Newbie :)

[Morts]

Hi guys

I've been following Allie's tutorial for map making, i'm on the 4th pdf file where visitor is first used, I've made the pbl file including

	class cfg
{
	PNGfilename="TERRAIN.png";
	squareSize=10.000000;
	originX=0;
	originY=0;
	minHeight=-150;
	maxHeight=900;
};

And opened it up in visitor, however nothing shows up, it's just as if a new project was started.

It says in the tutorial "If you not see this check the little buttons on the top bar , you probably neet to push some elevation button, just fool around with them." I must admit, this isn't helpful, i've pushed all of them, yet still nothing will appear of my map.

If anyone could explain maybe what i've done wrong, how I can make it work, etc. If there is not enough information, let me know and i'll try my best to improve what information there is.

Any help will be appreciated.

Cheers
Morts

[shezan74]

is your path: p:\<yournametag>\<islandname>\source\terrain\<file .pbl> and the png file resides in the same folder?

[Morts]

P\CA\Island\Source\Terrain\[Files]

And yes they are both in the same folder

[prowler.wolf]

EDIT: Do NOT put your project in the CA folder. Use a "namespace" EI: P:\Morts\Morts_Island\Source\Terrain\...

Post some more info like your project preferences in visitor and we might be able to get a better idea of what your problem is.

Use this (http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/A...rrain_Tutorial) as your base guide and use the other tutorials to fill in the gaps. Some stuff might be slightly out of date and it makes everything confusing to new people as well as frustrating when they go through all the effort only to find out that a step is not even needed. Searching these forums is your friend.

[Morts]

I think thats what you mean by the preferences.

Changed the folder arrangment now.

[prowler.wolf]

Sorry, I meant Project Parameters which is under Tools.

[Morts]

Not a problem mate

[prowler.wolf]

Yikes! Ok, in that window click on Calculator... and the very first box(Image size - pixels) type in 10240. The only thing else you have to do is hit apply proposed on the bottom and it should give you a much smaller satellite grid number(48). The one you have is WAY to high.

After that just make sure you follow the tutorial that I posted.

[Morts]

Okay, so i'm now follow the one you posted, got the map in visitor but when i import the satalite + mask, i select the files it tells me to, but then this comes up:



Cheers
Morts

[prowler.wolf]

Did your terrain work?

Your .rvmats in your data folder, layers.cfg in your source folder, and the links to your project files in your SampleMap\config.cpp all need to be updated to your new directories... as an example...

P:\TUT\SampleMap\...

\TUT is the namespace, just like \CA has it's own namespace that only BIS uses for its addons. You should choose your own namespace when creating your own island, for example mine is P:\PLR\PLR_Mana\...

It's all here http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/A...rrain_Tutorial