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PPQ_Purple
Knight
Bloody hell.
So it seems that only four biomes are involved for he map:
F - plains forest
P - plains
Also snowy plains and snowy forest.
For some reason desert biome is used by bridge scene and I can't figure how (same for road scene).
What I want to do is to make use of different biomes for different type of flora and background (like, mt. Fuji in distance).
P - plains
Also snowy plains and snowy forest.
For some reason desert biome is used by bridge scene and I can't figure how (same for road scene).
What I want to do is to make use of different biomes for different type of flora and background (like, mt. Fuji in distance).
I am roughly guessing how terrain works now.
There are potentially three unused scene slots, which are random scene, steppe forest and desert forest. If I guessed correctly, desert forest map ID is 13... Or is it? Or is it used at all?
Anyways, I can as well make use of the road and bridge scenes, turning them back into randomly generated ones.
The idea here is to set up different biomes for different vegetation and/or different terrain borders. That means repainting the whole map.
There are potentially three unused scene slots, which are random scene, steppe forest and desert forest. If I guessed correctly, desert forest map ID is 13... Or is it? Or is it used at all?
Anyways, I can as well make use of the road and bridge scenes, turning them back into randomly generated ones.
The idea here is to set up different biomes for different vegetation and/or different terrain borders. That means repainting the whole map.
Progress so far!
I have polished my pine tree production, on that picture there is 4 type of them (one is naked), and all of them were made in about an hour (after a week of trial and error). Naked pine is 600 polys, green pines are from 1100 to 1400 polys. Looks very good and FPS is smooth. I have achieved a balance between performance/aesthetics/creation time.
Going to produce a dozen or so of these trees, as well as trees in batches (by three-four) for high-density spots. Maybe. Or maybe not.
Then i will do a bush and a grass mesh so as to work in three directions at once.
Going to produce a dozen or so of these trees, as well as trees in batches (by three-four) for high-density spots. Maybe. Or maybe not.
Then i will do a bush and a grass mesh so as to work in three directions at once.
PPQ_Purple
Knight
On the topic of scenes tell me you aren't deleting the custom scenes the original mod had. Like the road and the hill overlooking a bridge and stuff. Those are mega fun. Although they do lack variety.
Not really going to bother deleting them.
According to code, phlpp had intention of making three different scene for bridge and path, but he commented out that part of code and typed something like "these scenes are going to be rare after all". I moght have invoked the module builder script, but all the changes I made were directly to .txt files. It might break some interconnections, but well, who knows.
I will look into the scenes.txt and try to switch on the randomizer, hopefully, it will work beneath the manually made scene and provide variety, but for that I would need to see if path and river positions could be secured so that to prevent flying bridges over landmass.
Also, I am looking forward to add bamboo groves and blossoming cherries but only as a part of of city/castle scenes, I think.
According to code, phlpp had intention of making three different scene for bridge and path, but he commented out that part of code and typed something like "these scenes are going to be rare after all". I moght have invoked the module builder script, but all the changes I made were directly to .txt files. It might break some interconnections, but well, who knows.
I will look into the scenes.txt and try to switch on the randomizer, hopefully, it will work beneath the manually made scene and provide variety, but for that I would need to see if path and river positions could be secured so that to prevent flying bridges over landmass.
Also, I am looking forward to add bamboo groves and blossoming cherries but only as a part of of city/castle scenes, I think.
I have looked into the module systems and it really looks convenient.
I have re-enabled three bridge scene variations and three path scene variations, so in the future I will make them all good looking and pretty. Might as well add even more.
I only regret about not having source for flora_kinds.txt, and all I am left to do is guessing what flags means what. But whatever.
I have re-enabled three bridge scene variations and three path scene variations, so in the future I will make them all good looking and pretty. Might as well add even more.
I only regret about not having source for flora_kinds.txt, and all I am left to do is guessing what flags means what. But whatever.
PPQ_Purple
Knight
You can download version 3.0. That one has the folder and file you are looking for.
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valleyRock_flatRounded_big_2 bo_valleyRock_flatRounded_big_2No, what I was talking about was is Warband Module system, that includes Module_data folder in which there are python scripts to generate those .txt files. It is just that for some reason phlpp didn't include Module_data folder, but only Module_system folder that made me confused. But I have already got myself a complete module system package and required flora_kids.py script is already being used.
Now, however, I am more concerned with grass rendering, since it has a pesky bug of alpha channel inetrpolation outline which accumulate with the number pf meshes and mess the drawing order:
You can see the outline of alpha channel on texture. And cumulative effect on the horizon to the left. I have tried all blending modes, all flags, different shaders, and so far I can't figure out how to tackle this issue without breaking smoothness of grass fade-in and fade-out (otherwise I'd use higher value alpha threshold).
