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Nosejj: /* PolyWorks Tools */

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‎PolyWorks Tools

Nosejj at 09:54, 13 April 2018

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Nosejj at 09:22, 13 April 2018

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Akinaro at 09:29, 5 April 2014

2014-04-05T09:29:25Z

Akinaro: Created page with "===overview=== Scenery is any image file (BMP, PNG, TGA, or JPEG) used to display various items in maps. These are the trees, bunkers, background images and any miscellaneous ..."

2014-04-05T09:28:25Z

Created page with "===overview=== Scenery is any image file (BMP, PNG, TGA, or JPEG) used to display various items in maps. These are the trees, bunkers, background images and any miscellaneous ..."

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===overview===
Scenery is any image file (BMP, PNG, TGA, or JPEG) used to display various items in maps. These are the trees, bunkers, background images and any miscellaneous objects you see in a map that don't actually interact with the players or other objects (weapons, medikits, etc.).

Sceneries are purely aesthetic part of Soldat, but they can be used in creative ways to alter gameplay. For instance, it can be placed in front of everything to obscure a hiding place or camouflage a player, or it can be used as a signal where colliders are(sandbags, box etc).

Scenery can also be manipulated inside the various Mapping Tools in many ways. The modifications you can make are: dimensions, color, transparency, and rotation, as well as whether the scenery is in front of everything, behind everything, or behind the map but in front of the player.

All soldat sceneries are stored in Soldat\scenery-gfx

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===PolyWorks Tools===

Main tool for placing Sceneries in [[PolyWorks]] is [[File:Polyworks sceneries icon.png]] this icon.
All list of sceneries you can get just by clicking your right mouse button anywhere on map.

Main window for sceneries, when you find all used images and basic options look like this:

[[File:Polyworks sceneries window.png]]

You can Find more about [[PolyWorks]] and Making Map in [[Mapping Tutorial|First steps in Polyworks]] section.

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===Basic rules of using Sceneries===

Before you start working on your first map, you should remember about few things:
* Don't use huge images. Better stick to max 800x800 or cut bigger images to smaller parts.
*Better use .png format for yours sceneries, it support compression and transparency layer, also you can use options to index color palette in your image(but dont use indexing with image that have transparent part).
*Soldat support smooth transparency, but its better to use standard lime color(#00ff00)<span style="color:#00FF00; background:#00FF00">LIME</span> as a background color.
Note: You can use trick to index your image colors to eg 250, save it, and then again open, set to full color and fill lime color again to #00FF00 color, sometimes you can change size of your scenery from 200KB to even 80KB without loosing quality and transparency.
*Remember to name your sceneries using type of image(crate, box, car etc) with numbers or your nick. Its sometimes annoying to have in your scenery-gfx folder 100 images named dick0222.png or 000000000000012.png
*Try to use as less sceneries as possible. You can merge few sceneries to one image, check our [[Advanced Mapping Tutorial|Advanced Mapping Tutorial]] to learn more.

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 =PolyWorks Tools=
-The main tool for placing scenery inside of maps in [[Soldat PolyWorks]] is the following: [[File:Polyworks sceneries icon.png]]
+The main tool for placing scenery inside of maps in [[Soldat PolyWorks]] is the following: [[File:Polyworks sceneries icon.png|Scenery Tool]]
 The list of scenery used can be accessed through clicking the RMB (Right Mouse Button) anywhere on map.
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 Main window for sceneries, when you find all used images and basic options look like this:
-[[File:Polyworks sceneries window.png]]
+[[File:Polyworks sceneries window.png|PolyWorks Scenery Window]]
 ''You can read more about [[Soldat PolyWorks]] and learn your first steps in Mapmaking on this page: [[Mapping Tutorial|First steps in Polyworks]].''
 =Basic rules of using Sceneries=

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-===overview===
+=Overview=
-Scenery is any image file (BMP, PNG, TGA, or JPEG) used to display various items in maps. These are the trees, bunkers, background images and any miscellaneous objects you see in a map that don't actually interact with the players or other objects (weapons, medikits, etc.).
+Scenery is any image file (BMP, PNG, TGA, or JPEG) used to display various items in maps. These are the trees, bunkers, background images and any miscellaneous objects you see in a map that don't actually interact with the players or other objects (weapons, medikits, etc).
-Sceneries are purely aesthetic part of Soldat, but they can be used in creative ways to alter gameplay. For instance, it can be placed in front of everything to obscure a hiding place or camouflage a player, or it can be used as a signal where colliders are(sandbags, box etc).
 Scenery can also be manipulated inside the various Mapping Tools in many ways. The modifications you can make are: dimensions, color, transparency, and rotation, as well as whether the scenery is in front of everything, behind everything, or behind the map but in front of the player.
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 All soldat sceneries are stored in Soldat\scenery-gfx
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+=PolyWorks Tools=
-===PolyWorks Tools===
 Main window for sceneries, when you find all used images and basic options look like this:
 [[File:Polyworks sceneries window.png]]
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+''You can read more about [[Soldat PolyWorks]] and learn your first steps in Mapmaking on this page: [[Mapping Tutorial|First steps in Polyworks]].''
-===Basic rules of using Sceneries===
+=Basic rules of using Sceneries=
 Before you start working on your first map, you should remember about few things:
-* Don't use huge images. Better stick to max 800x800 or cut bigger images to smaller parts.
+* Do not use huge images. Better stick to max 800x800 or cut bigger images to smaller parts.
-*Better use .png format for yours sceneries, it support compression and transparency layer, also you can use options to index color palette in your image(but dont use indexing with image that have transparent part).
+* Better use .png format for yours scenery. It support compression and transparency layer, also you can use options to index color palette in your image (but don't use indexing with image that have transparent part).
-*Soldat support smooth transparency, but its better to use standard lime color(#00ff00)<span style="color:#00FF00; background:#00FF00">LIME</span> as a background color.
+* Soldat supports smooth transparency, but its better to use standard lime color(#00ff00) <span style="color:#00FF00; background:#00FF00">LIME</span> as a background color (required in BMP, in PNG  the background can be transparent).
-  Note: You can use trick to index your image colors to eg 250, save it, and then again open,
+  '''Note:''' You can use trick to index your image colors to eg 250, save it, and then again open,
   set to full color and fill lime color again to #00FF00 color,
   sometimes you can change size of your scenery from 200KB to even 80KB without loosing quality and transparency.
-*Remember to name your sceneries using type of image(crate, box, car etc) with numbers or your nick. Its sometimes annoying to have in your scenery-gfx folder 100 images named dick0222.png or 000000000000012.png
+* Remember to name your scenery using type of image(crate, box, car etc) with numbers or your nick. It's impractical to have in your scenery-gfx folder 100 images named bruv0222.png or 000000000000012.png