Terrain creation with BattleCraft42!

[BiGGiBs]

Lo all.

lol...firstly no flaming about me mentioning bf1942 on here please. ;D
Op flash was doing what bf1942 does long ago & is way better too!

But...what with the release of the offical BC42 map editor for Battlefeild 1942 + Visitor in the last couple of weeks i've been busy messing with both.

link to the offical bc42 pages
http://www.planetbattlefield.com/battlecraft42/

After using bc42,seems to me that it would be ideal/useful for
newbie terrain creators & more experienced guys too maybe?
Creating your terrain & expoting as 16 bit heightmap.raw & then on its only a matter of opening in psp/photoshop and converting from 16bit too 8bit RGB & saving as a TGA.

I have tried this out and seems to work fine! ;D
BC even has random terrain gen built in too!
& it can create terrains of 256x256,512x512,768x768.

Check it out!
Here's a link to the bc42 d/l...you will need to have bf942 installed,i think?
http://www.fileplanet.com/index.asp?file=125824..it's 11mb!
Sorry about it being a FP link..i couldn't find another english site with the d/l.
I hate linking to FP or EA Games sites.

[spiffalski]

Can someone post if you need to have the game installed or not?

Cause I dont have it. Sounds good though.

Or. Could you maybe post a tga of a 256/512 randomnly generated island.

Thanks.

[BiGGiBs]

spiffalski
 
looks like you will need bf1942 installed!
I renamed my bf1942 dir & bc42 crashes just before terrain creation!
But if you had the demo of bf1942 i'm sure that it would work then!

A quick screenie of the terrain imported into visitor!


here's the randomly generated terrain it's 512x512 tga so all you need to do is use Kegetys TGA2ASE converter..then run visitor & start a new 512x512
island then import!...P.S...right click on it and save as!
http://mysite.freeserve.com/BiGGiBs/images/heightmap.tga

If you want another more complex/detailed terrain just post on here or PM me!

BiGGiBs.

[spiffalski]

Ta very much!
I should be able to cut a shape out of that and blur the edges for a nice island.