I just use pixel_to_bmap. That's not fast enough.

Use ist just for your editor, later in the game you just load the final texture (skin)

The wiki has information on how to write out a modified bmap as a TGA in C-Script.

Yes, good script from WIKI. I use it for 'fog of war' in 'top cam view' in my proj (big 'black' sprite placed over terrain and painted to be transparent where game character goes)

hey lion, could you post a screenshot of your technique please? im curious how it looks that way. thanks.

currently, models can have a maximum of 8 skins in 3dgs. so 100s of skins can not be blendeb through shaders. u can fake it 2 some extent though....

create a nice huge texture with hundreds of blended textures in terragen...

scale it down to maybe 2048*2048. even at this size the texture resolution will be bad because of the terrains'size... to make the texture look better, use a tiled deatil map applied through pixel shader 1.1...
this technique works 4 me.. hope that helps

Erm... sorry gamespider, I think you are likely a bit outdated there. 3dgs models can have many many more than just 8 skins!

He's not out of date. You can only use 8 textures at the same time. 4 time entskin and 4 time mtlskin.