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Post by Silvone Elestahr »

Why is it that every time I try to put in a greyscale map it wont work. It keeps telling me that it cant import the map. What kind of maps am I supposed to use and where do I get them?
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Post by Noirgrim »

Are we using MGen for this project? If we are, where can I get it?

And if we are, why don't we create the rest of Morrowind with it?
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Post by Eraser »

These greyscale maps, are you creating them yourself or have you found them somewhere? If you made them, we need someone good at it because we are looking into using a generator to make land for us.

But I thought mgen made interiors?
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I have no idea how to use it but perhaps what you said E is the reason it is not working.
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Post by Silvone Elestahr »

Then how do you do the interiors with it? And where do I get the one that does the landscaping?
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Post by Veet »

I believe M-gen makes exteriors and GenMod makes interiors. Neither do a very thourough job and anything created in either will need a lot of attention after generation. I think that the problem you may be having with your greyscales is that you need a companion program for it. I'm not sure which but it was discused in a previous thread
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Post by Dakkan »

I think that compainion program is Terragen, but I might be wrong.
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That sounds familiar I think you may be right....still somone should look up the old thread....it was on this forrum so there shouldn't be a problem finding it.
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Post by Greybeard »

IMHO, GenMod interiors are too "same", and the time it takes to turn them into something unique isn't worth it. However, M-Gen with Terragen is very good. It's much faster than pulling up land with TESCS and is very configurable as well. If I remember, Inferno_St1ke spent some time with it (hmm, or was it SquallTM?).
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Post by ensis »

Either way, we should use it to finish up the rest of the land in all of Tamriel.
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The problem with MGen, at least with the one I have is that there is limitations on where you can place your map in the Morrowind world.

When you go to export your map from MGen to an esp file, Mgen asks you to enter origin coordinates, that is, where your map will start with the bottom lefthand cell as the origin. So say I make a map 8x8 and enter -30,-30 as the origin, the terrain will appear in the plugin with its origin at cell -30,-30. The problem is that Mgen only allows an integer of -50 to 50 as the origin. Would it be big enough?
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For anyone who is interested in the potential capabilities of MGen, here is a screenshot of a plugin based on the orsinium area of the iliac bay. The screenshot is typical of the 10x10 cell area of the plugin.
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Post by Eraser »

Thats actually pretty good looking, it would need work but not bad for something generated.
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Definitely, its rough around the edges but at least the hassle of putting in 100 cells worth of trees and other features, placing them, resizing them, texturing the ground etc is done for you. In about 5 seconds. And thanks to terragen it has a natural feel to it.
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To the best of my knowledge, mGen is kind of buggy and (more importantly) it is no longer being developed or supported. Please correct me if I am wrong in this.

There is a second newer program that does the same thing but is supposedly better. I have not tried it yet; I merely throw this out as another option for you to consider. Link here: [url]http://perso.club-internet.fr/miclg/utilitaires/Landscape_Creator_1.1_eng.ace[/url]
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Post by Casious »

i have tried that utillity and its much better than Mgen.
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blockhead wrote:o the best of my knowledge, mGen is kind of buggy and (more importantly) it is no longer being developed or supported. Please correct me if I am wrong in this.

There is a second newer program that does the same thing but is supposedly better. I have not tried it yet; I merely throw this out as another option for you to consider. Link here: http://perso.club-internet.fr/miclg/utilitaires/Landscape_Creator_1.1_eng.ace
Hello!

I'm new here and at first please excuse my english. I'm from germany.

Well I'm really, really depressed about mGen and it's bugs. Now, after endless searching for solutions or an alternative, I saw this thread and tried this link but it doesn't work :cry:
Could somenone of you post a new link, where I can find this Landscape_Creator, please? I also were very happy about sort of tutorial about using Landscape_Creator.
Also some tips and tricks for a save export from mGen would help a lot.

Thank you,
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Post by adancau »

Download it here, Landscape Creator v1.1 US - the English version. There's also a French version if you feel more comfortable with it.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/lowi/utilitaires/utilitairesvf.htm

Help is included. Pretty straight forward program to work with, just need to experiment with parameters. I find that reducing the coefficient height close to minimum yelds best results, unless you want very high cliffs. Also decreasing the curve feels more natural.

Hope it helps,
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Post by Anonymous »

Hey, thank you very much!! :mrgreen:

Do you know something about any bugs in this program or are there some rules I have to follow to get a save and workable *.esp-file? Tutorials?

English is ok. I don't speak french.

You don't know how much you helped me. Thank you again.

Greetings,
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Post by adancau »

Seven-D. wrote:Hey, thank you very much!! :mrgreen:

Do you know something about any bugs in this program or are there some rules I have to follow to get a save and workable *.esp-file? Tutorials?

English is ok. I don't speak french.

You don't know how much you helped me. Thank you again.

Greetings,
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You're welcome. I have no idea at all about bugs and such. Just heared of it today and searched for it on Google, downloaded and experimented a bit. Please read the Help, it will shed some light.

Kind regards,
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Post by Anonymous »

Hm, I didn't find any bugs at all.
It works very good and is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks again.
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