Custom Terrain

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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.