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Misacorp
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19 years ago

Okay, I started making another, bigger and more playable map, but I'd like to know if it's possible to put waterfalls into the map. Just small ones that come from a lake and lead to a river.

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krit
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Commander in Chief

19 years ago

There's two possible ways to fake a waterfall:
> Use the destroyed dam model.
> Use a blow ground texture and couple it with a bunch of rock props.

Misacorp
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Captain Topic Starter

19 years ago

Hmm okay, the destroyed dam is a bit too massive, unless there's a mini version. Secondly, what the funk is a blow ground texture? :D:D
Speaking of textures, is there a guide somewhere with which I could import my own textures into the game?

krit
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Commander in Chief

19 years ago

Whoops, I mean "BLUE" ground texture 😛 Sorry for the confusing ^^; Anyway, the blue ground texture does work and can be abit convincing when coupled with a bunch of river sounds playing next to it.

CommieDog
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19 years ago

Speaking of textures, is there a guide somewhere with which I could import my own textures into the game?

Misacorp wrote:

As a matter of fact, I posted a possible method of doing that a few days ago. Let me borrow Krit's method for a second and quote myself: 😛

Originally posted by CommieDog
I've never tried this myself, but I think you'll need to place your [TGA format] texture file in the [Generals]\Art\Terrain\ folder (create it if it doesn't exist already). Then you'll probably need to extract Terrain.ini and create a new Terrain listing with your texture filename specified.

Edited by user 19 years ago | Reason: Not specified

CommieDog: Because someone has to do your dirty work for you

krit
100% (Exalted)
Commander in Chief

19 years ago

Speaking of textures, is there a guide somewhere with which I could import my own textures into the game?

CommieDog wrote:

As a matter of fact, I posted a possible method of doing that a few days ago. Let me borrow Krit's method for a second and quote myself: 😛

Misacorp wrote:

That means modding the game and therefore making that map unplayable on other computer though.

Misacorp
98.75% (Exalted)
Captain Topic Starter

19 years ago

Yeah, I'd like to still be able to send it to my friends and play without having them download any texture files :)

What category can I find a blue texture from (if you remember, I can check it myself later too though)?

krit
100% (Exalted)
Commander in Chief

19 years ago

BEACH_TROPICAL
> SandMediumType9Blue
> SandMediumType9Blue2
> SandMediumType9Blue3
> SandMediumType9Blue4

ROCK_ACCENT
> RocksType3Blue

Misacorp
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Captain Topic Starter

19 years ago

Okay thanks, I found a good one. Now the thing is that I can't get my river to flow the right way. Is there anything I can do to change the direction it flows?

krit
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Commander in Chief

19 years ago

#10

Apart from switching the entire set of vertices around, I have no idea.

Misacorp
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Captain Topic Starter

19 years ago

#11

Dang! Well, here's a picture of what it looks like now:

PS: More room than on my previous map, eh? 😃

krit
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Commander in Chief

19 years ago

#12

Needs more rocks to hide it.

Misacorp
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Captain Topic Starter

19 years ago

#13

Like a tonne of rocks?

krit
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Commander in Chief

19 years ago

#14

Yeah, plain texture just looks too plain obvious, I find rocks can hide it a little, such as the image below...

Misacorp
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Captain Topic Starter

19 years ago

#15

Hmm I see, that looks cool. I'll also add some more of them water sounds too 🙂 That pic has so many, I only have 2.

krit
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Commander in Chief

19 years ago

#16

I kinda over did it there. This has been the second fake waterfall I made (And didn't save since I just made this set to illustrate to you on how to fake one), I miss my first one, it was in a map I lost during a reformat.

Misacorp
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Captain Topic Starter

19 years ago

#17

I'm not sure if I can call this a "teaser screenshot" since it's my 2nd map and I doubt anyone's been waiting for it anxiously. Here's what it looks like.