Hello. I'm just starting to learn to work with Cate. In order to see if i understand the rules I have Cate perform some simple jobs on my theater.
1 pass. Tile ocean with one texture and land with a second one (MinAlt MaxAlt parameter). Works fine.
2 pass. Tile a section of the theater with a third texture according to a colored area of a bitmap. The bitmap matches the dimensions of the theater (2048x2048 for a 128 theater) and is saved uncompressed with a 256 color palette. However, when checking the terrain after this pass i have to see that only a part of the colored area was actually re-tiled with the third texture. Most of it remains untouched.
Any idea what i did wrong?
(below are the .conf files from the 1. and 2. pass)
-1----
# Ocean tiles
UpdateOceanTiles=OK
[Rules: Ocean, Farm]
Color=-1,-1,-1
TileRule=0 0 (1-23) (0) * * * *
TileRule=1 99999 (*) (48) * * * *
[EndRules]
-2----
BMPFileName=C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Shadow\Desktop\Pakistan\CATE_bmp.bmp
[Rules: Oman after BMP]
Color=255,255,0
TileRule=0 99999 (*) (548) * * * *
[EndRules]
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Re: Help request @ CATE BMP tiling
quote:Originally posted by BenBen:
1 pass. Tile ocean with one texture and land with a second one
Doesn't Dem2terrain already do this for you?
quote:2 pass. Tile a section of the theater with a third texture according to a colored area of a bitmap.
You could do all these with the 1st pass.
Well the config files are OK from what I can tell, maybe the bitmap is colored wrong, are you sure about the palette etc?quote:only a part of the colored area was actually re-tiled with the third texture.
Btw did you check out the QuickSilver's CATE conf files for examples?
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Re: Help request @ CATE BMP tiling
Well, if i merge the two files i get an error message from Cate saying "incorrect format of configuration file (BMP file defined, but one or several colors rules have negative colors or no colors defined)."quote:You could do all these with the 1st pass.
The configuration file looks like:
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UpdateOceanTiles=OK [Rules: Ocean, Farm] Color=-1,-1,-1 TileRule=0 0 (1-23) (0) * * * * TileRule=1 99999 (*) (48) * * * * [EndRules] BMPFileName=C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Shadow\Desktop\Pakistan\CATE_bmp.bmp [Rules: Oman after BMP] Color=255,0,0 TileRule=0 99999 (*) (548) * * * * [EndRules]
The palette was not correct. I was confused about the many palette options that Photoshop offers when converting a picture to "indexed colors".
Now i "forced" the System (Windows) palette on the picture and recolored my "test area", now everything works fine.
Yups, checked them out, but for my theater i have to use the BMP method because i have several areas with different vegetation.quote:Btw did you check out the QuickSilver's CATE conf files for examples?
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Re: Help request @ CATE BMP tiling
quote:if i merge the two files i get an error message
Remove the -1,-1,-1 palette from the "ocean, farm" part and add some real RGB value there.
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