Question for terrain builders: how to modify vegetation placement

[stuntman 170]

Hi guys

 

Do any of you terrains gurus know how to change the position of the vegetation on the map? I would like to remove some parcels here and there on vietnam terrain for placing objects.

 

I've looked thru the forum but hardly found a correct answer...

[+Stary 2,427]

2 ways:

 

1) tile specific approach -only via Terrain Editor and using texturelist used by original creator, this way you can add/remove some trees per tile

 

2) retiling approach -simpler, also using TE, by retiling the area in question with tiles that have no trees -for Vietnam maps it's usually prefix-AB tiles

[+RAVEN 414]

Will that work for removing .tga trees out of the middle of runways?

[+Stary 2,427]

best would be to re-tile the area in question with tiles that don't have trees on them (those airbase -AB tiles)

 

as for removing individual trees -the removal would affect trees layout on every tile of that name (in example VietnamGJ50B.bmp)

[stuntman 170]

In fact, I'm trying to adapt the YAP terrain in my SF2 install with green hell 2 texture, and sometimes GH2 trees are overlapping with their extra objects. I had a look at TK terrain editor, but i gotta say i'm didn't really understand the thing...

[Panama Red 22]

The alternate (like I did) was to convert the YAP targets, cities, bases, etc to GH2. That way you do not mess with any terrain tiles, only text files.