Rendering Probs -- LET THREAD ARCHIVE

[Madness108 0]

I just created a region of my own using adobe. I saved it as a grayscale jpeg. 16x16 config all blue bmp. Region file created.

I did everything absolutely right. Yet nothing happens...

[tungston 19]

If you did the key press sequence, and nothing happened, make sure the file name shows in the box below the file list.

[Madness108 0]

It does everything it is supposed to, exept actualy render.

[tungston 19]

I don't understand what it is doing, if it is not rendering. After you select the grayscale, and click OK, does it go right the the unrendered region, or go through city by city?

[Madness108 0]

It doesn't do anything. I select the grayscale. I click O.K. then it wont do anything. I've rendered a map before it should go by doing the city by city thing but it wont.

[Madness108 0]

Please help

[tungston 19]

It's possible you didn't do everything just right. For some reason the game is not accepting the grayscale. Have you tried a grayscale that you know works, to see if there is something wrong other than the grayscale? Check the properties of the file, make sure it is an 8bit, 256 color grayscale.

[moganite 4]

A few things you can check for importing maps using the SC4 renderer

Check the image size it should be in multiples of 64 then add 1 pixel

If its in RGB mod in your image editor that will cause the problem described to fixit change it to greyscale.

The config map sounds right so that should not be a problem

finally if all else fails look for SCTF either here or at SC4D and use the import greyscale funtion in it and save.

[Madness108 0]

I got it to work. Turns out it was an RGB. Thanks for the help peoples.

[John-SJ 13]

I am having exactly the same problem.

I am trying to render this map, https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=18090

I have checked the sizes of the .bmp and .jpg, those seem to be correct (24x16 and 1537x1025).  I can open the .jpg in paint, it looks like a greyscale image, but I don't know where to find the properties to see if the file is tagged as a greyscale jpg file.

I used to use NHP's SC4Mapper program but recently it started rendering maps with holes in them, I don't know why.  So at this point I am not sure I could use SCTF.

Any ideas?

[tungston 19]

John, I don't think Paint has a "properties" query. Do you have any other image editors? I can check the download, if you haven't edited it should be the same.

Edit:  John, the image is not a grayscale, it is a 24 bit color.  I don't know if you can convert it with Paint, I don't use Paint.

[John-SJ 13]

Aha!  Thanks tungston!

Maybe its time to get one of the free programs that have photoshop type features?

Also, after I posted earlier I read another post here about gaps in rendered regions.  The advice was to load the map where the gap is, then save it.  Back in region view it should be okay.

I tried that on my SC4Mapper rendered regions that have "holes" and it woks fine.

edit:  Just tried paint.net.  It looks as if it is not capable of converting to grayscale either.    

Is there a free program that will do this?  Thanks!

[tungston 19]

I believe "Infraview" will[ http://www.irfanview.com], I haven't used "Gimp" but I hear it is good, I don't have a URL for it.

[cogeo 960]

You can also try saving it as 256-color bitmap or as a GIF (ie paletted). This can be done using MS-Paint. I'm not sure how good the conversion will be though.

And the creator should be notified to correct his upload.