From 7fd0fa3c9f7f761b3b9332b9893d4739b68d6fb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: terencehill Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:22:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update mapping MapPicture --- mapping-MapPicture.md | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mapping-MapPicture.md b/mapping-MapPicture.md index d0304a0..3ca762c 100644 --- a/mapping-MapPicture.md +++ b/mapping-MapPicture.md @@ -5,15 +5,16 @@ Make your map sexy ! Your map should include a preview picture. This picture will be visible from the game menu and from the servers vote screen. In order to do so: -* Load your map in the game -* Use the command `r_letterbox -1` in the console to turn off the HUD +* Load your map in the game and stay observer +* Use the command `r_letterbox -1` in the console to turn off the HUD (not `r_letterbox 1` as it'd add top and bottom borders) * If your map has "waypoint" entities (like CTF or CTS maps), you can hide them with `cl_hidewaypoints 1` +* turn off jpeg compression with `scr_screenshot_jpeg 0` to avoid a double lossy compression (you'll have to compress it to jpg later) * Take a nice screenshot with F12 * Go to your Xonotic user directory, on the `data/screenshot` subdirectory. Your user directory location depends on your operating system, more information [here](https://xonotic.org/faq/#config). -* Open the screenshot with an image editor, e.g. GIMP -* Crop it so that it has a 4:3 ratio -* Scale it to 512x512 px (weird but standard) -* Save it as a JPG file (~90% quality) +* Open the generated .tga screenshot with an image editor, e.g. GIMP +* Crop it so that it has a 4:3 ratio, e.g. if resolution is 1366x768 then crop it to 1024x768 +* Scale it to 512x512 px (the resulting image should appear vertically stretched) +* Save it (export in Gimp) as a JPG file (~90% quality); other formats like tga and png aren't acceptable because they generally produce much bigger files * Put it in the same location as the bsp file, with the same name (see next chapter for packaging rules). Original source of information: https://forums.xonotic.org/showthread.php?tid=6067&pid=75757#pid75757 -- 2.39.2