Help request @ CATE BMP tiling

[BenBen]

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]

[Snake Man]

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.

quote:only a part of the colored area was actually re-tiled with the third texture.

Well the config files are OK from what I can tell, maybe the bitmap is colored wrong, are you sure about the palette etc?

Btw did you check out the QuickSilver's CATE conf files for examples?

[BenBen]

quote:You could do all these with the 1st pass.

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)."
The configuration file looks like:

code:

Code: Select all

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.

quote:Btw did you check out the QuickSilver's CATE conf files for examples?

Yups, checked them out, but for my theater i have to use the BMP method because i have several areas with different vegetation.

[Snake Man]

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.