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Remember sexy pics?
Those maps were generated using scag's Starcraft Picture Mapper 3.0. The problem with maps created from pictures is that they are unplayable. This tutorial will show you how to make playable maps using the picture mapper.
Getting started First you will need a clean image to work with. What I mean by clean is that your image can't have too many colors or variation in color because although it might look fine in the minimap:
The actual terrain generated to create the image is unplayable:
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For this tutorial, I will show you how I created a map using this pentagram gif. A fun way to find images is to use advanced google image search, and specify only to look for "GIF" images.
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Setting the colors So you found a good image, now we need to setup proper colorization so the picture mapper will create the right terrain that we want. This is the hard part, because it's all guess-and-check. But luckily for you, I already tested the best color combination, it's light blue (#00FFFF) on red (#FF0000):
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The reasoning is because this color combo generates the most walkable terrain for the most map tilesets. Here is the list of working tilesets with red/light blue:
For space and ice - red is a barrier, and blue is walkable. For Desert, Red is walkable, and blue is barrier.
For example, on my pentagram picture I flood filled the pentagram to be light blue, and the floor to be red. Then I selected Desert tileset, so the red terrain translated to walkable, and the pentagram is the unwalkable terrain. Selecting space tileset would make only the pentagram walkable.
The other tilesets always generated doodads in my test and should not be used.
Hurry up and finish the tutorial! Ok so you throw your GIF or JPEG picture into the picture mapper, click GENERATE and it creates the map for you! Done!
You might want to cleanup all the satellites it puts on the map, they are just there assuming you want the whole map visible. For melee purposes, I used CTRL+A to select them all and delete, starting with a clean map.
Now you know how to do it! Have fun...
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A bit more advanced
You can, of course, create melee-friendly maps by using regular pictures. here is one I was able to successfully create. It is very time consuming trying to get the colors to match a walkable tileset, so I don't recommend it to people unfamiliar with brightness, RGB and contrast changes that will need to be tweaked to get the colors to matchup.
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The issue is having enough room to build, and a clear path to each base. For this example I had to make a big snow clearing for each base because it was filled with random bits of generated doodads and unwalkable terrain.
NOTE: The program will only generate 128x128 maps, but anything else is too small or big anyway. Snow is definitely the easiest tileset to use for creating maps from real pictures. Perfect-white does not translate into snow, you need to get more of a medium gray though.
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sweetness. thanks. I always wondered how that worked, trying to figure it out now.
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AWESOME POSSUM <3
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Make a good 5 player map out of that please.
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nice gosu!~~~
lol so this is what the use in those "strip" games xD
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lol, this stuff is going to bring some sexy maps.
Bill...what are you waiting for ?!
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This is what separates the star16 from the little leagues!
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On March 28 2007 16:57 Vin[MBL] wrote: nice gosu!~~~
lol so this is what the use in those "strip" games xD
Time to make a strip game featuring my girlfriend -_-;;;
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Hey! She's hot! >:@
Your smiley must be barfing from the intense hotness that my girlfriend emits -_-
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Canada7170 Posts
On March 28 2007 20:33 Equinox_kr wrote: Hey! She's hot! >:@
Your smiley must be barfing from the intense hotness that my girlfriend emits -_-
*cough* "girlfriend", yeah. jkjkjk
Good stuff. I've always wondered how to do this.
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There are going to be some INTERESTING proleague maps if somebody from the Mapdori team decides to use this program.
Commentator: "Oh no! And the fight is taking place on the cat's nose!"
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On March 28 2007 18:43 Equinox_kr wrote:Show nested quote +On March 28 2007 16:57 Vin[MBL] wrote: nice gosu!~~~
lol so this is what the use in those "strip" games xD Time to make a strip game featuring my girlfriend -_-;;; Nobody wants to see a map of your hand tho =/.
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Here is the actual link from the Clan Scag site with version 4.1 [updated 4/8/06] while Pheer's link is 2 years old. StarCraft Picture Mapper 4.1
Enjoy
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now... where can i find a hermione pic ? preferably a naughty one
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well everyone complained about swastikas on maps like azalea and such, now you can make a real swastika :D
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*senses 9000 more sexy pics coming, with random goatse's and tubgirls*
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cool, you did one map with a devil symbol and the the next one with a frightened cat. anything you want to tell us?
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Lets just say the cotton swabs didnt work.
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i want to see some awesome balanced maps made with this in mind for pro players to play on
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is awesome32247 Posts
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On March 30 2007 05:17 IntoTheWow wrote: Strip Zia map!
once they get to the last level: arggghghghghhgh wtf a penis?!??!?!?!
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DUDE U Rock. ive been trying to make my pie bound for like ever and now i have the tool for it.
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General pie, see how it says "OLD POST" in the bottom right? Don't bump old threads please, though this software is quite amusing to play with.
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Iono i think a bump like this is cool, it didn't get too many views on first exposition and im sure many will appreciate it
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so this is how ppl make the sexy pics and the dirty defense games. thanks
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you cant download it anymore
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THATS HOW SEXY PICS DID IT O_O
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Sucks you can't download anymore. Would be sweet to play a ZvZ on Jaedong's face.
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thx to bumb that, I didnt saw this
lol cat face :D
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United States3824 Posts
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bumping a featured thread seems fine to me 99% of the time.
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On September 03 2008 10:20 General pie wrote: DUDE U Rock. ive been trying to make my pie bound for like ever and now i have the tool for it. Did you create your account specifically for this bump? Anyway, I'm glad you posted!
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Actually, this is the first time I saw this thread. Im past the days of map-editting, but still interesting nonetheless.
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On September 03 2008 13:38 TheNikeYork wrote: Sucks you can't download anymore. Would be sweet to play a ZvZ on Jaedong's face.
rofl
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10 Sexy Pics for Your Viewing Pleasure ;D
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