how do i put multiple textures in a map like for the ground




ps thanks in the last post but i figured it out about sapein

you make your texture have a alpha map

Forget finding a tutorial. This is an alpha map in a nutshell. you use shades of white and black. In the texture, make a new channel and call it alpha. The white part of the alpha defines the Alpha. In your shader your alpha controls the blend between the primary and secondary detail maps. so things in your alpha channel that are white will be one detail map, things that are black will be the other detail map. things that are more grayish, (not completely white or black) will be a blend of both detail maps. IDK if anyone has a tutorial on this that would help more but you can search Halomaps for one perhaps.
Edited by eliteslasher on May 13, 2010 at 07:17 PM

ok thanks

also how you do this exactly may depend on what you are using. Are you using gimp, PS, etc...?

i will use gimp and gmax and maby paint

I would recommend using gimp but did you understand most of what I was talking about there?

well no not really and all i want to do is change the ground have a good texture like grass or sand or snow

Oh I thought you meant to make it so you can have multiple textures in one shader.

well i also want to learn that but for now i need some one to figure out what is wrong with this it will not let me use tool lightmaps. so here is the whole thing from tool. it says it failed how do i fix this




Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

E:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>
E:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>tool structure levels\supwo
ofer supwoofer
Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
building intermediate geometry...
building collision geometry...
reducing collision geometry...
building collision bsp...
reducing collision bsp...
verifying collision geometry...
verifying collision bsp...
building portals...
building render geometry...
building subclusters...
building pvs... building pvs... building structure lens flares...done


structure bsp "levels\supwoofer\supwoofer"
BSP has 295 nodes, 182 leaves
2048 surfaces and 2461 vertices in 1 material groups
0 portals, 1 clusters

123Kb collision data (17Kb vertices, 54Kb edges, 14Kb surfaces)
145Kb render data (98Kb vertices, 33Kb surfaces,
4Kb nodes/leaves, 9Kb clusters)
0Kb pathfinding data
----------------------
301Kb (without debug information)

E:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>tool lightmaps levels\supwo
ofer\supwoofer supwoofer 0 0.9
Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
i'm going to render debug lightmaps for supwoofer of levels\supwoofer\supwoofer,
and i'll stop when red+blue+green = 0.900000.
Hit control-c now if this isn't right.
WARNING: 1 clusters in structure_bsp levels\supwoofer\supwoofer have no backgrou
nd sound or sound environment.
start levels\supwoofer\supwoofer
radiosity error: degenerate triangle [or triangle with bad uvs] (see blue in err
or geometry)
failed levels\supwoofer\supwoofer
done

E:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>

you have bad uvw's, import the debug.wrl and look where its showing blue, that needs re-uvw'ing.