Mask?

[Gielovic]

Can someone explain me what a mask is and how to use it in the Road Editor or WRPEdit?

[ScouseJedi]

In this case a mask is a greyscale .bmp 256 x 256 that represents your island.

You need to make the bmp seperate from your wrp file.

If you are already working on your map try a printscreen while wrpedit is open.

Throw this into a paint package (paintshop pro by ?jasc? is shareware.

Printscreen (button on keyboard) throws the screen on to the clipboard.

In a paint package paste this into a file.

Select the area you want (your map) and paste this into an image. Then change the image size  and make it 256 x 256.

Change it to greyscale and save as a bmp.


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I am working from scrach and creating the contours using a program from here clled something like imagetoascii. To use this I am drawing a 256 x 256 greyscale bmp. I can then just use this again with this tool.