BF2_TPaint, Very Confused...(was not answered on Editor Forums)

[Front Line]

Howdy Folks, FL here, good to see a live branch of mapping going...

Anyway gone through the whole terrian wiki :) Great work might i add...

But...

Painting the Terrain
We’ve created a Layer “Brush”. Now it’s time to set some painting options and then paint. (BF2 TPaint will automatically paint your level for you http://rocketman.f2o.org/bf2/tpaint.htm)

Really...Really...Really...Confused me after ithe statement was made...

28. In the main screen, click and drag your cursor around to paint. You’ll want to move the brush rather slowly because you are actually painting a very large area and your computer may not be able to keep up:

It made me think that we have to Brush our whole map?

But the quote above states it will paint your LEVEL, reffering to the whole thing?
So what it the point of us painting?

I think i'm going bannanas...
Can someone please make this clearer to me for i am really, really, confused.

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Thanks for Input Fellas...

Catbox' date='Jul 14 2006, 06:07 AM' post='44283']
download BFTpaint... unzip and put it in your map folder... open the BFTpaint folder and click on BFTpaint...
then copy and paste the color,detail and lowdetailmap folders into the editor folder of your map...
hopefully you havent gone bananas yet... right click on your map and uncheck read only also

I've pasted over the other folders, etc. BUt my map had not changed in BFEditor?


Am i spose to save it with the mountains indents, etc...
Then paste folders, then re-open BFEditor?

When does it do this?(paint map that is)

FL.

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[Mavrik347]

Re: BF2_TPaint, Very Confused...(was not answered on Editor Forums)

when you put the colour maps from TPaint in your level folder make shaw you put another copy in the Editor folder.

[Front Line]

Re: BF2_TPaint, Very Confused...(was not answered on Editor Forums)

yes yes, but this doesn't answer the question.

[NeoGzus]

Re: BF2_TPaint, Very Confused...(was not answered on Editor Forums)

I Too am having this problem, I've made a map before, but this time around, I can't seem to get tpaint to show the paint job in the editor. I only see a grass texture when up close, the rest is a tan and white checkerboard. I generated low detail maps, but don't what else to do.

If I find out what I did wrong, I'll repost

Update:
Not sure how it worked, but I got it to work.
What I did was opened the original map I made(not the backup or renamed one) picked the textures first, assigned low detail maps. Closed the editor. ran Tpaint, deleted the folders I need to replace, and pasted the files in both the mylevel/editor and mylevel's main folder

Restarted the editor and it was actually painted. now to tweak for a better look.

[jodoanyore]

Re: BF2_TPaint, Very Confused...(was not answered on Editor Forums)

take a look at http://bfeditor.org there you can see indeep info

[nascarnick]

Re: BF2_TPaint, Very Confused...(was not answered on Editor Forums)

Well i think if you just choose different colors and then run Tpaint again it should change it. Also
Make sure under render you have it set on detail texture instead of texture or color texture or whatever it says. Then you will get the real detail. It looks much better. And if your painting manualy it will show up. But this sometimes give lag so just look and then take it back off.