The Lordz Map Tools

**hokomoko** · April 26, 2009, 04:22 PM

The Lordz Map Tools

Included within this package are four map editing tools made by Lord Hokomoko for use in creating your own ETW battle maps.

The Lordz Building Editor
The Lordz Deploy Zones Editor
The Lordz HeightMap Tool
The Lordz Tree Editor

Important note:
Microsoft .net framework v2.0 (or a more recent version) is required to run the tools.

A readme.txt is included.

To get the full use of these tools please visit the Map Making Tutorial. Created by Badger, the tutorial assists users in creating ETW battle maps using Hoko’s tools.

Links updated with new version working with the patch (and added as attachment)

19/09/09 - NEW!!! - Heightmap tool now has a button to tile heightmaps. results have less ripple effect compared to the GIMP script

D/L links
http://www.filefront.com/14562839/tools.rar

Lord Badger's Tutorial: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=254175
Map Pack: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=254182

Edit:
gimp scripts available here:
http://files.filefront.com/scriptsra.../fileinfo.html

**l33tl4m3r** · April 26, 2009, 06:58 PM

Just awesome! Thanks! +rep!

**Gilthanor** · April 26, 2009, 09:03 PM

Fantastic. I'm in the middle of making a battle mod, but with the limited maps that we had it almost didn't seem worth it. Thanks alot for the new tool.

**Hunterbear** · April 27, 2009, 11:27 PM

+rep Lordz crew!

At the rate modders are coming up with new tools, you may beat CA to the punch to release all the stuff we need to mod Empire, lol!

Great maps btw!

**Tsailen** · April 28, 2009, 01:58 AM

Following the tutorial and stuck at the GIMP part. Where can one find the maps-script.scm and maps-script2.scm?

**hokomoko** · April 28, 2009, 05:43 AM

indeed, my mistake, thank you for pointing it out!

http://files.filefront.com/scriptsra.../fileinfo.html

**Tsailen** · April 28, 2009, 10:25 AM

Oh my lord... Thank you so much! I was up way too late last night beating my head on the desk looking for those scripts....

Now i can continue on!

Thanks!

**hokomoko** · April 28, 2009, 11:08 AM

I'm deeply sorry about your head!
I hope no harm was done.

**Tsailen** · April 28, 2009, 11:45 PM

my head is ok...for the moment. for past the gimp part and now stuck on page 31 - it says:
'put the files from blank.rar pack with this tutorial inot battleterrain/....'

can't find blank.rar

it sounds like all this is is the folder structure....correct? no?

also, not sure how to 'make a pack file using the pack manager, as described above.'

i kinda understand, but maybe not. It might just be over my head for the time being. I'll try and work through it, experimenting and figure it out

EDIT: I think i am figuring out the pack manager stuff. as far as the blank.rar, if it is just a blank folder structure to use as i suspect, then i am getting around it by extracting the Mapmod.pack and duping/replacing existing file with my own.

hopefully it is as i suspect. if not.....

EDIT: I suspected right! I am a golden god of Troubleshooting! Seriously, it took a bit of trial an error, but i managed to pull it off. Got through part 5. Part 6 just looks like bells and wistles after 5
Key things to look out for :
1. Make sure your maps are all correct before saving the pack. Once it is save, it doesn't pull outside files in unless told to specificly.
2. Make sure that you put the correct folder in the battles_tables.

Not to step on toes, but i could update/ write up a Step by step for the pack file manager part. that was the most confusing for me, so far. but is the most important, as with out it, it doesn't go in game. Let me know if i should, and i will do it this weekend.

**Captian Barbossa** · April 29, 2009, 02:45 PM

Hokomoko, you need to re-upload the file to rapidshare, and put it in a collector's account, otherwise it will only allow ten downloads of the file before it's removed (that limit has been reached, and they've removed the file), ~~and filefront gives me an error everytime I try to download it, and I keep getting the key code wrong on megaupload, since I'm having trouble reading the picture code.~~

EDIT

I've managed to download if from filefront, but you might still want to consider re-uploading it to rapidshare.

**badger1815** · April 30, 2009, 12:36 PM

Please do Tsailen, as that part wasn't really about map making, i put it in just briefly. If you could write that part, i'll include it in the pdf & give you proper credit for it

I forgot to mention something else there. Int he battles table, you'll see 2 numbers in the unknow part. like 00 00 02 00 00 02 00 00 00

That means the map will show up as a 2v2 map ingame in this case. You can make 1vs1 to 4vs4 game maps. Haven't tried to make 2vs3 maps, but it guess that would be possible too. Just make sure you put enough deployment zones in the deployment zone XML file, as the game will freeze without them.

As for the blank.rar, you can find it here: Can't believe it forgot that

www.badger1815.be/ETW/blank.rar

cheers
B

**Tsailen** · April 30, 2009, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by badger1815

I forgot to mention something else there. Int he battles table, you'll see 2 numbers in the unknow part. like 00 00 02 00 00 02 00 00 00

That means the map will show up as a 2v2 map ingame in this case. You can make 1vs1 to 4vs4 game maps. Haven't tried to make 2vs3 maps, but it guess that would be possible too. Just make sure you put enough deployment zones in the deployment zone XML file, as the game will freeze without them.

B

Awesome....you just answered the question i was about to ask....made some Flat maps last night and couldn't figure out how to do that. now i know!

**hokomoko** · May 02, 2009, 08:58 AM

The new patch hinders my tools a bit.
New versions will be soon posted.

EDIT: D/L links replaced

If someone has old lists and wants to convert them so they work with the new patch, contact me through PMs

**Tsailen** · May 02, 2009, 06:51 PM

I have created and uploaded my tutorial on getting the map in using the PackFileManager. Hopefully it'll be of some use and you can incorporate in to the larger tut.
http://files.filefront.com/13697923

As far as problems since the patch, i haven't noticed any. Of course i have problems anytime i use the tools, mainly because i rush and forget things. so maybe i have had problem and attriuted them to my own carelessness.... Which tools are hindered?

**Aradiel** · May 11, 2009, 06:51 PM

I have a problem exporting my heightmap from PnP, its completly black, any idea whats causing this?

ALso could you please specify the RGB color values of the different trees, i copy pasted the colors from the tutorial but the treetool spits out like 500 different colors while the png only has a white background and the five colors from the tutorial

**badger1815** · May 13, 2009, 04:56 AM

Hi there,

We're looking into the heightmap issue, pm'ed you on that.

As for the trees, you can pick whatever colors you like, the program lets you assign tree names to each color. Just make sure you use a pen, not brush in Gimp/PS/whatever you use with 100% hardness. As rounded edges will indeed introduce a whole range of colors. Also, be carefull witht he eraser, make sure is is 100% hard & 100% opaque too, or you'll get all sorts of alpha values.

When you're using Pnp, the vegetation export might be the better option.

cheers
B

**FearofNC** · May 24, 2009, 06:04 PM

im stuck at :

Now you’ll need to run the maps script in Gimp on this map. Install the maps-script.scm and
maps-script2.scm gimp scripts in the folder below:
..\program files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\scripts
Restart GIMP and load the dds file we just made.

ive downloaded the scripts and placed them in the correct folder... but when i restart gimp... i cannot load dds files ... gimp says its an unknown file type... is there more to installing than just placing them in the folder?

hight maps in raw and dds