How to make and use a custom tile

What you need before we start:

• Photoshop or GIMP (any professional image editing program)
  
• Wc3Viewer
  
• MPQEditor

A custom tile is a 256x256 tga pic with 16 squares, each square is 64x64, each 1 of those 64x64 squares is a tile

Ill color code it below


Repeating Tile
Alternate Repeating Tile
Outer Corner Tiles
Straight Edge tiles
Diagonal Tiles
Inner Corner Tiles

That might be hard to understand so ill put it in world editor to make it easier to see whats happening

Image:

Spoiler:

(I threw some footmen down for no real reason)

In that pic you can see that the green tiles are straight edges, blue outer corners, and cyan inner corners

The red and orange are the repeating (this is using random variation, but you can pick between them with 0 or 1 under the use random variation check box)
Theres no yellow cause i forgot to put down some diagonal terrain when i took the pic

The easiest way is to just open an existing tile like grass or whitemarble and change it from there (you can get the blp for them with MPQEditor)
For more repeating tile variation you can use a 512X256 tga pic, the extra space is used for more repeating tiles

Once you make the pic (using either photoshop of GIMP) and convert it to blp using (wc3 viewer)
Import the blp into World Editor with the import manager

Change the custom path of the imported file to the tile you want to replace, lets say you want to replace lordaeron summer grass, the path would be TerrainArt\LordaeronSummer\Lords_Grass.blp
Save your map and restart world editor

Now whenever you put grass down your tile will be put in its place

ouch pat, out of all the sticky tutorials here, urs has the least views!

i just steal custom tiles from other maps.... i mean HI PAT cough cough

btw anyone wanna use shroom worlds tiles?

OMG PAT I JUST REALIZED U BROKE RULES! UR SUPOSED TO ADD SPOILERS TO PIC'S LIKE THIS! ITS A PAGE BREAKER! GET A FUCKING SPOILER ON THAT THING RIGHT F-ING NOW!~

OMGOMG OMG PAT give pat1487 a warning for breaking rules!!!

A WARNING? NO NO NO! HE IS SUSPENDED FROM CHIEF FOR FOREVER! AND ALL USE OF BOTS IS GONE FOR HIM! (no pointing out he owns bots)

i second this motion and since ach is peon and cant be chief pat has to give chief to me

Achilles.42 wrote:

ouch pat, out of all the sticky tutorials here, urs has the least views!

Well mine was in another thread, so i took that post out and turned it into this

And it doesnt break the page, or at least not for me

i have no idea what "page breaker" actually means, but it amkes it so theres this huge scroll bar and when i try to go up or down it makes it go side to side, a and its annoying! PUT A SPOILER ON THAT THING

AND LOG ON ALRDY!!!

lol ach youve posted like 10 posts all tellin pat to log on! :p

pst pat, ur pic is still breaking the page! ADD A SPOILER ALREADY~!

that was just so this isent TO off topic, Log on or ill leave!

how do i make tiles transparent?

can i do it in gimp?

im pretty sure just plain white is transparent

i want a cool ruins tile

plain white doesnt work unless u mean alpha'd, so yeah i think an alphad terrain would work

my god... u STILL havnet fucking fixed this pat! it still breaks the page!!!!

Idk what i was thinking when i took that pic, i shouldve resized the window to fit on this page

And i used imgshack to upload it, which i never do

Anyway, i fixed it

only took u like 6 months

how do i make tiles transparent?

it would probably be equivalent to a black tile
i dont know whats underneath the in game bounds textures
im guessing black though. maybe the photoshop style checkered white and grey, but probably just black

You cant make transparent tiles

You can make part of a tile appear translucent though
Youd need a solid tile, then something that looks transparent on top

For example, you can take a tile like dirt and add semi transparent brown spots on it to give the illusion of shallow mud puddles on the dirt

I havent actually tried anything like that so im not sure if tga can use transparency
And even if you can force it, most likely once it becomes blp i dont think transparency will work

^Either you're misunderstanding me, or had no idea what I am talking about lol.

Dalaran White Marble has gray as a transparent color.

http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/tilesets.php

Look at the pic of the terrain.
The gray obviously does not show up, but even when I use that color gray in photoshop it is not transparent, but instead shows up as gray. Bloodasb used to edit them for me because of some reason, I really can't remember how to do it, or maybe why I couldn't do it... :/

Thats not transparency
Transparent color doesnt even make sense, if it did we would have colors like invisible pink

It says what will show up right on that page
That example uses photo impact, but its the same in photoshop

Just use an existing tile if thats not working for you

you can have transparency, i did it once on accident

what it seemed to do was the transparent parts were effected by whatever tile was next to the tile with the transparency

that is if i remember correctly...

it was in my Maze of Awesomeness (ithink that was its name)
no one ever played it tho :'(