Make a map for new PoH?

[Catt]

Originally posted by ksmith
Here's how I do it:
* use Mitselplik's zone converter to get a povray file for the zone
* convert each mesh in the povray file to its own showeq map
* generate gif images of those maps
* pick which maps to use and merge them together
* spend a day running a map optimizer on it

Hiyas,

Could you shed some light on:

* convert each mesh in the povray file to its own showeq map

You have a script or program for that, or do you do it by hand?

[lostinspace]

@who_me : there was one very good map of PoEa posted on this forum. Unless that post got deleted when forum changed, it should be still there.

@ksmith: good work. btw, i noticed that I got better GIF result when I just deleted yellow and pink lines from your original map, compared to your final GIF map. Of course, we need txt map, not gif map, but I just wondered if you could use line color to decide which lines to delete (in case you get line colors from povray converters, and not generating them yourself)

[don'tdoit]

Yep, PoEa already has a very good map, both for SEQ and EQ mapping (disabled). I haven't seen a map for PoEb yet though. Has anybody seen one?

[lostinspace]

Well, I didnt find PoEB map too, so I made one crude version untill someone with more skills do it right.

You can download it here (untill I remove ZIP). Note that maps are in EQ format, NOT in SEQ format.

...hmm.. link not working atm...

Also in this zip i put few other elemental plane maps, including PoEA one that I mentioned.

[lostinspace]

Ok, will try to attach ZIP with only poeA and poeB maps, since link from above post didnt work from some reason

[spiceman]

Thanks KSmith for the map

[Amadeus]

hmmm....I saw the size of that map file and thought it was an SOE map. Too bad he couldn't have taken a moment to label it.