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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Terrain Trouble

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WickedX
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Posted: 12th Jul 2013 21:13
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I am attempting my first large project using DarkGDK. I want to use Advanced Terrain with levels built with FPS Creator. My heightmap is a 256x256 pixel, 24-bit grayscale image. The scaling for the x and z plain is 128 this should give a terrain object size of 32768. However, the Object Size functions are showing the size at 32256. What I need to do is move the terrain by minus the z size to coincide with the FPS Creator map. Position Object TERID, 0, 0, -32256 will set the terrain where it should be but Get Terrain Ground Height(TERID, 0, 0) seems to be off on the z-axis by the difference in the expected size and the actual size of the terrain.

I’m posting here because this board is more active and I am prototyping-using DBPro.

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 12th Jul 2013 22:43
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Quote: "seems to be off on the z-axis by the difference in the expected size and the actual size of the terrain."


Do you mean size or position? The rest of your post suggests you meant the latter.

I've never tried moving an Advanced Terrain object so I can see this might be an issue. If the behaviour is consistent then at least you have a solution available.

On your first issue, that's one of the reasons I stopped using Advanced Terrain and started building my own terrains from scratch with a grid of high poly plains as limbs (using IanM's Matrix1 version of make object plain - there was talk of him converting his utilities to DGDK but I don't recall the outcome ).
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Posted: 12th Jul 2013 23:36 Edited at: 12th Jul 2013 23:39
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Thanks, GG

Quote: "Do you mean size or position? The rest of your post suggests you meant the latter."


That is correct.

In the last year, I have been heavily studying 3D Graphics Math, DirectX Programming and studying the DBPro and DarkGDK, Dll and Library source code. So coming up with an alternative should be no problem. I was just hoping someone may have had this experience and had a solution.

Thanks.
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Mobiius
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Minus the terrain offset from the position when using the get ground height command. AT retains the original positions when using the height commands. (I believe)

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I do appreciate that youve added relevant and intelligent commentary here though. Thank you!
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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 13th Jul 2013 14:13
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I assumed he realised that but perhaps I was wrong.
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I tried to flag the above spammer comment, but the reason "he is a spammer" isn't long enough.

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WickedX
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Posted: 16th Jul 2013 19:25
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Sorry guys, been afk for a few days.

Quote: "Minus the terrain offset from the position when using the get ground height command. AT retains the original positions when using the height commands. (I believe)"


After further testing, this works perfectly. The height function is offset as well. I was confused by an irrelevant issue with AT.

Thanks again.
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Posted: 17th Jul 2013 23:30
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Glad to help.

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