New New Terrain System

[SolarPortal]

No worries Gen1 still has many hidden features

As promised to all users, here is the up to date information on where we are with the terrain. So pop over to the blog and have a good read:

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The lod stages are now being updated with the newer geometry, and the brush is removed when not in terrain editing mode for height or painting.

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Next update: Gen1 terrains are now loading into Gen2 with only a couple texture issues to solve but it looks like this:

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This is the terrain from the Gen1 tech demo: Island road from the environment folder.
The textures applied to this terrain are not the ones from the demo as i havent done that section yet, but what we do have is the ability to grab the height data, blending data, colourmap data, global normal data and the lightmap data. The last 2 arent working properly yet.

Edit: Global normals are now working Simple pixel format error.

Being able to load Gen1 scenes is of huge importance to us so any level made on Gen1 will port over to Gen2 to make it as quick as possible to get going again

[Olander]

This is looking really good. Really well done.

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Thank you

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Ok, so it took a bit extra effort but the gen2 load & save is now working.

The system while trying to make a few things at different rez's has shown a couple of bugs which i am diving in to fix as we speak So not long now til a release of the terrain system to Gen2 users

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So, i have spent the past 2 days revamping the editing of the terrain as it was too slow as mentioned before due to the use of an array which slowed things down drastically, converted to math based on area rects and have sped up the editing by 3 fold

Also reduced the terrain loading speed from 5 seconds to 2-3 seconds on a 1024x1024 terrain resolution
Chipping away at the remaining jobs now