terr.bmp is black / trying to clipboard my terrain

[pokie]

Just getting around to learn how to put terrain image into the clip board.

Read in previous postings, to take a birds eye view in the editor and save image with ALT-S  or look at terr.bmp.

1) terr.bmp is black, what did I do wrong?

2) can't get birds eye view because it doesn't show the entire terrain, seems like it only show about a 40mile X 40mile square.

Pokie

[jihad]

 It has to be 8 bit 256 colors to show up.

The way I make my clipboard maps is to get my terrain posistion in Ogres mapmaker utility then I make a screen capture with Irfanview to edit in Photoshop.

 I scale and colorize the greyscale then add the appropriate gridline provided in the editors "maps" subdirectory.

 Then you need to divide the 512x512 image into 4 sections of 256x256 working from the top left to right,and bottom left to right and name them map0,map1,map2,map3. Then place them in yout terrains folder.

[pokie]

Thanks jihad for answering quickly but this map is hand made in the editor  not an imported one.

I was building it in the 512 X 512 scale but even if I was using the 256 X 256 you still can't see the entire map.

Pokie