CCG/GroundTexture

Note: This page describes obsolete asset formats (trainz-build prior to 2.9) and should be removed. The up-to-date documentation of this format is KIND Groundtexture.

KIND: GROUNDTEXTURE

Description

A ground texture is tiled in Surveyor to color and cover the base grid. It can optionally reference a low polygon mesh and insert the mesh automatically as the ground is painted.

Container Structure

A well formed groundtexture kind has the following container structure:

See Chapter 7 for an example asset of this kind.

A TYPICAL ASSET OF THIS KIND MAY HAVE THE FOLLOWING TAGS:

groundtexture
kuid                      kuid
kind                      data
trainz-build              data
category-class            data
username                  data
category-region           data
category-era              data
texture                   file
thumbnails
0
image                     file
width                     data
height                    data

TAGS AND CONTAINERS

The following tags are further defined in Chapter 5:

kuid

Generated automatically by Content Manager.

trainz-build

Automatically set to 2.9 for 2009 assets.

category-class

Should be "G" - Ground, "GA" - Arid, "GL" - Lush, "GS" -Seasonal. See the “Ground” section of Category Class.

category-region

See Category Region for a list of valid category-region values.

category-era

See Category Era for a list of valid category-era values.

username

Asset username. This will be the name that appears as a mouseover hint in the surveyor menu. Textures are also sorted alphabetically by username.

kind

Must be "groundtexture".

texture

The texture file. Should be a 128x128 pixel bitmap.

Additional Tags

clutter-mesh

Ground textures can now reference a mesh and insert the mesh automatically as the ground is painted.

Painting over a clutter-mesh ground texture effectively deletes clutter meshes and texture. The mesh it refers to can be a standard scenery object kind mesh. Clutter-meshes must have only one Max material assigned to it. Polycounts must be very low.

THIS KIND SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING:

CONTAINERS

String Table, Chinese String Table, Czech String Table, Dutch String Table, French String Table, German String Table, Italian String Table, Polish String Table, Russian String Table, Spanish String Table, KUID Table, Obsolete Table, Thumbnails, Privileges, Extensions.

TAGS

kuid, trainz-build, category-class, category-region, category-era, username, kind, texture, author, category- keyword, clutter-mesh, contact-email, contact-website, description, description-cn, description-cz, description-de, description-es, description-fr, description-it, description-pl, description-nl, description-ru, license, organisation, username-cn, username-cz, username-de, username-es, username-fr, username-it, username-nl, username-pl, username-ru.

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