How to extract a real terrain

[MiauX 10]

Hmmm... thats weird, ussually Buldozer its pretty stable and loads even with bad aligned textures and such.

Maybe the HUGE size of your terrain and the small cell size its overwhelming Buldozer, try to rebuild the terrain with 4096px and 8m cells, rebuilding the layers and mask again, if you want to keep the same size.

Try also with bigger texture tiles than 4x4, that should help buldozer with less tiles to load.

Ussually small cell size its good for small maps like 5x5km or 10x10 at most, but with a 32km map maybe its too much resolution

I dont remember where i did read that with huge maps beyond 4096 weird stuff its bound to happen

Edited October 16, 2014 by MiauX

[itsdonjon 25]

Its only 32km² oO is this THAT huge? :D

[MiauX 10]

Its not 32km², its more like 32km*32km = 1024km²

Altis surface has 270Km² and Chernarus around 180Km^2.

^{So yeah, its that huge :P}

[itsdonjon 25]

No its not o.o Well..at least it shouldnt be!

My terrain was originally intended to be16384*16384 m so...like 32km², i thought i would have picked the right size. And THANKS for your help again. With the smaller grid size it works. And i could also pack it for A3. And there the size was from the south to the north ~12km. Well at least of the island^^

[MiauX 10]

I would not reccomend doing big maps like that if you are going to do it only by yourself its too much work :p

My current WIP map its a 2048@7,5cell so, 15360x15360meters and even considering im close to finishing it, im regretting the size because its too much work to be done :(

My next work will be something close to Stratis, more affordable to a single mapper and more resources for a decent detail level.

And for the love of god avoid twisty mountain roads, im regretting that too ;)

[itsdonjon 25]

So i think some of my numbers are wrong. The island me and at least one friend want to make actually is smaller than stratis..its much water around the island ;D. And thanks fpr the tips!

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So i think some of my numbers are wrong. The island me and at least one friend want to make actually is smaller than stratis..its much water around the island ;D. And thanks fpr the tips!

[itsdonjon 25]

Hey there. Another Question (I'm praising the day where i just can start making the map! :D )

Which is the optimal height to make the SatMap with Google Explorer? Somewhere i read that 500m is perfect, but im not quite sure. And in which resolution should i make the map? I think that 1px=1m is the best, but this would generate a picture 2,5gb big (according to gimo (remember, the terrain is ~13x13km))

so..still counting on your knowledge

[m1lkm8n 411]

If you can I would try to download the best available images. You can load it in terrain builder and select the output size in the end. So that's why it's best to try and get the best you can.

In v3 you needed to have the sat already at the size you wanted before you start but in tb that isn't the case. Toucan swap sizes pretty much whenever you feel like it

[itsdonjon 25]

But i still have to do this nice puzzle, right? Because when i just download something from the internet, the resolution would be way to low for a useful satmap, isn' it? Where do you guys get your satmaps?

[m1lkm8n 411]

Oh ok I was under the impression you downloaded or knew how. Ok. No problem.

I use a program I bought called googlemapdownloader.

It's pretty good. You select the area you want. Select the image zoom level and click go. It will download the images, stitch them together. Remove the watermarks and let you output as a geotiff for easy importing to terrain builder.