How-To: Template images in World Builder [Broken]

• Basic text editor. Microsoft Notepad is great for this. More suitable tool would be notepad++, which you can download from notepad-plus-plus.org
  
• Adobe Photoshop with DDS plugin
  
  

  Setting Up

  
  
  We'll start by setting up a folder system to hold the templates and by downloading a set of example files to test it.
  
  
  • Create this folder structure to your CoH2 Installation folder:
    
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    Company of Heroes 2 Installation folder\CoH2\Data\art\scenarios\textures\splats\templates
    

    
    
    
  • Download example files and extract the contents of the .zip archive (lyon.dds and lyon.terrainmaterial) to
    
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    Company of Heroes 2 Installation folder\CoH2\Data\art\scenarios\textures\splats\templates
    

    
    
    
  • Launch World Builder. You should now be able to access the new splat in Splat placement tool:
    
    
    
    Image #1: Custom Splat
    
    
    
    Place the splat called "lyon" to the map. You will notice the small size of the new splat immediately. To make it larger, set scale to 128 or something similar and place the splat again.
    
    
    Image #2: Splat Scale
    
    
    
    
  
  Tip: You can use World Builder Ruler tool to determine scale. Ruler measures distance in meters.
  
  Now that we have a working system, we can continue to creating our own template image(s).
  
  

  Adding your own template

  
  
  Assuming that you already have a template image, we'll start by saving it as .dds
  In case you have no template image, head to, for example, https://maps.google.com/ and get one by taking a screenshot.
  
  Load your template image to Photoshop. Make sure the image width and height are multiples of four. Here is a list of few examples (basically any power of 2 is suitable):
  
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  128, 256, 384, 512, 768, 1024, 2048
  

  
  
  Once you have done necessary adjustments to your image ensuring correct image width and height, save your template image as yourTemplateName.dds to
  Company of Heroes 2 Installation folder\CoH2\Data\art\scenarios\textures\splats\templates
  , using following settings in photoshop:
  
  
  
  Image #3: Exporting DDS
  
  
  
  Now, when your image is successfully exported as .dds, we'll create a .terrainmaterial file to describe the properties of the new splat. You can do that by doing the following steps:
  
  
  • Open Notepad/Notepad++ and paste in following content:
    
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    material = {
    	dif = "yourTemplateName",
    	nrm = "yourTemplateName",
    	spc = "yourTemplateName",
    }
    

    
    
  • Change yourTemplateName to match your .dds file name.
    
    
  • Save this text as yourTemplateName.terrainmaterial to the same folder where your .dds image is. Close the file.
    
    
  • Launch World Builder. You should now be able to access your new custom template.
    
    
  
  

  Conclusions

  
  
  In this tutorial you learned how to add custom template images to the World Builder. Fell free to share your results in this thread!
  

Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2013, 14:35 PMIronMedic

Tried this out, and it works
I used Gimp 2 instead of Photoshop, a DDS plugin for gimp can be found here:Gimp Plugin Registry.
The .zip plugin is the simplest one to install.

Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2013, 23:31 PMEagleheart21

awesome stuff Janne,

we're hoping to provide an easier way to do this in the future.

Jump back to quoted post26 Nov 2013, 17:49 PMDeer

Awesome tutorial this will be usefull I was trying to figure out how to do this but i ran out of patience.. here is my solution ^^
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