Feral Heart

Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: Locksmith on July 11, 2011, 06:26:22 pm

Title: Height maps with Paint?
Post by: Locksmith on July 11, 2011, 06:26:22 pm

I'm wondering if it's at all possible to use a Terrain mask pixeled in paint for your custom maps. My computer {Asus EEEpc} likely can't handle GIMP so I'd rather not download it, and paint can save in .png so I don't get why it wouldn't be able to be used.

Or if anyone has any suggestions of a smaller but similar program to gimp or photoshop, with whatever details it needs to be able to be used by FH, I'd be happy to take them as well.

Title: Re: Height maps with Paint?
Post by: Thunderheart on July 11, 2011, 07:12:32 pm

Paint doesn't work, simply because you have to make the heightmap greyscale and flatten it. And you can only flatten it in a program which uses layers. I think I heard that you can create heightmaps with paint.net too, I think it is smaller than gimp since it has less plugin stuff.

Title: Re: Height maps with Paint?
Post by: Locksmith on July 11, 2011, 08:14:25 pm

Alright, now I understand. I didn't think it had to do with the layers part of the program. Thank you, I'll investigate paint.net