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Dark GDK / help with terrains

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locomustard
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I am at a lost as far as making terrains go. could someone help understand how to make a terrain in dgdk i am using 3d world studio.
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DBAlex
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Posted: 9th Aug 2010 23:28
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Well the included Terrain tutorial should help, you should be able to find it in: C:\Program Files\The Game Creators\Dark GDK\Tutorials\Terrain

Surely with 3DWS you can just export your terrain with a heightmap etc and use it in the same way?

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Matty H
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You can also export your 3DWS map as a .dbo or .x and load it in with dbLoadObject().
Export is in the FILE menu in 3DWS.

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ok, I went through the tutorial for terrains. I did exactly what the tutorial said to do and i got an error message 5. What does that mean?
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@locomustard:

Can you give us more information? Can you write out or screenshot the error message.

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Matty H
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I think that means you have not got the heightmap in the correct place and your terrain is not getting built.
Your heightmap image should be in your project folder, where you main.cpp file is.

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I have attatched the screenshot and here is my code:

//terrain
dbLoadImage("grass1.bmp",1);
dbLoadImage("snow1.bmp",2);
dbSetupTerrain();
dbMakeObjectTerrain(1);
dbSetTerrainHeightmap(1,"island2.bmp");
//dbSetTerrainScale(1,1000,100,1000);
dbSetTerrainLight(1,0,-1,2,255,255,255,1);
dbSetTerrainTexture(1,1,2);
dbBuildTerrain(1);

and inside the inner game loop i update the terrain just like in the tutorial.

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locomustard
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my code is the same as in the tutorial.

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Posted: 11th Aug 2010 21:39 Edited at: 11th Aug 2010 21:39
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Do you have those images in the correct place?
You can't just copy and paste when you are loading external media, you need to also copy the media over to the project.

Right click on the main.cpp tab above your code and select "open containing folder", the 3 bmp images need to be in this folder.

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yes all my media is in that folder.
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i figured it out. my heightmap was too large (6400 x 6400).
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