Read this first! Map Making Tutorial old

Hey ho!

Making a map is really easy but people often asking how it's done, so I decided to make this tutorial.

What you gonna need:
- KAG (free- or full-version)
- Paint.net (Gimp e.g. would work, too)
- The Color-Palette

Extra:
KAG Color-file for Paint.net



gimp palette:

GrafX2 palette:

Open Paint.net and load the colors.
Make a new file which is as big as you think your map will be. (Each pixel is one tile ingame)

(btw sry that my programm isn't english)
You may use bigger map sizes like 200x200(good server btw) but for the tutorial we use 32x64. 200x200 is also no big map there are even bigger maps because of the teamsize.

Now you will have to zoom in to see each pixel.
Turning the grid on will help!
Each pixel is one tile in game.

First thing you should do is fill everything with sky!
And if you don't want to have a pit to fall to the death you should make bedrock on the bottom of the map, on the bedrock u could for example put some dirt for now.
Example for an area with 2 pits in the mid and floating dirt:


Because floating dirt doesn't seem to be that normal we just make a mountain out of it by putting background where it's necessary. (sometimes some holes look also good so...)

(I also added some ladders to get on top)

Now lets talk about the tents!
Because of some kind of debug, cause tents sometimes stick into the ground, I always put tents one tile above the ground and between the tent and the ground there is one tile background, which you won't see on the server.


So like you may already have seen trees have more then one color.
Trees:
13,102,34 - stump (I never use)
13,103,34 - trunk
13,104,34 - branches
13,105,34 - tree top
13,254,34 - Only MM and Geti know!

A good tree for example looks like this:
105
103
104
103
103

But they don't always look the same it depends on different things how they actually look!
Let's add the same tree at different positions to show you:


So now you know what I mean! (btw in editor u don't see tents!)

Also you shouldn't make a map full of dirt, put some different elements in the ground so that it looks more nice.

Some bedrock under the tent is always good, because sometimes you can't mine under the tent even if it is dirt.


One important thing is that you save it with 24-Bit Depth, otherwise all of your trees may look bad or everything but bedrock disappears.
Save it as a .png!


That's the main thing you need to know on how to make it, you can also add an castle or build some other things in it like you may know from the maps on the server Rapid Deathmatch.

The maps have to be saved to C:\KAG\Base\Maps and you can open them by following these steps:

1.) First, you need to find and put your custom map into the games map folder (Program Files\KAG\Base\Maps) make sure it's .png

2.) After that you do that, you go to "Single Player" -> "Sandbox"

3.) You'll be in a randomly generated map, to get the map you specifically want, you have to
go to in the console (aka "Home" button) and type in the "/loadbitmap [map's name].png"

If there is anything missing or you have any questions just let me know.

I wish you much fun with your new maps!​

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Hi, this is a GIMP palette I created from the colors on the wiki. To use it just save it as a *.gpl file (for example: "kag.gpl") to your personal GIMP folder (on windows "C:\Users\MyUser\.gimp-2.6\palettes")

http://pastebin.com/u7jC9e8w

 

Herp derp guess I should have looked before I posted!

 

I'm currently using GrafX2 for map editing. It's a bit different editor: specialized in 256-color drawing with pixel art in mind. Here is screenshot:



I also created palette for KAG map making in JASC PAL format (it is very popular and supported by multiple programs): blinkkin.github.com/kag/palette.pal

 

It is, but can feel very awkward for people used to graphic editors from post-Photoshop era. There are some distinguished features, where you can feel lost:
- changing working size of image is different, because there is no crop tool
- coping/cutting/pasting is different, you use Brush Grab for this
- palette is global, so when you change value of color in palette toolbar, specific color is also changed in image
- background/foreground colors in palette - with left mouse button you are painting with foreground color, with right mouse button you are erasing pixels with background color (works for most tools this way)
- working with pages - typically you have two instances of GrafX2, one where you paint, second for holding brushes, image parts and so on

If someone is interested in working with GrafX2, I've short and great tip: use [F1] key when hovering mouse over specific tool to get help page for that tool. Although I advice everyone that this editor is very different to everything you used before, so you can end up being in a little shock.

 

Yeah I dont even see the option to load a map in the menu anymore. You can still load a map in sandbox mode using
"\rcon \loadmap mapname" and having the map in your Base/Maps folder.

You dont need to add.png to the end. I also dont know if the editor will even start now (havent tried).

 

Hi, being derpy for a sec and I need help.

I put the Paint.net color pallete code into a text document called ColorPallet.txt. And when I try to load it, all it does is up the file and not load it. Help?

 

What? but no such command exists. If you open a bitmap file ingame and edit it, it can only be saved with as a .kag file, not .png . This really sucks because it means you can't crop the map, add special tree parts or add tents after editing ingame.

 

Ach! But of course. I forgot we even had that button.

 

I've made 2 maps, but I dont know how to load them onto KAG(in sandbox), can u plz help

 

You will need to put the maps in KAG/Base/Maps and then hit home in game to bring up the console. Then type /loadbitmap mapname

 

Where's the Home button?

 

Next to pageup, pagedown, delete, and insert on your keyboard if you are using windows or linux.

 

Oh stupid much, thxs