Surface Painter is a simple toolbox to help map makers in specific tasks. It's not meant to cover all your needs, the mod currently has very few features but it's open source and meant to be modular, allowing you to create your own modules using the interface, controls and other features like the Object Pool.
This tool lets you tweak the surface map directly in Arma using a dll that replicates your actions in an image file.
Follow instructions in @surface_painter/masks/readme.txt.
Run Arma with Battleye disabled. Take manual backups of your surface map.
It lets you define objects that will be used by modules. You can search objects by name and set the spawn probability for each one.
A simple brush tool for random object placement.
Draw lines and create objects along them, can be set to detect terrain and follow it.
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Download the latest version here : https://github.com/zgmrvn/surface-painter-mod/releases
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Extract the archive
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Copy the
@surface_painterdirectory where you store your mods
You can skip the steps 4 and 5 if you don't plan to use the Surface Painter tool, the tool that lets you paint your surface map directly in Arma.
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Copy your
mask.tifand yourlayers.cfgin@surface_painter/projects. The dll only supports TIF format as input and will always output 8bits LZW compressed TIF. -
rename your
layers.cfgas yourmask.tif:
my_awsome_map.tif
my_awsome_map.cfg
In editor, place a unit and run the mission. In the action menu you should see an action named "Surface Painter".
basically :
WASDto translate the cameraright clickto turn the cameraShit + WASDcamera speed x10Alt + clickto use the alternative function of the current tool (eg. erasing with brush tool)mouse wheelto set the size of the cursorShift + mouse wheelto set the size of the cursor x10- fields can be incremented/decremented with
mouse wheel
The panel on the right. Search for an object in the top field. double click on an item to add it to the pool. Use your mouse wheel to change the spawn probability of each object.