How Images on map terrain?

[Hersonrock]

Is pretty much that, I saw some maps with images on terrain like a picture covering a part of the ground. How can I do that?

 

[muzzel]

Tutorial: http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/cat_usersubmit.php?view=66955
Jass image functions in detail: http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=107737

 

[Dr Super Good]

You can also make the terrain itself into an image like...
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[Hersonrock]

whoa O:... then if well structured it could be used instead of tile-set right? would it make the map slow in anyway?

 

[Dr Super Good]

You can use ubersplats instead of a tileset but it will have at least some performance penalty as they are not free. I do not know if this is a concern or not for modern computer systems.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

You could try dummy units with image files converted to models.

Though it sounds like you want it 2D so ubersplats or image actions are the way to go for that.

 

[muzzel]

Well images are really fast, so using ubersplats (== type 4 images) as tiles should work. Keep in mind that scaling down images reduces their performance, but as long as you dont want to zoom in really far this shouldnt be an issue. Also you need the images to have a transparent border of 1 pixel to avoid the "border bug" which stretches the border pixels around all around the image (this happens if you for example use icons as images). You can use BlpLab to create such a transparent border.

@DatC3: no point in using dummyunits, images are much faster.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Just offering another method =)

 

[Hersonrock]

This gives me a lot to play around with , thanks all.