guess whos back... with questions.

i was wondering how you form terrain like the terrain that came with 3dgs. hills canyons ponds ect. also i run extra ver how do i make good water effects? mabey not reflective but partly see through. and how would i go about making AI for a dinosaur so it would wander. drink and eat when it needs to? ive read the totorial and done the practice and it dosnt cover all this much. THX

I can help you with the terrain question. Make a map in a paint program that is in grayscale. Black is low terrain, white is highest, grays are somewhere in between. Make sure you save it as a .bmp. In MED, click File->Import->Import Terrain from Pic. Then select your map from there.

I have found that even though it gives the option to use a .tga file, it does not work correctly. Bitmaps, however, work just fine.

There are a couple of cheap-reflection-water-type tutorials here...

http://au.conitec.net/

uh i hate my win 98. it crashed something in the gamestudio file. thx for trying that will come in handie when i get a new comp. ps i dont mind downloading plugins. oh also how would i do ragdoll physics with extra edition? thx

oh sorry i forgot to mention the question that matters the most is the terrain one

also how do you get a modle from med to wed?

Save the model as .mdl file in the folder where your level is.
Open your level in WED and click on Add Model and select the model you want to add to the level.

Btw: Please use the "Edit" function and maybe read the basic tutorials.

should i ask the terrain question in a diff forum?

Wasn't your terrain question answered by sweetpickles?

quote: uh i hate my win 98. it crashed something in the gamestudio file. thx for trying that will come in handie when i get a new comp. ps i dont mind downloading plugins. it didnt work

Be more specific, please:
What did not work?

So you run the Extra edition, but which version? (A5, A6 ?)

I added some pictures for your similar terrain question in this thread...

http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/743273/an/0/page/0#Post743273

If your question is still not answered, then you are beyond my ability to help.

i run a6 when i clicked on my drawing to import it said some file in C:\programs\gamestudio file crashed.

sweetpickle you are my god i kiss the ground you walk on. thx

wow it works nicer then i thought so far so good

btw how would i texture it with the standard wad so i could make certain parts certain textures. sorry if im asking to many noob questions

For that you cannot use a WAD texture. You need to skin it.

For certain parts to be certain textures, if I understand you right, then you'd need to use a multitexture shader, which requires comm+

Yes, which isn't possible for him, so he should simply use a regular skin. Open the model in MED and add a skinmapping by Edit -> Manage Skins -> New Skin -> tick Texture click Texture File and add a new file. That should be a file with your texture for your terrain and you're done.

Cheers

heres an example of what i want to do with my terrain http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/sho...1&fpart=all
is that posable and ill need a description of what to do cause im easily confused

A Multitexture shader?

i guess. im new to this

if i cant do this with extra is there a plugin that makes it so i can?

also i cant get that gimp program to work. i unzipped it and looked through the files and couldnt find setup or install or run or anything. i saw a few reedme files but when i tryed to open them i got a message asking what i would like to open it with and with past experience choosing something only makes it worse. i found out how to use the paint program a little more but my terrain is coming out very jaggid so i want gimp

You need comm+ for shaders (multitex), but you could also use a detail map...

Detail maps simply add more detail to the base skin, so it doesn't look blury...

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You need comm+ for shaders (multitex), but you could also use a detail map...

Detail maps simply add more detail to the base skin, so it doesn't look blury...

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Is there a tutorial or other manual that tell the process for a multi texture shader?