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Soul_Assassin has informed us about the release of MaskMaper2, a powerful tool for map makers on the BI Forums. MaskMaper2 is the tool from a joint job by Rocket and Soul_Assassin
From Rocket's initial post on the BI Forums :
Imported Vegetation
- I took vegetation data in Globe Mapper, exported as a BMP, imported into the BMP to Text program. This gave me a vegetation mask. I then wrote a VBA macro in Excel to read through the file, and randomly place a number of objects based on the brightness of the mask. This macro then exports a list of items to a text file. Then import the text file into Visitor and the objects are all placed!
- I have just tested this process out, and it works.
Just to reitterate, I've now made a way that you can import hundreds of thousands if vegetation items within minutes All you do is paint a mask of the area that you want to deploy vegetation, go through some (reasonably complex) export steps, and they're in visitor. No mucking around individually placing them.
From Soul_Assassin's last MaskMaper2 release post on the BI Forums:
Features:
- no need to convert to text images anymore. Just load in the BMP masks.
- now comes with an intuitive GUI interface. No need to retype everything many times.
- a little better optimized and organized. Now you use terrain size to calculate square sizes so its less error prone.
- preview maps
- estimate number of objects
- option to generate 3 object files at a time using the separate channels.
The tutorial will be updated once i hear from Rocket.
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