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Thanks and Looking forward to seeing what you come up with Wrapscallion.

What do you mean like a 2D cutout like leafs on a tree or like a 3D glass ball?

Did you install scons? http://www.scons.org/

Thanks for the comment, link and contrabution to the topic anael I am definitely going to make use of that link some really great info there.

I am not going to even comment on that screenshot and just keep pretending that I am doing a good job lol

Anyways in my last post I was going to point out some diffculties, the first problem I had was.

    1. I ended up with something completely differant than what I was trying to model.

Notice in these two screenshots where my waterfall spills into the creek and the ordon spring there the same basic shape but mine ended up being a small waterfall and creek.

I could have kept going and turned the following screenshot into a canyon with a rope bridge and had a fairly large terrain.  But that lead me to my next problem.

    2. How to get lots of fine high resolution detail into my texture without it being a 300mb image.

I had to start to back-up off of my terrain to get some distance from me and the view of my terrain in-order to limit the amount of blur and pixelation I was seeing on my terrain texture.  Thats why my large terrain turned into a small one.

The next problem I ran into was that I wasnt in the mind set that this model should be as close to production ready as possible I was just kinda going with it. That lead me to a few problems with my terrain mesh.

    3. Crooked Edges
    4. Polygon Count was to high
    5. Terrain Texture was a 4096x4096 image

These problems caused my terrain to be extremly diffacult to extend and modify and the start of poor performance. Not to mention mobile devices have a Polycount in View, Texture Size and Texture Memory limitations so the scene I had created might not even run on an Iphone or Android device.

Now having an idea of what I wanted to do I set out to fix my terrain mesh by creating a new lower poly and smaller texture resolution version 2048x2048.

The next problem I ran into was that I tend work twords getting my scenes out of blender painted in such a way "Shadows Included" that when they are imported into Maratis they look exctly the same. This works most of the time but one particular case where this wasnt the case was trying to bake the shadows of the leafs/branches/tree onto the terrain texture.

    6. Blender will bake the AO of the shape of the mesh and not the image contained"Leaf"

This left me with square/blocky shadows baked onto my terrain texture under the trees. I was able to fix this problem by just using a spot light in maratis and enbling shadows.

This is the final result in trying to solve some of the problems I had just talked about 1. A new Lower Poly, Cleaner version of my Terrain, 2. Smaller Texture Map, Tree Shadows from a Maratis Spotlight with Shadows enabled.

Cool, My Intel GMA 3000 started seeing a delay at about 340 particals, So thats good I can work with that  my needs are fairly simple Thanks

1600x1200 shouldnt be giving any major problems.

This is 600x600

I will just go around it with the eraser and then smooth the edges and fix the missing pixels with the clone tool. Cutouts are 90% of the time alot of work.

lol post your image let me look.

7.37. Alpha level

Converts the alpha threshold regions partially transparent areas of the active layer completely transparent or opaque. The user specifies an alpha level (0 ... 255) which will be used to separate the regions that will become clear to those who may become opaque. This only works on RGB images with an alpha channel. If the option Keep transparency is checked in the Layers dialog, this command will cause an error message.

7.37.1. Access control
You can access this command from the image menubar through Layer → Transparency → Alpha Threshold .

7.37.2. Description of the dialog

    Figure 16101. The only option dialog "  Threshold Alpha  "
   

Threshold
With this option, you can set the transparency value to be used as threshold. You can do this using a slider or by entering a value in the text box, between 0 and 255. All transparency values above this threshold will be made opaque and values below this threshold will be made completely transparent. The transition is abrupt.

Note
This command will never completely transparent (alpha value = 0) opaque pixels.

Figure 16102. Example Threshold Alpha

A transparency gradient 0-255

Alpha level set at 50, 127, 210

Looking forward to trying that out. One click win sounds good!!! lol

Mine dont always turn out perfect eather, I get this weird haze around my image especialy if I use the lasso tool. Sometimes I have to fix the transparent or missing parts with the clone brush. But for me its generaly worth it.

You can also try duplicating the layer a couple of times and merging those copys to gether thats what I do most of the time, it seams to workout fine.

You need a copy of your cutout but it needs to be the color of the original background, you then paste it as a new layer, set it below the image you have there and merge.

So if the background of your image was white then you want the image you have there and a copy of it with a transparent background that is solid white. And you merge the two copys the color version on top and white on bottom.

Added 11 new textures to the Asset Wiki

http://wiki.maratis3d.org/index.php?tit … s#Textures

Earth2(Dirt)

Grass1

Grass2

Leather1

Leather2

Leather3

Metal1

Metal2

Metal3

Metal4

Metal5