Mapping Information

Posted by: IVIaedhros at 13:24 PM 

Due to the impending ATR release date, new information regarding mapping has been released from ClanCore. First off, Arclight (level design) has released a set of mapping tools that he's designed for public use. They are, in his own words

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makeAlphaMap.exe - I wrote this because my hand painted terrain textures end up looking like crap and I didn't like World Machines' interface. This takes a heightmap and, based off of height ranges you specify, generates an alpha map for use within TVED.

makeHeightMap.exe - I wrote this just for fun but started using it because I couldn't quite get the quality I wanted from other programs and haven't found any that could automatically balance (in Tribes terms) a heightmap. This randomly creates a heightmap based on settings you specify. It has options to automatically 'balance' (or mirror) a sector of the heightmap.

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