Colince411 38 Posted December 19, 2015 Every time I try to load my map into buldozer, it loads until it gets to "Extruding hills and valleys". When it gets here, it stops loading and if i try to do anything it says that buldozer has stopped responding. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NeoArmageddon 957 Posted December 19, 2015 That sounds like your terrain and/or buldozer has some configuration problems. Maybe your grid settings are broken or your texture pathes are invalid. What tutorial/guide are you using for creating your terrain? Have you followerd every step 1:1? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimbop 25 Posted December 19, 2015 did you walk away and have a cup of tea when 'extruding' came on? it can take a fair amount of time until its done. and yes it will say 'not responding' if you click it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colince411 38 Posted December 19, 2015 I have not played the waiting game yet, I will try that now. Thankyou Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoF 240 Posted December 19, 2015 I have not played the waiting game yet, I will try that now. Thankyou Mine takes ages to load, just alt tab and go read something on the net. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colince411 38 Posted December 19, 2015 After 3+ hours of waiting, there was still no change; it still wont load. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoF 240 Posted December 19, 2015 After 3+ hours of waiting, there was still no change; it still wont load. that is too long lol. What's you terrain and cell size etc? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colince411 38 Posted December 19, 2015 Terrain is 81km x 81km and cell is 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoF 240 Posted December 19, 2015 Terrain is 81km x 81km and cell is 10 That's fricking huge no wonder it's not loading lol. What your grid size? I think Arma 3 only supports max 4096, plus a cell size of 10 would make it 40.9km x 40.9km. I think you map is to big, that's why its not loading... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NeoArmageddon 957 Posted December 19, 2015 Your terrain is too large. 4096 and 8192 are unstable and don't work for terrains most of the time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colince411 38 Posted December 19, 2015 Bummer, it rendered smoothly and looked amazing. Oh well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoF 240 Posted December 19, 2015 Your terrain is too large. 4096 and 8192 are unstable and don't work for terrains most of the time. 4096 is fine at cell size 10, with 2mil objects :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HorribleGoat 1464 Posted December 19, 2015 4096 is fine at cell size 10, with 2mil objects :) We got 4096 with 5m cell size and loading up ~3 million objects in buldozer takes about 45 minutes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoF 240 Posted December 19, 2015 We got 4096 with 5m cell size and loading up ~3 million objects in buldozer takes about 45 minutes. Cool! nice to know I can go higher. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colince411 38 Posted December 19, 2015 Awesome! I just am alittle confused about what 5m or 10m cell means? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HorribleGoat 1464 Posted December 19, 2015 Awesome! I just am alittle confused about what 5m or 10m cell means? It means that distance between 2 points in the terrain mesh translate into 5 or 10 meters on the terrain in Arma. So for example 4096x4096 terrain grid has 4096x4096 points that make the mesh and with cell size of 5 it makes 20480x20480 meters of Arma map. With 10 meters cell size it would be 40960x40960 meters map and so on. Also cell size affects how small terrain details you can have. With 10m cell you cant really have small details like roadside ditches and so on, but thats the trade between map size and terrain detail. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colince411 38 Posted December 19, 2015 I did it! 81.9km x 81.9km!!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LoRo 174 Posted July 21, 2017 On 19/12/2015 at 2:54 PM, colince411 said: I did it! 81.9km x 81.9km!!! Hey, the surface mask layers generation took more than 24hs to finish ... and 9 hours ago that the bulldozer is "Extrusionando hills and valleys" ... recommend me to keep waiting? 8192 / cell size 10 1024 16 80x80 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
W4lly63 82 Posted July 22, 2017 16 hours ago, loro said: Hey, the surface mask layers generation took more than 24hs to finish ... and 9 hours ago that the bulldozer is "Extrusionando hills and valleys" ... recommend me to keep waiting? 8192 / cell size 10 1024 16 80x80 lol i dont know but i think is exponential the time needed for start .. but 9 hours lol ..... my BD with project 8192x4 32x32km start after 10 min . :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NeoArmageddon 957 Posted July 22, 2017 Make your Sat and Mask in a different file format. I think BMP takes incredibly long while png is pretty fast (or the other way round). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cosmo_D41 117 Posted July 22, 2017 The other way round ;) BMP is the fastest way Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NeoArmageddon 957 Posted July 22, 2017 1 minute ago, Cosmo_D41 said: The other way round ;) BMP is the fastest way Do you say this, because of the format or did you tested it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoF 240 Posted July 22, 2017 20 minutes ago, NeoArmageddon said: Do you say this, because of the format or did you tested it? It's well known .bmp is fastest, .png takes ages 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cosmo_D41 117 Posted July 22, 2017 1 hour ago, NeoArmageddon said: Do you say this, because of the format or did you tested it? Both :) And what RoF said: That topics been around for a while, thats why i switched myself from png to bmp and tried it out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LoRo 174 Posted July 24, 2017 Using .BMP files.... My problem is in the generation of mask layersAfter more than 24 hours it ended, but I found that it generated thousands and thousands of .rvmat files https://feedback.bistudio.com/T126077 Then it took 9 more hours to open bulldozer for the first time, but could not move through the ground, totally immobile and this error: No entry "bin\config.bin/CfgCoreData.textureLine3DDoted"." Try testing ingame, 3 hs binarized and 6.5 gb the pbo. But arma3 gives addon loading error Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
