Feral Heart

Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: Dentrimental on June 28, 2020, 12:21:48 pm

Title: map making help!
Post by: Dentrimental on June 28, 2020, 12:21:48 pm

eeeh. so i really need your help!! so i was following this tutorial on how to make a terrain mask or sumn here is the tutorial i was using (https://feral-heart.com/smf/index.php?topic=34893.0)
buuuuttt.. it said this: 'and go to File>Open>Local Disk C:(SOS C:)>Feralheart>media>terrains>Watermill>watermillterrain.png and open dat.' so, i opened fh>media>terrains but there wasnt any folder named 'watermill.' so, i opened 'deafult' instead. it showed 'deafultterrian' could i use that aswell? even if i could, how do i put it into map maker?

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dark_heart on June 28, 2020, 01:05:06 pm

What I always do:
First open game and go into Map Maker. In map name and map display name write same names (for example "telephone"). Then click export - it will create folder and every needed files.

Height Map:
Go into FeralHeart -> media -> terrains -> defalut. There's file named DefalutTerrain. Open is by GIMP or Photoshop and just draw on it (but only with grey colours). When you finish it, name it YourmapnameTerrain (for example TelephoneTerrain), save it as .png in FeralHeart -> media -> terrains -> yourmapnamefolder (for example telephone). Then go to Map Maker in-game and in map terrain name write what you named file. Click enter and it should work c:

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dentrimental on June 28, 2020, 01:18:12 pm

Quote from: Dark_heart on June 28, 2020, 01:05:06 pm

FeralHeart -> media -> terrains -> yourmapnamefolder

where is the folder even meant to be!?
so, i went to fh and named 'map name' and 'mad isplay name' both river. then exported it.
then, i opened deafult like u said, and made the riverTerrain thing as u said and moved riverTerrain and river.fhm into a new folder i made. im so confused what to do next.

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dark_heart on June 28, 2020, 01:43:05 pm

You haven't to move .fhm file, move it to exports.

Best way is following this video: https://youtu.be/WuyJKX5iLME
It's in Polish language, but just follow it, I think you'll understand c;

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dentrimental on June 28, 2020, 02:07:01 pm

okay. so i followed the tutorial exacly how it said to do, and i loaded the map. but when i type in 'riverTerrain' it crashes everytime. why does it crash if i ddi it it right!?

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dentrimental on June 28, 2020, 02:10:17 pm

i changed riverTerrain to riverTerrain.png but it still crashes

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dark_heart on June 28, 2020, 02:35:45 pm

 Make sure:
• grey is 100 % Grey (I mean: there must be for example 100 red, 100 green and 100 blue).
• you use only one layer.
• picture is 513x513.
• transparency (alpha channel) is turned off.
And of course don't use Paint.

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dentrimental on June 28, 2020, 03:04:36 pm

Ok. Ill use firealpaca first as ik how to use it well, if it still wont work ill use gimp.

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dentrimental on June 28, 2020, 03:13:55 pm

ok. so i made the terrain in firealpaca, then changed it to 513 and 513 size in gimp, but it still crashes. ill just send dark the download for it so u can tell me whats wrong.

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Chipz on June 28, 2020, 03:20:02 pm

Just drawing in grey tones won't work, you must make sure you set your drawing to greyscale. I'm not sure how to do this on Firealpaca but on gimp it's as easy as Image>Mode>Greyscale

(https://i.imgur.com/R3u2vt6.png)

As for removing the alpha channel just right click your layer and select "Remove Alpha Channel", if it is blocked out meaning you can't click it then it is already done.

(https://i.imgur.com/6gonw7A.png)

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dentrimental on June 28, 2020, 04:03:52 pm

agh.. i searched up free feralheart heightmaps to see if it would work. i uploaded the heightmaps to imgur and made it png and 513x513. still. crash. ill try again later with the greyscale thing

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Chipz on June 28, 2020, 04:13:09 pm

Quote from: Kedamono! on June 28, 2020, 04:03:52 pm

agh.. i searched up free feralheart heightmaps to see if it would work. i uploaded the heightmaps to imgur and made it png and 513x513. still. crash. ill try again later with the greyscale thing

Let us know if it works!

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dentrimental on June 28, 2020, 04:16:04 pm

Ok. Ill go onto my comp now and check

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dentrimental on June 29, 2020, 12:58:16 pm

also, chipz, as you can see in your second picture, there are those different brushes. i clikc on one. but it isnt that brush. why?

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Chipz on June 29, 2020, 01:35:41 pm

Quote from: Kedamono! on June 29, 2020, 12:58:16 pm

also, chipz, as you can see in your second picture, there are those different brushes. i clikc on one. but it isnt that brush. why?

The only fix I can think of for this is making sure "Force" (Under Hardiness) is anything but 0.

(https://i.imgur.com/aKKpkGM.png)

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: Dentrimental on July 04, 2020, 10:16:01 pm

Dis is le solved. Ik how to make heightmaps. A staff can lock it. :)

Title: Re: map making help!
Post by: SpicyDirt on July 04, 2020, 11:51:04 pm

Alrighty! I'll lock this up for you. c: Thank you to everyone who helped!