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General Forums => Terrain Editor => Topic started by: Bullethead on February 27, 2006, 03:54:25 PM

Title: Elevation Map Questions
Post by: Bullethead on February 27, 2006, 03:54:25 PM

Please tell me how to make this work.  When I try to import it, the elevations I end up with never match what I drew on the bmp file.

Here's what I'm doing:
1.  Create new terrain, exit
2.  Restart TE, export map.
3.  Edit resulting bmp file.  Have tried leaving it at 24-bit and also 256 color.  For some reason, 256 doesn't do anything, whereas the 24-bit gives me strange elevations.  Looks like all colors on the bmp are shades of gray, as in same number for R, G, and B values.
4.  Import edited bmp file.
5.  Hit Water Not 0 to select all the high spots.  Set terrain type to grass for all of them at once.  All vertexes now OK.
6.  Exit and re-open

Any help would be appreciated.

Title: Elevation Map Questions
Post by: F1Bomber on February 28, 2006, 12:50:09 AM

Aces High 1,2 uses for the elivation short int, eg. 16 bits. Your best to go with bmp format of 16 bits.

Title: Elevation Map Questions
Post by: NHawk on February 28, 2006, 06:08:45 AM

Just a few of the 129 discussions on elevations when I did a search on "elevation"...

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169762&highlight=elevation

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=157935&highlight=elevation

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150255&highlight=elevation

Title: Elevation Map Questions
Post by: Bullethead on February 28, 2006, 01:06:09 PM

Thanks.  I couldn't find what I was looking for in the clutter when I tried searching.  Same goes with lookin for tutorials on the various editors, including an overview of some of the things you can do with them that ain't obvious.  I ain't touched any of these editors in several years and have since killed all the braincells that knew anything about them.