Hey guys,

The Problem:

I want to build a 3D tile based Level Editor, and I got one Problem:
I don't have a single clue on how to make water tiles.

Imagine the Level as a map divided into square pieces. a map of 15*15 tiles. Its flat and I can put things on it like houses, trees, stones and stuff. Now my Problem is: I want to have Water in my level, rivers and so on, but i wonder how to dig into the ground.

I thought of several ways.
the first one was to take the simple lvl block away and replace it with a flat terrain. I used ent_setvertex and ent_getvertex to dig into the ground. I placed a water block under the terrain so that the water appears automaticly in the new dug hole. The problem. Its hard to code and grows quite unclear.

the second way I tried was to use models that got the dimension of one tile. I placed 15*15 tiles into a level. I planned to replace the flat model with a watertile model when i "dig" into the ground. works great,
but
the problem, there is a thin line between the tiles even if they fit perfectly in WED. it looks like a grid and i cant get rid of that.

Now my question is, how would you do anything like this?
Would be great if you could give some hints or ideas.

thanks in advance.

Roxas

When you launhc the program does the line appear again ?
Does A7 have a spin button to perfectly align models ?

I know some other engines have a spin feature to really align models perfectly.

Or if you make a tile editor, just use it and finally you should have perfect tiles spinning without problems ?

I've Problems with that thin Lines too.
My Models are all in the Size of 60x60x100..
I put them perfectly Side by Side (Not that Problem with a 100% Size of XY 60x60)...
But ingame, there're always this thin White Lines. Doesn't matter what color is in the Background, they are White and Look ugly.

can you try to scale the polys at the skin mapping down a bit, so that they don't align with the texture edges? If the problem is solved then (even if the texture does not fit perfectly...), you can use a material, that just changes the way the skin is getting repeated (AddressU/V stuff)

they don´t allign with the edges.. Looked for that as first.
here´s a Picture of that problem (click=fullsize):


the blocks fit perfectly. The lines do appear even when i let the blocks overlap about 0.001 (tried with a max overlapping of 0.01)

Roxas and Esper,

try playing with the value of d3d_antialias.
It looks like an anit-aliasing issue to me...

let us know how it goes.

yes.. a great issue...
If i turn d3d_antialias to 0, the lines are reduced. When i go far away, a few lines are visible..

Well i could fix the problem
Its just like scorpion said. I had the texture in the skin editor right at the edge of the texture, i scaled it down and problem solved, now the lines are gone.

thank you all very much for your quick answers!

I hope that'll work for Esper aswell Oo

so my Problem is solved now, thank you guys!

Greets Roxas~

my problem still exists... *depressed*

Ok Esper, try this as a test. If your model skins havent changed from what I still have.
(with the ones I have, the un-used texture is white, and your UV is ALREADY smaller
than the colored portion of the texture, so the UV-shrink wouldnt help (one would expect))

1> Open the "dirt" block in MED and open the skin editor.
2> Export the texture out to tga/bmp/whatever.
3> Open the exported texture file with your preferred paint program.
4> See the WHITE unused texture space? Fill it with BRIGHT PURPLE instead.
5> Save/re-import texture/save/test-run.

Have the white lines turned Purple?