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==Region borders drawing== | ==Region borders drawing== | ||
Open the [[Regions|Regions Window]] – go to menu [World] -> [Regions...] and activate 'PizzaWorld'. On a region map probably you will see only a big space with white cells, a form that doesn't look in no way like a world we have just | Open the [[Regions|Regions Window]] – go to menu [World] -> [Regions...] and activate 'PizzaWorld'. On a region map probably you will see only a big space with white cells, a form that doesn't look in no way like a world we have just built. First let's add a new region to the Pizza World – I named it the 'PizzaMainShape'. | ||
To draw a region shape for main terrain of island, we must know exact coordinates of each cell that lies on a border of island. Do not close Regions Window and once again open the Heightmap Editor for 'PizzaWorld'. | To draw a region shape for main terrain of island, we must know exact coordinates of each cell that lies on a border of island. Do not close Regions Window and once again open the Heightmap Editor for 'PizzaWorld'. | ||
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From | From the toolbar choose the '''Eyedropper''' and capture some bright color. Then choose the Paintbrush and draw on a heightmap some points, that will help you to quick determine the cell coordinates of island border. | ||
Now place a cursor over one of | Now place a cursor over one of these bright points, on a status bar read the cells coordinates and remember them. Go the Region Window, search for that cell – on a bottom status bar there are displayed coordinates for a cell pointed by a cursor as well. When you find the cell with equivalent coordinates, left click to draw the first point of region border. | ||
[http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pizza6firstpointhc7.png Image07: Region drawing - first point] | [http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pizza6firstpointhc7.png Image07: Region drawing - first point] |