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More map image export options
« on: July 15, 2008, 03:20:02 pm »

I've been wanting a way to export specific data about a world for a while; for instance, just the rainfall data or the elevation data when exporting the detailed map. Perhaps if we have options to select from- export all forest tiles as 100% white, all others a 100% black, or something like that. This would be useful for me because it would allow me to create gray-scales of these maps and then make models of them.
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Re: More map image export options
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2008, 04:04:44 pm »

It would be nice to have specific export options, especially height map data.

You can kinda use the detailed exported map as a height map if you fiddle with it, but it would be nice to have access to the data eventually.

I'm for it.
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Re: More map image export options
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2008, 01:51:01 am »

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Re: More map image export options
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2008, 03:36:17 am »

Probably beaches or something around the coast, but when you convert it to grayscale it comes out white, so the displacement map reads that area as raised, so you get those spike artifacts.
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Re: More map image export options
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2008, 07:32:37 pm »

Ah, that'd do it.
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