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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 1st Nov 2017 20:22
may be of some use, you can export the heightmaps:

https://tangrams.github.io/heightmapper/
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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2017 08:20
It seems there are 3 more options I can add into the app, see below:

Quad Rotation
This prevents triangles from sticking out the side of steep hills. It calculates which triangles
will stick out and rotates them 90 degrees so they face down the hill and dont stick out.
This improves graphics quality when using low detail heightmaps so you can turn down the
detail of your heightmaps and improve render speed in your games.

Quad Reduction
This reduces the detail of the terrain in areas which are flat. This allows you to add more
detail into areas which need it which improves the graphics quality of your games.

Smoothing
This removes jagged edges on in accurate heightmaps by averaging the height of each
point with the points around it.

I did some testing this morning and using these options changes the size/values in the M.DAT file. See pics below. The one on the left is without the 3 options i.e. set to 0. The second pic is with all 3 options set to 1.

Will do some more testing on each individual option and add these options to the .INI file. Really want to put a GUI in and maybe a preview window to show the terrain without having to start GameGuru.

I'm also looking into other stuff to see if anything can be done with the vegmask/watermask DDS/.DAT files.

Next release will be v1.1

Enjoy the day
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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2017 10:53
Version 1.1 has now been uploaded. Please see the link below.

https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/218876?page=2#msg2589369
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Jerry Tremble
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2017 16:07
Sadly, it's still not working for me! It crashes as soon as I point it to the files folder. On the plus side, its the furthest its run so far. I will try it on my desktop when i get home from work tonight. This looks like a really useful tool!
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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2017 16:20
@Jerry Tremble: Sorry it's not running on your machine. Were you running as administrator? I'm assuming this was on Win10 64 bit looking at your signature? Also, was there any error message? Do you have a a screenshot?
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Posted: 11th Dec 2017 15:51
will upload v2.0 soon. just doing some final testing.
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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 11th Dec 2017 16:44
the link can be found here:

https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/218876?page=2#msg2591885
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Posted: 18th Dec 2017 14:33
version 2.1a now uploaded which has GUI. see link below:

https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/218876?page=3#msg2592417
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