Feral Heart

Help & Guidance => Member Made Tutorials => Mapping Tutorials => Topic started by: Groogle on September 25, 2020, 08:27:13 pm

Title: How To Make A HeightMap [gimp]
Post by: Groogle on September 25, 2020, 08:27:13 pm
Today I will be kinda showing how to make a heightmap

Step 1:
(https://i.imgur.com/UFBBy3U.png)
1. Click on 'New'
2. Resize the Width and Height to '513'
3. Click on Advanced Options.
4. Go to  color space and change RGB to Grayscale; it won't work if you ignore this rule.

Step 2: Start being creative
(https://i.imgur.com/5DygiNI.png)
After playing around with your brushes, you finally come up with your terrain! Ta-da
If you're still lost with the colors, I can break it down.
Black (background) = water
Gray (line) = Land
White (circle) = hill/slope/plateau

Step 3: Exporting
(https://i.imgur.com/Nv09SiU.png)
1. Click New > Export As...
2. Click Windows (C:) > Feral Heart > Media> Terrians
3. Rename file and don't remove PNG
4. [yourmapname].png and click Export.

Step 4:
(https://i.imgur.com/ESC5Yq2.png)
1. Open FeralHeart
2. Go to Map Maker
3. Click World and retype the png name of your terrian onto the 'Terrian Height Map'
4. It should pop up in the right hand side and display then.

I hope I helped someone <3 Thanks for looking.
Title: Re: How To Make A HeightMap [gimp]
Post by: Garfield. on September 25, 2020, 09:50:37 pm
This is sure helpful Groogs! thank you for this tutorial! Imma try to make one >:D
Title: Re: How To Make A HeightMap [gimp]
Post by: Groogle on September 26, 2020, 12:15:21 am
This is sure helpful Groogs! thank you for this tutorial! Imma try to make one >:D
You're very welcome <3
Title: Re: How To Make A HeightMap [gimp]
Post by: Oddonelynx on September 26, 2020, 04:29:12 am
Finally, now I can make Bobcat City! Thanks!
Title: Re: How To Make A HeightMap [gimp]
Post by: Groogle on September 26, 2020, 04:59:55 am
Finally, now I can make Bobcat City! Thanks!
You're welcome!
Title: Re: How To Make A HeightMap [gimp]
Post by: Dark_heart on September 26, 2020, 08:55:38 am
At beggining it's better to go into FeralHeart > media > terrains > defalut and open defalutTerrain file on GIMP since once it crushed my game when I did it like above. But everything except that is amazing, it will help lots of people!