User:Enetheru/mapping2

Kick Start

• Baby Steps, getting your legs, do this first
• Official Map Blueprint
• Beherith's Mapping Toolchain
• Forboding Angel's Mapping Toolchain
• etc etc

Map Feature Specifications

These arent tutorials but rather technical documentation for the features, Its Implementation and Flexibility/Limitations, and discussion with pro's and cons for how to implement them.

• mapinfo.lua
• SMT File Format
• SMF File Format
• Texture Map
• Height Map
• Specular Map
• Detail Map
• Splat Map
• Water/Lava/Whateva
• Resources/Metal Map
• Resources/Geothermal
• Gravity
• Wind
• Sun
• Grass
• Features
• Sky Box
• Fog
• Clouds
• Terrain Type Map
• Mini Map
• External Geometry
• Music
• Dynamic Features
• Rain/Snow/Dust
• Lua Shaders

Howto's

how to create a specific type of map for game types, or emotional content, can include full tutorials, or anything

• Space
• Cave
• Sandy Dunes
• Snow
• Map Lighting

Tools

Tool Specific Tutorials.

ImageMagick

• Joining Images

MapConvNG

• Optimisation

Blender

• Sculpting Terrain and rendering a height map.
• Rendering the Diffuse Map
• map feature placer and exporter
• modeling features and exporting them
• animating units and exporting them

Typical frustrations

Blender

• Blender will crash when you run out of ram, either reduce the complexity of what you are doing or upgrade hardware.

GIMP

• Dealing with alpha channels