March 31, 200818 yr Tony - Does the coastline 'resolution' differ depending on the size of battleset created with the Battleset Builder? IE, will the coastline be more 'jagged' at finer zoom values for a larger map area than a smaller one? DN
March 31, 200818 yr Yes, to a certain and undefined extent, I forget the detail level of the heightmap, you can figure it out by doing a little math, the coastline is defined by the elevation.tif file, look at the resolution and figure out roughly what accuracy that gives, to answer your question.
March 31, 200818 yr Author Can I use a different elevation.tif file to achieve different land masses or resolution? DN
April 1, 200818 yr You can indeed use a different elevation.tif to achieve different land masses. I believe you could use a higher resolution image to reduce jaggies in small maps but have not done this myself.
April 1, 200818 yr Author I assume the pic has to be the same dimensions to maintain scale? I tried to open it in GIMP and it said it had 16 layers. Is there more than just land and sea colors in that pic? DN
April 1, 200818 yr The safe bet is to keep the same dimensions yes, the daring route is to keep the same width/height ratio and ignore matching the exact dimensions. There is only one layer/plane in the elevation.tif file but it does have more than 2 colors. HC only uses land/water binary system at present but a height/depth model using the elevation.tif file as a basis for land heights and sea depths was born a number of years ago by BretM. So that's why the image isn't just black and white, future potential
April 1, 200818 yr Author The safe bet is to keep the same dimensions yes, the daring route is to keep the same width/height ratio and ignore matching the exact dimensions. There is only one layer/plane in the elevation.tif file but it does have more than 2 colors. HC only uses land/water binary system at present but a height/depth model using the elevation.tif file as a basis for land heights and sea depths was born a number of years ago by BretM. So that's why the image isn't just black and white, future potential Tricky! I assume I could get away with a two-color black/white .tif for land and sea at present? DN
April 2, 200818 yr Tricky! I assume I could get away with a two-color black/white .tif for land and sea at present? DN Yes, black/white presents no problems.
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