How-To: Satellite/Map to Great map_ground_types/Map

[Baxon7]

Tutorials with Adobe Photoshop CS3

BEFORE...(1640x1350) From NASA..


AFTER...map_ground_types(1021x1021) work with Adobe Photoshop CS3...


This map come from NASA.
You can download Map on here
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/LCC/


How??OK..

1.Now open with MAP on Adobe Photoshop CS3


2.Must resize map...


3.Now can resize on 1021x1021...


4.Go to indexed color...


5.Take with 256 color...


6.Go to color table...


7.Eyedropper tool...Click on "sea" on map..


8.now can see what/where color it is...


9.Click again on eyedropper and click than color...


10.Write on color with 0,0,254...Now you can see blue on Sea...


11.If you will have same color..can copy this...


12.Sit in of this (same color from no.11)


13.Has work with black(down),green(up) and blue(water)...but its so much other color..ok


14.If you has work finish with your map..this map is just on 256 color...so you must have 16-32 bit color...
ok,go to RGB color...


15.now RGB...so this is on 16-32...


16.Save on TGA...or other if you will...


17.take 24 Bit..its 24 bit TGA with MTWII/RTW


Good Luck to your Mods

Map ground types
The RGB values are:
Fertile Low - Grey-Blue (0, 128, 128)
Fertile Medium - Light Green (96, 160, 64)
Fertile High - Olive (101, 124, 0)
Wilderness - Black (0, 0, 0)
Mountains High - Light Brown (196, 128, 128)
Mountains Low - Brown (98, 65, 65)
Hills - Olive-Brown (128, 128, 64)
Forest Dense - Dark Green (0, 64, 0)
Forest Sparse - Green (0, 128, 0)
Swamp - Bright Green (0, 255, 128)
Ocean - Dark Maroon (64, 0, 0)
Sea Deep - Dark Red (128, 0, 0)
Sea Shallow - Red (196, 0, 0)
Beach - White (255, 255, 255)
impassable terrain (64, 64, 64)

Look too here:

(((Topographic world map)))
go down to global 1km
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_map

(((World Map)))
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=113310

(((river/streams)))

http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevati...u_streams.html

http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/hydro/

(((BDH'link)))
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=39035

(((nasa map)))
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/LCC/

(((Earth Elevation/Bump)))
http://www.oera.net/How2/TextureMaps2.htm

(((Satellite map)))
http://www.uk.map24.com/

(((city name)))
http://encarta.msn.com/map_701512372/Europe.html

(((history map)))
http://www.euratlas.com/time2.htm

(((history old map)))
http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl

(((NASA Topography of the World)))
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/New...3?img_id=16282

(((TWC Wiki)))
look on (M)...
http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/Category:Modding

[WImPyTjeH]

You rock Baxon, and +rep

W

[CaesarBR]

ohhh...it really helps!!
Thanks!!

[Saturn]

Wow that map gound types map is exactly the map I want to make. I would so kill for that map.

[Spurius]

Yep, Nero666 made one ages ago too of the entire world, also for heights.

Forests cover your entire provinces, though. Have to cut a lot of wood on your maps before you can go anywhere - same with mountains. Scale is a bit off for the game.

[danfromiran]

for some reason I cnat find the Nasa map on their website.

[Gigantus]

It is on the right hand side:

High Resolution Images
1km Western Hemisphere (19.7 MB TIFF)
1km Eastern Hemisphere (25.4 MB TIFF)
4km Global (18.9 MB TIFF)
16km Global (470 KB JPEG)

[danfromiran]

It is on the right hand side:

High Resolution Images
1km Western Hemisphere (19.7 MB TIFF)
1km Eastern Hemisphere (25.4 MB TIFF)
4km Global (18.9 MB TIFF)
16km Global (470 KB JPEG)

when I click on any of these links, it takes me to a page for Nasa news. I dont see any downloads

[Gigantus]

Must have been an old page with automatic redirect.
Try the Wikipedia link, that looks promising.

[danfromiran]

sadly after I searched through everything I could not find a similar map.
my friend nearby who is a computer specialist says the Nasa link is broken.

[danfromiran]

Can someone who has it on their computer please upload the NASA files somewhere else?

[Gigantus]

Check this link.
At the bottom is a usuable download. But only the TIFF one has a format that you can conceivably use for mapping in M2TW.
To work with it you need Photoshop and at least 2GB memory. And even then it is like wading through molasses.
This can be converted to heights.

For ground_types you need the two LCC files which are in TIFF format as well. Same problem as above as they are each about 25MB in size.
Start working on the one above and then tell me if you still want the LCC files - I have got them on my hard drive with the color key.

[danfromiran]

thanks Gigantus.
My brothers computer has 8GB of RAM and he has photoshop. I will see if I can follow the tutorial there.
I only want to use the the lands of Persia, Asia minor, mesopotamia parts for a mod. I already have a good heights map. I just need the map_ground_types to be made.

oh by the way. If I work with the TTF file and create a map_ground_types, how do I make it totally overlap with my map_heights which I made with 3DEM ?

[Gigantus]

Extremely tricky as the map from 3Dem will be slightly distorted and a match is very unlikely. You could use it as a reference and work it in.