Creating Custom Water-Planes in Blender and Export to Giants Editor 

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Awesome! Thank you!

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Oh cool.. glad about your maps. Thanks for the tip. Possible that an update to versions changed things. But great job man. 👏

totally agree. this video is over a year old so ng so quick.. one has to always make sure you use the latest versions.. and keep ur mind sharp to juggle the changes in everything hehehehe.. but for sure the latest normally works best :) bless you

When you export you need to zoom out so the entire map is visible. Then export. But im not sure this process will workbon 16x as that export will be very complex. But give it a try, unless you have a monster pc. Hehehe. 😂

i also use multiple planes if the map is fairly flat.. :)

I'm a little late to the party but I had the same problem but found that some of the file paths aren't correct with the Exporter/blender. I adjusted them and it works great now

Thanks

Gr8 q Jonas. No what ever you import always needs to be in ur map folder, once u imporred an i3d it becames part of the main map i3d, all its references to shaders, textures etc will be relevant so if u delte that then the connections will be broken and you will find buildings that are white with no textures etc. So best to keep it in ur map. If u run testrunner, it will show you if there are obsolete files and stuff, then u can remove the ones testrunner shows.

@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid Alright thanks for the info and advice!

@@jonas9647 pleasure brother 😉👍

Hi there, Ok let me try, the materials actually does not exist, they are applied in blender as a material channel. Same as i done in this video with the water. You dont add material, you just add the name (channel). Then when you imported into the map.i3d you aplly the textures to the material in the material attributes window.

So in reality the material does not exist but is a name with textures and shaders applied to it, if you open an ingame map in the text editor you will find the material list just below the file Id section.

Ahhh tricky stuff lol. Thanks for your reply. Ive just made 7 wire boundary fence with wood posts and i used the fencesFarmLevel03_mat name in blender and then in giants editor i added the 3 texture maps and all worked well. So im quessing i can make my own texture maps and add them to a material name that ive typed into blender provided ive chosen the correct name ?? I had a look in the US map i3d text editor and found a big list of materials as you suggested, so i quess i need to pick a suitable material name for my gate im currently making ? And use either in game textures or my own ? Hopefully my questions make sence lol, its been a frustrating last few days with blender with my gizmo ending up with wrong orientation in giants, any way i just needed to go to object, apply rotation and that fixed that issue just in case anyone else has the same issue. Edit..... i think ive figured this out, i was way over thinking this material thing too much 🙄 and i was assuming that the material name in blender had to be a name that the main game uses but can actually be a name ive choosen e.g galvanisedgate_mat and then obviously apply the 3 textures in giants along with a shader etc etc. Thank you very much for your time Farmerbob, have a awesome day 🙂

Hi there, sure my friend, can you send me a link for the foliage mod to my email, boetfaas@gmail.com then ill have a look at it.

You can do them all at once using this method, then imports them as one..

Just rinse and repeat the node part till you have added all the ponds, th3n continue to the rest of the process.

As i said in the video make sure you have atleast 2.8 of blender otherwise you need to use the older version of th3 export tool from GDN 👍😉

@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid thanks , i did follow what you said but still got same error. However i have now sorted out the problem by getting an update from GitHub.

P.S i now have water in my map .

@@colinstaplc1281 way to go brother. Gr8 job👍😉

@@colinstaplc1281 very 😎

I fixed it by importing a new waterplane from a different map. That solved the issue with being able to drive under water.

absolutely right, select the plane, make sure it has a rigid body, static selected and the colision mask hex is 80000000 or bit 31 only

@@farmerrabbit also works :)

If the original was setup correctly all should be well. If not then just redo the attributes in the editor.

@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid thank u so much ur so helpful

@@ReithAcademy my pleasure

yes you can, check your preferences in blender and enable import/export images as planes, and add the google image, then just do as per video...

@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid i exported it and it is upside down, and transparent unless i rotate it then when i do that its backwards. Its exporting what you see from the bottom, rather the top.

​@mattroyer4020 yes you need to do the backward culling section of the video.

@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid okay i got it, now their seems to be a sun glare and its constantly moving in place like their is supposed to be wave effects or something.

Yes, check your material and shader setup, compare to say the mapAlpine river water plane.

Hi Marko.. round planes are not possible in the editor as you can see the moment you click add plane they are all square from the get go. So inside the editor you are limited to either using 10000 planes to make a thing look round or using external sources ro create custom planes as per the video. Bearing in mind if you use a lot of water planes like more than 10 you get weird errors in game. So not advisable. Ie. The vehicles mirrors go black if you are in the cab. Etc.

Hi Rita.. eish i had a look i dont see a way to change direction on a custom plane.. if its square then just turn it around.

@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid 😆 No, Bob, you haven't guessed. 😆I don't like easy ways. it's a custom bay made in blender.😀

@@ritamax8493 oh yes Rita, I know you always take another approach on things hehehehe. I will keep my eyes and ears open and let you know if i discover anything around that problem.

@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid ))) Thanks.

Hi bro, no if you watch near the end of the video where i add the attributes to the water, i explain it fairly well there. If u just want to remove the usefulness of the water just uncheck the rigid body tick in the attributes window of the water plane.

@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid thanks for the answer, i did like u said, ticking of the rigid body button, and i just put up a invincible wall/berrier along the edge of the water, like 1 - 2 meters into the water, just so people cant drive like under the water and stuff. so i gues that'l work for now, i cant swim in the water when i tick of the rigid body tho but thats ok. :)

@@SnirlenTV if you leave the rigid body tick on and then under the rigid body tab go to the mask and click the 3 dots, the select reset and select tick on 0 to 7 it should give a mask of "ff" click ok or enter. This should make the water swimmable but not usable. Give a try and let me know👍😉

@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid On the one that says 'Collision Mask(Hex)' ??

@@SnirlenTV yes

Map size 4x

Not sure what you mean, is the machine stuck or is the fields stuck. But check your log file fir errors and fix those. Also test your map without any mods. So vanilla game. 👍😉

Hi brother when you get to the part where u have to invert the vertexes. I stopped there and said that if yours is white from the top skip the invert part. If you did the invert it will be transparent.

@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid Ah i missed that one. Thanks man I give it a try!

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@@FarmerBoBonRU-vid unfortunately Bob, I can't get it right it stays transparent in GE even if I don't do the invert part. It seems that the fill function is not working. Or GE has a problem. I have no idea what else I can do

@@tonioreyes hi brother, it definitely has to do with that culling of the nodes and the flipping, if you do exactly what i did step by step it must work.. :)

Yes you can brother.. just make sure it is working in fs19 then convert it. 👍😉

Heheheh 😂