[Award Winner] Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional RPG Map

[Blamenck]

Looks like you have done a fine job. Now comes the hard part...adapting and changing things to create your own style

Yeah; I noticed that the style was exactly the same but some of the techniques are so good! 50% grey overlay layer, TLS, etc. I think I just need to practise more :/

XD

[BlackMojo]

Hey RobA,
Just got windows 7, so I had to restart the tutorial. Quick Question: how do i fill a layer 50% grey? Thanks

BMojo

Edit: NVM my noobishness got slapped in the face when i saw the thread search button! i gots it now...

[Blamenck]

Hey RobA,
Just got windows 7, so I had to restart the tutorial. Quick Question: how do i fill a layer 50% grey? Thanks

BMojo

Edit: NVM my noobishness got slapped in the face when i saw the thread search button! i gots it now...

50% Grey is one of the colours in the pallette that RobA tells you to download
at the start of the tutorial. You can view all of the colours in the pallette editor dialogue for the selected pallette. For convience add this menu as a tab so that you can view all of the colous of the selected pallette quickly.

Hope that helps (sorry if I din't wait for RobA to answer; I just looked at this tutorial so much I know it inside out )

XD

Edit: NVM, I read that you put NVM =D.

[BlackMojo]

Sigh... I seem to be having so many problems with gimp...

My latest dilemma is that after i fill the "Grass Bumps" layer 50% grey, I cant apply a bump map. When I try to do it, the preview box is grey, and nothing happens after I hit ok (there isnt even the icon to the right of the layer thumbnail).

Many thanks for putting up with my antics!

[Aidan]

Sigh... I seem to be having so many problems with gimp...

My latest dilemma is that after i fill the "Grass Bumps" layer 50% grey, I cant apply a bump map. When I try to do it, the preview box is grey, and nothing happens after I hit ok (there isnt even the icon to the right of the layer thumbnail).

Many thanks for putting up with my antics!

First off, you have to select the right layer to apply as a bump map in the drop down list at the right side of that box. Secondly, applying the bump map isn't the same as applying a layer mask, which is what appears to the right of the layer thumbnail.

[Karro]

That's right. For this bumpmap to work, you have to select from the drop-down a layer that has a black-and-white image that represents a sort of "height-field-map" for the bumpmap filter. In this case, it looks like you need to select the layer you have named "Grass Bump Map" which is located right below the all-gray "Grass Bumps" layer on the layer stack, according to the attached image.

Good luck.

[BlackMojo]

Yes i got it now. Once you understand it the process seems so ridiculously simple...

thanks anyway!

[Karro]

Yes i got it now. Once you understand it the process seems so ridiculously simple...

thanks anyway!

Great, glad I could be of help!

[BlackMojo]

Problem number bajillion and 1... After i save the mountains to a channel, I delete (?) the pure black and white layer (the new layer that i saved the channel from). Where do I put the normalized layer? I have no idea what the "real map file" is.

This is the problem with trying to learn new software...

[Karro]

Not sure I understand the question. Can you tell which step you're on?