terrain & EasyGen.......

(TheRogueEvangelist) #1

I have Jasc Paint Shop Pro, and I’m trying to make a height map to turn into terrain. If you also use Paint Shop Pro (especially for height maps), you might be able to help me on this. First of all, what drawing tool(s) can I use to make sure the terrain is “blended” in and smooth? I tried using the airbrush, but it seemed a bit choppy to me…like the terrain would turn out looking like a barcode. Mabey I should use the blur effect. How do profesional mappers go about making height maps on Paint Shop Pro.

Second question…does this “EasyGen” thing come with GtkRadiant or do I have to download it? If I have to download it, then it would help if you told me what directory to save/extract it to.

That’d be great if I could at those answered. :drink:

(Frankesk) #2

In PSP firt work on an high resolution image with the airbrush tool. Then resize to 33x33 or the siezes you need. Then you could apply a filter like blur to smooth the choppyness.

EasyGen link is in my signature. To install it simply extract the zip where you want respecting the directory structure (this is generally automatically done).

(TheRogueEvangelist) #3

Thanks. Now how do I use my store textures (NOT custom textures) on a terrain mesh? I can’t even find the store texture files! What directory are they in?

(Frankesk) #4

With store textures do you mean textures that come with the game?

You can find them zipped in the file

Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\pak0.pk3

Associate “pk3” to WinZip to open pk3 archives. Then manually extract jpg files you need, files with path “texture/…” and place them under etmain\

You should obtain something like:

etmain/textures/desert_sd/*.jpg
…
…

(TheRogueEvangelist) #5

Ah. Thanks.

(TheRogueEvangelist) #6

Wait a sec…I have to BUY Winzip??? I don’t have $29 dollars!

([rD]MrPink) #7

Get Winrar, its free and handles zip files. You could also get freezip, but stupidly enough it always comes zipped :blah:

(ziege) #8

Never heard of shareware?

As suggested, use Winrar anyway, or if desperate use XP’s poor built-in zip handling.