Tom_48_97 523 Posted August 10, 2015 As some of you already noticed the documentation we added yesterday, there's a newcomer in the Arma 3 Tools: Terrain Processor (currently in the dev branch). This is an application for making mass changes and additions to Arma terrains edited in Terrain Builder, focused primarily on fast object population of extents of areal or linear topologies. Long story short, user can use this tool to add thousands of objects to an existing Arma terrain project based on geographic data. Outputs of Terrain Processor need to be imported to Terrain Builder. It is practical to keep the tools separated, so that both can be updated, fixed and tweaked independently and with more flexibility. Application interface is very simple: user sets up a Terrain Processor Project (.TPP) - a queue of Tasks which are processed into output .LBT files which can be imported inside Terrain Builder. Each task processes some geographic data - vectors in ESRI Shapefile (.SHP) and ASCII DEM heightmap (.ASC) - using a particular Module (algorithm of user's choice) to provide outputs in form of Terrain Builder (.LBT) and ASCII heightmap (.ASC). Arma series benefit from the authentic scale of environment, and it is natural to use digitized map data (=geographic data) commonly used in geographic information systems (GIS) as basis for map design work. Terrain Processor was created in order to allow Arma devs to use some geographic data to quickly prototype terrains and automate some (otherwise tedious) tasks, e.g. placing several hundred thousand trees in a forest. When set up correctly, the existing modules may help map designer to save plenty of work time by populating map with forests, linear vegetation or other randomly placed objects, by leveling terrain under roads or adding small randomization to the terrain mesh. Terrain Processor does not replace manual work and "artistic" fine tuning, but it may serve map designer as a tool for rapid creation of a solid basis for their manual editing. Please note that Terrain Processor comes without much preview tools, which requires some empiric testing and iterative setting tweaks.The manual comes with sample TP project data illustrating the tool's basic setup, and with tutorials guiding community map designers through some basic pipelines of geographic data usage in an Arma map. We're looking forward to your feedback! Reading list Introduction to Terrain Processor Terrain Processor Manual Terrain Processor Tutorial 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dwarden 1125 Posted August 10, 2015 TP is out of bag, let's see who catch it first ;) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sgtgunner 10 Posted August 10, 2015 Nice, I love the idea of leveling terrain where a road passes. Great job! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
icebreakr 3159 Posted August 10, 2015 Nope. Not using another tool... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
digitalcenturion 20 Posted August 11, 2015 Just tried it, leveled all the roads on Lost Coast. time spent: less than 10 minutes. Result: awesome! Thank you for your continued support BI! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
xnam 17 Posted August 11, 2015 Great tools !!! digitalcenturion, did you just import your map.asc, (my map.asc = heightfield export from TB.) and import the roads from your roads.shp in the Heightmap: Road Integration ? when i do that, and press Run, Terrain processor just stop working and crash... ( i didn't change the slope option...ect). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manoxik 1 Posted August 11, 2015 Great tools !!! digitalcenturion, did you just import your map.asc, (my map.asc = heightfield export from TB.) and import the roads from your roads.shp in the Heightmap: Road Integration ? when i do that, and press Run, Terrain processor just stop working and crash... ( i didn't change the slope option...ect). I think you have different coordinates for heightmap and shp. You can check this in GIS (QGIS). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
xnam 17 Posted August 11, 2015 I think you have different coordinates for heightmap and shp. You can check this in GIS (QGIS). thx, checked, no, it's fine. i tried with an other island, and other .shp.. stil crashing ... I supposed i can import .shp from TB export shapes ! will install again arma3tools, the Dev branch update,maybe broke something.... ( and i tried of course to launch TP with the.exe in admin mod) EDIT : FOUND THE SOLUTION : .SHP from TB are not compatible with Terrain Processor !!! (Really ...) Open your .shp from TB in Qgis and export it again to .shp ( ESRI shapesfiles) Smoothing road works find ! ( only have to smooth the crossroads, when it's on a hilly area) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spookygnu 563 Posted August 11, 2015 hmmmm???? interesting. I think I'll wait until 2016 before I give this a shot. No doubt it'll break everything a million times before it works fully. Oh hang, time change, 2030, TB is still broke isn't it? Although I like the fact BIS have kindly taken the time to do something for terrain builders and finally opened a door to leveling terrain where roads are. It does sound alot like the A3 version of World tools and road leveller in one package. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edge 2 Posted August 11, 2015 Hello gentlemen, nice to hear about some job done in the TP, and sorry about the issues. Please, if you have particular issues with Terrain Processor, please PM me. We are interested in repros including the data. