Automatic Forester

[Fluesopp]

A little walkthrough.

You may want to create a little forest island for your map. It's not large and it would be pretty simple, but maybe time consuming, to create the forest manually.

But, you also want a name, and a oddly shaped lake, and some towns around the island. And then suddenly it's not just pay and spray.

Instead, pain over wherever you want the forest to appear, on a second layer.

Turn off all other layers and save the forest mask as a PNG file, with transparency.

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[Fluesopp]

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Open up the Mapper tool and click on the load button.

Check fill, if you want (looks seriously better) and save the file as a png file.

Now, open the new file in photoshop and drag it onto your map, holding shift as you do so; it snaps right to the center and align perfectly.

Add some fancy coloring and Voila! Your forest isle is complete.

edit: Oh, and since this is only a prototype, be careful. If you choose a file with data already on it, it will not ask you if you want to overwrite. It just does it.. (Gonna add that next, just in case)

[Ramah]

Wow. That is awesome.

I can see a few odd bod trees on your screeny where they've gone over another but for a prototype version it's amazing.
Does it have the ability to load another pack of brushes?

Have some rep to help keep your heart warm as you continue to develop this.