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#1
Environment models / Re: Importing Real-World Loca...
Last post by forum_admin - May 25, 2025, 07:27:21 AMHi Pat,
I think the best way to use a 3d model as the terrain will be to use a 'dummy' height map image and settings in terrain.ini, to set the overall parameters (the image can be black, with SeaMaxDepth set to be at least as deep as your maximum depth).
You would then load the terrain model as a 'Land Object'. You will need to make sure you know where the model origin is, and set this as the land object position.
You will need to make sure the Radar, Collision and Absolute settings are all '1'.
Details of the parameters are in https://www.bridgecommand.co.uk/Doc/Current/WorldFileSpec.html
Let me know how this works!
I think the best way to use a 3d model as the terrain will be to use a 'dummy' height map image and settings in terrain.ini, to set the overall parameters (the image can be black, with SeaMaxDepth set to be at least as deep as your maximum depth).
You would then load the terrain model as a 'Land Object'. You will need to make sure you know where the model origin is, and set this as the land object position.
You will need to make sure the Radar, Collision and Absolute settings are all '1'.
Details of the parameters are in https://www.bridgecommand.co.uk/Doc/Current/WorldFileSpec.html
Let me know how this works!
#2
Environment models / Re: Importing Real-World Loca...
Last post by Pat - May 11, 2025, 10:30:13 PMI'm also looking at Blender to create worlds as Bundysoft's L3DT seems to be unavailable. I can capture my local area in Blender with the BlenderGIS add-on (Bing maps seem better quality around me than Google) and some open topography.org gets me the relief. Another Blender plugin allows me to export this world as a .3ds file, but my question is, how do I import this into BC? The terrain.ini file has entries for a heightmap and texture file so do I need something different here to accept just a .3ds file instead?
#3
Development / Re: 5.9.7 and 5.8.9 are missin...
Last post by Johan - May 07, 2025, 06:42:52 PM5.10.1 is missing from releases (https://github.com/bridgecommand/bc/releases) and tags (https://github.com/bridgecommand/bc/tags).
#4
Environment models / Re: Importing Real-World Loca...
Last post by forum_admin - March 23, 2025, 10:02:09 PMHello, apologies for the delay!
Is this an elevation map that you are trying to import? If so, the best way is generally to use a heightmap and texture (See https://www.bridgecommand.co.uk/Doc/WorldFileSpec.php) This should avoid problems with the texture not being loaded.
If you do want a 3d model, the 3ds format as used in Bridge Command should support textures. I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with blender to know what set of options are needed. Quite a lot of other formats are also supported, including .obj (see the full list at https://irrlicht.sourceforge.io/?page_id=45#supportedformats), so it might be worth trying a few different options. Although a lot of the models used in Bridge Command are .x format, I don't think there's a lot of support in modern tools for exporting to this format any more.
Please let me know how you get on, and I may be able to provide more advice depending on exactly what you are trying to do.
Is this an elevation map that you are trying to import? If so, the best way is generally to use a heightmap and texture (See https://www.bridgecommand.co.uk/Doc/WorldFileSpec.php) This should avoid problems with the texture not being loaded.
If you do want a 3d model, the 3ds format as used in Bridge Command should support textures. I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with blender to know what set of options are needed. Quite a lot of other formats are also supported, including .obj (see the full list at https://irrlicht.sourceforge.io/?page_id=45#supportedformats), so it might be worth trying a few different options. Although a lot of the models used in Bridge Command are .x format, I don't think there's a lot of support in modern tools for exporting to this format any more.
Please let me know how you get on, and I may be able to provide more advice depending on exactly what you are trying to do.
#5
Environment models / Importing Real-World Location
Last post by jhnyx - March 04, 2025, 02:50:12 PMHello, I'm interested in modifying Bridge Command, specifically the environment, to include a real-world location from my country. I used RenderDoc to extract the 3D data and imported it into Blender. My goal is to integrate this custom environment into the game. Is it possible?
