Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Terrain Editor => Topic started by: TrueKill on April 03, 2005, 10:28:31 PM
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I am new at makeing maps but i want to try to make some for the CT i know how to make airfields strats u know the simple stuff but i have now clue how to make the map pic. and have no clue what tiles are can yall tell me pretty much how to do everything to make.
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Ok lol first the tiles wish i had some thing that can take screen shots... Ok here we go tiles are sets of land that are 1 mile lol ex:Farm, Grass, Water, Rock, Grassy Rock, Snow, Forrest. Kinda newb at this so if i say some thing wrong then tell me. Now the map create a file called texsrc edit the map put the name 25mile thing then comp rose. Save as the name of map ex:FFAv2 save as bmp file 256 color done.*
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Well, in the old TE the tiles being 1 mile square would be correct. In the TE for AH2, the tiles fill a 1/4 mile square area.
The tiles are currently 512x512 256 color bitmaps, however 256x256 or 1024x1024 will work without a problem.
Start small and simple. Make a small map. save it and exit the TE. Now in windows go to the folder that contains your new terrain and create a new folder in it called "texsrc". Re-start the TE, click on File, then on Make Map. On the window that pops up, leave everything as default at first an click "OK".
You'll now find a new bitmap in the folder for your terrain called "MAP.bmp". Open that with your favorite graphics program and save it as a 256 color 8-bit bitmap. Call it the same name as your terrain (ie: myterr.bmp). And save it to the texsrc folder you created earlier.
You now have the map that shows on the clipboard in AH.
Screen Shots: Hit the "Print Scrn/SysRq" button on your keyboard and paste in paint or any other graphics program.