heightmapper DISCUSSION

[Axen]

Originally posted by DarkAsmodeous
What does that have to do with anything?

6.5x5 quads is too much.

[DarkAsmodeous]

Elsweyr Valenwood is 63 quads, 8x7.

[Axen]

Originally posted by DarkAsmodeous
Elsweyr Valenwood is 63 quads, 8x7.

They're two entire provinces. ST is a chunk of a province.

[TheImperialDragon]

Originally posted by Axen
6.5x5 quads is too much.

Correction: 6 x 6.5

We also need to take into account LOD for other provinces.

[DarkAsmodeous]

We arn't setting it for scale purposes, its for content.

[Axen]

... ST shouldn't be larger than 4x4 quads. That's larger than the explorable size of Cyrodiil, which is plenty for what has to be included. And the distant LOD distance IS a block of 3x3 quads (player's quad in the middle)... so you only need a 1-quad-thick border for, well, border regions.
Not to mention that, if ST is LARGER than 4x4 quads, you'll have to wait until at least December for GeoControl v2 to seamlessly merge the heightmap chunks (4x4 quads = 4096x4096 heightmap = max supported heightmap resolution by GC, pretty much due to RAM reasons... if you have more than 4x4 quads, you'll have to work on the heightmap in chunks, and that'll create seams).

[KuKulzA]

I agree with Axen on this, seeing as how we are making 1 whole province...

[DarkAsmodeous]

No, you can flatten the edges of your heightmap pieces to the same point to make it seamless, EV did it and it worked.

[Axen]

Originally posted by DarkAsmodeous
No, you can flatten the edges of your heightmap pieces to the same point to make it seamless, EV did it and it worked.

Which is still a seam. Not a jagged seam, but a very bad seam nonetheless.
Anyway, in numbers posted in the landmass rescale thread a long time ago, I estimated ST's landmass to be 4x4 quads at a 400% scale.

[DarkAsmodeous]

Which ended with RW saying that he didn't care about the percentage, he liked the scale we are using, but owuld be willing to have another vote.