Painting the mask is the same as with any foliage layer (wheat, grass, and so on): you select the correct layer (ssSnowMask), and use the mouse to paint. Go to the step about the tipCol to get some useful data first. You can select the foliage brush and the ssSnowMask (sometimes called ssSnowMask) channel and start painting. Make sure the map01 folder only contains seasons_mask.gdm now, and not the png version. Make sure there are no errors in the console. Open your map in the Giants Editor and save it. Rename the generated file from tipColInfoLayer.png to seasons_mask.png. You can drag-and-drop the grle file on top of the convert.cmd. Use the GRLE converter from GDN to convert the le to a PNG file. You can leverage the automatically generated tipCol by using it as a basis for your mask. GIANTS does not mask where you can’t go with your machine.Īs snow is also a material, it should not fall in any spot where you can’t pick it up. It is not painted at roads, big models you can drive at, and so on. Wherever it is painted material can be tipped. To prevent tipped material to drop in locations where it can’t be picked up again, GIANTS added the tipCol. As tipped material is always on the terrain, and does not collide with objects, you can’t pick up grains with a shovel when there is a road or another object at that location. The tipCol is a layer that is used to determine if you can tip a material to the ground. It used a material so that the mask is visible in the editor when we draw it. The sublayer is the Seasons mask, a single bit (on or off). gdm (Giants Density Map) file containing binary data. The multilater references the density map, a. What we did above is add a foliage sublayer in a big multilayer. You can skip reading this part if you are not interested in the details of the density layer. Here you need to make sure that the densityMapId references to seasons_mask file and that the materialId on the second line references the material we just made. File referencesĪdd the following two lines inside the part of the i3d: We will start by adding references to the diffuse texture and the density file we will create later on. Open your map01.i3d in a proper text editor. The density layer needs to be added to the map. This is often located at ModFolder/maps/map01. It will be used to make the mask visible in the editor: Using the tipCol as a basis of the maskĭownload the following file.

This guide contains a step-by-step explanation on how to properly add snowmasks. Please read the full guide before executing the steps, or asking questions about issues you have.

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