OTA=> Spring Map Converter

[Pressure Line]

it was for the ota map "Fox Holes" a small 7x7 map. i managed to open the file in DXTbmp and re-save it as a bmp with a different name (which incidentally was bigger cos DXTbmp resized the file to 512x512) which i could open fine in both paint and gimp. i could see the preview in windowns pic & fax viewer, but not open it.

i also tried imporing it into Wings, that came up with an error message that i will post later.

[Moop]

Interesting... Maybe something wrong with the header.. its a V3 BMP (header 54 bytes) with BI_RGB compression (no compression at all)

[Sheekel]

sorry for the epic rez, but does anyone have a link to this file?

[Forboding Angel]

OTA heightmaps are really bad news.

The tiles do not line up very well and if the height ranges are over 200 - 300 it starts showing up REALLY badly. That said, you can kinda remedy it to an extent with the smudge tool in photoshop. But it doesn't really solve it...

I'm not sure if this proggie still exists. Might try fileuniverse.com?

[Noruas]

He didnt ask for a lecture, he asked for a file link.

[Das Bruce]

He didnt ask for a lecture, he asked for a file link.

He'll get what he's given.

That being said, just don't do it, remake them sure, but don't just recompile them, OTA maps were never designed with the intention of being viewed in true 3D, they fail, and so will you if you try it.

[Erom]

You know, it probably wouldn't be impossible to write a rescaler that multiplies the OTA heightmap by a tilt matrix that brings the hills back to true vertical and interpolates the backface. Just because OTA heightmaps fail at being directly imported doesn't mean the entire idea is dead in the water.

[LordMatt]

Write the code.

[Sheekel]

though i have no idea what you're talking about erom, it sounds solid!

write teh code :)

[Erom]

The code to get the height data out of an OTA map file, and then get the fixed data back into a greyscale image appropriate for Spring doesn't really interest me (and probably involves C, which I don't really know well), but I'll take a stab at writing the actual conversion math if someone would use it. Python or Java, people?

[lurker]

Python ftw.