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Level Editing Questions

PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:55 am
by Soduka
A few questions I have because currently I am piecing together my own Stalker level in my spare time for fun.


* Can you open current Stalker levels with the SDK and edit them?


That's the only one I have this second, but I'm slowly figuring things out from scattered tutorials around the web and on the wiki.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:42 pm
by dez
well, no. you cant open compiled levels in sdk, only if you have the source of them.

you can remake them with some work, and also the geom import plugin helps a lot, since you can import the current stalker levels to max, but that needs a lot of work before you can put it to the level editor and place back all vegetation, smart terrains, etc, and compile it... also the reopened levels have lots of bugs, its still easier to make a new one, instead of editing a map from game.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:56 pm
by Soduka
* Can you only texture the ground in Maya, and if so, how do you texture roads in if it's a flat plane?

PostPosted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:18 pm
by dez
well, i dont know how others do it, but we do it like this:

the road is an object, that we put to the terrain. we draw it on the terrain first, then cut it as object in max (we add the texture to the terrain object) and then we can texture that part separatedly.