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no worries....you tried. Bloom works in lower version 704 and less, so I can load a finished map in there and add Bloom adjustments and save I gues

How big is your folder?

Far on the horizon maybe. I added the issues to the issue tracker here: https://github.com/FAForever/FAForeverMapEditor/issues

Jip you rock and thanks.....I guess the love of these things you do, has turned me into an impatient SOB......thank you again for your efforts and I appreciate the efficiency at which you all achieve it!

Bravissimo!!!

thanks once again for your help Index......worked perfectly!!

Which tutorial exactly?
I'd recommend using the Terrain002 shader. An explanation how the texture has to be made to give correct results is available here: https://wiki.faforever.com/en/Development/Mapping

There's a pinned message in the FAF Discord in #mapping-general that contains a copy of my brush folder, which includes both brushes that I have made and ones I have collected from others.

The FAF Wiki is full of info, including these FAForever Map Editor shortcuts.

@askaholic I am glad someone read some of the 20k words I wrote on this topic 🙂

gents i want you all to know that your advice and my hard work payed off!!!....Windows just released a Windows 11 update that I grabbed 22H2 and all of a sudden, everything is BACK TO NORMAL!!

Handsome can HEAR SOUND AGAIN!!!.....thank u all

Export the stratum settings, open the file with a text editor, change 256 to 512, save and import the updated settings.

Edit, it's going to look like garbage unless it's an extremely high resolution texture.

A decal is an albedo or normal texture with an alpha mask to hide the square shape. You could theoretically create decals from any regular texture that you can find on these texture websites, but it is some effort.
Roughness textures are used for PBR workflows and currently the map shaders don't support this. (Though I am working on adding this in the future)
But really you should just google how these textures you mentioned are to be used. You will find much more comprehensive explanations online. Sometimes even directly on the texture websites where you saw them

You can find the latest version of the editor here:

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/2896/cc0-textures-and-you

Go to one of these sites and look for '1k png' options. You'll then need to convert to DDS

@arma473 Ah, thanks! I was missing step 9 since I was too lazy to open the file in a hex editor.

I don't want anyone to go out of their way to really do anything about this. I think I am a pretty fringe case in my desire to play sandbox on generated maps. Thanks for all the info though as it is pretty interesting to know how the map files, lua files, and .scmap files all work together.

How come some MAPS show Stars on the front page and some only show when you click on the map?

Also I cant read people's comments on the map, it just shows their ratings.....they said they left comments

hey now....if u have played any of my recent maps, they are very mild in reclaim

And as an alternative you can try using other decals to hide the 'square-isch' of this decal by placing them over it