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Master Man Of Justice
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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 19:55
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Basically what the title says.
I have a 2048 texture and normal map to apply to the terrain model i have made. Only problem, is when i render even in max with settings high, the texture is very low res and blurry. What should i do about the texture? render a higher resolution one? or make a tile texture. Im sort of lost here.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 20:23
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Hi. Are you using 3DMax to make your terrain?. In that case you could fit your object 3x3 or more. I personally prefer Advance Terrain, and use a goog detail map.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 21:00
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Quote: "What should i do about the texture? render a higher resolution one? or make a tile texture. Im sort of lost here."


I think a 2048 texture is as high as you should go, but you should combine that with a detail texture which is tiled over your main texture. That should be easy to do since I presume that you are using a normal mapping shader.

You could also break your terrain into multiple objects and texture each of them separately. If you break it into a 4x4 grid and apply a 1024 texture to each "Limb", then that should be twice as much detail as you currently have.
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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 21:39
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Quote: "with a detail texture which is tiled over your main texture."

Any reference on how to do that? Sounds awesome, its just i dont have experience with multilayered textures and terrain.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 22:04 Edited at: 19th Feb 2011 22:07
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Quote: "Any reference on how to do that?"
I don't have a link to any demos, but assuming that your shader is written in HLSL I could add that in for you. Could you post a simple terrain demo? It wouldn't need to be anything fancy, just a normal mapped terrain.

[EDIT] I am working with dial-up internet, so if you do post a demo try to keep it small.
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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 23:50
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no, i cant find any shaders to run on my laptop. And thats what im dev'ing this for. I am running a 915GM which has no vertex shader support and pixel shader 2.0.

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Posted: 20th Feb 2011 00:01
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Then how are you applying the normal map to your terrain? Using the DBPro blend mapping commands?
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Posted: 20th Feb 2011 00:30
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Quote: "Then how are you applying the normal map to your terrain"

Im sorry, i didnt elaborate, i rendered it in max with a normal map.
I want to get the actual texture working right in db before i worry about the normal map.

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Posted: 20th Feb 2011 03:56 Edited at: 20th Feb 2011 03:58
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Quote: "i cant find any shaders to run on my laptop. And thats what im dev'ing this for. I am running a 915GM which has no vertex shader support and pixel shader 2.0"

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-014257.htm
Vertex Shader Support 2.0*
Pixel Shader Support 2.0
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Quote: "Intel provides an optimized graphics pipeline for shader processing that is included in Microsoft DirectX. This can be used by games to provide software (SW) shader processing"


It seems like you should be able to make shaders work.
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