PT3D - procedural terrain creation tool

[Prime_8]

any one have a link to a simple standalone multi point gradient editor ?
i don't want to have to make one . lol

:: now support mix modes and blending of a height map into the procedural.

working on gradient mixing soon .

rar http://forums.nuclearglory.com/index.php?act=downloadattach&atid=3448

[T_M_C]

Excellent.   

Sorry, i don't have a gradient editor.   

TMC

[fog]

Yeah needless to say I don't have a multi point gradient editor either

I like the look of the building ruins in that screenie though.

[Prime_8]

gradient editor ..
http://www.devenezia.com/downloads/gradient/index.html

very cool saves as a 1 x 1366 pixel high color bmp ..

:: cheers guys .

more pics today .. in a min

[T_M_C]

Nice find Prime.

I can see that Gradient editor comming in really handy.

I've downloaded it for future reference.

Cool pics.

TMC

[Prime_8]

yeah except it has fixed max number of blend points ..
LOL but very nice.


i like it has teh parametric / curve values.

lol testing fullscreen editing mode.

[T_M_C]

Looks good.

How do you navigate between the Gui and 3d display.

Ie, if you want to fly around the 3d scene, do you hold down a mouse button and use the keys to move.

Or, press a key for fly mode or something ?

I'm not sure what to do with my system.

Swapping between Gui and Gameplay area.

TMC

[Prime_8]

click in 3d .  the GUI hides as it is a window .  
then use mouse look and arrow keys here .
so press 'v' initiates mouse look .. and then arrow keys to 'fly , mouse wheel is for smal moves forward and back .

press a 'key'  't' in this case shows the GUI tool window  , and pops it to top of app .

[T_M_C]

Ahh.

Thats a good idea.

I hadn't thought about clicking in the main window and hiding the gui.

I think for my system, i'll use a cursors keys to move around the 2d map, left mouse click selects images and right mouse click and drag to move images.

And then have various buttons for other uses.

My old editor didn't use a gui, so i didn't have the issue of swapping between the 2d display and gui.

TMC

[Prime_8]

here i embed teh 3d into the fltk window using some api tricks .

http://www.binaryzoo.com/forum/index.php?topic=1366.msg26849#new

i personaly like ingame / in engine editors. 

[Prime_8]

it's easy to use your own height maps made in 3rd party app.

just convert it to a png .


have a look :


::  latest usage video ..

PT3D , procedural terrain tool 013b how to use	powered by Aeva

[fog]

Nice.  Always have a little laugh when I see the FPS counter on your videos and screenies.  We aren't quite in "this needs to be optimised" territory yet then

[Prime_8]

lol.. fast faster ...... lol


here is a wee tut on how to use your own existing height maps and such to make a mesh

PT3D , with 3rd party height map how to	powered by Aeva

[Prime_8]

i have teh texture preview thumbs working now .

and more of the tex' sockets are functional .. with actions being linked to te texure gui section .

allowing for way more control over results.

BUT  i have found a memory leak ,  ~1mb per build / generation . ( only in single core XP rigs )

i have started tracking it daown and i think it is the perling class...  each instance uses about 1mb ,
i think the   p=new perlin()  , has a defective or empty destructor. ?
i will test later .. any how , all the ram gets returned at app exit .. so my final cleanup is working ...  LOL

[T_M_C]

I remember having to track down a memory leak from one of my old games.

Took ages to find.

I also discovered that the free memory fluctuates quite a bit even when the app isn't doing anything, which suprised me.

Do you use a form editor to create your gui layouts or do you place it all by hand ?

Looking good by the way.   

TMC