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AUrankDanzle
11 years ago
Map creator should make a video of how to make a map so other ppl can view n might even make some map out from it.
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GBrankTheSponge
11 years ago
There is no map creator. It is all images and archives. Get a look at this.
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USrankAdminCarRepairer
11 years ago
All the information is here. http://springrts.com/wiki/Map_development
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LTrank[pikts]wolas
11 years ago
Long video it would be. But yeah I agree somewhat mapmaking for me really wasnt straightforward.
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CArankTheMooseIsLoose
11 years ago
There's a beginners tutorial on the wiki that's good if you want step by step instructions.

Also enetheru recently posted on the spring forums a video on making heightmaps in blender (which is free):

And a video on diffuse texturing:

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USrankFunk
11 years ago
(edited 11 years ago)
GBrankTheSponge I think by 'Map Creator' he just means someone who's made a map.

But on actual map creating tools.. I think the closest would be L3DT, which has explicit spring support. Basically l3dt is the only tool I know of that does not require any supplementary tools. It's not open source but I believe the free version only limits size of heightmap (something like 4096x4096 tho, which is way more than enough)
Edit: I take back the free version part, apparently for spring support it'll cost $35

A google search will bring up a surprising amount of tutorials, tips and ideas for maps
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EErankAdminAnarchid
11 years ago
(edited 11 years ago)
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L3DT, which has explicit spring support.

The search query < site:http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/ spring > returns just one result, a set of two climates created by Forb. I'd say the converse is true: l3dt is explicitly supported by spring :P
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USrankFunk
11 years ago
(edited 11 years ago)
That's probably because that doesn't include the wiki
http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki

I'm referring more to things like compiling smf/smt, and ability to edit or create each of the required images such as type map and exporting.
Its also the only tool I know that can decompile an sd7
http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=plugins:fileio:l3dtio_spring
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EErankAdminAnarchid
11 years ago
Oh. I stand corrected.
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AUrankDanzle
11 years ago
Thx for the info ∩ˍ∩
So the basically i just need blender spftware to create a map???
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CArankTheMooseIsLoose
11 years ago
(edited 11 years ago)
There's plenty of programs you can use, I use GIMP + World Machine for my maps. Blender is one of them that's free. There's more to the process that's explained in the map dev wiki already linked.
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