I hope you don't mind all these questions oliver!

Would it be possible to have different scaling settings for each of the 4 textures? It'd be nice to have a larger scale texture on grass for example, but a smaller scale on maybe pebbles or stones. Or is this a limit of multi-texture blending?

Another nice feature would be a rotate camera speed, in addition to the camera speed slider.

I couldn't figure out how to get 4 different scalingfactors for each texture. But I try to look into this again.

Hey oliver2s. This is looking good. On the issue of different scaling factors I have thought. I posted this idea a while ago.

http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB2&Number=553266

Maybe if you create textures that have 4 'quadrants' with each being a smaller scaled texture and then you can specify texture AND quadrant to use on texture -in other words the texture is 512x512 and you tell shader to use the upper left 128x128 block for pebbles but the whole texture for another area?

You can see a texture here where I mixed 4 different textures. Could have as easily made much smaller scale in one area.

http://stormvisions.com/3DGS/multitexttest1.jpg

Hope that makes sense.

Oliver2s, I bought IceX yesterday. Very nice job!

If creating a manual is going to take a lot of time and effort, you should consider creating a video walkthrough of the software, perhaps building your demo island level from scratch. Even without narration it would give us a valuable insight into how to use the software and will require a lot less work on your part!

Oliver,

Some more suggestions for Icex 2.0:

1. Brush size keyboard shortcuts --as in photoshop, increase and decrease brush size with ] and [ keys. Maybe SHIFT+[ and SHIFT+] to change the height..

2. Rotate camera around a point: so you wouldn't have to walk and turn and walk and turn and rotate etc. Like if you press SPACE and move the mouse, you'd rotate around the center of the view instead of walk through.

3. Import and export heightmap images for terrain. I think this is very important, especially if you are converting previous HMP heightmaps to .icx versions.

4. Import MDL geometry into IceX so user can work with terrains with overhangs and concave surfaces. Geometry could share the same xy proportions as a standard icx terrain. This would take special advantage of the benefits of using MDL for terrains instead of HMP, not to mention being very cool and useful.

5. Opacity slider in paint window.

6. Brush size slider range. I've noticed that with the standard terrain size, it's sort of impractical (for me) to use brush sizes over 5 in radius. So I go from 1-5, usually, but the slider will go WAY up to 100. I recommend making the brush range somehow wider, so there is more variety while working up close than just 1-5.


best wishes
jpm

3. -> This is already possible. Go to heightmap generator -> Data

another idea is to allow compatibility with sphere so commercial users can have fresnel water and nice shadows

Yes , I would buy is if there is full compatibily with comm edition, including one P object per frame.

"one P object per frame"?

i got the program today and i really really love it. it makes so much fun to do landscape with it

but one question. when i export the level (as hmp or mdl), how can i include i in a existing level?

i tried to copy and paste the terrain and models on it to another level, but only the models worked. then i saw the name that it was like "terrain-0_1" and so on, so i removed the "-" sign and then i could copy everything.

but when i compile the level and run it, the terrains are gone. is it because of the LOD or what? is there any easier way to do that?

also i was wondering, can the models on the terrain have shadows too again like in IceX1?