User:Enetheru/mapping2

Kick Start

• Baby Steps, getting your legs, do this first
• Official Map Blueprint

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
• Mini Map
• Resources/Metal Map
• Resources/Geothermal
• Water/Lava/Whateva
• Terrain Type Map

• Gravity
• Wind

• Specular Map
• Detail Map
• Splat Map
• Grass
• Features
• Dynamic Features

• Sun
• Sky Box
• Clouds
• Rain/Snow/Dust
• Fog

• External Geometry

• Music
• 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.

• SpringMapEdit ↁ
• ImageMagick ↁ
  • Joining Images
• MapConv ↁ
• MapConvNG ↁ
  • Optimisation
• GIMP ↁ
• Blender ↁ
  • 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
• Start Position Editor
• Das Bruce's Mapconv frontend
• Feature Placer ↁ
• 7Zip ↁ
• L3DT ↁ

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