I actually understand you better than you think, and my english is not so great as it is
Thank you very much for the effort.
I also found a nice solution, and I have a problem (problem described after the astrix (***) part below):
I've actually used another method i tried:
First, pick a color with the dropper.
Then, select the area (even most of the map, but try circle a water-land area for start).
Next, go to Colors - map - Color exchange. The color you have from the dropper appears on the left, so set the color you want to achieve in the right.
Now, on the left check "lock thresholds", and tweak around with the colors. start with the threshold bars, adjust with the others.
It was a quicker way, since the threshold controls the "aggressiveness" of the similar colors.
I must add it was about 90% accurate, so it pretty much did the job.
(problem is, i couldn't find ANY other way to do the opposite with the ground & mountains.)
In any case, eventually i gave up and did the following: after having most of the lakes's radius colored blue, i've done the following:
Opened the map_pallette file with gimp, opened a new file, chose the ground color with the dropper and filled the new map with it.
Then, I used Select - By color and copied all the "shapes" of the lakes to the new file, and then filled them with the ocean color pallete.
So what I got is: the 2 color map eventually. which btw works ok.
That did the part for the color map, which was ok (though i did it smaller I believe).
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And I came up with BAD
results with the height map. When importing the color map, everything is flat and nice and cool.
When importing the height map, well, there are more bloody mountains than there are on the height map, and these mountains are WAY to high. it's like 2 different heights on the same map
According to the manual, first greyscale the map, then invert \ value invert it. That I did. there are now 2 layers on the map: flat ground, high ground, nothing is smooth.
So, how DO you guys do the height map part? would appreciate a hand here (if you may, you can just text write the steps \ settings for it. Don't really need an image if the method works).
Hope I helped you as well
In any case, my purpose if first to understand that process exacly, then i'll create a detailed manual with how to do what so there's no room for errors.
Can anyone please explain me what am i doing wrong with the height map? or, how do i suppose to do it right?