I used SetTerrainType and the terrain (almost) always looks black

[HerlySQR]

Hello, I'm trying changing the terrain of a place in my map and for some reason every tile type that I used (except Ashenvale - Grassy Dirt) the terrain appears black and I don't know why, the only thing I could think that it has to do that in my map I'm using custom tile types, but they should still appear and not being just black like the Outland void, do you know what is going on?

 

[Uncle]

I believe you can only use terrain textures that are in your tileset.

 

[HerlySQR]

I believe you can only use terrain textures that are in your tileset.

I tested in a blank map, and no, I didn't have that issue.

 

[HerlySQR]

Something funny is if I asing the value of the tile type in the variable directly, happens this issue, but if I assign the variable using "Terrain type of <Some location in the map>" I don't get this issue and the terrain is correctly asingned.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It is my understanding that the WC3 engine only supports 16 loaded tile types per session. Once a tile type is loaded, such as being referenced by the w3e file or by trigger setting terrain to a new tile type, it cannot be unloaded. In this case attempting to load any additional tile types results in an already loaded tile type being used instead in a seemingly random way.

Something funny is if I asing the value of the tile type in the variable directly, happens this issue, but if I assign the variable using "Terrain type of <Some location in the map>" I don't get this issue and the terrain is correctly asingned.

Possibly the GUI is not using or assigning the correct constant values to the variable. The dynamic approach works because it looks up the correct value to use.

 

[deepstrasz]

Would be definitely cool to find a way to change the skin of tiles as you can with units. But that would require a sort of script that checks/does it in a region or location.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Would be definitely cool to find a way to change the skin of tiles as you can with units. But that would require a sort of script that checks/does it in a region or location.

Certainly a reasonable request for W3CE. Not really possible in official released versions for the reason I mentioned.