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3do Heightmap generator
2004-01-05, 12:46 PM #1
I have only been working on this for a few hours (started it yesturday) so its not complete, and features plenty of bugs. But I thought I might aswell show it off [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

Basicly what it does is it loads a bitmap and converts it into a terrain depending on the intensity of the pixels, ie white is the highest point, black is the lowest.

Using forceremap I textured my terrain. Here are some results:

Interface:
[http://67.87.115.203:81/jkteambattle/Hellcat/images/interface.jpg]

Wireframe:
[http://67.87.115.203:81/jkteambattle/Hellcat/images/wireframe.gif]

Textured:
[http://67.87.115.203:81/jkteambattle/Hellcat/images/textured.jpg]

I wont release it till I have different size heightmaps working completly, at the moment only 32x32 work properly.

Questions / comments?

Edit: Here is the latest download:
Download ~25k

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[This message has been edited by Hellcat (edited January 12, 2004).]
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2004-01-05, 12:49 PM #2
holy **** nice work.

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Rangi
2004-01-05, 12:51 PM #3
Yeah, get it to work with 256x256 at least, but keep it low poly... It'd take some math, but get it to find the best approximation of such a heightmap... Would make it more useful. Hard to accurately depict terrain in a 32x32... I suppose could resize the heightmap and cut it into 32x32 pieces.

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2004-01-05, 12:52 PM #4
I see a nice future.

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2004-01-05, 2:06 PM #5
Ohh fancy ^_^

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2004-01-05, 2:10 PM #6
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by a_person:
holy **** nice work.</font>


One more word I add to that:
SWEET!

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2004-01-05, 4:11 PM #7
WHOA [http://forums.massassi.net/html/eek.gif]
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2004-01-05, 4:21 PM #8
sweet, introduce dynamic lighting and you have yourself a Large Chocolate Cookie the size of Wales.

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2004-01-05, 4:42 PM #9
Arg!!!

I cant believe this. There is one major bug in this... depending on where about my picture box is placed on the form depends on whether or not GetPixel works properly.

Once I defeat this bug hopefully I will post a beta.

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Team Battle.
Team Battle.
2004-01-05, 5:10 PM #10
Okay, I moved the picture box and made the interface more compact. So I thought I might aswell upload a copy and see what people think.

Edit: Download at top of thread.

btw if anyone wants to make me an icon for it I would greatly appreciate it!

Post any questions/bugs here thanks.

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[This message has been edited by Hellcat (edited January 05, 2004).]

[This message has been edited by Hellcat (edited January 12, 2004).]
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2004-01-05, 6:36 PM #11
[http://forums.massassi.net/html/eek.gif]

/me bows down before Hellcat...


Incredible. If once we had such a tool 4 years ago. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif] But, no problem, JK is making a come-back anyway. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]


BTW, you can find a quick-n-dirty icon here, but without knowing what kind of icon your looking for, I wont be able to do much better. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-01-05, 7:04 PM #12
Looks pretty slick. What's it made in?

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2004-01-05, 7:10 PM #13
OMG i just tryed it out. I almost had a heart attack. You can make the terrain for an entire level in 2 seconds if you wanted to. hell cat you are god.

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2004-01-05, 7:14 PM #14
This...isn't a new concept you realize, right?

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2004-01-05, 8:09 PM #15
Thanks guys!

Old concept [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

Its written in vb... unfortunatly I am not allowed to distribute things I write in my student version of visual c++ so that canceled my being able to use that out. (Could have used dev I guess) I did my best to keep the speed up, sorry if it chews too many resources.

GBK how do I use that icon...? I only can use .ico

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2004-01-05, 8:22 PM #16
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Emon:
This...isn't a new concept you realize, right?

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It isnt? So has this been made before. Show me. Also just one thing when it makes the 3do get it to leave the u and v scales on 1 so that the textuers ont screw.


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Rangi
2004-01-05, 8:32 PM #17
It hasn't made before. This thing just speeds up the process. Generally, you'd take a heightmap, convert it to a 3d model, and then convert that into a 3do. This would just remove a step or so, I suppose.

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Beware
The Woods At Night
The Wolf Has Come
2004-01-05, 9:40 PM #18
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">It isnt? So has this been made before. Show me.</font>


Uh, you're kidding, right? Every single frickin' game with terrain uses this technique. BF1942, Tribes, Serious Sam, the list is endless.

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2004-01-05, 10:04 PM #19
O no s*** i thought he was saying this was used in jk. I new this has been used in other games i just must have missunderstood him.

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2004-01-05, 10:35 PM #20
It has been used/done in JK. This just I suppose would lower things to one program for converting the heightmap, instead of two, I think.

