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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:43 pm

I need to make some minimaps for my ruins. I'm contemplating taking screen shots of each tile, reducing the size and using them as minimaps..has anyone else done this?

Primogenitor · Post by **Primogenitor** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:27 pm

I could be barking completely up the wrong tree here, but I vaguely remeber DLA talking about a tool to do that automatically.

Chandigar · Post by **Chandigar** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:07 pm

if you're using max, the easiest way I've found is to just render a top view as a tga with an alpha channel (assuming you have all the tiles in one file) then just paste them into photoshop, trim the edges and reduce.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:44 pm

If you are using 3dsmax (not GMAX) there is a minimap maker tool in Veltools. it takes a dir with MDLs and produces minimaps for you, along with door icons. just make sure all your objects have UVs, otherwise the renderer will stop with an error message.

Chandigar · Post by **Chandigar** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:44 pm

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I now officially have no excuse not to install Veltools.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:24 pm

Well...using gmax, and that portion of Vel's tools has been disabled...

I'll have to use another method...

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