Tutorial create roads in Ed42 (Editor 42) with Crysis editor

[fo0k]

This is a 2 part tutorial geared towards making roads easily across hilly/mountainous terrain.
Take the effort out of it!

This is clearly of most use to people making road based maps (especially interstate 82 mod!) but is useful for any map.

Using ED42 and the Crysis Sandbox editor. (Crysis editor is free with the Crysis Demo)

ED42 Battlefield 1942 using Crysis Road Tutorial Part_1
ED42 Battlefield 1942 using Crysis Road Tutorial Part_2

[Iced Earth]

nice dude...thats sick. I'll definitely use that method, for sure.

Also I'm such a tool. I didn't know you could use a texture file for the road tool and it would wind it around whatever way you wanted. :facepalm:

[Apache Thunder]

Nice! You mentioned at the end that you are planning a tutorial for placing fences in 3DSMax....I eagerly await that video. I want to use 3DSMax to automate placing "fake" undergrowth in my BF2 map conversions. It took FOREVER to place the 1000 plus grass objects in Gulf of Oman using Ed42. If there is a faster way of doing it, I simply must know!

[fo0k]

Thanks guys, glad this is useful (or even educational! heheh)

So for the grass.. hmm.. this will be possible for sure in 3dmax although i have not used the 'fences / walls' technique for this purpose.

did the tree/forest tool in ed42 not work for you? thats the simple option but i know it can be a bit buggy.

I have just started thinking about grass on terrain though so I will see what methods i can figure out in max to do this too

[Apache Thunder]

The forest planter doesn't work well for me at all. The grass are tiny individual objects and they need to be placed at ground level and align with the angle of the terrain properly. ED42's forest planter does not do this.

[fo0k]

lols.. a funny way to do this would be to get the heightmap in 3dmax.. then make a 'floor' of tiny boxes.. then use reactor to have them drop onto the landscape from above.. they will all (with high friction) just sit on the terrain.. then you can use rexmans tools ( i added to the modding tools section) to export all the object positions to a txt file.. then just find replace them all with the grass object..


but.. thats my lol plan.. im working on a better solution heheh

[LightSpeed///]

fook, can you upload your texture files?

[freddy]

thanks, enjoyed the tut

[fo0k]

good!

Light - I have added my textures to the modding tools downloads on this site. you can grab them there
This is just textures and not all the txt file layered setups that ed uses.. Some are buggy and I want to tidy them up before offering here as most will cause a crash etc. which will not be fun for noobs.

[Senshi]

I'd suggest we open a separate thread where every mapper is free to post his layer templates .