AvA terrain makers wanted...

[Chilli]

Yes, Soda it is the same image just tweaked a little.  I am thinking that scale may need to revised some.  What do you think?

[soda72]

Yes, Soda it is the same image just tweaked a little.  I am thinking that scale may need to revised some.  What do you think?

Here is one that I did using mapmaker with the width set to 5.0 which I believe is half scale.  So on a 512x512 map it barely fits...

[Easyscor]

Soda, you'd have been very unhappy with the game play on that terrain. I understand why you did it, but the distances are far too great at that scale.

[Denholm]

Okay, here are some bitmaps that I am working from.  The top image once I add the labels and decide on the scale is where I would like to begin.  Suggestions are more than welcome.

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Yes, MrMidi thank you for your response and I need all the help anyone can offer.

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I have been having a lot of fun with Ranger's offline mission.    The Japanese fleet skinned wonderfully.  I see the disadvantage of customizing and framerates, so I will try to customize very minimally.

See if you can convert that first one to a grayscale. If it keeps the height (mountains or maximum altitude is white, valleys or water is black) you can use it to automatically build the terrain in the TE saving you some work. Tweaking will be necessary, however it will get the land-mass in place so you can focus on other things.

[MotleyCH]

I started work on a Pearl Map soon after last years event...but like most of my projects I didn't get very far.

Feel free to use this if you wish.

The dimensions of the island should be 40x30 miles approximately.

[Denholm]

Did you get that image to work? From what I've been told you need a pure grayscale (black and white) for height maps to work properly.

[Chilli]

Excellent MotleyCH 

I had read that bitmap could help build terrain automatically so I was spending more time there.  Thanks for the confirmation.  Next week I will be moving on to base placement.  Thanks for all the help.  I almost feel the need  to start another thread.  This is great guys and really appreciated 

[MotleyCH]

Did you get that image to work? From what I've been told you need a pure grayscale (black and white) for height maps to work properly.

I had changed the blue to black then grey scaled it, the land areas that look black aren't exactly true black, so there is some elevation there.

Also, the highest point should be about 4,000 feet.

[MotleyCH]

Here's a better grey scale.
Note that coastline isn't visible to the naked eye, but it's there. Just bump up the contrast in your editor to temporarily see it.

[Denholm]

Wow, some amazing quality! I wish I knew how to convert Topography maps to grayscales.

[Chilli]

   Got it!!!

[mrmidi]

Chilli I just added another "Water and Shore Line" set of textures on my site that might look good in your terrain.

Here is a link to the files..

http://www.mrmidi.net/dloads/AH/tiles/waterand_beach.zip

I assume you know to create a folder in your terrains folder called "texsrc"  put the files in the download in there.

"C:\Program Files\HTC\ah2editor\ahiiterr\your_terrain_name_here\texsrc"

midi

[Chilli]

Thank you very much Midi,

It has been an emotionally draining couple of months here.  I appologize for not sticking to my schedule for working on the project.  I am beginning to feel up to getting back in the saddle, so look for some more questions ahead.

Again, thanks all for all the help.

[danny37]

working on a terrain of OAHU island,not so much as peral harbor  but the island,its possible it could be used for the ava if it could be updated along with the new terrain update.all i have left to do on it is to finish the vh spawns.although the picture dosent show it yet all the fields are placed and in ava format,when its done im gonna use it for an offline mission.

[danny37]

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I started work on a Pearl Map soon after last years event...but like most of my projects I didn't get very far.

Feel free to use this if you wish.

The dimensions of the island should be 40x30 miles approximately.

looks good MotleyCH but i noticed its missing FORD ISLAND which was a very important part of pearl harbor.thats where  the majority of the battleships were docked.