LandscapeVisibilityMask node missing in material editor

[HIHIHI]

Hello!

I've been playing RenX for a few months now, and I have started to make my own map, with the help of kenz's tutorials (Thanks kenz!). I would like to add some tunnels through my landscape. The way people say to do this (as far as I can tell) is to set up your landscape material with masked blend and then plug in a LandscapeVisibiltyMask node into the OpacityMask part of the material, after which you can use the visibility tool to paint away landscape. The problem is that this node does not appear in the node browser. I can search for "land," "vis," "mask," etc, but I can't find it.

My SDK is from March 3, 2017. (I know it's old; I just didn't want to download a new one in case I decided mapping wasn't for me. I would have the newest one by now but someone said in-game that there was an update planned and to hold off until then.)

Anyone know what the problem is? Or is there no problem and it's all me? : )

Thanks, HIHIHI

[Fffreak9999]

You can grab the latest one, it has a LOT of updated features (and even if a newer version is released, it probably won't be for a while, unless @Cronus decides to randomly drop a newer one on us...) 

[HIHIHI]

Thanks a lot! I'll do that and see if I can get some tunnels in.

HIHIHI

[NodSaibot]

uhm, on the landscape brush menu, theres an eye. click that and it will let you edit landscape vis.

[HIHIHI]

Yes, but doesn't the material have to be set up with a LandscapeVisibilityNode in the material editor? Currently if I use the eye tool, it just removes all textures from the landscape component I use it on. Anyway, I will get the new SDK version and work with that.

Thanks, HIHIHI

[NodSaibot]

22 minutes ago, HIHIHI said:

Yes, but doesn't the material have to be set up with a LandscapeVisibilityNode in the material editor? Currently if I use the eye tool, it just removes all textures from the landscape component I use it on. Anyway, I will get the new SDK version and work with that.

Thanks, HIHIHI

It shouldn't matter what version you have... I don't think we've added new nodes to materials before.

[NodSaibot]

I don't see any landscapevis node in any material on the dev version of the sdk.

[HIHIHI]

Okay, I will have to look around and experiment some. Thanks very much for your time!

HIHIHI

[HIHIHI]

Well, I've found a limitation. I lose all textures in a component of my map if I try to:

1. Paint more than four layers in that component, or

2. Paint more than three layers in that component if there is a landscape visibility hole.

Is this a known SDK limitation, or do I have something set up wrong? I tried on Whiteout and was able to have all five layers of its landscape material and a visibility hole in the same landscape component.

Thanks, HIHIHI

[NodSaibot]

2 hours ago, HIHIHI said:

Well, I've found a limitation. I lose all textures in a component of my map if I try to:

1. Paint more than four layers in that component, or

2. Paint more than three layers in that component if there is a landscape visibility hole.

Is this a known SDK limitation, or do I have something set up wrong? I tried on Whiteout and was able to have all five layers of its landscape material and a visibility hole in the same landscape component.

Thanks, HIHIHI

DirectX9 or something limitation I believe

[HIHIHI]

Ok, thanks for your help!

[HIHIHI]

Root of problem: My landscape material had too many texture samplers. It was at 12/12 max. I simplified it to have 10/12 and now I can paint five layers and a hole without a problem.

Again, thanks for your help!

[NodSaibot]

21 minutes ago, HIHIHI said:

Root of problem: My landscape material had too many texture samplers. It was at 12/12 max. I simplified it to have 10/12 and now I can paint five layers and a hole without a problem.

Again, thanks for your help!

No problem! The dev team is happy to see community members experimenting and creating! We are happy to assist you and answer any questions you may have.

[HIHIHI]

Good to know! You can definitely expect more questions. : )

I guess I will start a WIP page sometime soon for any interested parties.