Warning! Will Robinson! Warning!

[RobA]

ya I saw it, now I got like a gang load of textures/tiles and stuff I want to use, what's the quickest way to convert???? I know you said you could create a script but this is like alot of textures....

I'll tell you - here is how I use my textures (all png files). I don't import them all, cause gimp has no decent way to group them into folders, etc. There is a python brush manager I use and I have been tempted to extend it to also be a pattern manager, but find the following workflow is more convenient for me...

I have gimp open, and I'm working on a drawing. I also keep faststone image viewer running, sitting in my textures root directory. All my textures are ordered in a directory like this:

-BASIC (contains textures I use often)
-MANMADE
--BRICK
--MARBLE
--METAL
--SEWER
--STONE
--TILES
--WOOD
-NATURAL
--DIRT
--GRASS
--STONE
--VEGETATION
--COVER
--WATER
--WINTER
-TERRAIN (larger scale, the others are all battlemap scale)
-PHOTOREALISTIC (photos I have taken/rendered that usually aren't seamless tiles yet)

I just copy (ctrl-C) from the faststone image browser (preview window, not the thumbnail list!) and then go into gimp and paste (ctrl-v) then cut (ctrl-x). This leave me with the pattern in the gimp clipboard and I can just use it as a fill.

If I want it as a pattern for a while, after this I just Edit->Paste as->New Pattern.

-Rob A>

[heathan666]

ok so now I'm workin' on a dungeon map using the script I have and all my new found little textures. So I want to make the map fairly realistic are there any sites that you guys can suggest to me to look at when creating a realistic dungeon???

[RobA]

ok so now I'm workin' on a dungeon map using the script I have and all my new found little textures. So I want to make the map fairly realistic are there any sites that you guys can suggest to me to look at when creating a realistic dungeon???

No answer yet, so I'll post one up..... What do you mean by "realistic dungeon"? Photo-realistic, or "real life" realistic?

If the former, try the dundjinni forums for objects. If the latter, I don't know 'cause I've never seen a real dungeon

-Rob A>

[heathan666]

well what I mean is realistic as in developing an ecology and how to pick where traps go etc. For my next adventure I plan on using a school of magic, probably 2 story building with various stuff. Last time I made the maps PCs complained that they didn't "fit" right, but the map was awesome. So in that sense I'm glad I'm doin' better on the maps.
If anyone has a map of a "school" of magic I'd love to ninja it from you, lol.

[Steel General]

If anyone has a map of a "school" of magic I'd love to ninja it from you, lol.

Check out the Building/Structure Mapping and the FInished Maps forums, you might just find something.