Terrain Road Editor Updates

[SolarPortal]

After a while of working with vertexes, we now have a generated road with normals and tangents in the correct way.
This allows lighting and Normalmaps to be applied.

The Road is made using a set of nodes which generate a spline curve.
Here is a screenshot of the road generated round a hill.



The yellow lines are the vertex normals and the vertex tangents are the green lines.



The material applied is a POM Map with a simple texture and Displacement map that really make it pop!

[SolarPortal]

Hey Guys, the road editor has evolved some more.

• The nodes now move the road based on the spline path.
• Material support now added, you change the diffuse, normals and specular maps in the road editor.
• 3 Base materials that the road material inherits from, these are OcclusionDispMapping, Base_Advanced, Base_Advanced_Alpha.
• By the click of a button you can deform the terrain to the nodes positions, which allows you to do cool things like this.

[iamcheeseontoast]

SWEEEEEEEEEEEET

Get te update done.I'm almost finished my railway line ARGH ARH

[ant0N]

Looks amazing!

[SolarPortal]

Heres and update screenshot of the road editor,
After a lot of work trying to blend the alpha of the road texture onto the terrain there has been success, we can now use an alpha blend (gradiented alpha not on/off alpha).

[ant0N]

it will be in the next update?

[SolarPortal]

we hope so, the alpha on the road was one of the biggest jobs, now that is solved, the road editor can be finalized for a release version.
There is still a lot to do for the road editor, but its development is going well.

[ucm]

For my games i have been wanting to work on, the road system in . : S K Y L I N E : . is supreme!

Pleaaaase make a step by step how to achomplish the two road types in your screenshots ( dirt/rocky and asphault road )

That would rule for quickly setting up all kinds of courses in a racing game i'd like to give a go for as well

[ant0N]

Are you from Russia?

[ant0N]

sorry, wrong...