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Wolf Moon
Cast Your Spell On Me
Beware
The Woods At Night
The Wolf Has Come
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Wolf Moon
Cast Your Spell On Me
Beware
The Woods At Night
The Wolf Has Come
2004-01-05, 11:06 PM #21
Thanks for making this Hellcat!
Keep working on it [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-01-06, 4:06 AM #22
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WHOA [http://forums.massassi.net/html/eek.gif]</font>




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2004-01-06, 4:38 AM #23
Keep on working this... I CAN'T WAIT! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-01-06, 5:00 AM #24
oh yeah. VERY nice work

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2004-01-06, 5:57 AM #25
Nice. I don't suppose that when you load a colored BMP, it could change to greyscale?

Here's a better idea. Not only making landscaped 3DOs, but also levels. Might be a little better idea to landscape sectors, but I might be wrong. And maybe a poly adjuster. Just ideas...

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2004-01-06, 6:09 AM #26
NOW all we need is a skyline generator... Excelent work, I must say.

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2004-01-06, 6:41 AM #27
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hellcat:
...GBK how do I use that icon...? I only can use .ico</font>


Sorry, I just assumed you could convert it... here is the ico file.

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2004-01-06, 9:54 AM #28
Man, you rock. A while ago I made terrain in some other terrain generator for Radaint, then converted it to a 3do, then loaded it in JED and it was a total mess. It took me almost an hour cleaving it into triangles so JK would load it. Looks like you took all the retard time consuming work out of it. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif] Nice man. I made a icon, but now I see that GBK already made you one. Here it is anyways:

[http://www.sithmercenaries.net/misc/3dohm.gif]
http://www.sithmercenaries.net/misc/3dohm.ico

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2004-01-06, 9:55 AM #29
<3 hellcat

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2004-01-06, 10:27 AM #30
Woohoo! Me in credits!

Hmm... Why do my terrains turn out like this?

[http://fin.mine.nu/tdt2/wtf.jpg]

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2004-01-06, 11:11 AM #31
I'm not sure what you're asking, but it's a 3do, CaveDemon, not a sector you walk in. If that's not what your concern is, post a pic of the terrain heightmap you used.

I'll post a pic of my new terrain thingie shortly...Textured with boring textures and the 16x16 4-color (yes, 4) heightmap I used. It still looks nice (not really referring to the textures).
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Here it is now (Beautiful, isn't it? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]).
[http://blargh.mine.nu/test/169/2.jpg]

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2004-01-06, 12:15 PM #32
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Darth Slaw:
I'm not sure what you're asking, but it's a 3do, CaveDemon, not a sector you walk in. If that's not what your concern is, post a pic of the terrain heightmap you used.
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...i do know. That thing in the picture IS a 3do... and the generator sure doesn't create too pretty 3dos of a heightmap... on my computer atleast... i used the one that comes with the program, to test if it works..



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2004-01-06, 12:36 PM #33
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
Here's a better idea. Not only making landscaped 3DOs, but also levels. Might be a little better idea to landscape sectors, but I might be wrong. And maybe a poly adjuster. Just ideas...
</font>


The problem with doing this would that you would get HOM easily... very easily. I suggest if you need to add archi to your 3do level use a flicker cog so then it appears in all sectors.

CaveDemon what version of windows are you running? Does the heightmap appear correctly in the box? Could you please email me the 3do?

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2004-01-06, 12:50 PM #34
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hellcat:

CaveDemon what version of windows are you running? Does the heightmap appear correctly in the box? Could you please email me the 3do?

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Win2K Pro... I'll email it or upload on my server when i get the time..

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2004-01-06, 1:09 PM #35
Have you thought about implementing polygon reduction techniques? Not sure what the limits of your abilities are, but that would be a very nice feature.

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2004-01-06, 1:19 PM #36
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Emon:
Have you thought about implementing polygon reduction techniques? Not sure what the limits of your abilities are, but that would be a very nice feature.
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Do you mean faces which are at the same height/angle become merged? I might be able to I guess... I will take a look at it.

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2004-01-06, 1:24 PM #37
At the least, I can't expect anything like in a professional 3D program. Unless there exists DLLs of something you can use, that would be interesting.

Manual polygon reduction could work though. Maybe select a group of adjacent faces, and it'll merge them into an average?

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2004-01-06, 1:36 PM #38
Yeah, sort of like the way you can choose the quality of Jpgs. That could be useful.

Higher quality = more (and smaller) surfaces
Lesser quality = fewer (and larger) surfaces

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[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited January 06, 2004).]
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2004-01-06, 1:44 PM #39
You could already do that by changing heightmap resolution, but it doesn't let you use a lot of polygons in detailed areas where it's needed, and very few in undetailed areas like plaines that don't need it.

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2004-01-06, 1:50 PM #40
I see what your saying now Emon, thats maybe alittle out of my league...

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