Tutorial:CompleteMapMaking(Wannes)

== Complete Map Makign tutorial == by Wannes

Hello everyone, In this tutorial i'm gonna try to learn you everything you need to knwo to make your first decent map.

First i want to thank Maelstorm and aGorm for their tutorials, they learned me alot.

Things You need:

An Image editing Program like photoshop (which I will use in the rest of this tutorial), Paintshop Pro, . . .

Mapconv: This is the program that converts the Bitmap files you will be making into somethign that spring can use (meanign a .smf and .smt file) This program comes in 2 versions, Mothers mapconv and the "normal" one In the rest of this tutorial I will be using mothers Mapconv

Map creation tools (optional): These programs help you makign heightmaps, generate heightmaps, and apply textures to them. examples are: Terragen (Mars was made with the random terrain function in terragen by SJ), L3DT, World Machine.

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If you are plannign to make big maps 16x16 and more you really need a good cpu and alot of memory and HD space. Especially when you are going to make everything in Photoshop.

The Parts of the Map

each map contains 4 parts (3 parts on the normal mapconv)

The texture Map:

This defines how the terrain for your map will look.