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The small lakes in Moor are generating a few blocks below grade, causing very unrealistic overhangs and some small floating islands. Not sure if that's new to this snapshot or not as I don't think I ever found a Moor in the previous ones.

Morning all, I thought I'd post an update to my previous findings with RTG 0.0.5 for MC 1.9, as I discovered a couple of things last night.

• So previously I've mentioned the weird "Floating Trees" incompatibility with Better Foliage, well it seems a newer version of Forge has fixed that completely as far as I can see

• One thing I mentioned before was, I found Caves and Ravines to be very rare. Well last night I played around with the RTG config and increased the overall size and frequency of both, started a new world and went looking.
Unfortunately after 2 hours of running round, flying and teleporting to new biomes, I still didn't find a single Ravine nor Cave entrance.
So, I went into spectator mode and clipped under the world and discovered that there were indeed caves... I mean a Lot of cave systems! The world looked like an Ant farm haha, they were everywhere! But the issue is, even while clipping and flying round I could see that only 1 in every 30-50 caves systems actually connected to the surface and had an entrance. So most of the time the only way to find a cave would be luck when digging down.
As for ravines, even when clipping under the world, I still didn't see a single one. I did find a couple of mountains that spawned next to each other forging a valley of sorts, which I thought might have been RTG's attempt at a ravine, but I'm not sure, what do you think (Screen Below)

• One awesome thing I didn't realise until srs_bsns told me: I normally use 2 mods for Villages. 1 to make Villages more rare, and the other to make Villages bigger. So they are rare, but when you find one, it's a big deal as they are large. But now, I can do that with RTG So I don't have to wait for those mods to be updated, and I tested it last night, found 2 villages, 1 was normal size and a bit broken, most of it was sunk into a hill, but the other one was perfect. Great feature.

• I also mentioned that I'd found a few mountains that seemed to be made from large percentage of coloured clay. Well I found a few last night, (Screenshot below). Is this intentional or a bug??? Just seems a little out of place being that high up.

• Also, I came across this mountain which seem unrealistically steep. Thought you might want a screenshot for reference.

• And finally, I discovered a weird looking wall next to a river. Again, I thought you might want a couple of screenshots for reference.

All in all though, everything seemed better, I think the newer version of Forge has ironed out a few issues I was having with extreme lag and crashing after a while. I got some screenshots of a few areas that RTG had made look... breathtaking Damn the world looks so much better, I really can't say thank you enough for this mod.

Anyway, thought I should post an update in case it helps a little.

Cheers

Quote from Zeno410»

There was a challenge a while back to create high-quality alpine mountain terrain procedurally with RTG. I can't find the post to reply, but, here's the new Highlands Snow Mountains:

As the terrain suggests, there's a little rugged valley wending its way up the mountain behind the ridge in front.

Arrrh man, that looks awesome

Zeno, you've outdone yourself

Here a nice shot of a dense forest with some ice mountains in the background :); edit. ow yea, and some nice high mountains, thanks for the awesome terrain

Quote from Titus_»

Here a nice shot of a dense forest with some ice mountains in the background :); edit. ow yea, and some nice high mountains, thanks for the awesome terrain

Very very nice Mind if I ask what texture pack that is you're using???

Its a custom texturepack, although its base is Sourtex Fanver (64x), running alongside R3Dcraft (128x). The R3Dcraft has been modified with "better" textures in some places, and is running over the sourtex fanver (in the resourcpack tab it is above, this is to ensure the default textures are taken from R3Dcraft).

Shader is v5.1 BSL shaders standard.

Hope that helps

Quote from Titus_»

Its a custom texturepack, although its base is Sourtex Fanver (64x), running alongside R3Dcraft (128x). The R3Dcraft has been modified with "better" textures in some places, and is running over the sourtex fanver (in the resourcpack tab it is above, this is to ensure the default textures are taken from R3Dcraft).

Shader is v5.1 BSL shaders standard.

Hope that helps

Thanks, appreciate the info

Mod is great, but, in my opinion, glasiers must be better and, please, make disable stone beach option. I tired of changing config.

Hi all!

I'm trying to make my own custom map with good ol' RTG terrain. I seem to remember one of the terrain mods adding an option to generate a map from an image, and I was wondering if it was possible to do that with RTG, or if it's not RTG that can, if I can still somehow get RTG generation in there. I'm on mc version 1.7.10.

Thanks!

Quote from MohawkyMagoo»

Yep, Ravines were activated in my configs and set to 60. Still not appearing. Caves are also very rare - despite having gen numbers ramped up high.

Quote from srs_bsns»

The higher the number, the rarer the feature; Try a lower value.

Ok, so I have discovered the issue with Ravines seemingly not generating. I enabled Ravines in the config, set the number very low giving them a very high frequency rate, then started a new world and went into spectator mode.
While clipping under the world I found dozens and dozens of Ravines... But, the reason they seemingly ain't generating is, they have the same issue as Caves and surface Lava pools, they have no entrance or opening at surface level. They all have a 5-15 block ceiling, so they are not accessible without mining down and just blind luck hitting one.

I did the same thing with Caves and surface Lava pools, setting the config to give them a massive chance of generating, and again while in spectator mode, just under the surface, cave systems and lava pools everywhere, but no caves have openings to the surface and not 1 lava pool was visible without mining down a few blocks.
So this is definitely the issue and why they seem to not be generating, because we can't see them due to them being covered.

Changing the subject a little. I spoke too soon regarding the incompatibility with Better Foliage... I just started a new world, no changes since yesterday, no new mods or updates, PC hasn't even been switched off, yet all trees (100%) were floating again. Tried another new world and same bug again
I did however realise that the tree trunks are in fact there, but the wood blocks themselves are just invisible. I realised when I saw villages had missing wood blocks. It seems that 100% of wood blocks regardless of type are completely invisible.

Quote from Zeno410»

Generating a map from an image sounds like ATG, and that's the mod you should use for that. RTG would not be able to place biomes onto an existing map. AFAIK ATG is the only mod which tackles the (difficult) problem of placing biomes on existing terrain.

Darn. That's a bit disheartening, because I much prefer RTG... I guess it's time to test maps until I find one that suits me!

Quote from Robijnvogel»

That is a feature, not an issue. I personally really like this feature as well.

It's a feature!? Oh, I didn't realise. The thing is though, with this as it is, in dozens of hours of flying around, I haven't seen 1 single lava pool or flow anywhere without mining down. None flowing down hills or mountains, no pools... nothing at all. I really don't know if I like that personally. Plus, wouldn't caves have openings at surface level, at least occasionally I mean. Having one or two dotted around so they are a nice find would be great, definitely better than vanilla where they are every 10 blocks, but none at all seems strange.