Recent content by rents1977

I was using a cg script to alpha splat buildings for a terrain I was working on, then I gave up fighting with it as there was talk of the new Ogre engine making it out dated. It let me use RGBA to map high res textures to a low res colour map over the building and then add baked AO over the top...

As a long term user of Linux, Blender and Rigs of Rods I've been trying to get my head round normal maps not working as expected. Turns out Blender and OpenGL use the opposite Y direction from Direct X. This means that bumps are shown as hollows, and vice versa. So it was nothing to do with...

You need to set the camera type to orthographic, see if the Blender docs help clear it up. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cameras.html For large terrains you need to make sure your view properties are set with a large enough clipping distance that you can see the extents of...

What do you need to know? I can try help. I've used L3DT and Blender to make heightmaps. Also see my post: https://forum.rigsofrods.org/threads/tutorial-how-to-export-height-map-from-blender-to-ror.3073/

Its probably easy to export a list of the vertices using python and the blender console. I was using that method to get x,y,z positions of objects. Based on using this: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/161276/saving-and-loading-object-name-location-and-rotation-of-a-selection I...

Just watched this on YouTube: It's all kinds of amazing. This kind of thing could revolutionise RoR vehicle engines. Though I imagine the current implementation has way too much overhead! Just sharing because it creates accurate sound, torque/horsepower curves, and other outputs in real...

I tired to use the inbuilt bump mapping using rigs-of-rods/resources/materials/general.material, but I obviously do something wrong, as although I get the bump mapping I don't get the PSSM shadowing. I don't know how to combine the bump effect in general.material with the RoR/Managed_Mats/Base...

I wish I could get my head round shaders. I try and try and always mess something up. A default set of shaders would be absolutely amazing for modders, and somewhere somehow a lot of them are in RoR, but not exposed to users. I don't know enough about the code to figure out where? The water...

@only_a_ptr Thanks for getting back to me, and the link, sorry for my delay in replying. I fall in and out of love with RoR and making maps. I seem to find more problems than I overcome, I want to make larger maps, but a combination of the single page limit, the light map not covering the whole...

As an example of the difficulties I experienced: to make this bridge to 1:1 scale for a terrain derived from OSM it needed to be just over 1km long. Same size as some existing maps!

This is something I looked in to, but real scale maps get a bit boring, due to the time taken to get around. I saw a lot of games use scaling, so one of the commercial truck sims scales towns and cities to 1/3 and motorways to 1/10. This then makes a lot of work for picking what streets to keep...

Can anyone help me to get the lods working in the attached file please?

My laptop is a bit of a potato, but I noticed batches seem to have more effect than triangles, when looking at the stats shown by pressing F. E.g. MitCity with 3,000,000 triagles and 300ish batches is more than 3x the speed of the community map with 900,000 triangles and 750+ batches. What is...

UV mapping is defining co-ordinates on your model to map the textures too, if you are completely new to it all I would look at one of the many tutorials on youtube. Start with learning to make a mesh (the 3d shape in space) You can then get your basic mesh in to RoR to play about with. Next...