Springboard help, getting started

1. Read https://springboard-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/assets.html and let me know if you're still struggling.
2. Custom units and features are not supported yet. You'd have to add them to a previously created map or game which you can read about on Spring wiki.

Ok I finally saw something different. I copied the zeroK core textures to the C:\Users\Captain toot toot\AppData\Roaming\SpringBoard\springboard\assets\core\ directory. But when I copy mine there they don't show up.

What are the image format requirements?
Does it have to be in png?
Does it have to be a certain resolution?
Does it have to have a normal and specular image along with it?

Edit(answers):
It can be in either png or jpg
resolution doesnt matter
doesnt need to have a normal or specular image.

All I did was rename the new textures in the same format the core textures were. The last core texture was like "392_diffuse" so I named my first texture 393_diffuse, then 394_diffuse, etc. Now they show up in the editor. Now on to saving the map and getting it in the game...

Unless Springboard has had that capability added recently, I think you export the heightmap/diffuse and use Mapconv.

See https://github.com/Spring-SpringBoard/SpringBoard-Core/tree/master/springboard/assets/core for how asset folders should look like.
I recommend you use the assets pack included in the docs. It's pretty large and has a lot of good materials known to work with SB.

You can export mapinfo.lua which will include start positions

Not sure what you mean by map file. Sdzs and sd7s can be loaded with the new project dialog inside SB

Thanks for the feedback.

I've made Github issues reflecting your problems:
- Metalmap isn't exported
- Grassmap isn't exported
- Team locations aren't exported in a format usable for ZK
- Generate and use a new .sdd for new projects. (This should help with adding features easily)

I'll be addressing these issues in the following days. I'll post an update here once I'm ready to show something.

That's up to you. I think height and texture painting is useful on its own.

quote: How did they get objects like trees and buildings in the map?

Various 3D-artistically-talented individuals have done texturing and modelling for features (like buildings and trees) in the past. If you are a less 3D-artistically-talented individual such as myself you'll probably "borrow" from their maps or from the spring-features archive which is... probably on SpringFiles somewhere?

In the bad old days I believe feature placement was done by putting coloured dots on an image, where the RGB values coded for the feature identity. (These days that image just codes for grass in the B channel I think.)

In the present day features can be specified in a lua file. Springboard can export such a file for you (look for s11n something or other).

- Have the features defined inside your map (I believe this generally requires something to be added in the features, objects3d and unittextures folders) - to test I suggest copying some from another map

- Open the map in springboard, your features should be present in the features menu

- When done placing features, export with file type "s11n object format"

- The exported file is itself a lua file, copy it into \mapconfig\ in your map .sdd

- Make sure your map has the right gadgets to read this file (I know s11n_gadget_load.lua and s11n_load_map_features.lua may need to go in the ./LuaRules/Gadgets folder but I am unsure whether this is necessary or sufficient)

- Check the s11n_load_map_features.lua gadget; near the top it should have a line looking like

local modelPath = "mapconfig/feature_list.lua"

Make sure this is pointing at the lua file you got from Springboard.

and hopefully your map should now have features.

(Somebody correct me if any of the above is incorrect.)

gajop is it possible to add a feature that can checks everyone's total value of all of the players and kills all the players except the highest at a certain time? Is it possible make the water be a void like The Hole or do you have to approximate the effect with lava?