Minas
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~ Minas's little Map Tutorial ~ (without Photoshop)
Welcome Strangers, Vagabonds or simply Members of kayssplace to my Map Tutorial.
First, i'm sorry about, my bad english but i'm a crazy german, and germans are not known as briliant english speakers
Second, you need this tools:
XnView or IrfanView ( a 8bf Plugin Programm - all freeware) - i use XnView : http://www.xnview.com/en/download.html
XnView is also for Linux and Mac OS and you can create *.raw images!
Lndromat v0.99: http://www.bwfiles.com/files/file.php?id=1116
BWSurveyor RC2: http://www.bwfiles.com/files/file.php?id=337
The 8bf Plugins in the attachment!
Now we can start:
Create with your favorite paint programm your Landscape (with 256*256 px) but without a background and save it as *.png !!!
Create in the Xnview directory a "8bf" Folder and copy the attachment (8bf files). Open XnView and link the folder in the options:
Now open your *png Landscape and go to "Filter -> Adobe Photoshop Plugins" or Ctrl + G
Make your preferences with "Grain Natural" (its for the bunp map)
Save the the image again as *png and open it with your paint program and set a 512*512 px black background.
To the end you can save the finish landscape with Xnview and save the file as *.raw
Open lndromat 0.99 an search for the *.raw image. Now the Program want a *.dds file use this in my attachment.
The Program ask you, if you want copy texture files (tga) from a other lnd file, apply this and choose a lnd file (like Land1-5 or LandT or Oasis and Oasis II ). If you don't want this, decline it and import your own tga files.
Save your new lnd file. You are finish with creating land file.
The last Step:
Unfortunately the HighRes images are very confused if you now playing this map ingame, therefore the only think you must do, is open the map with BWSurveyor and save it again.
You are now finish, and have created your own map, congratulation!
For scripting read this files:
Black& White Mapping List v1.04: http://www.bwfiles.com/files/file.php?id=218
Creature Isle Mapping List v1.00: http://www.bwfiles.com/files/file.php?id=217
The 8bf Plugins:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-3430925/Mehdi.zip.html