ED Dev Team - I need some help with the Ground Texture system

[toby23]

Dear ED Team or anyone who can help,

 

I am developing high resolution ground textures based on aerial ground photography from the Sochi Adler region.

The seasonal tiles are ready and I am about to start work on the urban tiles but I have a problem that I need to solve first.

 

I have edited the noise_1.bmp.dds files and these display correctly in DCS World.

 

The problem is that there is another texture laid over all ground textures, a seasonal coloured noise texture that I cannot find.

Q. Where is it and what is it called?

It looks like blend_noise.bmp.dds but it's not.

 

At the moment, it is discolouring my textures as you can see in the images attached.

I tested the first two with a plain 50% gray background (see image 3) in Spring Season.

The fourth image is a screenshot from Summer, which also has slight discolouration.

 

Images have been scaled for posting and have lost some of their original fidelity.

Your help is much appreciated.

 

Toby

Edited September 5, 2013 by toby23

[toby23]

Ok, I've been patient and waited two weeks but no answer?

Really?

Can anyone who understands how DCS World works help out here?

It's for a good cause...

[-Hammer-]

I think none of the DEV´s ever take a look in this forum. :noexpression:

(clickable radio menu, f10 map, MFD Export Tool, NVG Mod, Multi-Display Support,and so on and so on.....)

Edited September 24, 2013 by -Hammer-

[Lizzard]

Oh I think the Devs do read through the Forums from Time to Time, but I think they are not really interessted in giving anyone a deep look in their Coding of DCS..it`s their Work..their Baby:)

[TurboHog]

Oh I think the Devs do read through the Forums from Time to Time, but I think they are not really interessted in giving anyone a deep look in their Coding of DCS..it`s their Work..their Baby:)

 

Aren't parents supposed to be proud of their baby then? They should want to show Toby how cute he/she is :)

[tintifaxl]

My guess is: they don't read the english forums.

[HungaroJET]

...or anyone who can help

 

here i am :) next time PM me if you need some help ;)

 

what you are looking for that is the noise texture

it is placed everywhere on the map (if no noise texture - you will get the missing texture all over)

 

name: noise_1.bmp.dds

 

you can find these (got 4 seasonal texture) in \DCS World\Bazar\Terrain\vfstextures\LandTextures"Season"Other.zip

[toby23]

Hey HungaroJet,

 

Thanks but that's not it.

As I mentioned in my first post, I already replaced the noise texture with my own (stones and grass).

There is another seasonal noise texture being layered over all other textures.

What is it?

[HungaroJET]

There are two or more textures on same place. If one of them missing then you will get the missing texture.

I think the other texture is grass_n_8.bmp.dds

Moreover if you see from distance then program use another texture from LandTexturesSpring.zip or LandTextures"Season".zip

On the first screenshot you can see the missing/removed land_l2_-9_23.png.dds texture

On 2nd pic no noise_1.bmp.dds and no r_for_t.tga.dds texture in the forest

On 3rd image only the noise texture removed

 

ps.: I did not try/check your texture mod yet, (so i dont know exactly) but maybe the format of your noise texture is not proper

 

Edited September 24, 2013 by HungaroJET

[toby23]

Thanks Hungaro.

Edited September 24, 2013 by toby23

[HungaroJET]

What you see on upper-left corner of your image, that's the blurry "washed" land_l2_-9_23.png.dds texture from LandTexturesSpring.zip or LandTextures"Season".zip

As I write earlier there are many textures on same place

 

[toby23]

That's it... thank you very much Hungaro.

In future, I'll contact you via PM, now that I know who to contact.

[HungaroJET]

Without the land_l2_-9_23.png.dds texture you can see the grass_n_8.bmp.dds on the same place:

 

[HungaroJET]

That looks like noise1 to me, that's the texture that I edited.

 

Yes, you are right i removed the wrong one :doh: That's the noise texture without the small land texture :)

 

One more: if you see Zaelu previous post/images, you can see the different colours not only different mipmaps but different textures as well. (under his coloured textures detailed land textures dissapear and come out/appear low-res land textures from a distance - this works like LOD on 3D models)

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1736272&postcount=348

Edited September 24, 2013 by HungaroJET

[TkER]

Yes, you are right i removed the wrong one :doh: That's the noise texture without the small land texture :)

 

One more if you see Zaelu previous post/images, you can see the different colours not only different mipmaps but different textures as well. (under his coloured textures detailed land textures dissapear and come out/appear low-res land textures from a distance - this works like LOD on 3D models)

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1736272&postcount=348

 

Exactly, noisemin and noisemax parameters regulate at what level the lowres and Hires texture appears.

[toby23]

land_l2_-9_23.png.dds texture

 

The land_l2_-9_23.png.dds texture is only used on the F10 SAT map only (see screenshot) when you zoom out to a certain level.

When you zoom in, this is replaced by more textures and these are the textures used in the game that I have been looking for.

 

Thank you very much for your help HJ,

Toby

Edited September 24, 2013 by toby23

[NRG-Vampire]

toby you should believe in HJ, if you remove the whole landtexturespring.zip - or rename it - then you will see the greyish blurry texture will disappear

[toby23]

I've found what I needed thanks to him and now I'm editing the textures... all 3000 of them.

Thanks m8

Edited September 25, 2013 by toby23