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonto- 43 Posted August 11, 2015 Wow, BIS. :o You really helped terrain makers with this Terrain Processor! This tool makes so many things so much easier than it used to be. Especially editing the heightmap. Before it was nothing but a pain in the ass give your terrain some detail with perlin noise brush tools etc. :D DEM converter is just mind blowing! Im sure the community will see much more detailed terrains in the future just because of this tool! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cype_Revenge 651 Posted August 12, 2015 nice Help, Thanks Guys :D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hiddenzone 2 Posted August 12, 2015 Great Job! Hope to see a command line tool to enable people make multiple maps with single batch file, from raw height-map/masks to packed .pbo directly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spookygnu 563 Posted August 12, 2015 nvm! edited pointless comment! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tom_48_97 523 Posted August 14, 2015 The first tutorial for Terrain Processor has been published on the Community Wiki: Terrain Processor: Tutorial. This tutorial will introduce you to some basics and comes with a sample project. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edge 2 Posted August 17, 2015 We have several reports of TerrainProcesssor not properly terrain-processing shapefiles on drives different from EXE location or P:\ drive. For now, we recommend to have the project file (TPP) and shapefiles stored near the TP executable. Apologies, we are working on the fix. :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tom_48_97 523 Posted August 17, 2015 An additional note about the P drive. It's a substitute drive, meaning it has to be mounted for both types of user, admin and normal. Arma 3 Tools already handles it, provided it's not started as administrator. So, for those who have troubles with P, try this: Start Arma3Toos.exe (non administrator), Ensure the path to your P content is correct (Preferences >> Settings), Click Mount P: drive from the main form. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hiddenzone 2 Posted August 22, 2015 Is it possible to generate plant objects with surface mask rather than .shp file? What about GeoTIFF height map? Quite hope there being a tool to make series of maps automatically. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manoxik 1 Posted August 24, 2015 Is it possible to generate plant objects with surface mask rather than .shp file? No, but you can vectorize surface mask. What about GeoTIFF height map? Nope, Terrain Processor and Terrain Processor support only asc heightmap. You can use GIS to save GeoTIFF as asc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonto- 43 Posted September 15, 2015 I think you have different coordinates for heightmap and shp. You can check this in GIS (QGIS). How can you edit these coordinates? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manoxik 1 Posted September 17, 2015 (edited) How can you edit these coordinates? Heightmap ASC is text format, you can edit values directly in file. SHP you can edit coordinates with GIS tool transformation Edited September 17, 2015 by Manoxik 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richie 330 Posted September 17, 2015 Has anyone had a problem where the road smoother does nothing ? It outputs a new .asc height file but no changes have been made. No errors and all the other TP options work, love the high density forests but road smoothing will not work. Is there some sort of witchcraft needed for road smoothing ? my road shape is only about 400 meters, goes up a small slope, nothing too complex. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonto- 43 Posted September 17, 2015 Heightmap ASC is text format, you can edit values directly in file. SHP you can edit coordinates with GIS tool transformation This might be offtopic, but can you pls explain just how. First lines of my .asc looks like this ncols 8192 nrows 8192 xllcorner 0.000000 yllcorner 0.000000 cellsize 2.000000 NODATA_value -9999 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richie 330 Posted September 17, 2015 This might be offtopic, but can you pls explain just how. First lines of my .asc looks like this ncols 8192 nrows 8192 xllcorner 0.000000 yllcorner 0.000000 cellsize 2.000000 NODATA_value -9999 Looks ok, what's wrong ? Although you might be better of doing 4096 @ 4 meter cells or 2048 @ 8 meter cells, sure i read somewhere that 8192 should be avoided Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonto- 43 Posted September 17, 2015 Looks ok, what's wrong ? Although you might be better of doing 4096 @ 4 meter cells or 2048 @ 8 meter cells, sure i read somewhere that 8192 should be avoided Im trying to resize one shape file to match my terrain roster. The problem is that the lines in shape file are too small, like they are different scales. Im trying to find a way to make these two files work with each other. I don't understand GIS at all, but i was thinking the problem could be in coordinates of these files. Your problem with roads sounds like same kind of problem. Coordinates must match exactly and they just wont if you just make your own shape lines in TB and export it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
