Don't want to lay down your textures with the editor? Wish you could draw something in your terrain? Want more handle or precision with placing the textures? Now you can!



Also, you can make null terrain! (Which lives up to the old SC1 null tiles in the editor with how broken it is!)

_{Note: I tried, and it is black in-game. In the minimap it shows up as the default (first) texture.}

What do the masks do? They are just an image with 16 shades from black to white, where black means the texture will be fully transparent (i.e., nonexistant) and white means the texture will be fully opaque. Note that the editor makes every mask add up to be a solid white square, but this program makes no effort to check and see if too little or too much texture is anywhere.

Here is a sample of what a full mask is like.

You can add anything your favorite image editor can draw!

_{(Image thanks to Corbo)}

Download!

Comments? Suggestions? Bugs? Death threats? Post 'em!

Post has been edited 5 time(s), last time on Sep 9 2010, 5:10 am by FaRTy1billion.

Looks great but..I dont mean to be a downer man, but Terrain is a bit of an art-form! Precision comes with patience~
EDIT: WOOPS THIS IS USEFUL

derp, You are God

Indeed.

Can't wait to make some cool stuff with the terrain!

+1

On a side note: Theory and Ideas? Maybe General Discussion instead? Doesn't really matter to me to be honest.
Another side note: Update your sig

Probably. I never know where to post these things ...

Awesome derp

anywho how'd you do this anyways?

It just imports/exports the texture masks ... It's a specific file in the map (can't remember off the top of my head what it is called.)

i have no idea what to do.

its not opening

What's wrong? what's not opening?
Is it the map or it's not opening your imported texture masks?

Can you do ?

You can ;o

Or are you asking me to?

So now we can easily make long, straight lines and mirrors?

Upload it there: http://www.staredit.net/galaxyedit/

Random credits to SEN in the programs are always appreciated too

Error when starting the exe:
"Component 'COMDLG32.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid"

Huh?

You're missing that file. Try googling it and dling it. When you do that put it in your mask importer folder (along with the exe), if that doesn't work then put it in c:\windows\system32 if THAT doesn't work then you need to register the file. To do this, while on your desktop press winkey + r and type in the box "regsvr32 COMDLG32.OCX" without the quotes. If you're on Windows 7 then you need to run the command with admin rights.

Thanks Corbo!

Awesome
Glad I could help.

Forgot about that one. Normally I at least put it in the readme ... (All of my credits and readmes are always rushed.)

Thanks to Corbo for keeping this topic while I'm away.

I'll probably use this for the Credits of my Impossible-map project.
Thanks for creating

EDIT: It says a component is missing or inexistent when I try to launch it. D:
SomethingGL32.ocx