User:Enetheru/mapping2

Getting Started

kick start

• Enetheru's Mapping Toolchain
  • Bare Minimum mapinfo.lua
• Forbs blueprint

Map Feature Specifications

These arent tutorials but rather technical documentation for the features, Its Implementation and Flexibility/Limitations.

• mapinfo.lua
• SMD File Format
• *.smt
• *.smf
• Texture Map
• Detail Textures
• Water/Lava/Whateva
• Resources/Metal Map
• Geothermal
• Wind
• Static features
• Sky Box
• Lua Shaders
• Sun Position
• Type Map
• Mini Map
• External Geometry
• Music
• Dynamic Features
• Rain/Snow/Dust

Howto's

how to create a specific type of map for game types, or emotional content

• Space
• Cave
• Sandy Dunes
• Snow

Tools

MapConvNG

• Optimisation

Blender

• sculpting terrain and exporting height map
• using shaders to visualise walkable area, buildable area and exporting to texture maps
• map feature placer and exporter
• modeling features and exporting them
• animating units and exporting them

Typical frustrations

• Not enough RAM, things keep crashing

GIMP

• Dealing with alpha channels