No Snow Terrain Paint?

[Spock]

Built a coaster and incased it in a mountain with the terrain tools. Its in sandbox mode on a grasslands map. I wanted the mountain to have a snow cap... but there is no snow terrain texture paint. Am I missing something? Seems in this game you should have access to any kind terrain texture you want regardless of actual biome type since you know.. its a "theme" park game and all.

[Ave]

in the menu:
go to "play"
then "my parks"
there you can change the terrainbrush in your park, i´ve made a screen, my english is not so well :)
but beware of wich terrain you change into snow, because it changes all of the terrain of the map.
for example you change the grass into snow, then the whole map is snowy :)
I had change one of the sands in one of my parks into snow

hope that is that what you mean and it helps

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1251552921

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1251552988

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1251553033

[Wylie28]

Originally posted by Spock:

Built a coaster and incased it in a mountain with the terrain tools. Its in sandbox mode on a grasslands map. I wanted the mountain to have a snow cap... but there is no snow terrain texture paint. Am I missing something? Seems in this game you should have access to any kind terrain texture you want regardless of actual biome type since you know.. its a "theme" park game and all.

Not quite. Those textures are blendable with blendable specular maps, normals, and bump maps rendered on top of voxelates procedural terrain with realtime Sub-Surface-Scattering per texture. Its a feat we have as many textures we got. No other game has textures as quality as these paintable. Let alone more than 8.

[B✪✪tsy]

Originally posted by Wylie28:

Originally posted by Spock:

Built a coaster and incased it in a mountain with the terrain tools. Its in sandbox mode on a grasslands map. I wanted the mountain to have a snow cap... but there is no snow terrain texture paint. Am I missing something? Seems in this game you should have access to any kind terrain texture you want regardless of actual biome type since you know.. its a "theme" park game and all.

Not quite. Those textures are blendable with blendable specular maps, normals, and bump maps rendered on top of voxelates procedural terrain with realtime Sub-Surface-Scattering per texture. Its a feat we have as many textures we got. No other game has textures as quality as these paintable. Let alone more than 8.

Sorry, but the terrain editor feels like a very old editor. I used terrain editors from 10 years ago that had better brushes and effects (Far Cry editor for example). Specially working with small radius the brushes start to get wonky. It gets the job done, but it's fairly primitve and unprecize.

[Spock]

Originally posted by Wylie28:

Originally posted by Spock:

Built a coaster and incased it in a mountain with the terrain tools. Its in sandbox mode on a grasslands map. I wanted the mountain to have a snow cap... but there is no snow terrain texture paint. Am I missing something? Seems in this game you should have access to any kind terrain texture you want regardless of actual biome type since you know.. its a "theme" park game and all.

Not quite. Those textures are blendable with blendable specular maps, normals, and bump maps rendered on top of voxelates procedural terrain with realtime Sub-Surface-Scattering per texture. Its a feat we have as many textures we got. No other game has textures as quality as these paintable. Let alone more than 8.

Seems the devs need to address this. Its a theme park game. "Theme" being the keyword. Its not unacceptable to expect to be able to create any type of terrain in any biome. Its not uncommon to go to theme parks and find each ride has a different theme.. you may have a damn desert firey hot alien planet themed ride right next to the North Pole. And even in real life there are snow capped mountains where it may be 80 or 90 degrees down below them.

It doesnt matter how advanced the texture paint system is or is not. The devs should have had this in mind from the beginning. The whole feature kind of just falls flat if you cant use it to incorporate themed terrain into your rides. First thing I tried to do with it was create a ride that was supposed to be going through the caverns and canyons of an alien planet, then I found there were no textures to make that very believable.

[Wylie28]

Originally posted by B00tsy:

Originally posted by Wylie28:

Not quite. Those textures are blendable with blendable specular maps, normals, and bump maps rendered on top of voxelates procedural terrain with realtime Sub-Surface-Scattering per texture. Its a feat we have as many textures we got. No other game has textures as quality as these paintable. Let alone more than 8.

Sorry, but the terrain editor feels like a very old editor. I used terrain editors from 10 years ago that had better brushes and effects (Far Cry editor for example). Specially working with small radius the brushes start to get wonky. It gets the job done, but it's fairly primitve and unprecize.

I never said anything about the terrain editor. Far Cry editor created static meshes outside of runtime. No comparison at all other than the abstract idea of what terrain is. Not knowing how to use brushes effectively is the fault of you not the game. Plenty of people can create anything with the terrain editor.