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Creating a ground texture (polygon)... possible?

Clutch Cargo

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Studying many of the threads here, especially the one topic on creating lights, I was wondering if it is possible to create ground polys, using a texture sheet, to create roads based on road data. So instead of placing an object I want to use I would think a "texture.bmp".

Been experimenting with CREATEMATERIAL and CREATPOLYGON but so far no success. No errors listed but then again no agn created.

Is this even possible?
 
Clutch Cargo said:
I was wondering if it is possible to create ground polys, using a texture sheet, to create roads based on road data. So instead of placing an object I want to use I would think a "texture.bmp".
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i think you should be able to do so; excluding the file extension
i called a bmp texture with this statement
SETAGNBUILDINGTEXTURE|*|BLD_IS1

you can assign a different GUID to roads in this way
PLACEPOINTSALONGLINE|FTYPE=LINE;FROMFILE=roads.shp;type=primary|160|5|type|light|hdg
PLACEPOINTSALONGLINE|FTYPE=LINE;FROMFILE=roads.shp;type=residential|60|5|type|light1|hdg
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CREATEAGNLIBOBJ|FTYPE=POINT;type=light|{11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111}|hdg|8;8
CREATEAGNLIBOBJ|FTYPE=POINT;type=light1|{22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222}|hdg|8;8



hope this helps

Chris,
 
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Hi,

You can't create ground polygons as autogen. Those other steps you found are from some "secret" scenproc functionality to create ground polygons. But this functionality is not yet finished. With that you could create a road, but the result are custom ground polygons. So it would work best on flat areas (like an airport).
 
Yea, I thought some of these things I found were not documented. I have been scouring all about to find out what they are and how to use them. Found your 1-hour presentation video, really informative.

At least for now I will stop pulling my hair out trying to create this as it is not possible.. at least at the moment, right?... hint-hint... wink-wink ;)

So Arno, what about that 'CREATEPOLYGON'? That sounds close to what I want but I wish the capability to select a texture (material?) instead of choosing a color. And use this poly on the ground. My idea is to create Lm road textures to replace photoreal roads while at night. Happy to explain in more detail what I am trying to do.
 
Hi,

That would be possible with those ground polygons. It would be a combination of CREATEMATERIAL and CREATEPOLYGONS. And then a EXPORTBGLGP to export them as ground polygon BGL file.

But like I said before, it will only work if the area is flat. Is the areas where you roads are flattened?
 
No, not flat. It would be following the contour of the ground using a combination of photoreal scenery and whatever terrain mesh is applied.
 
But the polygons you can create with scenProc would not. So that means this approach is not going to work.
 
Hi,

The default roads are terrain vectors. You can make those with SBuilderX for example. Maybe you can assign a better texture to them, I never tried that.
 
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