Config file help

I've been working with this particular problem for over a week now and have very little hair left to pull out (:wink:). I have a simple PLSM2 project that used to use the landscape scene manager with a raw heightmap file and a png WorldTexture file. I ran mapsplitter to get map1_hf.#.#.png and map1_tx.#.#.png files. They are in the media\paginglandscape2\terrains\map1_hf\ folder. In the terrains folder is my map1.cfg file

map1.cfg:
GroupName=PLSM2

LandScapeFileName=map1_hf
LandScapeExtension=png
FileSystem=LandScapeFileName
Data2DFormat=HeightField

Width=2
Height=2

NumTextureFormatSupported=1
TextureFormatSupported0=map1_tx

It's hitting an exception in the call to SetWorldGeometry: !material.isNull() && String(matClassName + "Must exists in the" + opt->groupName + "group").c_str () in OgrePagingLandScapeTexture.cpp on line 310. I can't figure out the config file and what I need to put in it to get it to load my map1_tx.#.#.png texture image across my landscape the way I did using the landscape scene manager (WorldTexture=map1_tx.png).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

TextureFormatSupported0=map1_tx

Looks like your problem. You set TextureFormatSupported0 to the texture name. It wants the name of the material to use.

That's what I was figuring was the problem. But for now I just want to know how to tell it the name of the texture file. I haven't learned anything about how to create material files yet. Once I get this up and running that will probably be next on my agenda.

So what options do I use in my map1.cfg in order to get PLSM2 to use my map1_tx.#.#.png texture files to cover the landscape? Or do I *HAVE* to create a .material file that references my map1_tx.#.#.png files and reference that material in map1.cfg?

Thanks a million for you help!

Please be sure to read wiki, default config files in media/paginglandscape/terrains and example materials shipped with plsm2.

If you want to have a texture per page :

NumTextureFormatSupported=1
TextureFormatSupported0=ImagePaging
TextureFormat=ImagePaging
ImageFilename=mytexturename
TextureExtension=png


you must provide each mytexturename.X.Z.png file where X and Z are page possible page numbers.

tuan kuranes,

Thanks for the point in the right direction! I did read the wiki pages on PLSM2 (including the page on config files) multiple times (more than one multiple-times even! ), however I'll admit I hadn't looked over the config files that come with plsm2 closely enough (especialy didn't notice template.default.cfg). To my own defense I must say that the wiki page (http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Paging_Scene_Manager_config_files) does not mention the ImageFilename option at all, and no reference is made to a ImagePaging value for the TextureFormat option (although several references to TextureFormat=Image are made in comments about some of the Map Splitter config options).

you must provide each mytexturename.X.Z.png file where X and Z are page possible page numbers.
Are you saying I have to "provide each file" as in make sure the actual files are available, or are you saying I have to specify the filename of each file in the config? If the latter, do I just include ImageFilename multiple times, as in

ImageFilename=map1_tx.0.0
ImageFilename=map1_tx.0.1
ImageFilename=map1_tx.1.0
ImageFilename=map1_tx.1.1

? Or do I just specifiy the base name once as in

ImageFilename=map1_tx

I'll play around with it later when I can (gotta do that "work" thing now). Thanks again for the point in the right direction!

I'll have to find some time for update the wiki... sorry.
"provide each file" as in make sure the actual files are available, so once only.