gL33k 0 Posted April 15, 2008 First, you need photoshop. i don't know other graph software, the features needed is named "polarize" you can transforme a picture with 16.7M color , to a 2 bit color picture. with a single click. then grab color code, and write it in island config file. here are the shots, Before After ps: this mont olympus 's not an heightmap . so the color doesnt correspond to height. but if you use your HM and polarize it , you will get a valid laer mask Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
memphisbelle 99 Posted April 16, 2008 Hey, thanks for that information. I always was trying how to do this best....good job Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ArmaVidz 0 Posted April 16, 2008 Polarize, have to try that. Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dmarkwick 261 Posted April 16, 2008 I'll add my own observations here First off, Posterize not Polarize Second, you need to have a monochrome image for it to work properly. It doesn't need to be B&W, it can be all green, all blue, whatever. With a monochrome image you will get the entire image reduced to 4 separate colours (shades), if you don't have a monochrome image each colour will be reduced to 4 shades. Third, nice tip, very handy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
memphisbelle 99 Posted April 16, 2008 Can someone tell me please how to do this? I am using PS CS3. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gL33k 0 Posted April 17, 2008 I'll add my own observations here First off, Posterize not Polarize Second, you need to have a monochrome image for it to work properly. It doesn't need to be B&W, it can be all green, all blue, whatever. With a monochrome image you will get the entire image reduced to 4 separate colours (shades), if you don't have a monochrome image each colour will be reduced to 4 shades. Third, nice tip, very handy posterize right . about monochrome image, i didn't understand well your string. you need more than 4 color to posterize to 4 color. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dmarkwick 261 Posted April 17, 2008 about monochrome image, i didn't understand well your string.you need more than 4 color to posterize to 4 color. Well, if I use your fist image as an example: that's a monochrome image. Only one colour (if we call black a colour...), but there are many shades of that colour. When you posterize it, it reduces it to 4 shades of black. If that image also had some green in it, it would have 4 shades of black and possibly 4 shades of green. I think Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paragraphic l 2 Posted April 17, 2008 Nice tip, although you don't need photoshop for this, almost any image processing software has the posterize option in it. If yours doesn't have it, several websites even offer this service What posterize does is just remove information from the image and leaves the most distinct info in it, which causes abrubt transitions and the lower the number the less 'information' stays in the image. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites