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Did you even watch the video before you start trolling? Anyone with half a brain cell knows that the roads themselves aren't decals and I even stipulate in the video that it's a solid object and merely a "decal system" which Giant's themselves refer to it as. Somehow you feel like you're the only smart one on the internet and need to defend the position that the roads aren't actually "decals." No $hit sherlock, anyone can tell you that. BTW, the roads do in fact use decals, look at any Giant's map (as you say). So how about this? Do your homework and know wtf you are talking about before you start spouting off your own rubbish.

Registering a roller coaster? I'm not sure what you mean.

Mine did 720's and I still don't have it quite figured out so you're doing better than me, LOL! I started getting a handle on it but it's been a while - I'll make that one of my missions for 2025 to get that all worked out.

To be honest, I haven't tried many of the scripts yet but from what I understand none of them work correctly in the new editor - it's been a time issue for me lately. I've been following a guy that made a lot of progress with procedural placement and PP makes this script (and many others) obsolete, but the only drawback is that you need to have an idea on how to work with Lua. I'll eventually test out some of these scripts for the guys that are not code savvy and prefer not to mess with PP .... all I need is time :)

@@bauerbrown no worries, thx for reply

That could be an interesting project :) I've been SLOWLY working on a 4k Riverbend and it looks promising so far.

Yup, still 8 bit for ground textures, etc. I don't think it makes as big a difference for models but I tend to stick with 8 anyhow. The DEM is 16 bit. DXT1 unless it has some sort of transparency and then it's DXT3 or 5. Height maps are DXT4.

Actually, I'm mistaken. It does make a difference on models or you'll get some funky artifacts when you convert to DDS. This is especially true with the specular and normal maps. Stick with 8 bit for everything but the DEM.

@@bauerbrown yeah, i tried with 8 bit png converted to dx1 dds but i got these funky little artifacts. Tomorrow i'll try with the other normal. I used the normalGL because online info told me i needed these.

@@bauerbrown the height map needing dxt4 i didn't know yet. Thanx for this amazing series also, helped me out again

@@fpvnico Also remember that your specular is made from 3 separate images and those should be 8 bit as well or the defect will be baked into the final specular image.

Yup. There are some changes to 25, but everything in 22 still applies.

Make sure you have the parent transform group "Fields" highlighted in your scenegraph when you run the script.

@@bauerbrown when i run the script and create the fields they come out the wrong size how would i fix this -- Set filename to a bitmap file (*.grle) local filename = "C:/Users/lukek/Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2022/mods/FS22_TheHeathOfEire/maps/map/data/infoLayer_fieldDimensions.grle" --Set bits of bitmap (normaly 8 bits) local bits = 8 --Set size of map (normaly 1024) local size = 2048 --Set factor for bigger grle's local factor = 2 --Set field factor (glreSize/mapSize) (f.e. standardmap: 4096 / 2048 = 2 local fieldFactor = 2 thats the setup of the script its a 2048x2048 map and the dem is the same size

Yes, the infoLayers still work the same for FS25. Since it's a modded map, make sure the file path for the infoLayers are pointing to your project map and not the base game map. You can check by viewing the map.i3d in a text editor and searching for "infoLayer." Id it starts with $data, it's using the base game.

@@bauerbrown Do you happen to have any clips, maybe in one of the other videos I can go look at for this? Im not sure what to look for as i didnt find anything matching what you said, But Im also not sure if Im looking at it correctly as there are a lot of lines with "infolayer" as a possible search point.

@@VikraalTheFluffDragon There may or may not be an example of this in one of the infolayer videos, I can't recall off the top of my head. For a modded map, you should find around 9 entries for infolayer. Just look at the file path, if it looks like 'filename="$data/infoLayer_something.png" then it's using the base game, anything else and it's correct for a mod map.

I haven't attempted to use it yet. I suspect many of the scripts are not working. Once I get a little more time I'll start troubleshooting and rewriting some of the scripts that I know will never be updated by the author.

