Feral Heart
Help & Guidance => Site/Forum Help => Topic started by: Lien-Da on September 30, 2011, 05:44:37 am
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I look at the game documentation on how to make a map right?
It then says at the bottom to see how Terrain Masks work.
But nothing is there -.-'
So if someone knows how to help please do I want to make maps!!!
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so u just need help with a terrain mask?
here ya go (if ya use gimp)
1. Open your heightmap
2. From there open a new canvas
2a. make sure the new canvas is 513x513
2b. make sure its RGB color
3. Go to your heightmap that you have open and hit select> all
3a. you know its selected when the dotted lines are moving
3b. go to edit>copy
4. Back to your new canvas
4a. Go to windows>dockable diologs>layers
4b. Hit "new layer"
4c. Click on the new layer and go to edit>paste
4d. anchor floating layer and set the transperancy to 50%
5. Now go back to your plain white canvas (you may close the heightmap now, and click 'dont save"
5a. click the fill bucket and fill the white canvas (which has your terrain map as a guide) with bright red (color key at the bottom)
5b. Choose any brush and color with the lime green
5c. Then do the same with blue
6. When done delete the terrain mask layer and u should have your terrain mask colors.
6a. blur them together for better and more realistic affects
6b. when saving as save it to the same place u saved ur terain mask to
6c. name it whatever u want
6d. the name must end in Mask.png
6e. save it as .png, open FH, and type in the correct files.
THAR U HAVE EET! xD
{color key}
bright red= red 255
blue= blue 255
green= green 255
hope this helps :P
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that really helped thanks!! but im new to gimp so i'll come back to this once I get the han of things.
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okies! glad it helped!
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By the way when you make the map for people to download I recomand Mediafire downloads as a ZIP file.
1: right click on desktop and click new
2: then click compress zip folder
3: re-name folder
4: go to your exports and get all the objects, sky, weather and maps you need
5: drag them into the zip folder
6: Upload to media fire.
GOOD LUCK!