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Ever since I've modded Battlefront 2 I've wanted to make the game a bit more graphically stunning. The ground has always been a problem for me..Does anyone know if it is possible to create higher resolution textures that work, I've not been successful.. thanks

erm not exactly that way.......but u can change some values under the texture pop up........mapping etc......if you cange a special value the texture is getting smaller and in fact sharper......

SO how do I go by adding my own texture? I have a rocky texture I want to add in, but it always ends up a white color, or crashes the game....

Adding a own texture is easy!
You only have to edit the texture and save it in the right .tga file an i think a random name in your world 1 Ordner, the rest is easy. If you're not sure that you save as the right .tga try to copy an paste a texture thats already ingame!

Carth

Yeah just open up one of your TGA files delete everything in there and then start working on a new one. Then of course you open it under textures and paint it on...something I thought would have been more realistic is adding like dirt blowing up when it hits the ground. Thats been the biggest concern for me

oh.... I always start things from scratch, I didn't think of that.....

really, you can use any texture in the game for a ground texture, I think just has to be 16 bit TGA and with a resolution as a power of two(128x128, 512x512). I also used the tga's for the msh's as ground textures. Works great.

RC-1290'Dreadnought'

oh, a 16 bit tga.... I didn't know that, I was saving some of those textures really wierd... thanks.....

16 or 24, not sure . And it MUST be 32 when you use an alpha layer .

Yep - that's because it only supports Alpha in 32 bit Otherwise it simply won't be saved right - even if you 'convert' it to a 16 bit map in Photoshop. it's just not this game.

what I'm more excited about is when they finish the 64 bit map It'll probably contain heightvalues so it works like a heightmap Reminds me of ZBrush which is a 2½D application It uses RGBZ: Red, Green, Blue and Z. The Z is the heightfactor. The higher Z Value, the closer it will appear to be towards you. This is called Pixols, btw

It seems 24 bit works best.
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ooh, that 64 bit sounds great, but what I am really waiting for is a technique wich uses multiple combinable textures that are randomly placed so that you don't really see the repeating tile effect wich you see when a texture is tiled too many times.

RC-1290 wrote:ooh, that 64 bit sounds great, but what I am really waiting for is a technique wich uses multiple combinable textures that are randomly placed so that you don't really see the repeating tile effect wich you see when a texture is tiled too many times.

*cough*Twilight Princess*cough* . Yeah, I'd love to see that too.

I'm assuming that the larger the texture is, the sharper and cleaner the ground will look, but the laggier it will be. Am I correct?

That's mostly correct, but you'll stop seeing an increase in sharpness after probably 1024x1024 -- remember, the resolution of your screen will change what detail can be seen.