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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / How to swap a Terrain with a new one?

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Klaus R
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Posted: 11th Aug 2010 10:46
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How to swap a Terrain with a new one? I changed the grey heightmap within the program but I have difficulties to load the new Terrain. Please HELP! Is it possible at all?
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DVader
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Posted: 11th Aug 2010 19:55
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You can make more than one terrain. Just hide the old one and show the new.

http://s6.bitefight.org/c.php?uid=103081
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Klaus R
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Posted: 12th Aug 2010 02:24
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I want to write a simple map editor just by changing the higthmap and displaying it to see the result. I have the Ted editor but I feel it doesn't really do the Terrain exactly I want and I want to place my building with exact precision which is a pain with Ted. At the end the Terrain looks a bit different in Darkbasic and Objects seems to be out of place. All what I would like to find out is how to erase or change a current Terrain and built the new one with a new heigthmap.
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DVader
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Posted: 12th Aug 2010 15:28
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Not used TED so couldn't say about placing objects around using it. Not sure what you mean by erase or change the current terrain? Terrains are based on a 256 shades of grey. They base the height on the shade, Black being low, white being high (I think off the top of my head lol).
If you make a image in Gimp or similar and make it greyscale you can use that in DB to generate a terrain. Never had much luck playing in paint packages for this sort of thing though. Always relied on finding an editor of some kind.
You will struggle to beat Teds features I would imagine though. You can always look about for another package maybe.
You can always alter the height yourself and play around till it looks right. There are a few peeps who have done this sort of thing on here. Van B being one. Perhaps they may have some ideas.

http://s6.bitefight.org/c.php?uid=103081
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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 12th Aug 2010 15:47
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The attached demo shows how you can create an advanced terrain object , then destroy it and create a new one. The process is instantaneous on my system.

When you see the first terrain just press n to see the new rather weird terrain.
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Klaus R
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Thanks a lot Gandalf. Your example program is exactly what I needed. I actually didn't know about the "Destroy Terrain" command before and I used the delete Terrain comand which wasn't working good.I don't have the full documentation of all the Terrain commands. Where and how can I get it?

The Ted editor is not bad but it is designed as a more global map editor for all sort of different programming software. I'm using it most of the times and sometimes in combination with a painting program. Doing a map editor in Darkbasic means that you get your World exactly how you see it and have all your objects placed more precisely.
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Posted: 12th Aug 2010 20:51 Edited at: 12th Aug 2010 20:53
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Quote: "I don't have the full documentation of all the Terrain commands. Where and how can I get it?"


I think the best resource was an unofficial one posted by Sixty Squares. I'll try to find it and edit this post with the link.

Here it is:

Unofficial Advanced Terrain Help Files
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Klaus R
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Posted: 13th Aug 2010 13:21
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Thanks Gandalf, this help file helps me a lot. I have the book "Hands on Darkbasic Pro Volume 2" but only the "destroy terrain" command is not mentioned anywere.. I sometimes feel that the Darkbasic software is a bit of a mess after so many upgrades and add ons with incomplete or poor documentations. I hope that the Darkbasic Studio edition is a clean new beginning with full documentations of all commands but maybe not. I was thinking about buying it but more because of all the free software inclusions.
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Quote: "but maybe not"


Probably not.

Quote: "I was thinking about buying it but more because of all the free software inclusions."


Yes, that's why I bought it.
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Posted: 13th Aug 2010 14:52
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That's why I bought it too. Documentation's unchanged however.

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