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Tutorials on how to create and import your custom terrain into Overgrowth. Here is the most up to date tutorial (Video tutorial) (Sep 29, 2011)

Level terrain tutorial: how to make a custom terrain in L3DT

And here are out dated, but still usable tutorials

The two tutorials cover two entirely different approaches.
How to make your own Terrains for OG - Crash Course
Custom Terrain Tutorial

You can find the cached and simplified model of the terrain in your user documents wolfire/overgrowth/data/textures/terrain/levelname/

Level XML Reference:

ExtraAO tag takes a value from 0 to 1, with anything above 0 adding darker and more subtle AO.

example: <ExtraAO>0.6</ExtraAO>

ModelOverride tag specifies a path to a model to use instead of the one generated from the heightmap,

example: <ModelOverride>Data/Models/cave_test.obj</ModelOverride>

Moved WIP tutorial to discussion.

TODO - recommend and describe how to pull and use existing heightmaps in a given level, also point to good tutorial on how to make own. One does exist on here somewhere.

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 Tutorials on how to create and import your custom terrain into Overgrowth.
+Here is the most up to date tutorial (Video tutorial) (Sep 29, 2011)
+* [http://forums.wolfire.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=12568#p141577 Level terrain tutorial: how to make a custom terrain in L3DT]
-Here is tutorial for L3DT version 2.9 standard.
+And here are out dated, but still usable tutorials
-Also i am useing Overgrowth a134 files
-So lets start with downloading L3DT [http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/downloads/standard.php here]
+* The two tutorials cover two entirely different approaches.
-After you have installed it i recomend you to make walk-trough guide first to understand little this program.
+* [[How to make your own Terrains for OG - Crash Course]]
+* [http://forums.wolfire.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5457 Custom Terrain Tutorial]
-I make also a Designable map with you.
-Under the '''Heightfield size'''
-*change width to 2048 and Height to 2048.
-*change Horiz.scale to 1
-Click next
-optional change is to change HF/DM ratio to 16 for faster calculating of design map
-click next untill you see Design map parameters
-*change Average altitude: all the way to the land
-*feel free to mess around with other sliders
-*choose climate under Default climate this option changes texture map of your new map
-L3DT also can generate atributes map what i am useing for waight map in OG and it is useing climate option what i will explain little later.
-click next untill you see Calculation queue window
-Check there
-Heightfield,
-Attributes map,
-terrain normals
-Texture map
-press next.
-So you see Texture settings.
-*uncheck Use light map because OG has its own shadows map
-*check Anti-aliasing and move slider to 32X
-*check Make high.resolution texture
-*check Split map into tiles(mosaic map)
-and press OK
-L3DT will ask you now to save your project map so just save it somewhere.
-After the calculatuon progress is finished do not generate Light map because you dont nee it.
-So we almost have basic thing for Overgrowtg map.
-Now it gets little tricky because we are going to mess with climates and atributes map (In Overgrowth its called waight map)
-So lets begin with opening up Resources menu and selecting under there climates and Climat manager.
-Now you see all climates what is pre made for L3DT
-Chose Temperate (basick)
-click on the Pebbels and press copy
-Name it OG_Pebbels and press ok
-chose Appearance and then under material Coppy
-Name it again OG_Pebbels
-Now click that button with ...
-make new folder called OG
-name your file again OG_pebbels.mat.xml and save your material file into that folder.
-Click ok 3 times untill you are back in the climate editor window
-Chose jour OG_pebbels and chose delete and press ok untill you reach to climate manager window
-Now we are going to make completly new climate named OG and it will use Our material files including that 1 what we just made
-So click on the Demo-grass-rock-sand and make copy if it
-lets name this Climate to OG
-Now click that button with ...
-Go to folder you made earlyer called OG and save your climate file into that folder.
+You can find the cached and simplified model of the terrain in your user documents wolfire/overgrowth/data/textures/terrain/levelname/
-Press ok
+Level XML Reference:
-now select Grass and make copy of it and name it OG_Grass
+* ExtraAO tag takes a value from 0 to 1, with anything above 0 adding darker and more subtle AO.
+example: <ExtraAO>0.6</ExtraAO>
-under General tab there is Display col click on it and chose that green colour from basic colors what is in the location x=3 y=3
+* ModelOverride tag specifies a path to a model to use instead of the one generated from the heightmap,
+example: <ModelOverride>Data/Models/cave_test.obj</ModelOverride>
-click ok
+Moved WIP tutorial to discussion.
-under Appearance tab there is edit button click it and again name it OG_Grass and save it to the OG folder useing that ... button
+TODO - recommend and describe how to pull and use existing heightmaps in a given level, also point to good tutorial on how to make own. One does exist on here somewhere.
-click ok untill you are back in the Climate editor window
-Click save and then OK
-And thats it for tonight
-* The two tutorials cover two entirely different approaches.
-* [[How to make your own Terrains for OG - Crash Course]]
-* [http://forums.wolfire.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5457 Custom Terrain Tutorial]
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