Terrain Builder - Generate Layers crashes on exporting surfase mask

[xm1014 0]

Hi forum,

I've been attempting to create my own map inspired by my home county in England, Sussex. This is my first attempt at building a map, but thought I'd use various resources such as YouTube, PMC's wiki etc to collate. I'm using QGIS to generate a heightmap, satmap and mask.

As the title states, my terrain builder crashes regularly (though, occasionally will work) when I generate layers; I have read various threads here and elsewhere and nothing's worked so far, a user here in another thread suggested deleting the heightmap and satmap + the layers folder generated by the generate layers function. However, this has not worked. I am certain my P:\ is mounted correctly and I am using the Terrain Builder.exe directly from the Arma3Tools folder in the C:\.

Here is my layers.cfg:
 

class Layers
{
	
	class sussex_grass
	{
		texture = "sussexlayers\data\gdt_grass_short_co.paa";
		material = "sussexlayers\data\gdt_grass_short.rvmat";
	};
	class sussex_road
	{
		texture = "sussexlayers\data\gdt_asphalt_co.paa";
		material = "sussexlayers\data\gdt_asphalt.rvmat";
	};
	class sussex_field
	{
		texture = "sussexlayers\data\gdt_grass_tall_co.paa";
		material = "sussexlayers\data\gdt_grass_tall.rvmat";
	};
	class sussex_forest
	{
		texture = "sussexlayers\data\gdt_forest_co.paa";
		material = "sussexlayers\data\gdt_forest.rvmat";
	};
	
	class sussex_dirt	{
		texture = "sussexlayers\data\gdt_reddirt_co.paa";
		material = "sussexlayers\data\gdt_reddirt.rvmat";
	};
};
 
class Legend
{
	picture = "sussexlayers\maplegend.png";
 
	class Colors
	{
		sussex_road = (193, 114, 170)  
		sussex_concrete = (249, 44, 212) 
		sussex_water = (91, 137, 223)  
		sussex_grass = (80, 148, 55) 
		sussex_field = (128, 197, 46)
		sussex_forest = (0, 94, 26)  
		sussex_dirt = (126, 62, 6) 
		sussex_sand = (203, 190, 0) 
	};
};

I am confident this is not the issue (however, when it has generated layers and I've used buldozer, I only ever see sussex_grass, but this is a separate issue...)

I have screenshots of the following:

P:\ directory: https://pasteboard.co/PiCJWtudiIt8.png

P:\ Data drive: https://pasteboard.co/sUwTmaDyeOGO.png
Mapframe properties - Location: https://pasteboard.co/0fKNGZREP1vg.png
Mapframe properties - Sampler: https://pasteboard.co/2q2ZnQt3F5Tp.png
Mapframe properties - Processing: https://pasteboard.co/jGVOOvo16VV4.png

On my GTT_Export config, the details are:

[## Export settings ##]
scaling enabled = False
tiling enabled = False
tile resolution = 4096
real terrain size (m) = 10230

[## Terrain Details ##]
grid size = 4096 x 4096
cell size (m) = 2.49755859375
terrain size (m) = 10230
satmap size (px) = 10230 x 10230
resolution (m/px) = 1.0

[## Arma config entries ##]
longitude = -0.27599331753273254
latitude = -50.90498739883566
mapsize = 10230
mapzone = 30

[## Surface entries ##]
road = (193, 114, 170)  #c172aa
concrete = (249, 44, 212)  #f92cd4
water = (91, 137, 223)  #5b89df
grass = (80, 148, 55)  #509437
field = (128, 197, 46)  #80c52e
forest = (0, 94, 26)  #005e1a
dirt = (126, 62, 6)  #7e3e06
sand = (203, 190, 0)  #cbbe00

Any advice/feedback is really appreciated, I'm utterly stuck and every tutorial and thread I have come across never appears to have this issue. Let me know if you need any more information.

Thanks,

Ross


 

[xm1014 0]

Update, it's now worked.

I think it's largely created by myself than anything else. For those who have a similar issue, delete your layers subfolder that's normally in the \data\ folder and make sure you have 6 materials per cell and it worked...

Without having to make another thread, in the original post I mentioned despite my layers.cfg referencing various textures and linking this to the gtt_export RGB values - only seeing grass: https://pasteboard.co/fU18o8IKyKJt.png

Any ideas?

[xm1014 0]

It's amazing what you can discover when you're posting aimlessly onto a forum!!

My layers.cfg was wrong.. like very wrong lol. 

I'm hoping my folly helps anyone searching for help.

General rules:

Make sure you follow tutorials properly :^)

[RoF 240]

1 hour ago, xm1014 said:

It's amazing what you can discover when you're posting aimlessly onto a forum!!

My layers.cfg was wrong.. like very wrong lol. 

I'm hoping my folly helps anyone searching for help.

General rules:

Make sure you follow tutorials properly :^)

 

 

The texture line isn't used in A3, so you can just put texture = "";

[xm1014 0]

20 hours ago, RoF said:

 

 

The texture line isn't used in A3, so you can just put texture = "";

Hey RoF,

Yep! New config file has been amended to reflect that. Also added the proper syntax for the class Legend RGB values.