Finally

[Steve]

finished my seven part Terrain making tutorial. If your interested in making your own terrains for DF:LW, take a peek http://stevieb.dfhq.net

[Unregistered]

Hi Stevie,
Followed your instructions.... they were very clear, concise and easy to follow :)

Just one small prob...

The terrain appears in the map editor, and I can create a map on the new terrain. However once exported as a bms when I fire up landwarrior and go to the map I get an error msg
!unable to find detail texture
then
!unable to load detail texture

I have the terrain01_det file in my LW folder and with the 5 files in a folder on my desktop ?

I would be grateful if you would just iron out this little prob/ tell me where I am going wrong

Many thanks

HayZee

[Steve]

hiho. i think i know the problem.

all the five files need to be in the land warrior folder.

u have to select all five files then right click > copy. i.e. you need to copy all five files, and paste all five files into the land warrior folder. i dont think i explained clearly enough. but that should be the fix u need ( i hope ).

i thought about this when typing it up the other day. i'll try to word it better. at first i was only going to explain how to make the colour map and height map but i got carried away into a full tutorial lol.

thank you very much for pointing this out. :) and thanks for your comments. i would love to see some screen shots when you get it working, and i'll stick them on my site for others to see.

[zza1pqx]

anychance of it all being ported to *.doc and zipped up complete?
I cant find that option.

[Steve]

maybe ;)
i just got Adobe Acrobat, how about a .pdf?

[Unregistered]

Thanks for your response Stevie... but I'm still having the same prob.

I have 5 files in my LW folder and 5 files in my terrain01 folder on my desktop.

Sorry to be a pain...
any ideas ?
thanks
HayZee

[Steve]

damn,

erm... :*(

the files are named the same as mine?


can u post the text from the .trn file here plz?

[Steve]

if u have put all the files in dflw, it must either be the

name of the file or file type.

or

the text is wrong in the .trn file.


its hard to check, i need someone else to have the same problem also.

[Steve]

oh oh oh

did u unzip the terrain01_det ?
download is terrain01_det.zip and needs unzipping

[Steve]

plz check the file names and file types:

http://stevieb.dfhq.net/Games/landwarrior/tutorials/terrain/49.gif

.trn file should have text like this:

http://stevieb.dfhq.net/Games/landwarrior/tutorials/terrain/50.gif

[Unregistered]

text for trn file is

terrain_name "terrain01"
terrain_creator "Hayzee"

;terrain values
color_map terrain01_c
elev_map terrain01_d
detail_map terrain01_m
detail_texture terrain01_det
detail_tilerate 200
water_height 0 ;default, if zero will take from mission


5 files in both LW folder and folder on desktop r as follows


terrain01_c.tga
terrain01_d.pcx
terrain01_det.tga
terrain01_m.pcx
terrain01.trn

everything seems to match up :(

I can mail the files if you like about 4mb in size...

thanks for your help

HayZee

[Steve]

ok, hmm

alter the text in the .trn file to say
.....
detail_texture d1_det
......

instead.

[Steve]

that's one from ingame so it should work.
lemme know plz :)

[Unregistered]

yep...... spot on m8 :) n1 - working perfectly now

Just as a note I didn't use the clouds in photoshop, I used the terragen program and saved the file as RAW then edited in photoshop - produced quite a cool landscape

A bit more practice and I'll be seamless :)

Thanks for your time and patience :)

HayZee

www.covert-urban-militia.co.uk

[Steve]

weeeeeeeeeeee

ty m8, send me some screen shots please, stevieb85@another.com
i'll also change the tutorial if anyone else comments, thanks for the feedback m8 :):)

[nemesis]

Great tutorial StevieB.

Just one thing, my terrain loads nicely into the map editor but when I try to load my mission it says "no height map" - I have gone over the .trn file and it looks like it should. I have even tried to change the height map in .trn file to an ingame map, but still don't work.

Any ideas?