[Opensim-users] A Couple Of Not Important Questions About Megaregions

[R.Gunther]

Many better paint programs have that option to, like paint shop pro, 
photoshop, and i think also gimp have a splice option.


On 2012-05-15 22:20, Ken Grunke wrote:
> On 5/15/2012 1:51 PM, Robert Martin wrote:
>> Pardon the semi-hijack of the thread but is there a fairly simple
>> method to create the terrain heightmap and then split it into the
>> needed set of tiles??
>>
>> So you can create the "map" for a 3X3 mega region and then be able to
>> upload all nine region tiles without doing a buncha Voodoo.
> Here's a nifty way of slicing up an image into tiles on a Linux server 
> using a simple terminal command, assuming ImageMagick is installed 
> (most likely is, or easily is if not).
>
> Given for example a 768 x 768 px png image, cd to the folder 
> containing it (what better place but your /opensim/bin/ directory?)  
> and use this command:
>
> convert -crop 256x256 big-image.png -depth 8 tile.png
>
> The result will be nine tile images named successively: tile-1.png, 
> tile-2.png, tile-3.png, etc.
>
> Handy on a Linux desktop also--by the time Gimp is fired up, your 
> image will be all sliced and ready.
>
> If you have a general need for ImageMagick in Windows, you can do the 
> same trick in the DOS environment. But IM is a network server batch 
> processing tool so you probably won't be installing it on your desktop 
> just for this. Further reading at 
> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows/
>
> Ken aka Key Gruin @OSGrid
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