Today, I'm going to show you my method for creating accurate minimap images, using noggit and photoshop.

the first thing you want to do is open up the map you're working on in noggit, then press U to get to the 2d paint mode.  Make sure to hit F7 so you can see the grid, this is the key to the whole operation.

Using Q and E, get as many squares on the screen as you can, while making sure that your squares are at least 256 pixels in size, each. I'm talking about the green lines here, not the red.

Now you want to take a screenshot, on windows, use Win+PrtScr;  This takes a pictures of your entire desktop and places it in the screenshots folder in your pictures library.


Now Hit F7 and take another screen shot, this time without the lines.


Repeat for other sections of the map.




Now, you want to find all your images, and open them in photoshop.


PROTIP.  Have all your images in windows in photoshop, that way you can shift+drag the layer from the image with the grid, to the corresponding no-grid image.  Holding shift auto-aligns the layers.


Now you should have your image with 2 layers, the top layer having the grid.


Now, you need to create guides, if you have the ruler showing, you can click and drag on it to make one.  If not, you can go to the view menu and click new guide.  Use the selector tool to align it with one of your green lines.  Repeat as needed so you have one guide for each green line.


Now, that you have your guides in place, click the slice tool.  It's the one that looks like a little knife.  If you don't see it, click the crop tool and hold down, it should let you choose the  slice tool from there.  On my screen, it is right below the magic wand.

you now need to find this button  and click it.

This slices up your image.  If you want, you can go to the properties of each slice and name them, or do it to the files later.

From here, you simply turn off the visibility on the first layer so your grid lines are gone, the choose save for web and devices in the file menu. make sure to save as whatever format your BLP converter can handle.  
You will end up with some extra images that you can't use, just delete them.

After that, you can either resize each image individually to 256x256, or use a batch processing tool, like XnView.

At this point you should have a series of map tiles that are aligned with the ADTs  You may want to go and paint on the WMO's and M2s, I didn't, but I probably should have.

Now do this.
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I'm wondering what revision the SDL 1.2 release is.  I need to make some changes to the code to better suit my work.  Basically, I can't get the blur or height brush small enough to do the detail I need, for some reason the lowest I can go on the slider is 5.99.  That's 6 meters, a bit too wide for the detail I'm trying to achieve..  Any chance of having a direct entry box, or at least a slider that has better control?  If I knew the revision I'd do it myself.  inb4 use qt;  I can't use qt to build on windows 8.

If the source isn't in the repo, I would also like to request the source for the SDL 1.2 release.

Hi, I'm new here.  Kinda a quiet guy, I'm not much of a forum user.

My question is regarding possible support for the 3dconnexion line of devices.  They are a 3d mouse/6dof joystick type device, and are VERY nice for 3d applications.  I use mine in blender, 3DS max, Second Life, and photoshop CS5 (it's great in the 3d paint mode).

I think it would be really handy to have some support for it in noggit.  As far as I'm aware, all that would really need to be done is to add support for joystick axes as input.  I'm willing to make the patch myself if need be, if/when I can get access to the source.

http://www.3dconnexion.com/  I'm using an older model called the SpacePilot, but they all work the same way, the only difference is the amount of buttons you have, which are handled by the drivers.

Sounds expensive, but if you are a student, you can get the base model for about $75US, and I got mine on eBay for less than a third of retail.  

I realize this is starting to sound like an advertisement,  I assure you, it's not, I just love this thing so much.


EDIT:  I'm working on a controller profile, It's basically done, except that the camera pith and yaw is a bit screwy.  It works, but because the only way to rotate the camera is with the mouse, it goes off screen frequently.  If I could use keyboard keys for pitch and yaw (look up/down/left/right) this would be perfect.  Maybe the arrow keys?