I'm so mad at this point that.. ungh nevermind
Look. I need this bumpmap:
to be applied to this texture:
with no high res blend, and a regular blend mode of 0.4
Simple right? WRONG!
The wiki refers to a section of the climate editor that allows you to set the blends, but, SUPRISE! It's not there. Which means I am screwed. Combine that with the fact that atm I can't even import my heightmap at 1:1 ratios any more (the perlin noise looks quite bad in spring. I must have everything at 1:1 ratios) because l3dt decides not to apply any bumpmapping at all when I do that.
So I had a little fun today. rendered a light map with normal settings as per Greenworld climate. Went and changed the weighting to 100 on all land types. Then I proceeded to change all the bump map totals to 100.
Shocker. No change whatsoever (This is using 2.4b btw).
I'm getting really really tired of spending 8 hours trying to figure this stuff out on my own. I feel 100% gimped. As you can see, the normal above is VERY agressive. If the bumpmapping in the texture is to survive the dds compression in the spring compiler it Has to be very agressive. However, Now I have lost all control over the blend of the bumpmap when seems to be working at some arbitrary setting which may be just peachy keen for other renderers...
Also, without doing the heightmap at a 1:1 ratio, the texture gets completely garbled. For what it is it looks great, but if you wanted to keep the original detail in the texture, you're screwed unless you do a render at 1:1. I have no problem with that, however, I need to be able to control the bumpmapping completely . Unfortunately I don't have that ability any more and messing around with this stuff is frankly, quite infuriating.
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Ok I did some testing and found out some interesting results.
THis is the light map processed without bumpmapping:
And this is processed with Bumpmapping:
Do you understand now why I'm upset? They are the same! The exact same! BTW this was with a bump-map- totals of 500 on each land type and a weight of 60 on the bumpmapping.
Would you please tell me what is going on? Cause atm I'm really really upset and I apologize for the tone of this post. All this time after you posted my climate fixed for me, I had thought it was fixed, even though the bumpmapping wasn't really showing up, I was willing to live with it. All this time it was the terrain normals tricking me.
Well, I'mma pop a few alkaseltzer and have a good cry. Will check back later today.
Thanks for listening to me rant.