Terrain Class Color Information

[rbray89]

Hey Guys!

I have a feeling that only Squad will be able to answer this, but does anyone have any info on fetching the terrain color information?

I'm working on replacing the terrain and ocean shaders with something a tad more advanced, but I need the terrain class colors to be able to use the correct texture for the area. If I don't have them, I'll just have to end up guessing the colors used. I can't get them from the material unfortunately as I don't have the name for the shader property.

Anyone have any info on this?

Thanks!

[stupid_chris]

You could try fecthing the terrain texture directly and reading the pixels? Might want to take a look at TextureReplacer, you can probably get the textures by the same way you change them.

[NathanKell]

Don't think terrains *have* colors set in the shader; they're assigned by PQSMod, either colormap or landclass. See this dump of components of PQSs ZRM made.. The shader just modifies those colors (and only in brightness), AFAIK.

[rbray89]

You could try fecthing the terrain texture directly and reading the pixels? Might want to take a look at TextureReplacer, you can probably get the textures by the same way you change them.

So I have debugged the PQS terrain mesh, and the only thing item available per-vertex is the color of the vertex, given that the terrain also uses land classes and textures for them, I assume it uses the color to determine what texture to use. Hence, I need a way to get those colors to mimic what the existing terrain shader does.

Don't think terrains *have* colors set in the shader; they're assigned by PQSMod, either colormap or landclass. See this dump of components of PQSs ZRM made.. The shader just modifies those colors (and only in brightness), AFAIK.

AH! I think that is what I'm looking for. I'll have to see if there is some connection to the textures used. If not, this is basically the next best thing. Thanks!

[rbray89]

So I eventually figured it out. There are only two detail textures. One for mountains, one for everything else. Looks like it uses the normal to lerp between the two.