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Ive found how to do it. However they are more basic than I thought, instead ive made some myself with PS, can you gimme some advice on how to improve them.

concrete from the game files...


my lighter concrete shade


grass


my camo

Last edited by Vilham (2007-07-23 02:42:14)

Yeah been reading up on doing textures, some tuts recommend up to 30 layers to make it realy detailed.

Anyway heres something ive been working on in the mean while. Started it earlier, about an hour or two ago.

Here is it nearly finished.

quite good.

Vilham wrote:

Does anyone know how to get a copy of the textures this game uses. Without screen shotting in the editor. What I need is the standard grass texture and the standard asphalt texture.

What format do you want them in?   For the game itself they are .dds and you can open them in photoshop with the .dds plugin from nvidia

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/phot … ugins.html    .dds plugin for photoshop


http://developer.nvidia.com/object/dds_ … iewer.html    .dds thumbnail viewer

you can open them in PS and save as a jpeg or whatever...  they are 512x512...  all the BF2 textures are multiples of 2...  256x2048 512x2048 512x512...

all the terrain textures are in the commonclient.zip/terrain/textures   

theres also a cool app that will texture a whole map in less than 30 sec if you want...  BFTpaint


BF2 uses a colormap and a detailmap together for the ground terrain... with a generation of lowdetailmaps in the editor

Last edited by [TUF]Catbox (2007-08-02 21:09:54)

bryce 5.5 is a lot easier to use than terragen and makes really cool heightmaps...
http://www.download.com/Bryce/3000-6677_4-10696717.html

and then BFTPaint for the first 3 layers... then you can tweak by hand with the other 3 layers



http://www.bfpirates.com

Last edited by [TUF]Catbox (2007-08-02 21:11:10)

I am gonna make a photo tut on making a bryce heightmap for the bfeditor website to show how easy it is
... I tried Terragen and it made my head hurt... lol
3dmax was easier...

Heres a site that has a bunch of heightmaps(sat maps)
you just have to open your heightmapPrimary.raw in photoshop and put one of these on top... a little gaussian blur then flatten layers... then save and overwrite the heightmapPrimary.raw in your maps folder... then open the editor and check it out... and adjust as necessary

you can also use your own 3 textures for BFTpaint... in the data folder....  low.tga steep.tga and high.tga    You can make a snow one... desert one... etc...  then you can tweak the tiling in the editor to make it look like a BF2 terrain... the default settings in the editor are pretty wacked...
I checked out a terrain.con from a BF2 map and use that as a guideline...  changed the far side tiling from 32 to 6 or 8...


BRYCE htmap

Last edited by [TUF]Catbox (2007-08-02 21:48:51)

yes you can... that was just a quick example...   when i make more detailed heightmaps... Bryce is really cool... then i tweak it in PS...
and can you preview how the heightmap looks in PS?

Last edited by [TUF]Catbox (2007-08-03 01:54:38)

not sure why your being a jerk?  I was just trying to help out vilham...  I use Bryce because it makes really detailed heightmaps...
yes any tard can hit clouds in PS and make a pretty unplayable map terrain wise...

you use PS and ill use Bryce... lol

heres your PS heightmap in the editor


and heres a heightmap in bryce that you can see and edit in real time...

[TUF]Catbox wrote:

yes you can... that was just a quick example...   when i make more detailed heightmaps... Bryce is really cool... then i tweak it in PS...
and can you preview how the heightmap looks in PS?

Yeh but i just do that in PS anyway. Using the good old white = highest black = lowest, percentage method. That how I leveled my latest city map to have exactly the right hieghts.

If bryce just does what heightmaps like PS I can do that without the extra program anyway.

Although that 3D preview does own...

Last edited by Vilham (2007-08-03 06:15:12)