Untitled Moon Map

[Fixious]

Been experimenting with heightmaps and managed to make one out of a portion of our very own moon. This is the image I used. The result:

Unfinished, to say the least. But that's 99% of the moon heightmap, and it works surprisingly well. Will need to modify the terrain some more since there are a few rather large craters.

 

[ContingencyPl4n]

That's no moon! That's a... Wait, urm, a... Carry on...

 

[Triad]

That's awesome!

 

[Fixious]

I was wrong. It's actually one of Neptune's moons (Triton), not Earth's. Anyways:

 

[Belberith]

Lol at the random floating ammo box at 2:30

 

[Jordahan]

Neat, I dig it.

 

[Fixious]

Lol at the random floating ammo box at 2:30

Too lazy to complete that side. Gotta get this ventilation system working!

 

[Armageddon]

like the head bump at 0:42

How do you import heightmaps into the editor?
I gave it a shot lastnight after seeing this and im not sure what format or if i have to convert etc.

 

[Fixious]

It's stupid and complicated, thanks to the Legions editor being half-functional. You have to use an older version of TGEA (1.5, for instance). Basically this, except after you've imported the heightmap in 1.5 just save the mission, then use the .ter it creates and use that for Legions. Once in the Legions editor, delete the Bitmap instance before doing any editing.

I don't know anything about scripting, but I have a hunch the heightmap directory setting in Legions is borked. If it worked and pointed to the right heightmap file, you probably wouldn't need to make all these unnecessary steps.

Anyways, doing it this way you can quite easily import Andrews T1 heightmaps.

 

[Armageddon]

Anyways, doing it this way you can quite easily import Andrews T1 heightmaps.

exactly why i wanted to try.

Worked, thanks for the info. Might want to add that little bit to your editor help thread.
Also stonehenge is awesome in legions.

 

[Fixious]

https://mega.co.nz/#!8McUHJgK!EeXbEDjnIx2E-mcn0i6RLDT2Ocx-Fq4W9_eVStP0U_M

I don't know if I'll submit this for the map competition. Just getting it out there to anyone interested in messing around with it, or general feedback.