Stupid (supertexture tool)

[Hector Barbossa]

Would there not need to be a complete height map as well?.The Height map for empire is only complete for the visible terrain areas in the game.

[uanime5]

@uanime5

Do you know how to make impassable regions, passable?

Unfortunately not. I'm not sure what I did to the startpos to make Syria impassible but I messed up somehow.

Would there not need to be a complete height map as well?.The Height map for empire is only complete for the visible terrain areas in the game.

The height map only makes the map more bumpy to represent mountains. You could replace the height map with a completely black file and it would still work.

[Okmin]

If anyone's interested here's a batch file to break up the ETW map into 64 pieces. Just rename it to stupid.bat (take the .txt off the end).

Files are named x-y, where x is the row and y is the column. You need to put stupid.exe, stupid.bat, world_.stpd, and world.stpi in the same folder. The script uses C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\empire total war\Stupid, but you can use Notepad to find/replace that with whatever folder you want

[Hector Barbossa]

If anyone's interested here's a batch file to break up the ETW map into 64 pieces. Just rename it to stupid.bat (take the .txt off the end).

Files are named x-y, where x is the row and y is the column. You need to put stupid.exe, stupid.bat, world_.stpd, and world.stpi in the same folder. The script uses C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\empire total war\Stupid, but you can use Notepad to find/replace that with whatever folder you want

That will make things easier

[ForteS]

If anyone's interested here's a batch file to break up the ETW map into 64 pieces. Just rename it to stupid.bat (take the .txt off the end).

Files are named x-y, where x is the row and y is the column. You need to put stupid.exe, stupid.bat, world_.stpd, and world.stpi in the same folder. The script uses C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\empire total war\Stupid, but you can use Notepad to find/replace that with whatever folder you want

Well done, +rep
I'm planing to make a movie tutorial to explain people how to edit the map, I'll suggest your file when i do so

[PietroMicca]

Would there not need to be a complete height map as well?.The Height map for empire is only complete for the visible terrain areas in the game.

it's true but it's not sufficient
how it was said by uanime we need more
in fact if we want to add a mountain we need to add a block area in mountain_data of regions.esf file
this will make area covers by mountain impassable
but not only we also need to add a hole and an outline in region areas
we also have to be careful that mountain area is not split trough 2 or more regions

and so for each mountain, river or lake (considered sea regions)
but luckily we have coordinates of coastlines of all word

[ForteS]

crux3D i don't know if you still around here, but if in the somehow you see this message, could you try to update your tool to S2TW? I know that the map as suffered several changes at the point of be 3D now, but all you tool is extracting is this:

[Okmin]

crux3D i don't know if you still around here, but if in the somehow you see this message, could you try to update your tool to S2TW? I know that the map as suffered several changes at the point of be 3D now, but all you tool is extracting is this:

That's interesting It looks like a combined supertexture, bumbmap, and playable-area map...

[crux3D]

crux3D i don't know if you still around here, but if in the somehow you see this message, could you try to update your tool to S2TW? I know that the map as suffered several changes at the point of be 3D now, but all you tool is extracting is this:

I'm planning a few improvements to stupid. I'll look at adding TW:S2 format support when I do.

[ForteS]

I'm planning a few improvements to stupid. I'll look at adding TW:S2 format support when I do.

Excellent that you plain so, and that you are still around.

[crux3D]

Original post updated with a new version of stupid.exe. Now supports the Shogun 2 format. Also fixed some errors handling files within packfiles and a progressive mipmap darkening bug. Note that for Shogun 2 the supertexture contains the parchment map and a normal map, it does not affect the visible terrain as it did for Empire and Napoleon.

[Okmin]

+rep

Shogun 2 supertexture doesn't do the same thing? Thanks CA

[ForteS]

Original post updated with a new version of stupid.exe. Now supports the Shogun 2 format. Also fixed some errors handling files within packfiles and a progressive mipmap darkening bug. Note that for Shogun 2 the supertexture contains the parchment map and a normal map, it does not affect the visible terrain as it did for Empire and Napoleon.

Thank you for the update. But now I'm asking my self what file defines the visible terrain

[Okmin]

Hopefully it's just a beta thing...

[ForteS]

I don't believe that to matter a lot, they won't change the map system for sure...

[Okmin]

Maybe they hardcoded the map just in the beta? Either way, we just have to wait 11 days to find out.

[Agamemnon]

Any chance progress is still being made here? I know that it has been discovered how to make things passable, and with this we could make a basic world map...

[izzi]

Is there any tutorial for greenies (as i) that explains step by step how to use the tool the make a texture for a map?

[wangrin]

Supertexture Tool and tutorial : Stupid from Crux3d

[ErwinRommy]

Hey I am trying to extract the colour bitmap from the FOTS supertexture. The only issue I am having is the colour bmp file keeps coming out staight black. They hide the cloth map (its what I am after) on the green channel.
I can use an outdated version of stupid to extract a preview:

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but if throws and error, when I try and extract the full thing using the old version of stupid (not really that surprising)

The updated version of stupid though generates the following two images.

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these are the preview versions but the full ones are the same just bigger. The problem is there is no cloth map hiding in any of the channels :: P. Especially the first since its nothing but black. XD
Any ideas?
thanks for your time.