Making a good sat mask

[ArmaVidz 0]

so let me see if i understood it right..

I need to have the same terrain color where real bridges are?

I can not erase the bridges and have water color instead?

Note: I want my bridges to have water under them (between poles).

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Opteryx any suggestion?

ps- i will remove all cars, add some shore land effects.

Personally, I'd repaint the edges of the canal to extend further into the "blue" region of the canal otherwise you're gonna get blue edges all over the side of the canal(?) If the terrain is correct, all that area is underwater anyway

It doesn't matter about the bridges in the sat overlay, the terrain.png will be more important than anything, unless you're using some other terrain import method.

What you want to do is make the canal dark enough(in the terrain.png) to push the terrain underwater. Don't forget to paint over the bridges, because you'll have to add in those model later anyway. The shades are all "relative" to the brightnesses/shades in your terrain.png.

The color mask_ico is for surface type, which won't be needed for an elevated bridge.

[bravo 6 0]

Thanks ArmaVidz for the info..

i was going to retouch the edges of the river, but thanks anyway

about the mask_ico (mask_ico.png) don't you mean mask_Lco like "l"="L" letter?

1st time i found this i got a doubt about letters.. so is it L or I? (in small letters)

[ArmaVidz 0]

It is a "I". I for India. I could have sworn it was an I, not L.

I haven't actually sat down and checked the terrain "noises" when I run on the map though; which would indicate a problem with the mask_Ico

[opteryx 1562]

The letter in the suffix is "L" ie. "_LCO" layer color map.

[bravo 6 0]

The letter in the suffix is "L" ie. "_LCO" layer color map.

thats what i thought

I dont know about you guys but my computer takes ages to save 10240x10240 png file :\

[ArmaVidz 0]

The letter in the suffix is "L" ie. "_LCO" layer color map.

I l in some fonts look exactly the same. Thanks Opteryx.

[bravo 6 0]

i hope you guys can help me resolve this problem:

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this is 1 of the corner of my map.. iv'e been trying to make it flat for infinite but i keep having this. 1 infinite side and the other mountains.

What must i do to have all sides of this map flat as if it was infinit desert.. like in Sakakah map?

edit: Ok, found a way to have infinit desert.. took me a while to make this happen, but looks natural