Reduce the scale of a map?

[Freedomfighter]

Is there a way to take a 20K map and reduce the scale so its exactly the same but only 10k say without having to completely remake the map?

[Lionhardt]

Either import the heightmap into something like blender and shrink it, then it will be proportionately, or shrink the map in an image editor and adjust the the weight of the grey values... however I don't know the formula that tells you how much you need to reduce the amplitude of the weight curve, maybe somebody else does. Otherwise you need to trial-and-error it, but those ways do work in theory.

In P this is the weight adjustment for the grey values: https://youtu.be/35tU-PeXQAY?t=208

[Uveso]

Don't forget to adjust the coordinates from mexes, waypoints, start locations etc in the map-script files !

[Morax]

In P this is the weight adjustment for the grey values: https://youtu.be/35tU-PeXQAY?t=208

I was thinking that would be some super professional tutorial but I think you posted the news ; )

[Lionhardt]

Oops

I meant to post this link: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using ... tment.html

[Egon]

It is possible to scale/import/copy/mirror everything except props, markers and Units which can only be copied/mirrored and not scaled.

these tools are needed:
Photoshop or Gimp
Official SupCom Editor
Hazardx Marker Editor
FAF Map Editor

Heightmap:
open with gimp or PS scale image size to half
when importing with off. Editor, reduce huwhite value from 128 to 64 to scale height to half

Decals:
open map with offical editor
select all decals
scale them down by leftmouse klicking the small S+- symbol on any of them
drag them to the left top quarter of your map
ctrl+c
open 10x10 map and ctrl+v

Markers:
always do changes to markers on your smaller map
this way u can atleast import them to the larger map with hazardx marker editor
scale them manually

Strata:
(i did import double sized masks directly with FAF Map Editor once, however this does not work anymore for me)
open 20x20 map with FAF Map Editor and goto Textures
export every Mask and Stratum settings of the Layers needed
scale image size of the Masks to half in PS or Gimp
open 10x10 map and import settings and modified Masks

Light/Water
export import with off. Editor or FAF Map Editor

Units:
i did not find a good method for them
they tend to loose their decals when copying
mess up the save.lua
have to be rescaled manually
looks too much thinned out
so its best to redo them anyway

props/waves/skybox/background:
have to be (re)done manually

[Lionhardt]

I don't know if ozonex' editor can scale and rotate markers, props etc by now. If not, I am working on a script for that at the moment. Need to write it two times though, as props are stores in binary format in .scmap which first needs to be parsed while markers are easily accessible in _save.lua can be parsed by lua itself. For parsing and wring the .scmap file b2ag's map parser can be used: https://github.com/b2ag/scmap_mirror_tool

This is the synopsis of the script I am writing, so you have an idea of what I want to do:

Code: Select all

Usage: transform.lua [-m] [-u] [-t <times>] [-c] [-h] <infile>
       <command> ...

Arguments:
   infile                input file (-save.lua file)

Options:
   -m, --markers         Apply transformation to markers.
   -u, --units           Apply transformation to units.
   -t <times>, --times <times>
                         Apply transformation n times. (default: 1)
   -c, --copy            Copy objects each transformation.
   -h, --help            Show this help message and exit.

Commands:
   rotate                Rotate by degrees.
   scale                 Scale by factor.
   translate             Translate by units of length.

Edit: until I finish this (new lua version of the) script you can give it a shot with the previous old and uber-hacky script I wrote in python for that 2 years ago:

viewtopic.php?f=53&t=10413#

It's really poor code and probably very buggy... but it does the job... sort of.

[Lionhardt]

Script is ready to use if you still need it. Not quite feature complete yet though: https://github.com/LionhardtFAF/Mapping ... sformation

[Freedomfighter]

Yeah, I completely remade the map from scratch before any of the replies had been sent. And since then I haven't touched it again, might try again at the weekend.