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  Thread: Question on terrain texture size
Post: RE: Question on terrain texture size

Thank you so much! my questions were answered :D I know about the scaling of the textures (materials) already and have used that quite extensively already ;) My main thing was the size of the textur...
Sarrene Support 2 4,258 07-09-2010, 07:07 PM
  Thread: Question on terrain texture size
Post: Question on terrain texture size

I have a question or three to ask about the terrain textures. What size does the converter use when you add a new terrain texture to the world editor? Does the converter keep the default dds image si...
Sarrene Support 2 4,258 07-09-2010, 04:02 PM
  Thread: Question about resolution independet gui
Post: RE: Question about resolution independet gui

Silly question, but what about adding an XML component that you can use to build the gui from? If you set esenthel c++ variables- the usecontrole, search keys, events, settings, layout, tooltips, g...
Sarrene Support 7 6,281 06-23-2010, 08:04 AM
  Thread: Strange grid lines on heightmap
Post: RE: Strange grid lines on heightmap

It is not the actual grid itself, what I was showing is in the heightmap. You can see the same thing with the grid turned off.... As you can see from the two screen shots, turning off the grid does ...
Sarrene Support 12 8,429 06-23-2010, 06:44 AM
  Thread: Strange grid lines on heightmap
Post: RE: Strange grid lines on heightmap

Okay, here is how things went for me: 1) painted the land. As I did i noticed the grid lines in the heightmap disappear. 2) saved the new map and exited. 3) reloaded world. Lines were back. 4) hit pla...
Sarrene Support 12 8,429 06-21-2010, 07:09 PM
  Thread: Strange grid lines on heightmap
Post: RE: Strange grid lines on heightmap

Okay boss, i will do that now. :) I will post up images once i get that done. Peace and Thank you, Sarrene'
Sarrene Support 12 8,429 06-21-2010, 06:07 PM
  Thread: Strange grid lines on heightmap
Post: RE: Strange grid lines on heightmap

Nope, I had not. I did on my original heightmap, however I did start over again fresh with this map when I was finishing up on my dds textures. Our old map we had, I did change from 32 to 64 and I di...
Sarrene Support 12 8,429 06-20-2010, 04:41 AM
  Thread: Strange grid lines on heightmap
Post: RE: Strange grid lines on heightmap

There are no materials on those images that you see. That is ONLY the heightmap and no materials added yet. Now, if i use the Soften tool on the terrain, it will remove the lines. If you view up clo...
Sarrene Support 12 8,429 06-20-2010, 04:21 AM
  Thread: Strange grid lines on heightmap
Post: RE: Strange grid lines on heightmap

Okay, will do. I just hate to keep "softening" the terrain and lose some of the detail. My coder is on vacation, but will be back this week, so once he is back we will do a through test on both large...
Sarrene Support 12 8,429 06-19-2010, 10:35 PM
  Thread: Strange grid lines on heightmap
Post: Strange grid lines on heightmap

Hello again. I am wondering if this is normal or not. I have built my world and every time I load it in the world editor there are these strange lines that appear in the actual heightmap. I use the S...
Sarrene Support 12 8,429 06-19-2010, 10:16 PM
  Thread: Convert error- Mode 3
Post: RE: Convert error- Mode 3

Im sorry, Yes, png does work. However any format of dds does not. I apologize for not being clear in my last statement. That was not too clear. Peace, Sarrene'
Sarrene Support 8 6,078 05-27-2010, 07:12 PM
  Thread: Convert error- Mode 3
Post: RE: Convert error- Mode 3

I tried that and for me, still no go. I will wait till the fix is in for now :D Thank you so much for testing that out and getting a fix when you are able. I appreciate it! Peace, Sarrene'
Sarrene Support 8 6,078 05-27-2010, 07:00 PM
  Thread: Convert error- Mode 3
Post: RE: Convert error- Mode 3

Umm.. all of them? I will start with sending you a few, since i have a LOT of them. However none of the dds are working now, even the ones I had converted a few weeks ago, as well as the old ones from...
Sarrene Support 8 6,078 05-27-2010, 06:38 PM
  Thread: Convert error- Mode 3
Post: RE: Convert error- Mode 3

I had the latest drivers, but uninstalled and reinstalled them again. (re)Updated all microsoft visual studios 8 and 10 (re)Updated all esenthel files DirectX 9.28.1886 nVidia 197.75 Restarted syst...
Sarrene Support 8 6,078 05-27-2010, 06:21 PM
  Thread: Convert error- Mode 3
Post: Convert error- Mode 3

I have a series of new textures I have been working on the last few weeks. Now that I am done with them, I went to convert these and replace the older ones I had made a while back. However, I have a ...
Sarrene Support 8 6,078 05-27-2010, 05:52 PM
  Thread: Question about lod/mip maps
Post: RE: Question about lod/mip maps

Nice, I will give that a try. How does this technique perform? Your image movie is nice. I likes. Peace, Sarrene'
Sarrene Support 27 22,148 05-05-2010, 03:48 PM
  Thread: Question about lod/mip maps
Post: RE: Question about lod/mip maps

(05-04-2010 10:08 PM)Esenthel Wrote:  Color maps are applied only per vertex, so quality depends only on mesh resolution (vertex/face density in your heightmaps) Aah, okay, now I fully understa...
Sarrene Support 27 22,148 05-04-2010, 11:09 PM
  Thread: Question about lod/mip maps
Post: RE: Question about lod/mip maps

Aah hah! I see now. That makes sence to me now about the lines. Thank you. :lol: Now, I am curious on how you got the high detail? I have tried a few different resolutions and sizes and all come out ...
Sarrene Support 27 22,148 05-04-2010, 11:51 AM
  Thread: Question about lod/mip maps
Post: RE: Question about lod/mip maps

I see the same lines though very faint, in your finished product also. I wonder what is doing that though. For me, because a few of the areas are suppose to be dark, they show up really bad as you can...
Sarrene Support 27 22,148 05-04-2010, 02:56 AM
  Thread: This is Whren
Post: RE: This is Whren

http://www.esenthel.com/community/showth...p?tid=2070 is my current post. I am just so used to being able to either use detailed images, monotone or b/w images and using the size/resolution. So I am...
Sarrene Offtopic 9 7,467 05-03-2010, 10:58 PM