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Terraformer 2 Terrain Editor... Thanks to All Who Helped

Raeldor · 2005-07-04T23:40:01

Hi, It's still a little rough around the edges, but my first C++ directx program (a terrain editor) is available for download here... Terraformer 2.0 Some of the features are... WYSIWYG editing and painting functionality Up to 32 textures per terrain Up to 4 textures per tile (chosen from palette of 32) Alpha blending of textures Tile grid display LOD and render distance settings for performance Thanks to all those who helped answer my (sometimes stupid) questions. I am going to spend the next few days tidying up the code and making it more robust. I would be interested to hear any feedback on how to improve it. I do want to add a floating toolbar rather than have everything menu driven, and also add import/export from some popular file formats. I also need to make the paint work on JUST the tiles you have selected if you have chosen to select individual tiles. The next major stage of development will be to allow placement of .X objects onto the terrain which will get saved out with the terrain in XML format for import into an engine. Thanks again everyone.

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Started by Raeldor June 17, 2005 12:52 PM

19 comments, last by Raeldor 18 years, 9 months ago

d000hg

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June 20, 2005 02:18 AM

Do I need DX9.x for this? I only have WinME with DX8.1. I'd like to try it though, if only for ideas for my own heightmap editor.

And could some screenshots be posted?

Raeldor

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June 20, 2005 09:34 AM

Quote:Original post by d000hg
Do I need DX9.x for this? I only have WinME with DX8.1. I'd like to try it though, if only for ideas for my own heightmap editor.

And could some screenshots be posted?

Oh yes, you need 9.0c. I will try and post some screenshots up.

yuppies

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June 21, 2005 03:49 AM

dude i tried to download link of yours and starts but when i try creating a new terrain it displays the error UNABLE TO CREATE terrain, u have any fixed for this?

or if u dont mind can i also ask for the source for this ;)

Raeldor

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June 21, 2005 09:56 AM

Quote:Original post by yuppies
dude i tried to download link of yours and starts but when i try creating a new terrain it displays the error UNABLE TO CREATE terrain, u have any fixed for this?

or if u dont mind can i also ask for the source for this ;)

If you would be able to debug this with the source, that would be great. I have posted the source up here...

Terraformer Source

Still needs a little tidying up, but I have been sidetracked on some work stuff atm. It's well commented though, so it should be easy to follow.

Many Thanks!

MENTAL

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June 21, 2005 10:46 AM

You need to include d3dx9_25.dll, not d3dx9d_25.dll (notice the extra D after the 9?).

EDIT: d3dx9_25.dll

MENTAL

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June 21, 2005 10:48 AM

Now I'm getting "unable to create terrain" errors.

Raeldor

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June 21, 2005 11:04 AM

Quote:Original post by MENTAL
You need to include d3dx9_25.dll, not d3dx9d_25.dll (notice the extra D after the 9?).

EDIT: d3dx9_25.dll

Thank you. I have updated the download with this file instead of the other one. Which directory was this file in for you? I see a developer runtime directory, but that only has the debug version. Is there a runtime distribution directory somewhere I am missing?

Thanks

Anonymous

June 21, 2005 12:54 PM

The source is failing because you have "f:\\detail.bmp" hardcoded in the Terrain::Init(...) function. If you change this to a relative path it will work correctly.

Raeldor

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June 21, 2005 01:48 PM

Quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster

The source is failing because you have "f:\\detail.bmp" hardcoded in the Terrain::Init(...) function. If you change this to a relative path it will work correctly.

Ah, thanks... my bad. I started doing some detail map testing and must have done another build afterwards by mistake.

Thanks for spotting this. I will get this update in the zip file.

Raeldor

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June 21, 2005 01:55 PM

Quote:Original post by Raeldor
Quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster

The source is failing because you have "f:\\detail.bmp" hardcoded in the Terrain::Init(...) function. If you change this to a relative path it will work correctly.

Ah, thanks... my bad. I started doing some detail map testing and must have done another build afterwards by mistake.

Thanks for spotting this. I will get this update in the zip file.

Ok, we should be good to go. I have updated the release file at the top of this thread with the fixed version and the correct d3dx9 dll.

I have started putting in some perlin noise to make the texturing pattern repetition less obvious. Seems to work quite well, so I will try and enhance this and maybe put in some procedural landscape and texture generation in the next version too.

Hope you all have better luck with this version. Thanks for all the feedback.

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