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Map Tools - EasyRider - 07.06.2010

Tools,programs and articles for working with Map Editor FMB
Please PM either Kapteeni or myself if you have tools or any relevant info or programs to include in this list,thank you

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Quote:CoastAlign
When building maps one the most frustrating tasks is to get a coastline height aligned properly to the water. Initially the result is usually land seemingly suspended in midair, looks terrible. Using the FMB+ to align a coast quickly becomes very tedious, boring and error prone. CoastAlign is designed to greatly simply this task by "automagically" aligning coastlines to bodies of water.

CoastAlign does not simply set all water elevation to 0 meters; lakes, rivers and other bodies of water above sealevel are aligned at the proper elevation.

Restrictions and limitations:

Due to the averaging done by the IL2 3D rendering engine, CoastAlign may miss a few segments of a coast, these occurances are rare but you should manually inspect your coastlines in FMB+ just to be sure.

The reference water/land map (map_c) must be in "uncompressed" format, use the Map_c Toolbox to generate a reassembled file if no unformatted map_c file is available.

The map_c and map_h files must be size compatable i.e. map_h scale is 1:4 of the map_c file.

The map_h file is overwritten during the alignment proccess - as always - make a backup of your map_h file before procceeding.

http://www.eagles-lair.dk/downloads/coastalign

Quote:Map_c Toolbox
is a application designed to perform the same map_c file functions as the Java based CMap tool currently provided as a map building tool at the AAA site:

* Creation of an IL2 formatted map_c file pair (xxx.tga and xxx.tga_table) from a standard Targa image (no RLE, greyscale) source.

* Assembling a Targa image from an IL2 formatted map_c file pair.

* Cropping of a source image to fit on a 32 x 32 pixel grid.

http://www.eagles-lair.dk/downloads/mapc-toolbox

actors.static tutorial
http://www.mediafire.com/?4ygmn2yn4zt

Useful programs
http://www.irfanview.com/
http://www.gimp.org/

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