Laying "Road" tiles with the TFD tool

[+quack74 329]

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Hats off to anyone who ever made a terrain from scratch!

It is worth it in the end though....right?......Is there an end?

[Wrench 9,655]

yes, the satisfaction if nearly orgasmic...

and no;

it never ends ... the tiles go on and on and on and on......

 

 

 

 

 

(did you use my trick of painting the road sections, so as to obtain perfect alignments???

[+quack74 329]

What I have been doing to line up tiles is, since the FE tiles are 512x512, I create a new clear .tga that is 1024x1024. This way I can fit 4 different tiles in one .tga. I can rotate them any way I want to line up roads, rivers and terrain colors. Works really well and it's quick. I nice trick to thin out some trees too is to open the Terrains' Data.ini and find any texture and cancel out the AlphaObject parameter ( // ). The buildings stay but bye bye to all the trees. Makes for a more realistic farm country.

[+gterl 1,204]

I can tell you rivers and the corresponding heigh-map (fixing as no river flows uphill) is even worse

[+quack74 329]

I can tell you rivers and the corresponding heigh-map (fixing as no river flows uphill) is even worse

I'm sure it is. I'm glad I don't have to mess with the river tile positions at all.

[Wrench 9,655]

good thing you're not working on WW2 China... you know how many frakking rivers there are in China!!!????  

 

you can see what I mentioned (I think in another thread here), about 'painted' edges for the tiles. Everything comes out perfectly aligned

 

Canton region, pearl river estuary. grass fields, paddies, airfields etc

[+Gepard 10,775]

The road connection works also with TE without problems.

[+Stephen1918 1,473]

Wrench - I really like your idea of color coding the tiles. It makes terrain modding much easier.

[Wrench 9,655]

thanks! it's actually one of my BETTER ideas. Just like in cartoons, it came to me like a bolt from the blue (light bulb included!!)