CNC Maps Renderer rewritten - works for Tiberian Sun and RA2

zzattack · Soldier **Joined**: 29 May 2007

Over the past Christmas break I have rewritten my map rendering tool in C#. This resulted in nicer, better and faster code, and as it turned out, filling the request of adding TS support wasn't much work either.
One more important update over the previous versions is that Voxels are now rendered. This happens in an OpenGL context which sadly requires me to ship a 2MB dll along, but this will change in the future.

I will be posting a full installer with updated GUI tomorrow, but for the brave ones a command-line version is already attached. On a final note, for now, .NET 4.0 is required. Here's two example renders:

http://files.zzattack.org/images/forestfires.jpg
http://files.zzattack.org/images/pockets.jpg

Update @ 9 Oct. 2016 - updated installer (always available from http://cnc-maps.net/tool/get_latest by the way!)

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Joshy · Schwing! **Joined**: 13 Aug 2006

Amazing.

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CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

Amazing, great new years present to the community!

Scorched Earth · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:31 am Post subject:

Haha, great work man.

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Good stuff, this will save me a lot of time. Thanks.

Orac · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:30 am Post subject:

Perfect!

Dutchygamer · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:47 pm Post subject:

Aro wrote:

Good stuff, this will save me a lot of time. Thanks.

No more hand-created Megamaps for you boss #Tongue

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Wonderful.

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Nyerguds · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:16 pm Post subject:

So.. does it export PNG too? Jpeg is sooo last decade #Tongue

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zzattack · Soldier **Joined**: 29 May 2007

Why not try it? Source code is at http://github.com/zzattack/ccmaps-net

daTS · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:50 am Post subject:

does it render lighting?

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zzattack · Soldier **Joined**: 29 May 2007

Yes... but it's not perfect. Try it (or look closely to the glow emitted by the tib fields on forest fires...)

daTS · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:20 pm Post subject:

Ah, okay I see it. It's just hard to see with the .jpg blurred up. Is it possible to render in .png or lossless .jpg?

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CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

Try, it.

daTS · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:32 pm Post subject:

it's the command line version, brah. I don't do command line.

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zzattack · Soldier **Joined**: 29 May 2007

Lossless JPEG? Tell me more!

DaRTzO · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:47 am Post subject:

Good job, Franky. Very Happy

Soo about that PNG... Laughing

Allied General · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:36 pm Post subject:

any news on the GUI version?

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EVA-251 · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:03 am Post subject:

How on Earth did I miss this? Your contributions to this community are amazing. Extremely well done.

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daTS · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:13 am Post subject:

zzattack wrote:

Lossless JPEG? Tell me more!

It's basically a jpg with a compression ratio of 1:1.01 (or something similar). Photoshop does it. Larger file size. Not quite as big as .png though, which is true lossless. There is very very minor changes to the image due to the minuscule amount of compression.

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Atari2600 · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:22 am Post subject:

daTS wrote:

zzattack wrote:

Lossless JPEG? Tell me more!

It's basically a jpg with a compression ratio of 1:1.01 (or something similar). Photoshop does it. Larger file size. Not quite as big as .png though, which is true lossless. There is very very minor changes to the image due to the minuscule amount of compression.

Yep, I remember hearing about this from my dad long ago. He encouraged me to save with files as Tiff's if they needed to be lossless. However, they proved to be rather unused in most cases.

PNG is pretty widely accepted these days for lossless on the internet from what Ive seen.

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Quote:

I will be posting a full installer with updated GUI tomorrow, but for the brave ones a command-line version is already attached.

Slight bamp, but we're waiting.

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iNs0MNiaC · Medic **Joined**: 23 Jan 2011

If I see him on msn I'll poke him.

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

Need help guys. I tried this and it won't work at all. Every time I open it, the application errors comes out. It says, The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). What's wrong with it?

Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

Help needed. Sad

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iNs0MNiaC · Medic **Joined**: 23 Jan 2011

Topic maker is too lazy.

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

That doesn't help at all.