@@bauerbrown Great thanks, you always have so much great advice for doing these fs builds.

Completed maps can be used on Xbox however when building the map, the editor needs access to the game. Many people have accomplished this, but I have no experience with consoles.

PNG will work just fine. Are you running into issues with the GRLE?

They were supposed to have been released with the 1.3 patch but I honestly never looked in the dropdown. There hasn't been an update since, so I would assume they've been there. I figured I knew how the masks worked, just needed the code to know how they were implemented. I would think the masks are not generated by the code, they're made in photoshop etc. The masks are then used to place objects, paint ground markings, foliage, etc. when the code is run. At least any experience I have with placement masks have worked in this way.

@bauerbrown ahh i see what your saying. I just assumed they could be painted in the editor because if i click on terrain foliage paint mode, and then procedural placement in the side panel there's a drop down for PPlacement where you can open pg_forest, pg_acres etc and the blockmask was interesting with a few different colors. But what i found was i for the blockmask i could ctrl r on the different colors and it would change the tick boxes, so for example if i ctrl r on the green it would check mark the block foliage and the erase unmasked. If i ctrl r on the greyish color it would check mark all the boxes except on the fly placement. And was able to paint the same color with what i had done ctrl r on. With the PG masks i found that i when i did ctrl r, the opacity slider and value would change but the check boxes were all checked except for on the fly placement. And same with the pg ones, i was able to paint the same color with what i had selected via ctrl r. So much to learn yet lol

@@kevydd-h2pThat's just my experience and it's always possible Giant's is doing something differently. I really need to sit down with the Editor and get in deep with it, I just haven't had nearly as much time lately as I have had in the past. Things are moving slooow in that dept, LOL.

I haven't tried it yet, been kind of busy. I'll have to grab a copy and give it a shot to see what's going on. I assumed the old one wouldn't work anymore so it's good they're updating it.

@bauerbrown its one of those tools that you become lost without it lol especially on a larger maps. I had a play around with the code to see if i could get it to work properly, but i really don't know enough about lua yet. Slowly learning lua though. Hopefully, it's a simple tweak somewhere. I tried it on both 2x and 4x maps and got the same results. All good, I've plenty of other stuff on the map to keep me going, and some more vehicle mods to do 👍

What i did for my map was paint down asphalt underneath the road decals. It then has the correct road noises etc. If you pick apart the base game map you'll see they have painted asphalt under the road decals aswell.

Just do what Kevydd said! There are attributes assigned to each texture like hardness, etc. Putting the appropriate texture underneath will fix that problem.

@@kevydd-h2p great thanks, yes that makes sense. I should have thought of that.

@mobias7 i did the same as you when i did my roads too, something so simple but easily overlooked. I also used farmerboys modding spline panels to paint down the asphalt with a moss pebble edge on both sides, if your pc struggles with painting long splines, you can duplicate your spline a few times and make each one a shorter lenght and paint your road in sections. Its another something so simple but easily overlooked situation.

@@kevydd-h2p Yeah I used that spline mod on the FS22 version of the map I'm making. Its really good. I'll need to instal it again in GE10. Haven't got round to it yet.

Yes, the modhub. You will see a link for "login" and you can submit through your account. Obviously, if you do not have an account you will need to create one.

@bauerbrown yes, i already have an account. For fs22, i recently got my first maps online and for fs25 got some mods pending now but wasn't sure about the prefabs. Thanx.

@@fpvnico Yup. The process is the same for everything. At least I'm pretty sure :)

@@bauerbrown yeah, seams logical actually but didn't want to just try it out and rather ask someone first 😅

It's explained in the video, you may have to watch it more than once. Once it's converted and you changed the file path in the I3D to png, you'll open and save the map in GE, delete the png, and change the file path back to grle in the I3D.

We'll eventually get into all of that and more. A video on placeable basics should be coming soon. I'm a bit behind at the moment.

