new grassy ramps.

Hoping I can continue to level off tiles within my new cliff structures without breaking the feature for the concrete tile cliffs...

Any insights would be appreciated.

Mig Eater · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:32 am Post subject:

What part of MarbleMadness dont you get? Every new tile set you make should have a duplicate MM version, you then just link the two.

Any new (ramp, lat, shore, cliff, etc) tile sets have to be placed manually, only the original ones can be placed automatically,

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RP · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:52 am Post subject:

I don't think that is possible.
The beauty of FA2 shines again, it's all hardcoded to the theater control file.
For the NewUrban theater they added silly hacks in FAData.ini.

I bet you'd like to see something like this now, where you can define your own LAT sets:

Code:

[NUPavement]
Name=Urban Pavement
LATSetIndex=114
ClearToLATIndex=-1
MorphableIndex=117
Theaters=NEWURBAN

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/ppm/'s stupidity

G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

I don't know, it seems like there is a MM tileset for grass, concrete, broken concrete and soil tiles (on urban), but obviously no soil or grass ramps. Those secondary sets (say on temperate) do kind of understand each other's boundaries, so at the least I could make more organic tile looking transitions right?

Is there a chart on the which tile number corresponds to which transition edge/direction?

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RP · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:28 am Post subject:

Generically, they use the default marble tile, the flat ones.
Only grass ramps use the ramp marble tile, not too sure about the others though.

There's this: http://modenc.renegadeprojects.com/Auto-LAT-system

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G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

That's the one...

I guess for grass ramps I'll just have to do the initial urban map in concrete, then draw the correct grass ramps over the concrete eh?

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