Now, however, I am more concerned with grass rendering, since it has a pesky bug of alpha channel inetrpolation outline which accumulate with the number pf meshes and mess the drawing order:
I have came up with a workaround to this issue by setting up higher alpha test threshold and using custom grass mask in case of grass_no_shadow material which is used while game works in dx7 mode. This greatly improved near-field grass rendering while scarificing a tiny bit of smoothness of grass fade-in.
I also looked into the shader source code, and if I am correct, the near-field alpha rendering could be further improved by switching from linear filtering of a texture to none. Shader files reside in the game's root folder, thus making it a bit inconvenient to end-user, and I am not very inclined to making custom shaders, or modifying the existing ones.
As for grass rendering in dx9 mode I nost likely will leave it as it is, since what is tuned for dx7 shading doesn't look as good in this case. But I will look into means to making grass rendering as good as possible.
Take a note that I am working on a copy of /commonRes/materisls.brf file, so the changes are module-local. I had to do so, since game is hardcoded to look for "grass" and "grass_no_shadow" materials no matter which material is actually assigned to the grass mesh.
Also I discovered that there are two material flags that are named unknown(used for alpha test?) are actually the flags that blend grass with local environment shadow (the flag in the left column) and, probably, ground color (middle column flag). It is very well noticeable in directx7 rendering mode, and, obviously, I left them enabled.
So today on my list is tweaking grass material for dx9, looking for custom fir btanch texture (currently pine is used), adding a few more pine models (since they are rather distinct) and increasing variety of grasses.
Also, I want to make a note that all my custom vegetation meshes do not have LODx models yet (and it seems that LODx's are not working in case of vegetation under dx7?), so that means that all my models are at prime quality despite of the drawing distance, which hints to a decent performance/appearance balance. It is achieved with having trees ynder 1k polygons with their densities (according to flora_kinds.py generation script) at 4...6. As for grass, I currently use 4-poly "cross" model with clamped UV texture at a density of 1000. With all that I have smooth FPS on dx7. Dx9 was always more challenging to my GPU, so I never really used it. And since I am working hard on achieving better visuals for dx7, resorting to use dx9 might as well be meaningless.
And my hardware is rather low-end: Intel Pentium 987 @1.5 GHz + Intel HD 3000, so performance is of a concern to me.
I also looked into the shader source code, and if I am correct, the near-field alpha rendering could be further improved by switching from linear filtering of a texture to none. Shader files reside in the game's root folder, thus making it a bit inconvenient to end-user, and I am not very inclined to making custom shaders, or modifying the existing ones.
As for grass rendering in dx9 mode I nost likely will leave it as it is, since what is tuned for dx7 shading doesn't look as good in this case. But I will look into means to making grass rendering as good as possible.
Take a note that I am working on a copy of /commonRes/materisls.brf file, so the changes are module-local. I had to do so, since game is hardcoded to look for "grass" and "grass_no_shadow" materials no matter which material is actually assigned to the grass mesh.
Also I discovered that there are two material flags that are named unknown(used for alpha test?) are actually the flags that blend grass with local environment shadow (the flag in the left column) and, probably, ground color (middle column flag). It is very well noticeable in directx7 rendering mode, and, obviously, I left them enabled.
So today on my list is tweaking grass material for dx9, looking for custom fir btanch texture (currently pine is used), adding a few more pine models (since they are rather distinct) and increasing variety of grasses.
Also, I want to make a note that all my custom vegetation meshes do not have LODx models yet (and it seems that LODx's are not working in case of vegetation under dx7?), so that means that all my models are at prime quality despite of the drawing distance, which hints to a decent performance/appearance balance. It is achieved with having trees ynder 1k polygons with their densities (according to flora_kinds.py generation script) at 4...6. As for grass, I currently use 4-poly "cross" model with clamped UV texture at a density of 1000. With all that I have smooth FPS on dx7. Dx9 was always more challenging to my GPU, so I never really used it. And since I am working hard on achieving better visuals for dx7, resorting to use dx9 might as well be meaningless.
And my hardware is rather low-end: Intel Pentium 987 @1.5 GHz + Intel HD 3000, so performance is of a concern to me.
Here's blood. Also reduced the number of blood particles from 2500(!) to 55. Also reduced gun smoke particles to from 180 to 50, as well as reduced number of particles of smoke upon bullet hitting ground.
Actually, it seems that number of particles per second is a specific number, and the number of particles is limited. That is why I have those fountains of blood hanging in air 
