Ground textures - Paint

Hi guys,

Been thinking of this a while and thought I'd put it in the forum.
I have been using the Torque Game Engine a while to get some experience in 3D game development.

In the Torque Engine we have an editor for terraforming. Editting heightmaps is a lot like SL but there it stops. Texturing the terrain is done by painting! Now if we could have such tool in Sl we don't need any prim based paths, rocks, roads and stuff anymore. And we could create really awsome scenery.

Any idea if this technology could be adopted in SL?

Would be great!

Download demo here:
http://garagegames.com/demos/browse/development/

Cheers,

Ami

I've played with Torque. Do you know what the limit is on different ground textures?
About 4 to 6. Define any more than that and they won't work.

Well, we are limited now to 4 and its not the amount of textures but the abillity to 'paint' with textures on the terrain. That would be a great tool.

Ami

It's something the WindLight team has been considering apparantly.

Whether that means we'll get it in any meaningful way is another matter though (even if they implement it, it would be worthless for most if they only let the sim owners use it and not the parcel owner for instance).

The emphasis being on 'could'. As with building, the general hoi-poloi of SL would just create a mess! "Oooh look, I can make the ground pink.....and wait...yes....I can write 'f**k off' on the ground too....kewl"

And in pink, visible from the sky!

Ah, the wonders of SL...