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Ixith · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:16 am Post subject:

I will not lie...i am using the fact that there's no easy to start/idiot proof version of this out yet as to why i haven't finished up some of my map projects.
Of course that's far from the truth....but dammit it's good enough for me!

as for you Krow...

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but for the brave ones a command-line version is already attached. On a final note, for now, .NET 4.0 is required.

maybe that helps you understand that it's not a ready to go thing straight out of the package it comes in. You need to go through command-line stuffz to get it going. and well...like stated...it's for the brave ones....who don't mind messing with that.

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

Okay , I get your point but this also happens with the old version. The 0.99 one. The same error.

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iNs0MNiaC · Medic **Joined**: 23 Jan 2011

The old original works fine for me.

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

Can't anyone help?

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Comr4de · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:20 pm Post subject:

I am using .NET Framework and I click on the exe file, all I get is an EMPTY command prompt windows, then it *poofs* out, gone. Should there happen something?
I'm on XP SP3 (with .NET 4.0 ofcourse)

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Nyerguds · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:32 pm Post subject:

lol, lrn2cmd #Tongue

Krow wrote:

Can't anyone help?

I'm guessing you need the .net framework?

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

Are you sure? Because i've used the older version before and it didn't need the .net framework.

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Nyerguds · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:23 am Post subject:

Yep...

zzattack wrote:

Over the past Christmas break I have rewritten my map rendering tool in C#.

^ This means you need .net to run it now.

In my opinion as a programmer, you should get the .net framework anyway. Not installing .net is like not installing java... it's simply something you need to run programs.

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

This application opens and immediately shuts for me, I have .net installed.

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Nyerguds · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:50 am Post subject:

Morpher... read the first post. It's a command line tool -_-

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

Okay , understood. But the error still happens with the older version. The one that doesn't need to use the .net.

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Ixith · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:16 am Post subject:

hrmm well the older version was simply just RA2/YR i do believe which is why this rewritten one needs the .net and commandline stuff to work properly as it's not completely set up yet.

Here's a grand idea...have you tried running the older version as Administrator? if not...try that...it surprisingly makes a lot of stuff work.

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

Ooops, used command line prompt, entered everything but it errors at "recalculating object palettes"

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

And how do I do that, Ixith?

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Ixith · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:28 pm Post subject:

right click it instead of left clicking on it and you should get an option in the list of things that says "Run As Administrator"

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Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:54 am Post subject: Map render

I get a message about net frame, but I have read the posts and thought never mind, I went back to the old version. When I try using a map with custom tiles, i get nothing. Size of map is 215 by 200, but I use a 215 by 200 blank map I get a render. any thoughts?

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

I've figured out what caused the application error. I was wrong about the older version not requiring a .net framework, because it does need it and my .net framework was totally outdated. And thanks Ixith for helping. Smile

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Ixith · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 2:23 am Post subject:

hrmm well figured i'd bump this up just to poke the ashes and put out the question...

Did this ever get a full program with GUI and the what not so that the not so brave and willing to go through command prompt people can use it?

seriously...i'd like to get a megamap produced the lazy way instead of the 'oh hey imma take a bunch of pictures and then line them up in an image editor'

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Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:37 am Post subject:

i cant get any of my maps to use this program. its not the size of my maps, but i think it can't read my new terrain, even though all tiles are in proper mix files and they are in the proper place

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Ixith wrote:

hrmm well figured i'd bump this up just to poke the ashes and put out the question...

Did this ever get a full program with GUI and the what not so that the not so brave and willing to go through command prompt people can use it?
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It did, for RA2 once...

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Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:39 am Post subject:

I can take a blank yuri map and render it, but not a fully made map...or did i miss that can't be used on Yuris

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Ixith · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:08 am Post subject:

bah. well someone needs to be awesome and get the renderer that works for TS a nice GUI and the works so I can be lazy. #Tongue

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EVA-251 · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:33 pm Post subject:

http://code.google.com/p/ccmaps/source/detail?r=18
"Updated GUI and Installer".

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