I do. That's going to be one of my future videos, but I'm not sure how soon. I'm a little behind on videos at the moment, but it's definitely on the list to get done.

@@bauerbrown I am eager to watch all your videos!!!

Sounds logical, I don't see any other way with only two textures.

LOL, yeah ... I couldn't leave it the way it was!

No, I haven't tried. Black artifacts sound like it could have something to do with the Alpha channel, but I could be completely wrong on that. I'll have to check it out and see what's going on. Any texture in particular, or are they all giving you issues?

@@bauerbrown Hey man, managed to get it working with Gimp, save as .png settings were, default settings plus tick Save color values from transparent pixels, left automatic pixel format and exported...then drag onto texture tool.YAY.

Don't feel bad, I didn't see it either!! LOL! I haven't tried any placeables in-game yet, I'll do some testing and see what I get.

@IRGoat I am having the same issues with the sellpoints. I worked on getting one working for over 6 hours the other day, it started accepting grain but wouldn't pay you... freaking thief lol! I don't even know how I managed that but I did.

In your brush attributes, make sure that "enable noise" is not checked. Other than that, I'm not familiar of any other attribute associated with the texture that will cause that (although it's possible). You could always use the Layer Manager to adjust some of the textures attributes and see what they do for you.

@@bauerbrown Thanks a lot for your help, I will do some testing.

@@bauerbrown So I found the solution, what makes layer bumpy is displacment map. I copied asphalt map, which is soft one from the game into my map, renamed it and linked it in layer editor and now its smooth!

@@r0tten609 I figured displacement would have that effect, but I assumed it worked with tire tracks once you drive over it.

Good tip! That could certainly speed things up a bit. It seems so obvious now, but yet my brain is wired to do things the hard way :) Thanks!

Yeah, I saw that one. Occasionally they do release various documents through their forums and such, but rarely do they cover things on the map making end and almost never are they instructional detailing changes, etc. to the maps, editor, and the overall process. Sometimes you can be lucky enough to pick up some info on their FarmCon videos, but that's generally hit and miss.

Procedural generation is a way to put down textures and items procedurally using mask layers and lua scripts however it's incomplete since FS22. Procedural Placement is missing the Lua scripts which is needed to fully understand how they are utilizing all the components of the PP. This is the reason you don't see any videos on PP, because nobody fully understands it at this point in time. With that being said, I do know of a few guys who are making great progress with it and you can expect a full explanation sometime in the hopefully near future.

It's not live, but I do have tutorials on installing Blender and exporting from Blender to GE.

It sounds like an issue with the map. Are you trying to load a base game map?

Ainda não, mas seriam feitas basicamente da mesma maneira.

I haven't seen the tree, but I venture a guess to say they were converted from the FS19 palms. I'm positive about that, but there's a good chance. Since it's just a deco object and an unassuming and insignificant one at that, I wouldn't stress over it too much. I would just use it and leave a note in the modesc giving a nod to the potential author, but I don't think even that is entirely necessary. Unfortunately I don't know of any forums where they are active.

@bauerbrown with deco object, do you mean like a house or a pile of wood? Because they do work like normal trees. They can be planted, cut and sold.

I feel like someone put in the work to make them work so i need permission. I really make it a thing in my map to grow en sell them 😅 Thought it would be easyer to contact someone when i started building my map. 😆

@@fpvnico If they can be grown and cut then I guess they are a bit more than just a deco object, but still not an incredibly huge deal. Sometimes creators are easy to track down, sometimes not - it's hit and miss really. The best I can say is lots of Googling. I'll have to find the address, but there was a discord that was nothing but mod creators and map makers, it's possible they registered there.

@@bauerbrown yeah, gonna give it one more try to contact someone while i finish the map but as you say, i'm not going to stress to much about a tree. If they want to get contacted about their stuff, they would make it more easy 😆

I haven't noticed any issues on my end, but it seems like at one point or another nearly everyone has an issue with YT at some point. Smoothing is simple enough on it's own, but a grid could work depending on what you're trying to achieve.