Edit:
I successfully imported my custom 3D environment into Bridge Command, but I encountered a problem—my model appears completely white. The textures from the original data (extracted via RenderDoc from Google Maps) seem to have been lost.
Does the 3DS format used in Bridge Command support textures, or do they need to be manually applied after import?
If textures are supported, how can I ensure they are properly exported from Blender?
Would DirectX (.X) be a better format for preserving textures, and if so, is there a recommended way to export it from Blender?
Edit:
I successfully imported my custom 3D environment into Bridge Command, but I encountered a problem—my model appears completely white. The textures from the original data (extracted via RenderDoc from Google Maps) seem to have been lost.
Does the 3DS format used in Bridge Command support textures, or do they need to be manually applied after import?
If textures are supported, how can I ensure they are properly exported from Blender?
Would DirectX (.X) be a better format for preserving textures, and if so, is there a recommended way to export it from Blender?
#6
Bridge Command General Support / Re: Add/Modify sounds like the...
Last post by jhnyx - October 22, 2024, 12:13:05 PMThank you for the detailed reply.
#7
Bridge Command General Support / Re: Add/Modify sounds like the...
Last post by forum_admin - October 21, 2024, 01:02:19 PMHello, for an existing ship, you can change or add the files BWave.wav for the wave sound, Horn.wav, Alarm.wav and Engine.wav within the own ship's folder (e.g. Models\Ownship\Protis\Engine.wav). If any of these are not present, Bridge Command will use the files in the Sounds folder in the installation directory.
If you want to change for an existing ship, you can either change the existing files, or copy the whole ship model into the local user directory (on windows this is "%appdata%\Bridge Command\5.9\Models\Ownship"), and change the files there.
Bridge Command uses Libsndfile to read the sound files, so most formats should be supported, please see http://libsndfile.github.io/libsndfile/formats.html.
However, note that all of the sound files must have the same number of channels (stereo or mono), and the same sample rate. We currently assume that the files have a .wav extension. If this is a problem, it's probably quite easy to recognise other extensions.
If you want to change for an existing ship, you can either change the existing files, or copy the whole ship model into the local user directory (on windows this is "%appdata%\Bridge Command\5.9\Models\Ownship"), and change the files there.
Bridge Command uses Libsndfile to read the sound files, so most formats should be supported, please see http://libsndfile.github.io/libsndfile/formats.html.
However, note that all of the sound files must have the same number of channels (stereo or mono), and the same sample rate. We currently assume that the files have a .wav extension. If this is a problem, it's probably quite easy to recognise other extensions.
#8
Bridge Command General Support / Add/Modify sounds like the eng...
Last post by jhnyx - October 20, 2024, 06:01:25 PMHello, how do I replace the sounds used like the engine of existing default ship or add a custom ship with its own engine sound? What sound formats are compatible? Is it possible also to replace other sounds like wave, horn and alarms?
#9
Development / Re: Creating a controller prog...
Last post by hadi23 - August 01, 2024, 11:06:20 AMHello evryone,
can someone provide me the source code for BC 4.7 version please?
i have problems with MC messages data encoding
Thank you
can someone provide me the source code for BC 4.7 version please?
i have problems with MC messages data encoding
Thank you
#10
Development / Re: Creating a controller prog...
Last post by hadi23 - July 25, 2024, 09:26:26 AMI tried to send Bc messages to 3d "secondary display " the other one was in networked main but thers is overloop (the main one is sending BC messages and i also send BC messages from my script).
but i tried to only send BC and SC messages to Secondry display (without starting bridgecommand in networked main) but the secondary display does not launch when i send the messages.
or the secondary display launches if and only if Bridgecommand is started on networked main ?
but i tried to only send BC and SC messages to Secondry display (without starting bridgecommand in networked main) but the secondary display does not launch when i send the messages.
or the secondary display launches if and only if Bridgecommand is started on networked main ?