PC Make your own map

mikewuk

mikewuk

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So I can edit biome.png and turn it to just forest world or just snow world, etc. If I make two, three or four different coloured areas, say snow and forest with a bit of desert and so on, its the bit where the two areas meet that cause the problem. When the world renders there are missing chunks that the player can fall down. Not everywhere but enough to make it a bit rubbish. Is there a way round that?

A great NEW feature would be to make this process easier and then a Random Gen world would at least offer a choice of biome layout.

I'm playing an all forest world at the moment, just to test it out, and I have to say it feels a bit more realistic.

Great work, keep it up.

 
In whatever program you are using to paint, the brush you are using has a soft edge that is causing anti-aliasing/blending of colors. You have to make sure that doesn't happen since the rgb values of every single pixel must be exact.

 
Guppy has a thread and tutorial videos on this for anyone interested in the details it's in the modding section.

Someone said "modders take over where the devs failed", as a long time modder of many games I can assure you that without the devs we wouldn't have anything to mod. They put down the foundation which is getting easier to work with as time goes by. I don't see it as fixing a broken game but rather as customizing it to fit my personal preference because the devs built a game that allows me to do so.

No matter what the devs do there will be people who are not happy. Unless they add options for everything in the game. Modders provide options. Some go above and beyond and actually create content which is awesome but those are few and in between and they are very talented but most of us tweek the foundation the devs put out for us, nothing more.

It is literally impossible to please everyone. Could they have done things better? Sure but they are also human lol, giving them feedback, ideas and helping find bugs is the best thing we can do to help develop the game.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no fanboi as I do my share of complaining, I simply think at some point we gotta chill and show them some support. It must really suck to go to work and be constsntly bashed for trying to make people happy and they do go that extra mile and try to make everyone happy although it's near impossible to do so.

Just some food for thought.

 
Yeh, we'd be dead in the water without the devs. Also, red eagle has taken the mantle of master of custom maps, his tuts are more in line with the changes made since my vid.

 
Yeh, we'd be dead in the water without the devs. Also, red eagle has taken the mantle of master of custom maps, his tuts are more in line with the changes made since my vid.
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You have a link for that?

Where can I find it?

 
For us to be able to easily design our own maps in regards of biomes, water and hights would be a dream come true. I personally would go for a Westeros layout right away.

 
Pretty easy now isn't it? Couldn't really imagine a system that would be easier.
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So.... this is actually working now?

I can make my own maps and won't get 200 ft cliffs, drops, and gaps?

 
So.... this is actually working now?
I can make my own maps and won't get 200 ft cliffs, drops, and gaps?
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It worked before... nothing changed with it. It's just you have to make sure your colors are exact... no alpha, no blending. Easiest way to know for sure is to just paint and zoom in as much as you can on the edges of the colors.

 
Start to finish (includes download for finished world):

Alpha 17b240 Quick Guide to Creating a ‘7 Days To Die’ world from an external image.

When dealing with biomes, you need to check your color counts and make sure everything is exact to the 5 supported colors:

This is how you can see how many colors are in use in Photoshop (example when checking to make sure you only use the 5 colors for biomes) (the below example has an incorrect 34 colors plus 1 for the transparency = 35 {as can be seen when switching to custom, last one is transparency}:



 
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