Spring RTS Engine

hi all, i'new in this forum, hope you can help me...
just trying to understand spring mapping. i could follow the mapping-wiki to the point where mapConv.exe (I used 60b1MapConv) puts out some files: mapname, mapname.smt, mini.bmp and mini.dds. But now i dont have any idea how to go on. (perhaps someone who knows how it works should edit the wiki and explain it a bit more detailed )
do i now have to pack these files into an archive, or do i have do edit them? the wiki sais i should use a texteditor to make a smd file, but what the hell does it mean?

Use 7zip to unpack an existing map and you'll be able to see were everything goes...

Take one of the basic maps like volcano island, tahst not to complicated.

I prommis when I get some time I'll make a BRAND SPANKING NEW wiki page.

aGorm

thanks, that helped a lot. i can even see the minimap in tasclient now. just have to find out why spring crashes while loading the map....

caldera wrote:just have to find out why spring crashes while loading the map....

Common problems;

Using a greyscale metalmap, this will create thousands of geothermal vents which causes the crash.

Setting start points outside the area of the map.

startpoints...knew i forgot something :)

also, startpoints correspond to the pixel coordinates on the texture map.

hi, still have problems generating a map for spring:

I have created the bitmaps like told in the tutorials: 24bit, 5120x5120 for the texture.bmp, 641x641 for the metalmap and the heightmap.
I used the 60b1 MapConv that runs but getting an error about the tilefile grass.bmp
Probably here is still something wrong, but i dont know why the tilefile makes problems, perhaps you could have a look at it, its in the bitmaps archive.
Despite the error i used the smf and smt file and packed it together with an smd i created with maelstroms 3.1 tool.
i packed them with 7zip and renamed the file to .sd7
After that i copied it into spring/maps-folder.
then i opened it within the battleroom.
Spring starts then, but at loading "creating overhead texture" spring stops and afer 5 min. a windows-errormessage pops up,: not enough virtual memory....

hope you can help me
thx
caldera


Files:
bitmaps (metalmap, tile, heightmap)
http://files.filefront.com/bitmapszip/; ... einfo.html

texture (in original a 24-bit bitmap 5120x5120) but compressed for presentation here to jpeg because of the size of 75mb
http://files.filefront.com/texturezip/; ... einfo.html

sd7
http://files.filefront.com/testmap7z/;4 ... einfo.html

what mapconv are you using? If mothers you need a typemap... if the default it should be applying grass to any green spot on the texture map. I'm not sure, but this could possibly cause a crash if there's too much grass?

thats a good idea
i didnt use mothers, but i compiled with default typemap in the mapconv i found...how do i create a typemap? (1/8 resolution of texturemap+1px?)

You don't need mini.dds nor mini.bmp, they can be thrown in the trash bin. You need to create a .smd, open the .smd of another map in Notepad to see what's inside, and read Spring changelog to see the new smd tags.

caldera wrote:how do i create a typemap? (1/8 resolution of texturemap+1px?)

That will do, I think only the red channel is used so you can still use a grey map. I suggest that you use values like 0,0,0 1,1,1 etc as there is sometimes you get value half way between on borders which can cause problems later.