hi all
Maybe not really the games forum for this, but...it does concern a game.
I have designed a landscape...and I'd like to divide it into tiles...have done that...there are...1600 of them.
What I do not is export each one of them...that basically involves the same keystrokes...and it may need to be repeated as soon as I edit/change the landscape...
Any clever brain here that knows how to automate this? Each tile has a separate name of course...
Thanks
Melissa
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Blender has a scripting API to automate tasks (and do some other pretty amazing stuff), which uses Python. You should be able to use that: http://www.blender.org/api/blender_p..._2_76_release/

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thank you...popping over now...1600 tiles...that'll take a while
Melissa
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you might want to post a blender 3d in the blenderartists.org forum
http://blenderartists.org/forum/index.php

is this a mesh or a displacement using a normalmap ?
example of mesh and texture draped over it
http://imgbox.com/xmJfpRG4
--4k render--
http://imgbox.com/4qZIeXWA

or is this landscape a DEM ( i work with heightmaps all the time )

http://imgbox.com/1IFyyWGP

if the landscape is a rendered image then cutting the image into tiles is easy
-imagemagick can do it
- vips can do it
- Gmic can do it

if it is a node based large area ( first example )

use the python scripting in blender to cut a small area and export it to ??? a obj and mat files
or do you need a image and NOT a 3d mesh at the end

for a image
rendering the whole things in nodes and your GPU then cut up the resulting photo

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Actually, I should, still have a login on that one too
These landscapes look great!
Basically I clean the whole scene and add on plane that I size up. Then I subdivide and triangulate...then I duplicate that a few (1600 in this case) times (selecting a whole line and duplicating that, then moving/grabbing it in either the X or the Y direction). Then I join the thing and basically hand-mould the resulting "cloth"
Then I move over to the UV texturing...
Once that's done, I end up in the "taking apart tile per tile" to export this to Collada (perhaps not the most efficient, but it helps)...so...this is where the current challenge comes from...
No procedures or such to render a landscape (does kinda defeat the surprise element though, allas) but hand crafted stuff
Melissa
Edit - this is a little thing I worked out all lopoly...intentionally done so...

have you looked at the built in "cell fracture"
http://blog.digitaltutors.com/using-...nced-dynamics/
a vid example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEo_9AopfoQ

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WOW!!!