3D level question
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| Hy, VERY important question. When you make a level map in blender or mapplet, and export it... How do you load it into an actual level like with regualar terrain, only its not a terrain its your hand made level. I know about doing sky texture but how would you go about this. Sorry, been focusing on making a 2D game using c++, I'm almost finished actually, so I might go back to focusing on Blitz3D for a 3D game! Anyway thank you in advance... |
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| What's the file format of your level? |
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| it will be .B3D for now |
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; LoadMesh Example
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Graphics3D 640,480,0,2
SetBuffer BackBuffer()
camera=CreateCamera()
light=CreateLight()
RotateEntity light,90,0,0
; Load mesh
level=LoadMesh("level.b3d")
PositionEntity level,0,0,MeshDepth(level)*2
While Not KeyDown( 1 )
RenderWorld
Flip
Wend
Endhttp://www.blitzbasic.com/b3ddocs/command.php?name=loadmesh&ref=goto |
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| hy again RustyKristi! now I would actually prefer to just do the texture terrain command. but I don't want it to be just one texture. This will make you understand my question more, you see I want to create a superman themed game, I am a comic book fan and I am probably not going to use 3D player models they will probably be sprites. either that or I was thinking about making a mode 7 type game, but is there a way to draw the race trak Mario kart style in a paint program then turn it into a terrain or something similar?My apologies I am only experienced in 2D. because wouldn't the texture just loop when loading it into a terrain? |
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| is there a way to draw the race trak Mario kart style in a paint program then turn it into a terrain yes you will need : one image for the heightmap (the reliefs of the terrain) one texture for the colors (the colors of the terrain) (one texture for the details (the details which are tiled on the terrain)) the idea is to create your heightmap, then to draw the track on it (the pixels of the track need to be slightly darker than the pixel of the reliefs so that it looks as if it was digged in the terrain, then you blur it. About the heightmap, i suggest to use a scale of 1,25.5,1 (for the height) so that each shade (grey color) between 0,0,0 and 255,255,255 represents 0.1 unit. An example on how to create a terrain with such scale here : http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=3093 |
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| ok thanks I'm going to play around with that, probably come up with a tech demo |
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| If you can, try to find the game "sphere racers" (i bought it a few years ago on amazon, only a few euros), it is a Blitz3d game, and strangely, the source code is available on the install disc... (there are tracks on terrains like i described) |
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| Thanks! This would be better for me to get a feel for not only creating a race track but also city streets with sidewalks using bitmaps. |
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