Map Editor -Height Issue-

[Aldwen]

I've been working to make Calradia a bit more realistic and have actual depth, height and variance between the different areas so I went about making the steppes and Vaegir mountains a bit higher than barely above sea level. It appears M&B doesn't like that though... Here is my issue...


In the editor it looks pimp-tastic

In game... not so much...

Anyone know anything about this? Is there a way I can change the altitude that snow appears? Some sort of ninja editing into code to fix this?


Otherwise I'm going to have to nerf my steppe and mountain areas :'(

 

[Aldwen]

Nothing?

Blahhhh.... 

 

[omzdog]

I believe that all mountains in game will produce snow atop them, regardless of their height. I don't think there is a way to adjust this other than use the smaller hills and raising the land slightly.

...pimp-tastic

 

[GetAssista]

Anyone know anything about this? Is there a way I can change the altitude that snow appears? Some sort of ninja editing into code to fix this?

There is a set absolute Z height at which snow starts to appear on mountains. You can move whole map up/down a bit to tinker with overall picture. There are ingame problems though with maps too far below Z=0, so switching off snow should be done through other means.
Amount and shape of snow is directed by alpha channel in whatever mountain texture is there (mountain.dds in native)

Or you can edit map mountain shader snow appearance formula in mb.fx in core folder, but that affects the whole game

 

[Aldwen]

Humm, well that seems like a whole lot of work for something like this...  So I went about just lowering everything down to a normal level.

Just finished with the steppes, and most of the Rhodok territory is finished so I just need to finish the rest of the map and I can release it. Maybe another day or two... Not sure if many people would be interested but I think my map looks pretty cool so maybe someone else out there will to.


After sprucing up Calradia I think I might head over to Britain 1297 and fix up that map. Looks like an awesome mod but I couldn't stand to play on such a bland map. Just pulled up some height maps of the UK last night so perhaps -Peter- might like a modified fancy map so he can focus on making the rest of the mod even more awesome.