Campaign from a small part for 1.4 BI

[SirNateofWessex]

Please refer to the orginial tutorial by Monkwarrior for any images from Photoshop or Image Ready

CUTTING THE MAPS

CHAPTER 1. CUTTING THE EAST

Process 1. Open map_regions with both Photoshop and ImageReady.
Take slice tool in the tool menu of Photoshop.

Mark a slice (mouse click and drag from the upper left corner) of the total height (156 pixels) up to the east limit of your map.
Double click on the icon next the number 1 of the slice and we have the information of the slice: width 210 pixels, starting point (0,0).

In ImageReady we have the same division in two slices. Take the slice selection tool, click on the symbol of slice.

In the menu Select, option Create Selection from Slice.
In the menu Image, crop. The non-selected slice (number 2 in the example) is deleted and the map is now 210x156 size.
In Photoshop save the new map_regions as tga, 24 bits/pixel.

Process 2. Repeat the steps of process 1 with the files map_features, map_trade_routes and radar_map1.

Process 3. Repeat the steps of process 1 with map_roughness and radar_map2, but giving to the slice total height (312 pixels) and 420 pixels width.

Process 4. Repeat the steps of process 1 with map_climates, map_heights and map_ground_types, giving to the slice the total height (313 pixels) and 421 pixels width.

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Process 5. Repeat the steps of process 1 with water_surface.
The slice size must be proportional to the cut in map_regions: width 256*210/255 = 210.
Once the new map has 210x256 size, it is necessary to resize it to 256x256.
In the menu Image of Photoshop, Image size (Figure 4).

Deselect the option constrain proportions. Set the new width (256) in pixels. Then in the resample image options select nearest neighbor (Figure 5). OK.

This is the method for resizing any tga map. The nearest neighbor option is necessary to keep the color palette.
Save as water_surface.tga.
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Process 6. It is advisable to cut also one map_factionname at the same time.
These maps have 384x237 size. My advice is to cut one with the zone to be enlarged completely empty. For this zone I chose map_burgundii.
Repeat the steps of process 1, with the slice width proportional: 384*210/255 = 316.
With all these operations you have a full set of functional map files.