It's really not that difficult at all. I think most tutorials unnecessarily overcomplicate things for whatever reason and that's what turns most people off of modding. I try to make things digestible and easy to understand. The FS22 tutorials are a good place to start because about 90-95% of that still applies to FS25. If you can survive computer design, you'll do fine with this :)

@bauerbrown So just curious if you dont mind me asking... Do you do stuff like this for a profession (software development or similar) or is this just a side hobby you got into? I'm as far as your import export video and it seems you're knowledgeable in quite a few areas. I did one and a 1/2 years out of 2 for computer applications and programming and decided to switch programs to Computer drafting and design. The design side i was able to get instant gratification for what I was doing rather than write pages of code for ever lol. To be honest I have never even played farming simulator YET (new computer is on its way) just watched alot of play vids. The modding side really peaks my interest.

@@damunchman3120 I went to school for computer science and was a few credits short of my degree, but that was 30 years ago and many things have changed since then. I dabbled in programming throughout the years and had a short stint as a development programmer for online applications. Nowadays I work in industrial maintenance/engineering and the closest I get to programming is PLC's and perhaps some personal projects. I spend the majority of my time troubleshooting. I usually step in when something can't be figured out and I get to the bottom of what the problem is, what's causing it, and either propose a solution or fix it myself depending on the situation. As far as this YT thing and map making tutorials ... it's just a hobby. If instant gratification appeals to you, then you'll love map making. To be able to build something from your imagination or otherwise, and then be able to step into that build and walk/drive around and interact with your creation can be incredible gratifying.

From my understanding, converting is easy as updating the descVersion, but I have not personally confirmed that. I suppose the process could vary depending on if you want to convert a mod vs a basic deco object. I'll have to toy around with converting something and then I can certainly do a video on it!

The GE script for terrain height works for smoothing roads. Although it's not my preferred method, it does get the job done. The FarmeBoys scripts are not working at this moment in time, but they're working on updating the scripts. The wetness, leaves, etc. are also controlled through decals I believe. I'll do some experimenting shortly to see what's the best way to pull that off.

You may be in luck. That video might come out more sooner than later! Fingers crossed.

I rushed Elmcreek for some reason and the map had issues. This is my redemption :) LOL

@@bauerbrown Haha, yeah I remember reporting one to you but they were very minor issues and at the end of the day, we had massive fun with it.

@@michaelwest9653The fact that you had fun with it is all that matters I suppose :) I've definitely learned some hard lessons from that map and things have been done much differently since then. I never did get a chance to finish the major update I was working on for that map and I feel bad about it. It's hard to go back and get stuff like that done when there is so much more that needs to be done, especially with FS25 being out now.

My first map will likely be a 25 map, but my current map will be probably get released on 22 first since it's almost done and it would be like starting over to get it into 25. We'll see. I like a lot of the changes as well, but not all of them made things easier in the long run.

With the edges on the SSC roads there is probably not much you can do but make them again. I ran into the issue where it flattened out the edges and made the road wider. I'm not sure about the white line thing, it almost sounds like an issue with the Alpha layer. When transparencies have issues, they show up black. I would have to play around with BB's pack to see what the issue is exactly. You can try opening the texture in an editor and re-save it as a BC7 (dds) or other comparable format that handles transparencies.

@bauerbrown ok thanks will try that tomorrow

I'm not an expert, but when dealing with emission in Farm Sim I use the glow shader and that gets the result I want. Otherwise, I do have some tutorials on Farm Sim and Blender.

Do you mean a blacktop texture?

it shouldn't be too far off. I may start on it more sooner than later.

I always use my own maps, if not you're just inheriting someone else's mess. Making a blank map is not difficult, I have an older video on the subject and it still applies to FS25.

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It's coming! Perhaps I'll start working on that more sooner than later.