Thanks to your Tutorial I was able to create my first Detailed Terrain texture myself. Thank you for making it possible.

The http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5296 fixes this.

There's a stray alpha property on that mesh.

Awesome man! I hope you'll post some screenshots - I'd love to see how it's working out for you.


Thanks for that information mmmpld.

just out of curiosity when can we expect a new release?

The texture is included in the new version of UL Rolling Hills. A hay ground texture and I think for my first try it is quite good. The funny thing is I couldn't stand the normal overlay anymore and so I tried your way. Besides it was quite easy while only using the Alpha channel from the Normalmap.

any progress on this mod anymore? I would love to see this mod to be improved as the blood flickering is very annoying. Otherwise it is a wonderful mod!

I've read through the thread and I've read through the discussions of blood flickering and the shader patch.... But I *still* don't understand.

Please forgive my stupidty...


What exactly does the Detailed Landscape patch at this location do and is it necessary?
http://hosted.filefront.com/Zeroed

i loaded this and the textures on the ground went light purple and displayed the cryodiil map. so if i was in IC it would display the part of the map that covers the IC. it was very strange and i had too delete it and reinstall all my texture mods.

can you help too why this happened??!?!?

At this point, I'd expect updated shaders from Zeroed at some point, but there's no specific schedule since we all work on this when life allows. When the next version is released will depend entirely on when we have developed enough updates to bother.


Cool. I look forward to seeing the new version.


The files you linked to are Zeroed's work in progress shaders. They may work better or reduce issues for folks, but are still undergoing frequent revisions. Because of that, it doesn't make sense to re-release the whole package for every shader revision and make people download the whole thing again. When Zeroed is satisfied with the current version, they'll be rolled into an update for the main package.


I've heard of that happening with other mods that change the game's textures, but I'm not sure what causes it. I would guess that some file was corrupted in the process of downloading or unpacking the files, but in any case, the only solution I've heard of is to remove, re-download, and re-install your texture mods.

do you plan on doing the detailed terrain for bomrets textures for shivering isles?

There is already a package available. But this will be updated with the latest files soon.

Well, it's been a while I use this and it it's a very bad WORK!
Because of you I look too much the ground!

Excellent job :goodjob:

an update?

At the moment I'm using this as the basis for my OVEP work. I'm adding ambient aperture lighting (for self-shadowing) and regular parallax mapping (for basic relief detail) and using the awesome blending system already in place. If Zeroed makes any changes, I'll probably incorporate them into the OVEP version.


Also, @Chainsaw: I made a few adjustments to how some bits of the textures are handled, if you have the time I could use a bit of help getting everything updated to the new format. Notably the blue channel of the normal map has been completely repurposed and reconstructed from the red and green channels.

That's hot. Is that going to be a terrain-only shader?

The updated texture pack has been uploaded and should be available shortly at both PES and TESNexus. Thanks Bomret!


Not yet, and no ETA for one. As noted previously, there will be an update when we have updates to make, which we don't at the moment.


I'm still catching up on the OVEP threads (I got a new job and moved half way across the country, so I've been a tad short on free time the past several weeks), but this sounds cool and promising. I'll touch base with you on the topic once I'm up to speed.

This sounds good, but there are some problems that you should be aware of - I initially thought about doing this, and instead of using the alpha channel for the mask information, putting it in the blue channel. The game unfortunately re-uses the landscape textures for non-landscape objects, such as caves etc. So you'd end up having to:

1) change all of the lighting shaders to reconstruct the normal map from red and green channel; or
2) (more feasible) duplicate some of the textures to be used on the non-terrain objects. Chainsaw looked in to doing this and said that the texture memory increase was significant. Additionally, it means changing who-knows-how-many NIFs, although it's probably possible to use a python script to automate this to some extent.

Also, I don't know if you're relying on having a view vector for other improvements to the terrain (such as parallax mapping). It unfortunately isn't there (I tried that already ) . Although ambient aperture lighting should work, since by my reading of the ATI paper, it doesn't require one (might be wrong there though). I looked at doing this myself a while ago, but never got round to generating the textures required.

thank you but I expect a new update to correct the bug of texture disappeared around caves

I assume you're reffering to the http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=808462&st=160# about in the first thread. I was not able to reproduce this issue - I visited the spot you pictured, and everything looked fine. I have also had no other reports of it. This leads me to believe that it's an issue with one of the other mods you're using, or some kind of minor file corruption on your end. I'd suggest you check out those possibilities. My apologies for not being clearer about that before.

Ah, that's the fun of it. You can get the view vector from the view/projection matrix, as I found out from one Fabio Policarpo. Normalize and negate the vertex position post-transform. It's in view space, but converting everything else isn't extraordinarily expensive/complex. I'm also just using a version of the heightmap from a lower MIP channel for the AAL bit, as it's close enough from empirical testing. I'm using the normal map blue channel for a lot of different things anyway, so I figure I may as well just rewrite lighting stuff while I'm at it. Incidentally, would you happen to know what the attenuation map is? Does that govern light distance falloff or is something else?

Also: Compression artifacts in the heightmap add variety/texture XD


I get the sense you didn't mean it, but that did come out rather rudely, i.e. you somehow expect him to pander to your specific issues RIGHT NOW regardless of what else may be going on. Perhaps rephrase?

I've made a new shader patch, which should fix the blood issue.

http://hosted.filefront.com/Zeroed/2216031

Let me know if it works.

Just tried this in game - so far looking good no sign of flickering yet

still flickers.. also flickers how i tilt the characters head (view). Tried to see if it wasn't related to the omod so i uninstalled it. Went back to the save and it was gone.. reinstalled it again and it was back.

is there any more progress at all on this mod?