1. How can I make terrain objects from my mod show up in the editor menu?
2. How can I make it snap to different spacing, e.g. make it snap to a 16 pixel wide grid rather than 12?

Thanks in advance.

1. Add an includefile somewhere in Base.rte. At the end of Index.ini is fine.
2. Not possible, so far as I'm aware. I assume it's hardcoded into the engine.

Thanks. It kind of bothers me that you can't change the grid... Oh well.

One other quick question: Is there a color for the mat file that represents a material that is invincible, as in it can't be raped by bullets or anything at all? If not, (well actually, either way, because I'd like to know how anyways) is there a way I can create my own material for use in mat files that is?

Invincibility in CC is pretty much impossible. If someone wants to get through something, they'll be able to.

However, you can get practical invincibility with either test or a custom material. You'd want to look into Base.rte/Materials.ini.
It should be fairly self explanatory, the only issues being that any new materials you make need a unique material index.

But aren't there no extra colors in the material palette? I thought the extras were all black.

The colours of the material palette are based on the colours of the materials. You just pick an unused RGB and material index and go to town.

But all the other indexes in the material palette are black...

You can change the RGB of your custom materials. The index is set in stone, not the RGB.

I do not understand what you mean at all. I'm sorry, I'm just not following.

Atleast on graphicsgale (no lizard stop it it's not funny we have heard that it's awesome and all yadda yadda) you can open a terrain contour .bmp file and in the palette thing you can change the RGB of the black colors, then you just assign those rgb values to a material and a texture in the .ini of the map.

Awesomeness, would you mind pastebinning an unused material, I'm not on a PC with Cortex Command at the moment.
I'm probably not explaining very well, far too tired, but I'll have another go at it.

Is this what you mean?Or this?

That's perfect. So basically you need to pick an unused index, and copy/paste one of those.
Change the index to the new unused index, and change the particulars as you like.
Then, change the RGB values to the colour you want it to be represented by in scenes and bunker modules.

So if you'd made the glass, you'd paint it into a scene with the colour 216,234,255.
Say if you're still having trouble.

But don't you have to use the terrain palette to create scenes? The terrain palette only includes the colors of materials that come with base.rte. If that's true, than I have no colors to work with for my custom materials. This is what's confused me all along...

The terrain palette has 256 spaces, but only a couple of them are used. You are changing and extending the palette by adding new materials.