[Util] ZDoom Terrain Generator

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:33 pm

You are probably saving it as a 24bit bitmap (or 32bit), any good program should give you the option to choose when you save.

Mivalekan · Post by **Mivalekan** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:43 pm

Okay you should REALLY make a text file because I can't figure out how the HELL you work this thing.

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:52 pm

This thing is sooooo cool.
although, I did kinda make a 230mb wad by accident

PS - don't use 1600x1200 wallpapers

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » Wed May 11, 2005 5:10 pm

just cropping that heightmap in the corner of Grubber's pic and using that, produced a 7 meg wad file that zdoom, xwe, and doombuilder either wouldn't load or would take seemingly forever. i had to reduce the image to 64x64 then use it. that worked. ~700k wad.

jallamann · Post by **jallamann** » Wed May 11, 2005 5:32 pm

...

OMFG

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:05 pm

man thats cool! too bad it doesn't do it efficently

killingblair · Post by **killingblair** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:59 pm

How do you get it to work in XP?

SyntherAugustus · Post by **SyntherAugustus** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:45 pm

TheDarkArchon wrote:Grubber: YOU MADE DW NEWS!!!

<Blackfish> http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=6200 <-terrian maker for doom!!!!
(bloodshedder)<Sangueffusor> i can't believe it
<Sangueffusor> terrain in doom that doesn't look like shit

heh.

Bloodshedder · Post by **Bloodshedder** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:49 pm

In Photoshop: Image -> Mode -> Grayscale, then File -> Save -> Format BMP, click OK, Windows, 8 bit

In Paint Shop Pro: When making a new image, just specify Greyscale (8 bit) in Image Type. If you didn't do this, do Colors -> Greyscale, which will convert it to 8-bit greyscale automatically. Then do File -> Save, choose Save as Type of Windows or OS/2 Bitmap.

In Paint, just make sure you only use gray colors (RGB values must be the same for each gray). Then save it as a 256 Color Bitmap.

SyntherAugustus · Post by **SyntherAugustus** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:51 pm

killingblair wrote:How do you get it to work in XP?

Start -> run -> "cmd" in the command line
then goto the directory where zterrain is and type "zterrain -help"

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:41 pm

128x128 choked, but 64x64 and 48x48 are workable

http://www.planetgargoyle.com/terrain.png

Now all we need is shading on terrain (shadow cast "compilation" in zterrain with sun position?)

Post by **Kirby** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:58 pm

Grubber, as I constantly repeat next to my fellow worshiper:

PRAISE DA PROGRAMMER!!!!!

:rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock:

Linguica · Post by **Linguica** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:10 pm

Source code?

Post by **Chris** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:52 pm

Can you adjust the triangle size? Since there's probably a limit on the number of differently-sloped sectors (because they need unique TIDs?), it might be useful to create lower resolution terrain maps for bigger maps.

Post by **Vader** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:21 am

Awesome tool

I know i´ll use it a lot for skybox floors