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Creating Transparent Terrain
Sep 6 2007, 4:10 am
By: hetzer  

Sep 6 2007, 4:10 am hetzer Post #1



Hi guys, I am no noob to mapping, but I have never modded, so this is uncharted territory, please be gentle. ;-]
Is it possible to mod a terrain tile (or subtile) to block the vision of units (or vision and movment) while remaining completely transparent (the terrain tile that is)?



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Sep 6 2007, 4:56 am Twitch Post #2



Yes t is possible how I am not quite sure being a noob modder myself.I know it would have to deal with tile edit and something else.I would ask farty or corbo they know more then me.



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Sep 6 2007, 7:53 am Corbo Post #3

ALL PRAISE YOUR SUPREME LORD CORBO

It is possible to make terrain megatiles, tiles and minitiles to block vision and movement.
However I have no idea what you mean with "Transparent" terrain.




fuck you all

Sep 6 2007, 1:41 pm Clokr_ Post #4



All you'd have to do is copy the terrain tile into a null unused tile (so you'll get two tiles with the same appearance) and modify the flags of one of them to block vision. Then on the editor place one tile or another if you want vision blocked or not.



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Sep 6 2007, 1:50 pm DaMiNaToR Post #5



Oh, I get what you mean. You want to be able to put the transparent vision blocker ontop of any tile you want, so you can block vision wherever you want.



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Sep 6 2007, 10:41 pm hetzer Post #6



Quote from DaMiNaToR
Oh, I get what you mean. You want to be able to put the transparent vision blocker ontop of any tile you want, so you can block vision wherever you want.
Exactly
Quote from Clokr_
All you'd have to do is copy the terrain tile into a null unused tile (so you'll get two tiles with the same appearance) and modify the flags of one of them to block vision. Then on the editor place one tile or another if you want vision blocked or not.
I guess that would work, but since I'm trying to do it to the top of every cliff on the map, that would be too painstaking!



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Sep 6 2007, 11:36 pm Clokr_ Post #7



Quote from hetzer
Quote from Clokr_
All you'd have to do is copy the terrain tile into a null unused tile (so you'll get two tiles with the same appearance) and modify the flags of one of them to block vision. Then on the editor place one tile or another if you want vision blocked or not.
I guess that would work, but since I'm trying to do it to the top of every cliff on the map, that would be too painstaking!

I don't think there's any other way around...



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Sep 9 2007, 7:18 pm Doodle77 Post #8



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I don't think there's any other way around...
There is not.



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Sep 10 2007, 1:13 am Fallen Post #9



Doesnt the cliffs auto block vision



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