Looking to import custom image file.
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:13 pm
I have a BMP image file, which I would like to import into L3DT.
The problem is I couldn’t find a key – that is to say, this map has its own color scheme – different shades of yellow represent desert at different heights, blue is water at different heights, light green is a field, dark green a forest.
There’s plenty of information on how to import a .bmp design map, but none that I could find on what pixel colors are supposed to represent what. I need to convert this BMP into something that L3DT can read (if I try to import it as is, L3DT tells me that the map is zero sized).
I have a key, so I know what pixel represents what terrain at what height, but my key is obviously different than L3DT’s key (what pixel my map considers a desert at 10 meters or snow at 50 meters is not necessarily what L3DT considers that). I’d like to translate this map into a bmp each for height map and design map that L3DT can understand (or plug the 256 height and terrain combinations INTO L3DT so that it can accurately read the file).
Any thoughts?
The problem is I couldn’t find a key – that is to say, this map has its own color scheme – different shades of yellow represent desert at different heights, blue is water at different heights, light green is a field, dark green a forest.
There’s plenty of information on how to import a .bmp design map, but none that I could find on what pixel colors are supposed to represent what. I need to convert this BMP into something that L3DT can read (if I try to import it as is, L3DT tells me that the map is zero sized).
I have a key, so I know what pixel represents what terrain at what height, but my key is obviously different than L3DT’s key (what pixel my map considers a desert at 10 meters or snow at 50 meters is not necessarily what L3DT considers that). I’d like to translate this map into a bmp each for height map and design map that L3DT can understand (or plug the 256 height and terrain combinations INTO L3DT so that it can accurately read the file).
Any thoughts?