I made a verry simple terrain in MED and textured it with the new tool 'Terrain Texture Creator'. In 'Manage Skins' there is 1 skin; Skin0.
When I run this terrain in my level it does not look ok, looks verry blurry.
For better looks I have added the action 'fx_terraintex3' from the template file 'mtlFX.wdl'.
Now, when I compile the level and run it, the terrain in the level is dark, can't see any detail. Changing the SUN settings does not help.
Do I have to change something else or am I doing it completely wrong?
Please help.

You must have a tga texture with red, green, blue and black for the first skin. With this tga the engine knows where to put which texture. Hope this helps.

No, did not help. When I look at the texturefile generated by the Terrain Texture Generator, it's a text-file: xxx.txt.
Contents;
auto_update_skin = 0;
creation_flags = 52;
camera = -54.955048 -503.635345 18.790649 -2.362637 -3.251891 18.557415 -6.210366 -59.087631 272.504578;
texview = 0 15 1.000000;
texture = "C:\Program Files\GStudio7\template_6\images\grass.tga",axis = 1,pos = 0.000000,x_offset = 0,x_offset = 0,x_scale = 1.000000,y_scale = 1.000000,rotate = 0.000000,influence = 1.000000;
texture = "C:\Program Files\GStudio7\template_6\images\sand.tga",axis = 1,pos = 0.100000,x_offset = 0,x_offset = 0,x_scale = 1.000000,y_scale = 1.000000,rotate = 0.000000,influence = 1.000000;
texture = "C:\Program Files\GStudio7\template_6\images\rock.tga",axis = 1,pos = 0.700000,x_offset = 0,x_offset = 0,x_scale = 1.000000,y_scale = 1.000000,rotate = 0.000000,influence = 1.000000;
current_textxure = 2;

I have no clue where to go from here.

Maybe increase the "Influence" value will help.

It seems to me that noboddy is using this new tool yet, but maybe a picture will do the trick;

Terrain in MED

Shot at 2007-08-24

Terrain while level is running

Shot at 2007-08-24

The setting of the sun values; color 150,150,150 and elevation 60 (rest of the level is well lit).
Anybody an idea how to solve this problem?

you dont need attach any shader or code to the terrain.just set scale in terrain editor to a low size.so it doesn't look so blurry.

I have scaled down the three tga files to 0.1 and remove the 'fx_terraintex3' action.
Now the terrain is lit verry well, but it stil looks like sh** and the only texture I see is grass.tga, the other two are not visible when I run the level (they are visible in WED).
Sorry I can't upload a picture, I can't connect to Imageshack (waiting for 5 minutes, then the message can't find website).

in skin manager there should be only one texture.the one you are use.delete the others

Look at my third post, there is only one skin in the skin manager.

Follow up question;
In mtlFX.wdl help is the following;
Code:

---

//help: Standard Material Effects for Terrain, Water, Entities.
/// The effects are automatically activated by assigning the action.
/// Requires A6.50 Commercial or above, VS 1.1, PS 1.3, default.fx
//
//needs: default.fx

---

Maybe a stupid question, but what does this mean 'needs: default.fx'?
And what is 'default.fx'?