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Title: BMP2MAP6?
Post by: high flyin on July 10, 2001, 03:10:00 AM

HOW DO YOU USE BMP2MAP6 WITH T.E.   :confused: DOES IT WORK WITH T.E.? HELP POKIE  :cool:   :cool:   :cool:

Title: BMP2MAP6?
Post by: pokie on July 10, 2001, 05:41:00 AM

Going to work right now.  I'll give what info I know later today.

Pokie

Title: BMP2MAP6?
Post by: pokie on July 10, 2001, 08:21:00 PM

Lets make a terrain called "HighFly"  hehe!

1) Make a terrain called HighFly in the editor.  One way to do this is by opening the curterr.cfg file with notepad and type in  HighFly   then close file while saving changes.

 (http://accesswave.ca/~tscott/AH-stuff/Step1a.JPG)

2) Start the editor      select offline
                         editor
                         edit terrain
                         right side close
** do you want to save **                    yes

 (http://accesswave.ca/~tscott/AH-stuff/Step2a.JPG)

You will now see HighFly in the terrains folder.  (you may need to fresh explorer)

 (http://accesswave.ca/~tscott/AH-stuff/Step2b.JPG)

3) Goto Bmp2Map folder and copy "my_image" and paste it somewhere, rename it "HighFly" and move it back to the Bmp2Map folder.  You can use this to draw in because it already is set to 1024 x 1024 grayscale.  Unless you have another grayscale image that you can use.

 (http://accesswave.ca/~tscott/AH-stuff/Step3a.JPG)

4) Open your image with windows paint (that's all I have) or some other paint program and do anything to the image you want then save.  Note! Pure Black gives the Lowest Alt and Pure White gives the Highest.

 (http://accesswave.ca/~tscott/AH-stuff/Step4a.JPG)

Title: BMP2MAP6?
Post by: pokie on July 10, 2001, 08:22:00 PM

5) Run Bmp2Map program.

   (http://accesswave.ca/~tscott/AH-stuff/Step5a.JPG)  

6) Put in the info.

It will make the .elv and .typ files

   (http://accesswave.ca/~tscott/AH-stuff/Step6a.JPG)  

7) Copy the HighFly.elv and HighFly.typ files

   (http://accesswave.ca/~tscott/AH-stuff/Step7a.JPG)  

8) Paste these into your HighFly folder, replacing the originals.

   (http://accesswave.ca/~tscott/AH-stuff/Step8a.JPG)  

9) Run the editor and you will see your terrain.  You will still need to do some touchups with the textures and altitude check of the water.


Just a little info about .bmp position in relation to the editor grid

   (http://accesswave.ca/~tscott/AH-stuff/Step9a-b.JPG)  

Pokie

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