Hello everyone! 

Use this guide to create a Failproof landscape!

 Here you have all the tools top make a fully functional land from scratch, so, let get started!


Ingredients:
 - Photoshop
 - Creativity
 - Black & white 1.42 installed
 - Bw surveyor RC2 installed (included in this pack)
 - Lndromat 0.99 (included)
 - SculptEd (included)
 - Script editor (Somewhat included)

1- Open raw file folder, and open "OpenToMakerRaw.psd" with photoshop, there you will have precise instructions to make a haightmap inside a square, you can create your own heightmap or download them from anywhere (google images is a good place to start) and fit it inside the square, then save the new image as a raw file

2- Go to the LNDROMAT folder, Open LndroMat.exe, then select your recently created raw file, then lndromat will ask you for a dds file for low res texture, find "dummy.dds" in the lndromat folder, then it will ask for country textures, here you can select a .lnd file from your landscape folder of black & white, different lands will give different textures, then it will export a .lnd file and name it as you want, done. 

3- BwSurveyor (hope you installed thise in the folders directory for better managment), open the newly created lnd files, you will see some horrible red squares everywhere, don't worry, we will get rid of these, go to landscape editor mode, and edit countries, then select something that fits well, then, save the land (you can also use bwsurveyor to do some minor fixes to the land)

4- You can use SculpEd to do more changes, using letter "Q" you can edit heights and the textures will change dynamically, use a soft brush around the map to create perfect coastlines! (remember using Ctrl and right click to move around the map in sculpted, wheel click to change the point of view and both mouse buttons for zoom!) then, save your map.

///////// Now, your map is finished, just load it from an script in-game to see your creation! //////////

5- In the Scripts folder i added some usefull scripts library to make maps, also, you can use BwSurveyor RC2 to get coordenates)


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Thanks to everyone who still play this awesome game, thanks to the developers who created these nice tools, this compilation/creation kit is dedicated to them, to you, to everyone <3


Cheers: VandalBlueX



