FT import

MytosBR · November 2012

Hi again.
I was reading through Mike summers tutorial on how to import a map into FT and it says to hide all layers except for the Land Layer.
I cant find a Land Layer, is he referring to Relief/Contours layer, or again I am missing something?

I did the whole process considering the Land layer to be the relief one. And after I saved the image and opened into photoshop I couldnt select it with the wand cause I only had a black screen without anything else to select.

Can someone point what I am doing wrong?

JimP · November 2012

Maybe he meant Land Sheet ?

MytosBR · November 2012

I dont think so, he said Land sheet and land layer.

No problem, I will figure it out.

Thanks

MytosBR · November 2012

Ok, new problem.

When I try to load the image into wilbur it crashes everytime. Tried with 3 different computers, and 2 of them with high specs.

Now I am stuck, dont have a clue on how to proceed to import a map into FT3.

Please advise me.

Thanks

jslayton · November 2012

The idea is to take your land mass that's drawn in CC3 and make the land white and the sea black. This activity can be accomplished in a number of ways, of which the most direct is to copy your landmass in CC3 and change its color to solid white. Then draw a black background behind the landmass and export the image. You'll have a black background with a white landmass on it.

Getting that image into Wilbur can be done lots of ways. The simplest is to load the black/white mask as a selection in Wilbur (Select>>Load Selection) and the use Filter>>Fill>>Set Value to set a constant height. Non-constant heights can be done in ways along the lines of http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/FunWithWilburVol4/index.html or http://www.cartographersguild.com/mapping-challenge-archive/18120-march-april-2012-lite-challenge-entry-csu-johnsondales-new-found-lands.html (both work well; the second one is a more refined variant on the first).

Consider the technique shown at http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/ThereandBackAgain/index.html for moving from Wilbur to FT. The MDR file format is better suited to such things.

Note that Wilbur and FT won't handle enormous files unless you're using the 64-bit versions.

MytosBR · November 2012

Thank you, thats exactly my problem now.

I cant find a way to load the image into wilbur without crash.

I am running a win7-64 in a bootcamp.

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