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Teragen question
2003-08-31, 9:02 AM #1
Where can I get Terragen, And how would I use it to make a landscape fro jk?

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2003-08-31, 9:07 AM #2
You can get it from www.planetside.co.uk, but you wont want to make a landscape for JK with it. You'd need to export a raw terrain heightmap, which you could write a plugin for JED to import.

In short, you can't use Terragen in JK, unless you're using it to make a skybox or something. There is a tool for importing into JO though. The problem with JK is the engine uses sectors to walk in, rather than brushes to walk on.

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2003-09-01, 12:23 PM #3
However, you could possibly convert the brush data to sector data. But since the JK Engine only likes Convex sectors, you'd have some trouble getting the terrain data to work.

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2003-09-01, 1:17 PM #4
<Shakes head in disgust>

No, no, no. You can use terragen for landscapes in JK.

1) Make the terrain.
2) Export as .lwo
3) Open in Rhino3d (or some other program), reduce the poly count (5,000 is pretty good. It'll mostly depend on your system and what it can handle).
4) Export as .obj
5) Use the 3do Coverter available on this site to convert from .obj to .3do.
6) Open in JED.

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2003-09-01, 2:15 PM #5
Hmmm, never thought of that. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2003-09-02, 6:56 AM #6
To see a live example get to the end of Sigma2 (mots).

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