Some
Other mappers don't do this at this point in a map. I do, because
its easier to work everything else around it.
Because
I'm a bastard, I'll make sure your paying attention, & give
you some practice. I want you to go back & change the base
texture to "DodamGrass57", scale = 85%.
For
those of you who don't remember already, you can find this ON
THIS PAGE
You
now have this...
Thought
we were doing a winter map eh? God no.
Go
to your layer window. looks like this.
Now
were going to make another layer.
Simply
click the top left little icon on top bar, looks like pages
of paper.
See
'create a layer' pops up. Click it & bingo..
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You
get now the window above. For what were doing we just want to
name the layer, that's it. Lets call it 'hills', hit 'ok' in
bottom left of this window when your done.
Viola,
you have this, two layers.
Lets
paint these hills. Select paint brush from left hand column.
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Left
image shows your mouse hovering.
Right
is indention because you have selected this tool! |
Were
now going to get into the magical wonderful world of brushes.
Select
tool options on top bar. See below, I circled it in red.
The
following tool box will open, get aquatinted with it, it will
be a good friend provided you continue to make maps!
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You
see the actual brush shape on this. Its right above where
this graphic shows 1:2 in the top left. You'll see essentials
like the size, opacity& step. For what well use this
tool for on this map, doesn't worry about opacity& step. |
Now
lets pick a brush we want to use. Click on the mini paint brush
on the right side.
Now
click on custom .You'll see this.
Wow,
just what we needed! Another window! look familiar? Just like
the texture window. In fact you use it exactly the same way!
Click on the drop down to the right of the brush picture just
like we did with the texture window so we can select our brush.
Well to be honest, the brush were currently showing is the one
I want to use! Wow! that was easy! Now if you don't, see this
brush, find it by clicking on the bar to the right of the picture,
in the same way you changed texture.
Got
that brush? (Say yes) GOOD!
Focus
back on Tools Option window.
We
want to change the size of this to something bigger. Where it
says 'size' use the drop down or type in '150'. (As you see
below)
Now,
were going back to the 'styles' area on the right. The same
one we went to when we were selecting the base texture.
In
the first box below where it says 'style' click on the black
arrow on the right . You'll see the following pop up.
Just
like when we were choosing the texture to dump, except we now
are going to choose the paint brush on the left hand side. This
is what we use to paint with SOLDI COLOURS. Which as you might
guess, is what we need to make hills. Choose the paint brush
on the left please!
Ha!
In this case we have solid black. I will need that later, but
now, I want solid white. Click your mouse once in that black
area, BUT NOT on the arrow. You know get your first look at
this little puppy.
This
is where you'll choose the solid colour you want to paint with.
there are preset colours in the top left, (Area called basic
colours) To the right of that the box in the circle & the
RGB settings along the bottom allow you to customize the colour
to use better, but we dont need to touch these. So in the 'Basic
Colour" area click on PURE WHITE, the bottom right hand
little block.
Cool,
I have selected white, now hit OK on the bottom left of this
pallet.
Now
make sure your still on the 'Hills' layer by looking in layers
window.
'Hills'
layer is highlighted in green! Were on the correct pallet!
Lets
look at the sketch for this map.
(Wow,
what a beauty!)
Now
were going to paint in the three hills. We have selected white
to paint the left sides of the hill, the side the sun shines
on.
Now
we need to zoom out so we can see the whole map on the screen
at once. Use from top menu view/zoom out by one. You
should now be at 1:2 scale & see the whole map on your screen.
(When you learned how to dump your base texture on your map,
I showed in better detail how to zoom in & out.)
So
we now have this. (Ill scale the shot down to fit on this page)
Now
using your map as a guide, draw the left hand side of the hills,
the 'lighter' side. Simply drag your curser & left click
the mouse to paint the white.
DONT
LEAVE GAPS IN THE MIDDLE OF A WHITE AREA. IF YOU SEE GREEN IN
THE MIDDLE OF A WHITE ARE, FILL IT IN!
Now
using the style area, select black & after draw the right
hand darker side of the hills. When your done, looks like this.
Using
view, scale it to 100%. You'll now see how this looks close
up.
Gee,
looks like crap! Well don't worry... its supposed to.
Now,
on the top menu bar select Effects.
Now
'Blur'
Now
'Gaussian Blur'. that brings us this window.
In
radius type. 20.00. Then hit 'OK'. Then wait a few seconds.
You now see this!!
Mmmmm
blurry.......
Don't
fear, this will become a hill shortly!
Focus
on "layer pallet" window.
On
the right side of box you'll see the two things we need to make
these hills. The field that has '100' on it. (This shows transparency)
& to the right of that a window that says 'Normal' with
a drop window arrow beside it.
On
the 'Hills' layer line, select the drop down arrow to the right
of 'Normal'. As shown in the shot below you'll see these selections.
Pick
'overlay'
Holy
cow! We have hills... well we have the left side of a hill...
don't walk away... go back to the 'layer pallet' window.
In
the transparency area, where it says '100', place your curser
on the right hand side of it where you see two little triangles.
Click on this & keeping the mouse button down slide it to
the left & you'll see the 100 go down. This is how you set
the transparency! As you slide this you'll see your hills change,
set it to how you like the look! In my example I end up liking
'43', that is 43% transparency. Looks like this.
Pan
around the screen. if you don't like any of the hills. Pop transparency
back to 100, place the 'overlay' back to 'Normal' & edit
the black & white as you wish. Note that with different
textures, you might want to either change the black to a little
lighter, & the white darker. Normally I use pure black &
a lighter gray, tends to work better for grass. For winter maps
pure white is normally needed.
So
you now have made hills!
