I was wondering how I'm supposed to add a secondary grid texture to an existing terrain ( loaded from .world file )

I'm trying to place a grid on the terrain
something similar to the one in the World Editor when you're in "path editing mode"

Thanks

I'll add this kind of functionality soon (because it will require heightmap access for faster rendering)

but you can use Physics.ray to get the heightmap position and draw quads using VI (vertex index buffer) after calling "Renderer(Render);"

I have an similar problem, but i want an hexagonal grid.
how to do that?

I still didn't get the answer to the simple square grid problem;
Can't I somehow display the grid without adding an extra texture? (heightmap isn't a problem for me, I want this in a perfectly flat world)

Here is how I draw a grid over the terrain, it is not very efficient performance wise. Call DrawGrid() in RM_BLEND mode. If you want to make it look more like the world editor try playing with color (use transparency) and width of Edge.draw.

(12-21-2013 05:27 PM)Fex Wrote:  Here is how I draw a grid over the terrain, it is not very efficient performance wise. Call DrawGrid() in RM_BLEND mode. If you want to make it look more like the world editor try playing with color (use transparency) and width of Edge.draw.

Code:

void DrawGrid()
{
  D.alpha(ALPHA_BLEND_DEC);
  Int draw_distance = 30;
  Flt height_above_terrain = 0.1; // meters the grid is placed above the terrain, this helps with clipping on steep areas
  
  RectI  ah = RectI(VecI2(-draw_distance, -draw_distance), VecI2(draw_distance, draw_distance)); // area heightmap
  for(int hy=ah.min.y; hy<=ah.max.y; hy++) // iterate area heightmap
  for(int hx=ah.min.x; hx<=ah.max.x; hx++)
  {
      Vec pos =Vec(Floor(Plr.pos()));
      pos = Vec(pos.x, 0, pos.z); // remove the hieght value, we will set that from the heightmap, not from the player
      
      Quad Q;
      Q.set(pos + Vec(hx, Game.World.hmHeight(pos.xz()+Vec2(hx, hy))+height_above_terrain, hy), pos + Vec(hx+1, Game.World.hmHeight(pos.xz()+Vec2(hx+1, hy))+height_above_terrain, hy), pos + Vec(hx, Game.World.hmHeight(pos.xz()+Vec2(hx, hy+1))+height_above_terrain, hy+1), pos + Vec(hx+1, Game.World.hmHeight(pos.xz()+Vec2(hx+1, hy+1))+height_above_terrain, hy+1));
      
      if(Dist(Plr.pos(), Q.center()) < 10)
      {
         Edge(Q.p[3],Q.p[1]).draw(GREEN);
         Edge(Q.p[2],Q.p[0]).draw(GREEN);
         Edge(Q.p[2],Q.p[3]).draw(GREEN);
         Edge(Q.p[0],Q.p[1]).draw(GREEN);
      }
      else
      {
         Edge(Q.p[3],Q.p[1]).draw(RED);
         Edge(Q.p[2],Q.p[0]).draw(RED);
         Edge(Q.p[2],Q.p[3]).draw(RED);
         Edge(Q.p[0],Q.p[1]).draw(RED);
      }  
   }
}

This topic was years ago but I like the sense of helping others

Thank you for helping people bro