nice that you still update it, ill buy it very soon.

Thanks Oliver for improoving IceX2! With the latest pach the export seems to work fine I think a demo would be a good next step...cause I think the actual version is definately worth the money.

Wow Oliver this looks impressive! Even though I am not doing anything with 3DGS while in school I will buy it soon just to play with it.

From looking at the video I wonder if it might be good to have a margin/border option for the height map generator? For example if you are creating an island and you don't want to manually bend all the edges of the hmp down you could set generate a border all around of a uniform height so that the outer edge of the hmp is all the same height -eveything slopes down or up to it. Hope that is clear.

Looks really good.

Thanks for the update oliver! Export seems to work fine now. Do you still plan
on creating a manual for IceX in English?
Thanks.

Here the english manual:
http://www.stonehill-online.de/main/downloads/IceX2_Manual.chm

Thanks to Michael Schwarz for translating

When you say all editions are supported, you mean the standard edition can also be used? I thought the standard which I have does not support terrain, that it must be the extra or higher......Some time soon I'll upgrade but for now I'm guessing I can't use this tool unless someone knows how to make fake terrains that can be used in the standard edition.

I could definitely be wrong, but I think you can use MDL models as terrain now. They won't be chunkable, but you can do stuff like caves and concave surfaces that way also.

Stonerunner is right. If you have standard edition you can export terrain as MDL.

The terrain -texture- output by IceX2 for standard or extra versions is pretty low quality, it does not look nearly as good as the quality used in the commercial and pro versions, because standard/extra do not support the shader needed to do the multitexturing. It isn't icex's fault though.

Yeh.. But you can use those textures as stand-ins, and use the Gimp or whatever to make your real terrain textures.

I'm in the process of trying to learn Terragen for all this, though, after seeing the quintessential (for RPGs anyway) green hills and blue sky with perfect grass and flowers. Call me stereotypical, but there are just some things I want in my game. My first one, at least. :-)