I am currently enthralled with the Torque groundcover scheme and am wondering what it takes to create custom groundcover 'blocks' or 'billboards'. More specifically is how would I take a set of individual plant/bush/grass textures and combine them into one set as seen below. No GIMP wizard here but I can do a few basic tasks. Thanks!
Copy from one file, paste into the other? Pretty much like you'd do it in good ol' Paint, except some layer anchoring/merging is needed. Unless I've completely misunderstood your question, of course.
Thanks Scepheo. Perhaps layers are the key. I can go to the GIMP forums and ask there, probably more appropriate anyway. I know zilch about this particular process but am determined to figure it out.
Out of curiosity, are you just trying to figure out how to place multiple plants with transparency on a single texture? If so, I can explain this.
Yes sir, I believe that's what I'm after. Essentially making a single texture with multiple different single textures. My goal is to make custom groundcovers that can use the single main material slot in the groundcover object. Exactly like the stock vegetation textures in BeamNG. A prime example would be the Utah grasses groundcover I'm so dearly fond of lately.
This might answer your question. I tossed this together very quickly. Create a new image. I used a resolution of 2048x2048. Open the toolbox. The toolbox is under the "windows" tab. Under "windows/Dockable dialogs," there is a thing called layers. Click it. Right click on your layer and left click on add alpha channel. Use the eraser tool in the toolbox window to erase the white from the image. I would recommend enlarging the brush for this. Choose "open as layers" to add a preexisting plant image to your new image. Find one of your preexisting plant images. I grabbed a random file from somewhere on my computer. This layer can be move around with the tool beneath the eyeglass. Look at the above image for reference. Rinse and repeat. At the end, you can "merge visible layers" by using the tool of this name under the "image" tab. Export the image as either a dds or png for transparency. ta da Also, if you want to erase part of a layer, select the layer in the layer window and use the previously mentioned erase tool to erase part of that image Also, again... , under the layer tab, there is a tool, which is called "scale layer" that will allow for you to change the size of an individual layer. Now, ta da
Whoa.....thank you! I assume this scheme would work with four different plant textures so as to make a groundcover with four (or more, up to eight) separate and different plants in Torque. Can't wait to try this out! What would be the better description for this kind of texture UV or billboardUV? Thank you so much Ouerbacker. Very much appreciated.
