Thurgadin Grand Hall Prestige Home

[maliki7676a]

Good day to you all..

I've been working on the Thurgadin Prestige home (tour), and trying to get a map working..

Question is I recently re-installed windows on my machine, and lost some files, and Can't remember what I was using to edit or stitch or piece together the dds files of the working maps.

I have though got this far with the map somewhat. by getting the zonerects for the prestige home and the thurgadin city map. and got the code as follows:

[code]
<ImageStyle Name="thurgadin_prestige_home" displayname="Thurgadin Grand Hall" zonerect="0.00,0.00,1.00,600.00">
<ImageFrame Source="images/maps/map_exp_07_thurgadin_velious.dds" SourceRect="-1,105.00,-103.00,257.00,919.00" />
</ImageStyle>
/CODE]

and for the map of the map_exp_07_thurgadin_velious, I circled in green what areas I believe would be the pretige home.



Like I said, I can't remember what program I used to edit/stitch/piece together the map pieces. Like I did with the Sands of Renewal Home, and Drunder Guildhall.

and lastly; I did something with the map I was working on, and now when I login, to the thurgadin prestige home tour, eq2maps has a transparent look to it, all I see is the outlined



Please help.... stuck like a log currently. What program can i use to edit the dds file or convert it to PNG or JPEG to edit, then convert back.?????

Thanks in advance.

[jnils]

You can use GIMP to edit the image.

Looks like you have swaped the zonerect and sourcerect values.

[maliki7676a]

ok, doubled checked the zonerects and seems to be correct.

Still not seeing the map, same as the picture in post above.

Here's the map that I believe will work if I can get it to just show up. (adding the acutal .dds file too.

what am I doing wrong??? *facepalm*

[maliki7676a]

Also; is there another program besides Gimp. Just hate that interface. and I swear that I was using another program.

[jnils]

<ImageStyle Name="thurgadin_prestige_home" displayname="Thurgadin Grand Hall" zonerect="-1105, -103, 257, 919">
<ImageFrame Source="images/maps/map_thurgadin_prestige_home.dds " SourceRect="0,0,1600,1200" />
</ImageStyle>

You DID have your values swaped, a SourceRect can never have a negative number.

You did refer to a map that don´t exist, "images/maps/map_exp_07_thurgadin_velious.dds" is a hardcoded map and don´t exist on your computer unless you created it by your self.

I have corrected the code if you have the new image in the image folder, and has the resolution 1600,1200 , or you can just change the code.

[maliki7676a]

First of all; Thank you for all your help.

Ok, I updated the code you corrected and also added the dds map that I created from piecing together from the map_exp_07_thurgdadin_velious.dds.

the map_thurgadin_prestige_home.dds
and map_exp_07_thurgadin_velious.dds

are both under my \games\everquest2\ui\darqui\images\maps folder.

I'm still though getting that clear map picture posted earlier.

I haven't installed the map creator files again yet, after my re-install of windows. so I was hoping this shortcut would be enough, but looks like i might have to create the map again. from scratch????