Feral Heart

Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: Allari101 on February 11, 2015, 09:25:12 pm

Title: Need Help on Making a Map
Post by: Allari101 on February 11, 2015, 09:25:12 pm

So now that I've learned about maps, I'm trying to make one for me and my pals.

However I'm stuck on the first step: Making the Height Map.
Not the real grayscale drawing stuff, but finding the image to do it with.

I'm stuck here on Step 4:

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What I do is go into the Watermill map folder and 'copy' the heightmap (The grey picture) and rename it. Be sure to name it 'MapnameTerrain' (Ex: SuferiaTerrain) This way you have it already preset to the correct size and format without having to make a new file. (DON'T steal anybody else's height-maps!)

Where is the 'Watermill map folder'? On my FH folder I went into media > terrains as it said, but the file is called 'WaterMill.map'. The icon next to it is the ion for a document I would presume, not an image. (The icon looks like a white piece of paper with a folder in the corner.) So how can I do this? I opened it up in Notepad and it just has coding.

Also, when I solve the above issue, do I copy over the current title or make a new file completely?

Thank you. I really want to get this done before tomorrow morning. c:

Title: Re: Need Help on Making a Map
Post by: Bawfle on February 11, 2015, 09:38:35 pm

Sounds like you're opening up the actual map. You need to open up the .png image of the watermill map in order to open it. I recommend Gimp or Photoshop.

To make a heightmap you need a drawing software such as Gimp or Photoshop. You need the canvas set as Grayscale and it needs to be 513x513 Pixels. Also make sure that you do this all in one layer, do not make others unless you know you can press down the layers to make one layer on the canvas.

You can basically use any shade of grey you wish to use for your Height map. The dark greys create a lower height in the map, such as a river or pond. White is used mostly for hills and mountains, this gives height to the height map. In between is what many map makers use for the base of the map. For example, the ground.

Once you have done that, save the image as a .png image (For example; Mappymap.png) then save it into LocalDisk(C:)\\FeralHeart\\Media\\Terrains. Open up FeralHeart and then type in the image file name into the box labeled 'height map'.

If you prefer a video, I highly suggest this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTO8tyhSQPU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTO8tyhSQPU)