World tools 1.0 released

[SoLoSniper]

It's awesome how far you arrived!!!

[shezan74]

World Tools 1.2 has been released. Foxhound has promptly updated the page on ArmaHolic (grazie FoxHound )

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=10509

This version is much bigger, due the availability of a lot of walls, fences and other objects pre-loaded on it (with images).

What's new:

Version 1.2

· Forest placement percentages rescaled to include decimal values, for a more accurate placement of sparse objects. Now is possible to have a 0.1% probability of placement for an object.
· Some optimizations in forest calculations.
· Added a new summary output page with support for separate (smaller) object files.
· Number of forest generated objects are now shown on per-type basis on result page, to allow user to fine tuning projects.
· Small optimizations on error management.
· Random placed forests are not saved on the project file anymore (much smaller project file size). (my project changed from 70 to 18 mb)
· Greatly increased number of template objects available.
· Help now covers the Visitor3 import function.

Enjoy

[mikebart]

thanks shezan, some nice new features in this version, will test it out soon.

[shezan74]

Some screenshots from Spritz Island. Everything you see has been automatically generated by world tools forest function.







In the next days i will post some screenshots of the fence and scripting section.

[mikebart]

looks nice shezan,
do you think you could render the results of tree/object placement as a black and white image to be blured and multiplied over the islands _sat image in Photoshop?, for some ambient shadow under the trees

I used the tree generator for the tussock and the rocks, but i placed the trees by hand, its doing a great job.

[shezan74]

If you mean a black square with a dot for every tree placed yes, it's already on the program but deactivated.
My only problem is to have big images (more than 5120px) due library limitations, but i can try with some third party libs if you don't need a preview.
Is that you need?

[mikebart]

yeah it would defintly help to have it the same size in pixels as the _sat/_mask image, I've already done this for my island from screen capturing visitor and pasting it in photoshop, I'd hate to have to do that for a larger terrain though

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it would be useful if you could adjust how many pixels would go into one object aswell

[shezan74]

it would be useful if you could adjust how many pixels would go into one object aswell

This will not be a problem. if size is > 2x2 you can also specify the shape: circle or square with required radius. Maybe circle?
But i still don't understand what is your need... shadows are already generated by objects as far as i know...

[mikebart]

Sounds good.

Shadows disapear over a distance, and quite often you end up with too much light underneath the forests, consider it like baking an ambient occlusion map of all the terrain objects.

I think the same was done on podagorsk, but ill try and post up some screens of what i mean tonight
.

[mikebart]

this is the result from screen grabbing visitor and selecting the colour ranges of vegetation and applying a blur filter in photoshop,

probably a bit intense in these shots but the effect is noticeable i think.



Its really just another useful piece of information to add to the _sat image and might have other uses but in this case Ive multiplied it over the forest parts of the _sat.