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Lib File Format

The document describes the .lib file format specifications for terrain data in a game engine. It contains the following key points: 1. A .lib file is a collection of other files with header information and a directory of items including filenames and descriptions. 2. Terrain data is stored in .ter files with each file containing multiple cells of heightmap data. 3. The engine loads terrain map data from .ter files at startup and stores it in a global heightmap variable to be used for rendering. It retrieves individual cells and populates the heightmap based on cell indexes.

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Lib File Format

The document describes the .lib file format specifications for terrain data in a game engine. It contains the following key points: 1. A .lib file is a collection of other files with header information and a directory of items including filenames and descriptions. 2. Terrain data is stored in .ter files with each file containing multiple cells of heightmap data. 3. The engine loads terrain map data from .ter files at startup and stores it in a global heightmap variable to be used for rendering. It retrieves individual cells and populates the heightmap based on cell indexes.

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lib fileformat specifications


by Philipp Pammler

1. .lib (.ter)
.lib is just a collection of files: a library file looks like this .lib { headerinformation (major-, minorversion, name of the creator) directoryitems (filename, description, filetype) { item1 item2 item3 item4 ... } }

2. cell specification(s)
TCell = array[0..132, 0..132] of single; // 132 = CellSize(128) + 4

each item in the .terrain file is one cell .ter { headerinfo directory { terrain/mapname-cellindexX-cellindexZ ... } } e.g. montagne.ter it consists of 4 cells ... directory { montagne-0-0 montagne-1-0 montagne-0-1 montagne-1-1 }

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3. TerrainRenderer & CustomHeightDataHDS + .StartPreparingData


const DEF_CellSize = 128; type TCell = array[0..DEF_CellSize + 4, 0..DEF_CellSize + 4] of single; var VAR_HDS: TCell; VAR_Mapname: string; VAR_CellNames: Tstringlist; INT_FileSystem: TFileSystem; // libFileSystemU.pas DIR_Data: string; // = ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName) + data\; { the map is loaded with on the program startup or everywhere else INT_FileSystem := TFileSystem.Create(DIR_Data + heightdata\VAR_Mapname + .ter, False); VAR_CellNames := Tstringlist.Create; INT_FileSystem.GetFileList(VAR_CellNames); The terraindata is stored in \data\heightdata \*.ter ... so VAR_Mapname is just the filename witout pathinfo and without its extension .ter } procedure PrepareHDSData(Mapname : string; X, Y : integer); var CellItem : string; TempCell : TCell; iX : integer; iY : integer; MS : TMemoryStream; begin CellItem := Format('%s -%d-%d', [VAR_Mapname, Y, X]); if VAR_CellNames.IndexOf(CellItem) > -1 then begin MS := TMemorystream.Create; INT_FileSystem.ItemToStream(VAR_CellNames.IndexOf(CellItem), MS); TempCell := TCell(MS.Memory^); FreeAndNil(MS); for iY := 0 to DEF_CellSize do for iX := 0 to DEF_CellSize do VAR_HDS[iX, iY] := TempCell[iY, iX]; end else ZeroMemory(@VAR_HDS, SizeOf(TCell)); end; procedu re T<xyz>.GLCustomHDS.StartPreparingData; var Y : integer; X : integer; RasterLine : GLHeightData.PSingleArray; OldType : THeightDataType; begin HeightData.DataState := hdsPreparing; with HeightData do begin OldType := DataType; Allocate(hdtSingle); // HeightData.MaterialName := 'default'; dunno if we can get the texturing stuff working on a terrainrenderer PrepareHDSData(VAR_Mapname, (XLeft div (DEF_CellSize - 1)), (YTop div (DEF_CellSize - 1))); for Y := YTop to YTop + Size - 1 do begin RasterLine := SingleRaster[Y - YTop]; for X := XLeft to XLeft + Size - 1 do RasterLine[X - XLeft] := VAR_HDS[X - XLeft, Y - YTop] / 2457; end; if OldType <> hdtSingle then DataType := OldType; end; inherited; end;

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