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Posted: **Sun Feb 03, 2013 12:04 pm**

Hi guys !
I didn't found this tool called " Yourself's Map Rendering Tool". Someone can upload it on uptobox for exemple ?
It realizes cool screenshots :

Please help me

Posted: **Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:12 pm**

I don't know where it is, sorry. For now, here's a script I pulled out of my ass: https://gist.github.com/4709760

Remember to convert the .tga to, say, .png (and possibly downscale it too). Sorry about the gaps.

Posted: **Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:01 pm**

Thank you for you answer but how use this script ? Can you explain please ? I know how to install a script but how does it work ?

Posted: **Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:03 pm**

Gibbs3333 wrote:
Thank you for you answer but how use this script ? Can you explain please ? I know how to install a script but how does it work ?

It's not a server script, so you don't install it. You run it with python like so:

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python scriptname.py map.vxl output.tga

Posted: **Tue Feb 05, 2013 5:17 pm**

I really do not know how to run this .py Can you detail please ? I 'm a noob

Posted: **Tue Feb 05, 2013 7:26 pm**

First you'll need Python 2.7 installed.

Once that's done on windows you need to open up the command line, navigate to the folder where you saved the script and then type:

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vxl2tga.py mapname.vxl imgname.tga

Replace mapname with the name of the map and imgname with the name of the image you want it to save to.

Also Yourselfs thingy was a PHP script I believe that you could install on a webserver and then have it connect to a game server and automatically update as the map got destroyed and stuff.

Posted: **Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:41 pm**

I tried with Python (command line) but it doesn't work because I don't know where I have to place the .py and my .vxl . My map is named OperationMetro.vxl and it is on my homepage with the .py...

Screenshot :

Posted: **Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:44 pm**

Click start
Click run if on winXP, or search if on Win Vista/7. If you're on win8 then your screwed.
Type in CMD
Run CMD
Navigate to the folder where your map is, you can do this by typing CD. So if the map is on your desktop and you are on windows XP you would type:

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cd username\desktop

And that would get you to the desktop.

Then you would type vxl2tga.py OperationMetro.vxl Test123.tga

Posted: **Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:39 pm**

Gibbs3333 wrote:
I tried with Python (command line) but it doesn't work because I don't know where I have to place the .py and my .vxl . My map is named OperationMetro.vxl and it is on my homepage with the .py...
Screenshot :

You typed python on one line, then the rest on another. Do it all on one line.

Posted: **Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:37 pm**

Thank you all !

Posted: **Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:52 pm**

I have an iso-rendering tool that I use. I'm not sure who made it, but it's pretty good and very simple to use.

Download

It comes with two files inside - "index.html" and "script.js". To use it, you double-click on index.html, click on the Browse button, find the map you want to render and double-click on that. Et voilà, the isometric render will pop up.

Posted: **Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:19 am**

OMG !!! It 's Yourself Map Rendering tool !!! Thank you so much it's too difficult to find it.

Posted: **Sun Feb 10, 2013 11:47 am**

And it's Influx for the win. Thanks for this tool.

Posted: **Sun Feb 10, 2013 1:05 pm**

Greasemonkey, have you got any renders lying around that you did with your tool, I'd like to compare it to Yourself's.

Posted: **Sun Feb 10, 2013 1:59 pm**

Ki11aWi11 wrote:
Greasemonkey, have you got any renders lying around that you did with your tool, I'd like to compare it to Yourself's.

I just rendered mesa.vxl for a comparison, since I know where it is on my computer.
It outputs a TGA file, so I've converted it to a PNG (TGA here):

And with Yourself's tool:

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