*freu*

And when i buy now iceX2.are the update included?

About shadow-baker.
Talking from my expirience, as I am using one 1024 bmp for terrain texture and detail map, good workflow will be to bake shadows into terrain color map. So you can make that as option for people who are using smaller terrains. Also you can leave option for making shadow map to use it with multi-tex terain shader.
So either option you make Ill be very happy and it will save huge time in terrain creation.
Curently I am using freeworld3D to make terains and there I need to place all models, make shadow map, bake it into color map, export height map, imrot into med, and place all models again. So you see how huge will be time save.

Option for different heights for coloring mountains in white is feature which freeworld has, so it will be very nice to implement it.

So I think if you make all this feature we will definitly use iceX only
Thnx

wow, you went exactly 1 yr, and 11 days between your update and its previous post w007 for patience

Today I've implented a new material for the terrain. The multitexturing is now based on a shader, not anymore on fixed functions pipeline effects. The shader needs PS 1.4. The old FFP effect is still there as fallback if your videocard doesn't support PS 1.4. This new multitexturing material based on jcl's shader from Wiki, but with more textures and a real rgb blendmap. The 4 external detailtextures and the shadowmap is the same as before. But the 3 blendmaps are now stored in one rgb blendmap. This saves a lot of diskspace and makes better framerates and (a bit) faster calculations in the editor.
The shader doesn't need alphachannels to blend the textures like the old ffp material. So now you can use stencil shadow on terrain!!.

These are very good news!

Long time no news on IceX2...but here it goes:
The street tool is almost completly finished. All features I wanted are implemented. Only a few small bugs must be fixed.

Here's a video which shows the features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DloU3dgi6CE

And here the list of the biggest features:
- two type of shapes, for flat streets and sidewalks
- automatic texture scaling and shifting for easy creation of long, good looking streets
- movement of the street tiles in all directions: x,y,z
- scaling of the street tiles, e.g. for creating realistic crossroads

As always great updates and it keeps on looking great too !!
Those couple features you've mentioned are nice aswell

Cheers

Frazzle

Hi!

Excellent!!! must I say! keep at work!


greet.

salva