Daskew's Map Making Tutorial

So many people have asked me in-game how to make a map I thought I might as well create this post to refer them to!

=== FOLLOW THESE STEPS ===

1. Get a paint program where you can save your map in a 24-bit PNG format. Good one to download: paint.NET (it's free, brilliant, and not malware)

2. Grab this image


3. Use the colours presented in the palette above from step 2 to draw your map out. You will probably have to use a "dropper" tool in your chosen paint program to grab the colour you need.

• Bear in mind when choosing the image size a typical CTF map PNG is about 210 x 65 pixels

4. Remember to add spawn points, and all the necessary blocks you need for the game-mode your map is meant for. (If you accidentally add colours that aren't related to blocks the map may not load)

5. Save your map as a 24-bit PNG - most other formats won't work

(saving as PNG in paint.NET)


(showing the selection of 24-bit in paint.NET)


=== END OF STEPS ===

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Paint 0/10. Gimp 4 lyfe.

As for the non-related colors, i remember readin in someone's map making guide that they would just be empty air(the blue stuff) tho im too lazy to confirm.

 

I used MS paint.

 

that's fine, i use paint to copy and paste things, it much more easy in ms paint than paint.net just make sure you have a program that can save it as 24bit file size

 

I think 32-Bit is a better file size to save as. Does 24-bit save transparency?