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Mugen Wizardry
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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 00:04
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which of these is the detail map for a terrain?

salinity map, attributes map, terrain normals, shadow map, light map, specular light map?

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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 00:10
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Terrain normals?

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Mugen Wizardry
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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 00:18
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thanks!

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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 00:20
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I'm not sure, tho, I'm just guessing. Thought it was a quiz or something.

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Mugen Wizardry
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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 00:24
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anyone?

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It would be diffuse, normally. Normal maps are for bending lights to get fake detail. At a guess the odd one out is atributes, so that could have the flats/textures in it.

edit be patient anyway it can takes hours/days to get respones.


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Salinity is saltiness?

Shadow and light maps are essentially the same thing.

I dunno, why do you ask?

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Mugen Wizardry
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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 01:53
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cuz im makin a terrain with l3dt.

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If you're talking about maps to show where to apply detail textures, you want the alpha maps:

Operations -> Alpha maps - > Generate maps...

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what in gods name would you use salinity maps for? I mean... if you were doing geography or something then it would be as useful as a percent ground composition map...

also jane, your blinking avatar scares me o.o


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Quote: "what in gods name would you use salinity maps for?"


Plants don't generally like salt, although different species have different salt tolerances. This will effect vegetation distribution in your terrain (if you care to go to that level of detail).

Salt also depresses the freezing point of water which may effect snow and ice in a winter or arctic scene (once again, if you care to go to that level of detail).

So there are uses for a salinity map.

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@Mugen Wizardry - Couldn't this have been combined in your other heightmap thread? Also, please make your thread subjects more descriptive, because it helps people find the threads easier when in the future they are looking for the same advice as yourself. Thanks


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