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General Forums => Terrain Editor => Topic started by: Strip on October 02, 2009, 02:43:45 PM

Title: Ugly Clipboard Maps....
Post by: Strip on October 02, 2009, 02:43:45 PM

(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh121/purplehaze835/map-1.jpg)

Any way to clean up the output map?

I dont know if its something I am doing wrong but ouch, this is hard on the eyes.

Should I make one from scratch?

Strip

Title: Re: Ugly Clipboard Maps....
Post by: USRanger on October 02, 2009, 03:22:06 PM

Yeah, mine look like that too.  A real bummer.  I end up painting over them to clean em up, but it's a pain.

Title: Re: Ugly Clipboard Maps....
Post by: Strip on October 02, 2009, 03:23:44 PM

Yea, I can imagine...

I thought about using the terrain gndmap itself and just colorizing it.

Title: Re: Ugly Clipboard Maps....
Post by: USRanger on October 02, 2009, 03:59:14 PM

That'd probably save time & keep it realistic looking.

Title: Re: Ugly Clipboard Maps....
Post by: Dux on October 02, 2009, 04:11:29 PM

That's essentially what I've done all these years for the SEA terrain clipboard maps... use the TYP (now grndtyp) file for the color and the exported elevation file for the 3D relief, composite them together in Photoshop.

Title: Re: Ugly Clipboard Maps....
Post by: Ex-jazz on October 02, 2009, 04:52:55 PM

PM to me the elevation bmp and I will give a try with blender.

Title: Re: Ugly Clipboard Maps....
Post by: hitech on October 03, 2009, 10:14:42 AM

Ill take a look, but you also normally get a better look if you set the time to 8:00 - 10:00 in the editor before making a map.

HiTech

Title: Re: Ugly Clipboard Maps....
Post by: USRanger on October 03, 2009, 10:25:05 AM

Hmm, roger HT