Texturing tutorial

[Korvass 0]

Hey gang,

Does anyone have any links to a slightly more advanced texturing tutorial for Visitor islands? I have a decent handle on laying down textures from the BIS tutorial, but the textures all look square, because you have to select square areas ro texture, and that looks a bit naff of course.

I'm sure I saw a link here not too long ago from someone advertising their newish texturing tutorial, but I can't find it anymore. I remember it was about applying textures based on terrain height and gradient, and stuff like that.

Basically I want to learn how to apply various textures in a more natural way, instead of squares, so any help would be most appreciated.

Cheers

[BoonieRat 0]

Visitor will create/lay the textures automaticaly if you fill in the 'elavation' specifics for each texture, say if you put sand from -20M to +30M then grass from +30M to 300M, then rock from 300M to 550M. It will automaticaly merge them together as well...

You can make it more interseting by having grass and sand only from 0 to 45degrees, then have rock at the same height but from 45degrees to 90degrees, so that any steep slope is rocky instead of grass. Even better you can have sandstone for the +45degree up to 100M then have 'normal' stone at higher than 100M ...

You can also fill in the 'variable' setting with another simular texture (dark or patchy grass texture) then set the % percentage for how often it'll use the 'patchy' texture instead of the normal one...

Read this thread for a basic guide :  Texture elavation intervals ...

[Korvass 0]

Great, thanks for the assist

[partieboi 0]

when i try 2 add the textures only the pac files show up the paa files don't how can i add the paa files 2 use on my island coz the paa files r the textures i want, opps sry about that wrong topic