Mapping Guide - v.0.2

[Thuztor]

Welcome to Thuztors Mapping Guide Version 0.2.

With this document I'm trying to teach you in using the Mapping Tools.

New in this version:

 

- new BuildingEd tutorial

- Your building on the original map

- some other useful stuff.

or better you look yourself what the guide has been to offer.

I hope it helps you out to understand the tools.

Here is the .pdf file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/adkkhrgxots0gn1/Mapping Guide_v0.2.pdf?dl=0

And sorry, if the english gramma is not as good as it should.
My native language isn't english.

You can find a list of planned expansions of the guide in the guide itself.

 

And here is content you maybe interested in:

 

The Last Stand Map for playing: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69737873/PZ/Sonstiges/mapping/MGuideLastStand.zip

Install: Copy the media folder in your ProjectZomboid game folder.

Overwrite - yes (the savefiles are in the folder with the name savefiles)

 

Four Buildings so far (use for free in your map): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69737873/PZ/Sonstiges/mapping/MGuide_buildings.zip

 

The Last Stand Map (it maybe has problems to load the textures correct [it's now a bit weird with the tileset path of maps and the programs]): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69737873/PZ/Sonstiges/mapping/LastStandMapMGuide.zip

Edited September 11, 2017 by Thuztor

[Joelmosen]

Very Good guide. It helped me understand alot of things much better.

[Spain]

Awesome! Thank you for taking the time on this. Can't wait to get started!

[norock4]

Thank you soo much for this this helped me more then you know, I hope to start a few maps in the near future .

[Thuztor]

Updated to v.0.2.

See OP for details.

[Jela331]

Give this man a cookie!

[Thuztor]

Not now, I have potato casserole in the oven.

[DoctahWong]

Not now, I have potato casserole in the oven.

Nonsense!, i baked you some already!

 

 

*Takes cookies out of my oven*

 

 

CHOCOLATE CHIP!

[turbotutone]

Nice work Thutz, also gj on making the guide visually appealing!

[Soklay]

Thanks for this! Looking forward to using it for a map I might make later.

[ngoadam123]

Can anyone help me? I made the bmp and I tried dragging it onto the square but it doesnt work, any help?

[Suomiboi]

Do you also have the _veg.png in the same directory as the regular map file? And also with the same name excluding the _veg end.

EDIT: or bmp works too

[Alessandrho]

Many thanks for the guide   

Was really useful in many situations, even if most of the things that i've learned, at the end have been resolved by making mistakes over mistakes   

[Gammlernoob]

Awesome , thank you so much Thuztor

[Grekain1]

Thanks, that's a great tutorial, keep it up!

[Pridelost]

This has been an amazing asset. Thank you very much!

[AliceCooper]

This guide has been a great help Thuztor!, many thanks.

[zevulon]

When i get to the Building Editor, every object, like walls, are floaty red question marks.

[Suomiboi]

Do a quick search on the forums! There's a few solved threads on the subject.

[Thuztor]

Maybe the link to the tileset folder is probably wrong.

You can change the link in TileZed -> Tools -> Tilesets

[EmptyH]

Hi guys,

 

started my mapping carreer yesterday and I really have to say im delightened about how smooth the tools are working. I worked with the Fonline 2238 engine (Fallout 2 engine) which was horrible in every way and i made some private maps for Shadowrun, which was at least a bit better. But the PZ map editor really is a class of its own. The ability to make maps from BMPs, thats just genius. The other isometric editors i worked with demanded every tile to be set separately. You had to work for hours just to make all the floors right.

 

Also i really want to thank Thuztor for his amazing tutorial. I'm on page 22/42 now and I have to say im really making progress here.

(Meinen allergrößten Dank )

 

But now for some questions i have:

 

1.) Is there a problem using MS Paint for painting the BMP files ? I get alot of wrong color warnings when I use BMP to TMX.

2.) Probably related to issue 1. But after you finished BMP to TMX, the image in the tutorial looks different to mine. In your one there are already trees and high grass visible. While mine kinda looks like the two BMP files just laying over another.

 

Thank you guys in advance.

Greetz Empty

[Thuztor]

to 1) Probably you have used Antialiasing as you painted your colors. Thereby you will draw unnecessary colors, which you can't distinguish from the right colors.

 

to 2) http://youtu.be/rWJrOJyBK7g?t=4m30s

 

Hope it helps.

[EmptyH]

Thanks for the fast response. I really have to go to sleep now, because i have to get up early and I was checking tutorials and stuff half the last night.

 

Tomorrow I'm confident I'll get that little issue settled !

[EmptyH]

Alright. Stood up super early today cause it pissed me off, that I couldn't get this stuff fixed. But now I did. Gonna be a zombie in work today, but at least it's friday.

 

1.) Tried a couple of things. Maybe it was antialiasing, but I think it was how I saved the bmp files (as 8 bit bmp). When I saved it as a 24 bit bmp all the colors were matching. 

 

2.) Was a real noob error. When i convertet BMP to TMX, i forgot to mark: "Assign generated maps to the world."

 

Can't wait to come home today.

[Sassa87]

Hey hey,

[snip... never mind, I was being stupid. I had it on "select and move images" instead of the cells, WOOPS]

Also, for those using photoshop instead of paint etc... Pen tool does NOT use anti-aliasing and is amazing. It was a pain in my ass, those colours, but once I figured out what helped it was alright.

Thanx for the tutorial Thuztor!