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--- arma2:terrain:generic-tips [2013-05-20 05:36]
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-====== ArmA 2 Terrain Generic Tips ======
-**ArmA 2 Terrain Generic Tips** for developing terrains, couldn't find any other page for this info, so here is our generic page.
-Large terrains the cell size is performance (FPS) factor than satellite texture/mask resolution.
-Satellite texture / mask values; 1 meter / 1 pixel generally gives optimum values.
-Decent middle range MCO texture makes wonders for your terrain look.
-You can grab little chunks of "seed" textures from google - typical 512 x 512's - tile them so they're seamless, then I overlay them on hand painted stuff - fade it right out with transparancy, or overlay using "soft light" or something in photoshop. Use them like MCO over the hand painted sat image - just to give a little more fine surface detail.
-====== Terrain Close Texture Naming ======
-When you name your terrain close textures, making different type names with underscore is bad idea, here is why.
-VTE_Sand_co.tga\\
-VTE_Sand_Dry_co.tga\\
-VTE_Sand_Green_co.tga
-Now when you sort those file names, sand is first, then comes sand_dry and then sand_green... however because we have the third _co and _nohq etc suffixes there, they get sorted ackwardly, like this:
-VTE_Sand_co.tga\\
-VTE_Sand_Dry_co.tga\\
-VTE_Sand_Dry_nohq.tga\\
-VTE_Sand_Green_co.tga\\
-VTE_Sand_Green_nohq.tga\\
-VTE_Sand_nohq.tga
-See? That is kind of confusing as "sand" is split up around couple of other sand_<type> names. Solution for this is to remove the underscore from the type names like:
-VTE_Sand_co.tga\\
-VTE_SandDry_co.tga\\
-VTE_SandGreen_co.tga
-And its solved, now they all file-sort perfectly in ordered fashion :)

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