Lachflash's map editing tools

[Lachflash]

So I sat down yesterday afternoon and wrote a little tool that might be useful to some of you.
it takes the .raw files the editor outputs and makes them point-symmetric.
The improvement over using image editing software is that you can use a paintbrush tool to select the areas you want to keep.

Here is an example of using it on a heightmap of the grand canyon:


And here is the result inside the map editor:


As of now this only works with heightmaps, stratums are not supported. Also it only works on square heightmaps but as I understand all our heightmaps are square anyways.

Here is a download link. It also comes with the full source code.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/5b4m1ogt8 ... comRAW.zip

Please let me know if you find any problems with it.

[Uveso]

Hello Lachflash,

Welcome to FAForever!

What do you mean with "point-symmetric" ?
Does it mirror a map in a specific direction ?

[Lachflash]

Hi Uveso,

point symmetry is hard to explain without images. However many SupCom maps use it. Setons Clutch would be a prime example.

[nine2]

well it looks like the plane of symmetry is not horizontal or vertical, but a polyline

[Lachflash]

Now that I am able to post links to images here is an example.

There is no plane of symmetry, just a point.

[Uveso]

Looks great, nice work!

[Morax]

I am curious by what you mean when you "can select parts you want to keep." You can select precise portions of raw files in image editing software with ease.

This is a nice tool by the way! I'm curious to see how it progresses.

[Lachflash]

I must admit I'm not very experienced in using image editing software.
As far as I am aware the current procedure to make a map point symmetric is described here under "Editing the heightmap in photoshop": https://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?title=Map_Editor
This tool lets you just paint over the parts of the map you want to keep and marks the areas that will be overridden in red.

[Morax]

Oof, the outdated wiki strikes again.

Not many people are using that editor anymore as ozonex created a brand new one that uses the unity engine:

FaF OzoneX Editor

Your tool looks like it does nice work with images and the averaging algorithm is great! Keep it up as the more tools we have, the better!

[Lachflash]

That is good to know. I see this editor already has symmetry options built in which makes my tool obsolete right away.
I'll have a good look at it. I still have some Ideas I might realize at some point and now I can make sure to keep them compatible to ozonex's editor.

I don't understand whats great about my averaging. I just take the height values of opposing points and average them. There still remains is a seam that has to be cleaned up.