Can someone render this to PNG?

todwag · December 2008

Attached is a DD3 map of a dark attic in a haunted house. Everything is very simple except for the lighting. I'm using lights and Wall Shadow Finalize effects. It all looks fine to me but I cannot save it to a PNG with the shadow finalize effect on. When I try it runs thu 4 passes for about an hour before I give up. If I turn off the one Shadow Finalize effect it saves in a minute.

Can someone point out my mistakes or render this for me?

I want a rectangular PNG 24bit, default compression, 2200 by 1400. Crop the single room leaving one square boarder around for 22 squares by 14 squares.

Ralf · December 2008

There seems indeed to be a problem exporting to png - at least with this map. I'll investigate and put it on our list to fix.

In the meantime, have you tried Simon's suggestion of exporting to PNG via PDFCreator?

todwag · December 2008

Thanks. PDFCreator did the job for me. Here are some important tips that worked for me. Without these changes it still took way to long to print. With these settings it took about 2 minutes.

On CC3 print screen: Fit to Page and Tiling 1 and 1. Properties--Advanced DPI=300
With PDFCreator: Use 300dpi.

The resulting image at 3050 x 1930. This is plenty for online use.

JimP · December 2008

I usually save as to bmp, then use Irfanview a free program to convert to png.

todwag · December 2008

Conversion from BMP to other formats is the easy part. The hard/broken part is saving as a BMP/PNG/JPEG. They all suffer from the same problem I described above. Until there is a fix the PDF trick is the solution for maps with lighting effects.

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