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Category:	CoD Level Design CoD mapping and level design.
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Category: CoD Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003 07:28 am
Some hints on building your own terrain: It has been said that there is not terrain import option and that easygen can't read the textures from CoD, but there is another built-in option to create your terrain. • create a large brush that will be used as your terrain • turn it into a terrain patch mesh from the Patch menu using at least 15 divisions • to get the most out of your patch mesh, you may have to stitch several of them together. • hit they Y key to bring up the mesh editor • to adjust the terrain, use the 3d window while holding down the alt key
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Category: CoD Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003 07:32 am
To stitch patch meshes: • select your meshes • hit V for vertex mode • select the 2 points you wish to merge • hit ctrl + k to merge them
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Category: CoD Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003 08:25 am
A nicely detailed version of this will be in the new tutorials section.
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Category: CoD Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003 07:38 pm
Thanks has anyone tried using easygen yet? would be interested in the export menu options

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Category: CoD Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003 07:43 pm
I read that easygen does not see the textures from CoD so it couldn't be used. I haven't tried myself.
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Category: CoD Level Design Posted: Saturday, Nov. 29, 2003 05:34 pm
I did hear somewhere that Terragen might work. Haven't used it or tried it.
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Category: CoD Level Design Posted: Sunday, Nov. 30, 2003 09:45 pm
I created a simple terrain mesh. Moved the vertices around to make it lumpy. In the editor the texture has disapeared. When I run the map the terrain is there.
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Category: CoD Level Design Posted: Monday, Dec. 1, 2003 12:21 am
You can use Easygen, take the textures you wan tand make them into .jpg's and create a folder textures/yourtextures and put your textures in it. Then in Easygen, add that texture folder and use them. I dinked a bit but hadn't got around to using a heightmap for it.

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Category: CoD Level Design Posted: Monday, Dec. 1, 2003 10:30 pm
The terrain tutorial is really good. The terrain is simple to make/paint. But and that is a big work. I made a small bit of terrain in a trench and got a buffer overrun error when I compiled the map. So something is there the editor did not like or maybe the compiler did not like. What I did was make the simple terrain mesh in the trench bottom and the brush like shrunk one small grid on the side. I stretched it back out to fit the trench. That could have been the problem.
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Category: CoD Level Design Posted: Monday, Dec. 1, 2003 10:40 pm
I tried one somewhere else and this time the editor just shutdown on a compile.
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