I know, I do that.

^ Make houses with SLAB6 and import them into the VOXED.

I love this editor, just found it today :D

So fun making zombie maps with it, but I wish you could make houses and buildings etc...

Just updated this :
http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=6849&replies=1#post-114444

Thanks Buildramer!

Is google really that hard to use?

Ok so I got Hightmap and made a bitmap, so it is a 1024x1024 how to I get it to a 512x512 then how do u convert batches and crap

Facepalming doesn't do it.

FACEPALM!

how do u make a bitmap

EDIT:<snip> Because i was an idiot
EDIT2: Again, i am VERY confused in making heightmaps, do I need a specific color palette for each block height, and is 8 bit = 24 bit (8 bits for Red+8 bits for Green+8 bits for Blue = 24)
I'm such a noob at this

Besides setting the base for the landscape, you can't really make great maps from heightmaps. Give Triplefox's mapping guide a read to learn more about other tools.

http://www.aceofspadeswiki.com/index.php?title=Mapping

You don't really make amazing maps using the bitmap converter. You make simple maps. To make an amazing map you really need to go into voxed and put in the detail yourself. Voxed Companion helps a lot too, search for it on the forums.

Well that is my question, how you make the heightmap being good.

Make heightmap first, then colour it in using fills, gradients, whatever.

*BUMP*?

Hey everyone,

I have some questions:
How do you make the heightmap for a map?
I want to know as many ways as possible, to pick the easiest out, because i'm new at mapping for AoS, i've mapped for other games such as CS1.6 and Urban terror before. and really want to learn it for this game now too.

I use gimp,
The ways i already know:
- Get the origional picture, make a new layer, use opacity, draw the black and white over the right places, blur it.
- greyscale the origional image.

Send your methods here please.

DuTchEr95

(heightmaps, for making maps with bitmap converter)

@Fig

The short syntax doesn't work properly for me. But if I say "convert.exe city.bmp city.bmp 4" then it's OK.

@Buffet_of_Lies
I love how you just assume that I don't understand how to convert it to a Batch file. Stop assuming you're smarter than everyone else.

Hmmm. No idea why isn;t working. Did you try 5?

Whenever I attempt to use this it shows this:
convert.exe city.bmp 4 (like in the readme because I just want a flat map)
Invalid Parameter - 4
I run it as an administrator and I have made sure its a 24-bit map.
Any ideas as to why it is doing this?
I double checked everything but maybe I've done something wrong.

Please please please bildramer, Add an external tool to convert 3D raw data to a map!
That would be AWESOME!

You probably did it with notepad which would save it with a .TXT extension instead of a .BAT... for example, you edited a new batch file with notepad and save it as test1.bat but what notepad, sneaky devil, did was save it as test1.bat.txt. See what I am saying?

When you click your "batch file" does it open a command window or does it just reopen in notepad. If not notepad, then paste the contents of your batch file into a message here and maybe I can see what is wrong.

The Batch file won't work for me even after I've created my own.

@rooster What do you mean by "won't work"?

How can I get this to work? I did what the readme said, and it still won't work. Any actual tuts?

Ohhhh... I see... new version! Facepalm.

I can't get it to work :/ Oh well.

just played this map, very, very good. one of the best ive played so far :)

hmm i cant work out how to actually start up the conversion process. i read the readme, but unfotunately being the fool i am i dont know how to actually start a batch process :/

What I do is edit example.bat in Notepad to read;

converth.exe terrain.bmp terrainh.bmp
pause

Then, I place my heightmap (terrainh.bmp) and my terrain texture (terrain.bmp) into the folder, run example.bat, and it spits out my map for me.

After renaming it, all you have to do to generate a map is to drop a heightmap and a texture into the folder, rename them, and run the .bat.

hmm i cant work out how to actually start up the conversion process. i read the readme, but unfotunately being the fool i am i dont know how to actually start a batch process :/