Difference between revisions of "Generate High resolution LOD textures"
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--[[User:Blade9722|Blade9722]] 06:30, 28 January 2007 (EST) | --[[User:Blade9722|Blade9722]] 06:30, 28 January 2007 (EST) | ||
= Overview= | |||
In the Construction Set, you can automatically generate LOD textures; however, those textures are very low quality and are therefore not very useful or nice to look at. | |||
The method that is described below uses the CS to generate local maps and then stitch together those local maps into cohesive LOD textures. Because local maps cover a much smaller area than LOD textures, stitching together many local maps results in a much more detailed LOD texture than those that can be generated by CS alone. | |||
= Generate Local Maps= | = Generate Local Maps= | ||
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In the CS menu, go to World --> "Create Local Maps." Choose the exterior world space that corresponds to your mod. If your mod modifies the appearance of the Tamriel world space, just choose "Tamriel." Selecting "All cells" will generate maps for the | In the CS menu, go to World --> "Create Local Maps." Choose the exterior world space that corresponds to your mod. If your mod modifies the appearance of the Tamriel world space, just choose "Tamriel." Selecting "All cells" will generate maps for the | ||
entire | entire world space, which is very memory intensive and will cause CS to crash if you do not have enough memory. | ||
If this becomes the case, you will need to split the work into one LOD at a time. | If this becomes the case, you will need to split the work into one LOD at a time. | ||
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1. Create a folder named C:\obwrk | 1. Create a folder named C:\obwrk | ||
2. Create a 256x256 black tga picture and save it as Base.tga in C:\obwrk | 2. Create a 256x256 black .tga picture and save it as Base.tga in C:\obwrk | ||
3. In c:\obwrk create a batch file named basegen.bat and insert this code: | 3. In c:\obwrk, create a batch file named basegen.bat and insert this code: | ||
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