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A reply from the VBS community thread said that it was a problem with the textures and that by loading/saving them in texview it workd fine afterwards. But if the game can read them why can't Wrptool?

not seem to be able to use the ground textures from VBS1, even those that originally came from OFP. Well there you go, if you cannot use even OFP textures, then you got a problem. Perhaps try installing WrpTool again? That was me being unclear, the OFP textures I can read without problems, but the ...

I have had some problems when using Wrptool to build islands for VBS1. The first one is that my Wrptool (0.95) does not seem to be able to use the ground textures from VBS1, even those that originally came from OFP. When I try to add them to the texture browser I just get a "divide by zero" error. I...

OK, this is pretty much how I went about fixing the ground textures. You need to split your map/photos into 50x50m squares which OFP/VBS uses. It is important that the photo squares match the OFP cell coordinates as they are placed exactly on top of the cells. This can be a problem depending on wher...

Rvirding your the boss ! But, im not a boss. I dont have any idea of any sort to convert a map in Wrptool textures ! I know how to create textures. But i dont know how to create right squalled textures with a map. You should make a little tutorial. Please please please ! It would help the community...

A "quick" workaround is to convert the map and photos to ground textures and then lay them out in WrpTool. This works well. I have used this a number of times myself. The important thing to remember is that while WrpTool can happily work with more than 512 ground textures it can NOT save with more (...

Have you tried clicking on the 'real' button? You can do it before you draw a region or while drawing, you can even switch program and the region drawing is kept, atleast on my os/wrptool.

Now I must expose my ignorance. The 'real' button?? Which one is that??

I have a lot of trouble closing region tool, especially on big islands, and have tried everything: zooming in, zooming out, clicking near the start, clicking far away form the start, etc. I have not been able to find any sure method to ensure closing a region and have no idea what the problem is. It...

for future versions of WrpTool, it would be really cool if a person could add a picture overlay to their map, so that i could add roads/buildings exactly where my satellite imagery shows them to be, rather than having to switch back and forth between WrpTool and the pictures. There is a workaround ...

one way to fix that is to create large single plane polys with your texures applied, say .5 km per poly, then lay them on the map with the object placer. If they are tagged with the on suface properties they'll warp to the ground. Then you can have several km of ground by using fewer textures. But ...

Yes it will work. Just try to cover a map with one single big texture file and if your OFP is running stable you are also able to use 512 different types - there will be no difference. We have been using texture to great effect so this question interests us. Do you mean that by using a big texture ...

I forgot to say that wrptool seems to work ok with it, no problems in editing it. Of course filling the island will take some effort.

I was sent a template file with a 2048x2048 wrp. It works but it is difficult to fit it in without the game exiting. I found it is not just using a LOW terrain setting but also making sure you dont load in large unused addons. It seems like the maximum size of the program is fixed.

WrpTool has the create new island limited to 1024, but it will read the 2048 correctly. I think we either supply you guys with a 2048 template .wrp file or increase the create new island size to the big ass 102km size. A 2048 template .wrp file would be fine. Do you know if one exists somewhere? In...

I am trying to create a really BIG island, cell size 2048, but WrpTool complains "Invalid MapSize". According to the manual it should be possible to do this and OFP should be able to handle it.

Can it be done? If so how?

The problem has now been solved. They were binarized. The solution was simple. To make it easier to place the harbour objects I put the origin of the model on the top surface. Simply by moving the origin somewhere else, in this case the center, everything now works and they remain at the elevation a...

Looking over my query in the cold light of dawn it seems a little muddled. I set the elevation (to absolute value) in WrpTool and it seems happy with it, but when I run OFP the models now follow the elevation of the ground underneath them. Setting the elevation relative the ground make no difference...

I am making a model of a (real) town with a canal and harbour. The terriain shore line is too boviously rectangular so I need a model to place along the shore to mark it out and "hide" the terrain. The Resstance harbour models are too elaborate so I have made my own. The model is a grey box 50x25x10...

I have also found that the road rebuilder doesn't work and do it by hand now using the following method: 1. Find a suitable place in the existing road to start the new section. 2. Add the new section leaving the old in place. This makes it easier to connect. 3. Remove the old superfluous section. N....

Thanks again.  Here's the island I'm doing - I'll find out soon enough if it's too big.  Came from 5 merged 30m DEM coverages.  It's about 30-something km across. http://www.ecatalina.com/ui_images/map.jpg Nice, I like it when people model real maps. We have done a 51x51km map with no size problems...

Not really a WrpTool question but I need help. I need help to convert a lot of tga files (over 600 in the first go) to .paa files. The reason is that we are using aerial photographs to generate ground textures over a region and you need 400 tiles for each square km. So you quickly run into large num...

There has been some uncertainty in the past as to whether to use dta or resdta materials, as they are nearly identical. I suppose it really depends on what you intend to create maps for, but I would very strongly recommend going with the packs from resdta. ... resdtadata3d resdtadata resdtadtaext r...

I strongly recommend creating a seperate directory for your VBS materials. While a bunch of Data has been ported from OFP, there is also a lot of additions and updates. I'm currently testing how well WRPtool works with two simultaneous data feeds that include folders with the same name and contents...

We are now using VBS1 and I am trying to convert some old maps from OFP to VBS1. This doesn't seem to diffcult as most of the things from OFP and Res are there, they have just been moved somewhere else. I have done a separate set up of WrpTool for VBS1 "by the manual" unpbo:ing the pbos that come wi...

It has a Direct3d background. You can find more on this in my tutorial about wrp objects at OFPinfo. To download it,  search for the keyword  ' object wrp ' .

OFPinfo? I must have missed that one.

@rvirding Think you know, on why it's made by BIS, that forest sections in OFP should have a cell matched triangular shape, in respect to align trees properly along the surface slopes. That is what they say. But is it really true? I have placed the Nogova 1 sections non-aligned to cells and there h...

Where can I get hold of the spec of the wrp file format? I am also interested in automatically generating terrain. In my case, however, I would like to use GIS data to generate real maps.

I forgot to ask as anyone has made any forest sections of Nogova forests with other shapes then triangles? I could really use a half-size rectangle.

Placing man made tree plantations in a well defined order for instance, the Object Placer may be considered. I am not making plantations as such. What I am doing is extending forests with sections which are smaller than a cell or triangular half of one. This is to get the borders of the forest in t...

Maybe, indeed it has to do with the mesh extension of trees. Having made a preliminary test with barrels, which works correctly. Typical, I don't need barrels, I need trees. :-( But I suppose I could put barrels and then replace them with trees? If I have a number scaled objects I wish to replace w...

I forgot to add in the annoying section that double clicking to close a region in the region tool can be a pain sometimes. On my laptop it will often just not work.

I'm guessing that you are not placing enough objects in the region for this to be a concern. My understanding is that the min dist. is just to limit the randomizer to make sure that by weird luck you don't get clumps. The min dist. option maxes out at 20m, and will cull any objects from the request...

I have trouble using min distance between objects in Region Tool. I would like to use when randomly placing individual trees and bushes in a region to remove the excessive clustering and more evenly spread them out. If I use the min. distance, however, even set to 0,1 m, I end up with only a few tre...

Most annoying: Can't get "min. distance to next object" to work as I need it.

Most wanted: creating transitions on a region not the whole island.