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Canyon Terrain Editor Beta 3 is now available! This release includes a number of important fixes for some annoying bugs (like that ugly pattern that appeared when texturing in one place for too long) and some new features (like a better erase brush and automatically added file extensions).

Here's ...

While this sounds like a good idea, it occurs to me that .map files are constructed in such a way that you can't modify the normals without modifying the structure of the brush itself (as far as I know). So this would really only benefit people using .obj or some other model format that I may ...

Spike wrote:someone needs to make a light tool that smooths light over edges.

Light tool? Do you mean that it smooths the normals without changing the vertex positions, so that the shading is more smooth? Sounds like a pretty sweet idea, actually, thanks

:P :D

The second beta of Canyon Terrain Editor is now available. There's a fair chunk of new stuff in this version, including some slight improvements to the user interface, basic random terrain generation, some important bugfixes, and more. Give it a shot and, as always, let me see the cool stuff ...

That's true, I think I'll look into doing something about that. However, TerrainGen is now outdated, because Canyon Terrain Editor can import heightmaps and export .map files, so you should be able to just use that in the meantime. Chances are good that I'll add some kind of random terrain ...

Hey guys,
I've been starting up some development on this again, and I'll probably be making another beta release some time in the next few weeks. Before I do, though, I'm looking for more feedback on bugs to fix, features to add, suggestions to consider, etc. So, please give it a try and let me know ...

Here's a little test I whipped up with CTE and GTKRadiant for Q3 .map export. It's not super detailed, but you get the idea.

Well, for flat areas, you can merge some of the brushes (I know at least Radiant has this capability). If some of the brushes are nearly flat but not quite, you can use CTE's flatten tool to even them out and then merge them in the map editor.

Alternatively, you could also export a lower detail ...

Hmm, not sure what would cause those out of place triangles. I'll take a look into that. If you have too many vertices, there's a button to the right side that reduces the detail, which should help the compiler... not die.

When you click the export button, it says something like "F5-... to change format" and one of those will select .q1 map format or .q3 map format. Note, the export button (for other formats) and the save button (for CTE format) are different buttons on the HUD.

I've released a beta version of the Canyon Terrain Editor. Let me know what you think, and definitely bring back some screenshots of the cool stuff you guys make with it.

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leileilol wrote:The terrain it outputs had better turn out better than this

(Nem's Tools + q3map2)

Yeah, I think that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

I'll most likely end up making a Windows and a Linux version.

Some of you may be familiar with TerrainGen, a console-based terrain generator I made a while back. Well, that was useful and all, but I'm now working on a full graphical terrain editor. Like TerrainGen, it can load image files as heightmap data, and currently exports to Quake .map files and Quake 3 ...