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Richard A. Hawley
Richard A. Hawley
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Richard A. Hawley

Richard Hawley started programming in the early 1980s at the start of the home computer craze with the Sinclair ZX-81. Before leaving high school he had worked on three game projects for Assassin Software and later worked on conversions of classic strategy board games for 8- to 16-bit machines. He went on to develop end-user tools for popular flight simulations including Empire Interactives Enemy Engaged helicopter series and the highly successful Origin Janes Longbow series (MissioneerPlus). Hes the director of Tricubic Studios, a small UK company dedicated to creating simulation and training environments using off-the-shelf 3D engines including Unity and Leadwerks. Together with technical artist David Hopkinson (Total War: English Civil War conversion) and physics guru Fred Naar (creator of Helicopter Total Realism for Microsoft Flight Simulator X) they are collectively known for their work on helicopter simulations.
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The texture toolset


The fourth tab on the tools panel brings up the texturing features. The drop-down control allows us to select between the brush, procedural, and decal tools.

ColorGen tool

This tool requires an active color texture and paints areas that match specified terrain parameters (altitude range, slope, orientation) with a color.

It does this using a component you'll see in several of the texture tools, called a Distribution Mask (DM), these are found in the rollup of the ColorGen and MaskGen tools. They tell the editor how we want to apply a color or texture to a terrain based on a set of parameters. The tools can use one or more DMs and process them in a single operation although they can be fiddly to work with and often it's easier to use one at a time on different layers. Let's look at a single Distribution Mask component, refer back to this section if you need a reminder.

Distribution Mask component

The plus and minus icons at the top will add and remove Distribution Masks....

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Richard A. Hawley

Richard Hawley started programming in the early 1980s at the start of the home computer craze with the Sinclair ZX-81. Before leaving high school he had worked on three game projects for Assassin Software and later worked on conversions of classic strategy board games for 8- to 16-bit machines. He went on to develop end-user tools for popular flight simulations including Empire Interactives Enemy Engaged helicopter series and the highly successful Origin Janes Longbow series (MissioneerPlus). Hes the director of Tricubic Studios, a small UK company dedicated to creating simulation and training environments using off-the-shelf 3D engines including Unity and Leadwerks. Together with technical artist David Hopkinson (Total War: English Civil War conversion) and physics guru Fred Naar (creator of Helicopter Total Realism for Microsoft Flight Simulator X) they are collectively known for their work on helicopter simulations.
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