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Adding ground textures to the CC Part 2

In my last post on this I explained how I copied the EUTexturing.bin file the CC was using to my routes provider/product folder so I could easily add new textures to it. Now I will experiment with adding some ground textures to the BIN.

First I dont want to experiment on an active route. If I mess something up by when trying out a new texture on the route canvas, and then remove the texture from the BIN then I will get unpredictable results which may include the dreaded SBHH message. The way around this is simple. As my Dad would do in machining... if you need to do something special, make a tool to do it. In this case my tool will be a clone of the TestTrak route. If I fowl up my XML, I can delete the route, and clone again.

Once again I will alter my TerrainBlueprint section in the RouteProperties.xml so I will have a private copy of the BIN file I can alter and make a copy of the EUTexturing.bin file, renaming it to TestTexturing.bin.

<BlueprintID d_type="cDeltaString">EnvironmentTerrainTestTexturing.xml</BlueprintID>

I will use RWTools to edit the BIN. There are a lot of interesting settings in here, and I will post about them later on because I will want to change a few for the CC. For now, I want to go to end of the last texture listed in the file.

</cMixTexDescriptor>
 </MixTex>

To add a texture, you will need a texture. Since the CC already has a dependancy on G-TraXs Portland Terminal (PT), I will select a texture from that route. In the future I plan on creating my own ground textures, and will add them to the BIN in the same way. In the PT BIN file I see a texture named Asphalt000 that is not reprisented in my new BIN:

<cMixTexDescriptor d_id="56736104">
 <BaseTextureName d_type="cDeltaString">G-TraXPortlandTerminalEnvironmentTerrainUrbanAsphalt000</BaseTextureName>
 <BaseSpringTextureName d_type="cDeltaString"></BaseSpringTextureName>
 <BaseSummerTextureName d_type="cDeltaString"></BaseSummerTextureName>
 <BaseAutumnTextureName d_type="cDeltaString"></BaseAutumnTextureName>
 <BaseWinterTextureName d_type="cDeltaString">G-TraXPortlandTerminalEnvironmentTerrainUrbanAsphalt000_Wi</BaseWinterTextureName>
 <DisplayName d_type="cDeltaString">Asphalt 00</DisplayName>
 <LocalisedDisplayName>
 <Localisation-cUserLocalisedString>
 <English d_type="cDeltaString">Asphalt 00</English>
 <French d_type="cDeltaString"></French>
 <Italian d_type="cDeltaString"></Italian>
 <German d_type="cDeltaString"></German>
 <Spanish d_type="cDeltaString"></Spanish>
 <Dutch d_type="cDeltaString"></Dutch>
 <Polish d_type="cDeltaString"></Polish>
 <Russian d_type="cDeltaString"></Russian>
 <Other/>
 <Key d_type="cDeltaString"></Key>
 </Localisation-cUserLocalisedString>
 </LocalisedDisplayName>
 <Wang d_type="cDeltaString">eTrue</Wang>
 <FloraIndex d_type="sUInt32">0</FloraIndex>
 <FloraDensity d_type="sFloat32" d_alt_encoding="0000000000000000" d_precision="string">0.0000</FloraDensity>
 <Category d_type="cDeltaString">eConcrete</Category>
 </cMixTexDescriptor>

I will copy (not cut!) and paste the texture from the PT BIN into my BIN between the two lines I mentioned above. Save the BIN, restart RW, clear the cache, load my test route... off we go!

The last step happens in the editor. Since the new ground texture came from G-TraX Portland Terminal, I will need to enable it in the object filter.


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