Adding new terrain textures

Stygs

i am trying to get more texturen into WB via a small mod (mainly snow textures from BFME2) and i wondering:
should i release it here (since i has to do with mapping) or is it not worth the time, because you cant play online with it?

Any opinions?

Small test: (TS fans should remember the ground texture)

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Clarkson · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject:

That texture looks like shit. Too repetitive...Though Renegade, BFME/BFME2 should have some good textures to apply to the game. Smile

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Stygs · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:

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Soviet_Deso · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 22 Apr 2007

the snow map looks great Very Happy

only need to add some snow on the structures and thats it #Tongue

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

I don't think the cracky texture looks too bad, just add some more curves to the chasms.

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Mighty BOB! · AA Infantry **Joined**: 05 Oct 2005 **Location**: USA

Have you normal-mapped the new textures?

I myself am also plannning on adding new textures to include with my mod that I shall be releasing.

Could you please explain how you added those new textures? I've tested all of my textures in the Zero Hour WB (without the normal maps) but I have no idea how to do it with TW because of the funky compression and the lack of mod SDK.

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Stygs · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject:

yeah, all of the have their proper normal maps Smile

Snow textures are taken from BFME2, so I dindt need to make nromal maps for them ^^

Adding new textures is very easy:

First: Extract terrain.ini from your misc.big (its not compressed like xml files, so its pretty easy Wink

Then add your new textures into it like this:

Terrain TSCrackedGround
Texture = TSCrackedGround.tga
Class = Type Misc
End

Terrain is the name displayed in Worldbuild
Texture ist the name of the tga file (normal maps allways use "filename+_nrm", so in this case it would be TSCrackedGround_nrm.tga)
Class is used for the WB texture browser

Them make a new BIG file with finalBIG, somethin like NewTerrain.big.
Now add your terrain.ini into it (path must be "data/ini/terrain.ini) and your textures (both go into "art/terrain/" =>"art/terrain/TSCrackedGround.tga" and "art/terrain/TSCrackedGround_nrm.tga")

Put your NewTerrain.big into "\Core\1.0" and add it into config.txt (should be the first entry).

Start your WB and you should have some new textures Wink

EDIT: your right, it should be terrain.ini instead textures.ini Smile

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Mighty BOB! · AA Infantry **Joined**: 05 Oct 2005 **Location**: USA

Oh, so it is almost the same as Zero Hour after all. Smile

(and you accidentally typed textures.ini instead of terrain.ini Wink

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Here is a real quick & dirty texture replacement on Tiberium Gardens III. (just for illustration purposes, I'm not keeping the changes.) A few different textures are replaced (and a few new objects in the scene.)

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Description:

Quick & dirty texture replacement.

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SoD.X · Medic **Joined**: 17 Dec 2005

Looks HAWT even as it is now !
only 7 fps in world builder ?!

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Mighty BOB! · AA Infantry **Joined**: 05 Oct 2005 **Location**: USA

You know it is a resource hog.

No, it is because WB doesn't do 100% realtime rendering like the game. So FPS reports are different.

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SoD.X · Medic **Joined**: 17 Dec 2005

OMG is this snow ?
wait do they got normal maps on them ?
if with normal maps , are they allowed for download Smile

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zdflamer2 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject:

thats pretty sweet, shame we have to wait to add snowed up structures. if people are gonna add snow to structures i think they shud atleast cover all the flat parts with white snow, it just looks better

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Mighty BOB! · AA Infantry **Joined**: 05 Oct 2005 **Location**: USA

Yes everything has normal maps. But I'm not planning on making a standalone texture pack. It'll be part of a mod.

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SoD.X · Medic **Joined**: 17 Dec 2005

Damn , then it means i have to find a way to add textures my self Confused

because my next map was based on snow layout.
Right after i finish my 600X600 map with up to 8 players i will start remaking my snowy map which i made a while ago for TS .

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Mighty BOB! · AA Infantry **Joined**: 05 Oct 2005 **Location**: USA

http://www.derelictstudios.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=15319

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SoD.X · Medic **Joined**: 17 Dec 2005

Is there a way to add reflection map on terrain textures ?
or at least a way to add cube maps on terrain textures ?
Would be neat to have an ice terrain texture which would reflect the environment .

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Mighty BOB! · AA Infantry **Joined**: 05 Oct 2005 **Location**: USA

I don't know. I hope there is for the same reason you do. I figure we'll find out once we have good access to the internal files with the SDK.

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