Creating Terrain with L3DT and YATT - Revision history

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	To create your area, click '''OK''' on the settings browser, and navigate to '''Area > Build Area from Image(s)'''. Wait for YATT to complete its process, then open your area. From there, you still need to place down details, but one of the hardest parts is done for you.		To create your area, click '''OK''' on the settings browser, and navigate to '''Area > Build Area from Image(s)'''. Wait for YATT to complete its process, then open your area. From there, you still need to place down details, but one of the hardest parts is done for you.

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		+	=== Creating TRX ===
		+	Open your area. Save it. Close your area and open it again. The first time you bake, the walkmesh may come out flat. In that case, go over it with a 1% raise brush, to make the trx register that there are trx changes to bake and rebake correctly.
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 # Navigate to '''Layers > Export layer...'''
 # Select '''BMP''' as the export '''File format'''.
 # Click on '''...''' on the '''File name''' field, and save the .bmp file in the same folder as your alpha maps.
 # Click '''Next >>'''
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 # Navigate to '''Layers > Export layer...'''
 # Select '''BMP''' as the export '''File format'''.
 # Click on '''...''' on the '''File name''' field, and save the .bmp file in the same folder as your alpha maps.
 # Click '''Next >>'''

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 === Exporting Specular Light Map ===
-[[File:L3DTwYATT_013.jpg|frame]]
+[[File:ResizeSM.png|frame]]
 Now that we have our heightfield/heightmap, we're basically going to do the same thing for our specular light map. Follow the same steps, but for the '''Specular light map''' tab. Don't forget to tick the '''Resize for Export''' box and put the final pixel size required by YATT to import. See the chart above under Heightfield size. This is where we will change the existing 256 height and width to 241 height and width.

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 === Exporting Heightmap ===
-[[File:ResizeHM2.png|frame]]
+[[File:ResizeHM3.png|frame]]
 Next we want to export our heightfield, which will define our terrain's shape. To start, select the '''Heightfield''' tab, then navigate to '''Layers > Export layer...''' or use the '''Ctrl+E''' shortcut. We want to export our images as bitmap or '''BMP''' files. Select this from the drop down menu, and use the '''...''' button to specify the location of your map. Next, tick the '''Resize for Export''' box and put the final pixel size required by YATT to import. See the chart above under Heightfield size. This is where we will change the existing 256 height and width to 241 height and width. You want to save this to the same directory as your alpha maps. When you are done, progress by clicking '''Next >>'''.

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 === Exporting Heightmap ===
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+[[File:ResizeHM2.png|frame]]
 Next we want to export our heightfield, which will define our terrain's shape. To start, select the '''Heightfield''' tab, then navigate to '''Layers > Export layer...''' or use the '''Ctrl+E''' shortcut. We want to export our images as bitmap or '''BMP''' files. Select this from the drop down menu, and use the '''...''' button to specify the location of your map. Next, tick the '''Resize for Export''' box and put the final pixel size required by YATT to import. See the chart above under Heightfield size. This is where we will change the existing 256 height and width to 241 height and width. You want to save this to the same directory as your alpha maps. When you are done, progress by clicking '''Next >>'''.

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 === Exporting Heightmap ===
 [[File:L3DTwYATT_012.jpg|frame]]
-Next we want to export our heightfield, which will define our terrain's shape. To start, select the '''Heightfield''' tab, then navigate to '''Layers > Export layer...''' or use the '''Ctrl+E''' shortcut. We want to export our images as bitmap or '''BMP''' files. Select this from the drop down menu, and use the '''...''' button to specify the location of your map. You want to save this to the same directory as your alpha maps. When you are done, progress by clicking '''Next >>'''.
+Next we want to export our heightfield, which will define our terrain's shape. To start, select the '''Heightfield''' tab, then navigate to '''Layers > Export layer...''' or use the '''Ctrl+E''' shortcut. We want to export our images as bitmap or '''BMP''' files. Select this from the drop down menu, and use the '''...''' button to specify the location of your map. Next, tick the '''Resize for Export''' box and put the final pixel size required by YATT to import. See the chart above under Heightfield size. This is where we will change the existing 256 height and width to 241 height and width. You want to save this to the same directory as your alpha maps. When you are done, progress by clicking '''Next >>'''.
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 === Exporting Specular Light Map ===
 [[File:L3DTwYATT_013.jpg|frame]]
-Now that we have our heightfield/heightmap, we're basically going to do the same thing for our specular light map. Follow the same steps, but for the '''Specular light map''' tab.
+Now that we have our heightfield/heightmap, we're basically going to do the same thing for our specular light map. Follow the same steps, but for the '''Specular light map''' tab. Don't forget to tick the '''Resize for Export''' box and put the final pixel size required by YATT to import. See the chart above under Heightfield size. This is where we will change the existing 256 height and width to 241 height and width.
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 == Creation with YATT ==
-At this point we are done with L3DT, but before importing the results into toolset with YATT, we have to resize them. Otherwise YATT will throw errors or generate a perfectly empty area, with no terrain, just empty blue space.
+At this point we are done with L3DT, but before importing the results into toolset with YATT, we have to resize the Alpha maps. The Heightmap and Specular map should have been resized through their export dialogue, but if not, you can do them now, too. If the maps do not adhere to the following sizes on these charts, YATT will throw errors or generate a perfectly empty area, with no terrain, just empty blue space.
 Resize the maps in any image editing software to the following dimensions (reproduced from the YATT website):
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-Input texturemaps should be sized as follows (height and width):
+The Alpha maps, which are texturemaps, should be sized as follows (height and width):
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-Your YATT main screen should now show all the associated maps.
+Your YATT main screen should now show all the associated maps. The colourmap will show the rule by which the specular light map will be added to the textures as black shading that defines terrain features, rather than the name of the map.
 [[File:YATT_Assoc_crop.png|frame]]

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-=== Define Texturmaps ===
+=== Define Texturemaps ===
 [[File:L3DTwYATT_017.jpg|frame]]
 Much like with heightmaps and the colourmap, we are going to specify our texturemaps. Here, however, we need to keep in mind which map relates to which textures. If you did not note them down from earlier, go back to that step to see which file corresponds to which texture, or open and explore your alpha map .xml file.
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 When you are done, click '''OK'''.
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	When you are done, click '''OK'''.		When you are done, click '''OK'''.
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