I'm desperate!

[baggis]

Hello everyone! I have been working on a melee map for about 50hours.
I started working on the map over a year ago. Its finally finnished. A swedish onlineleague have been testing it, and they are interested to use it as a map in their league. I have been trying, with help of Magos modeling tutorial, to make
models/advertisment-tags like in the WEG maps where they have like benq's logotype, Intel and stuff. So my question is: How can I get a picture, and get it in my meleemap, so i just can put it where i want on the ground.
Do i need to create a own flat model first in 3D max, and after that add the picture?

HELP!

 

[Rad]

Are you using RoC or TFT? Most 2d models are not required, and can be applied to the built-in models to overwrite the standard ones (Ex. you import a 256x256 image change its path to war3mapPreview.tga, the minimap preview will take on this image).

Some require a special War3 file type, called BLP. There are several converting tools many are located Here in the Tools section (I suggest Wc3Viewer).

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NOTE: Importing files will remove the melee status of a map!​

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[baggis]

I am using tft. I mad a image both to .blp and to .tga. After that i took and edited a Ruined Ground file (2D) with Object manager and browsed to my imagefile. But all I got was my map getting black when setting it in.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

Ruined ground is multiple layers and not a perfect square object.

You notice ruined ground works on grass, dirt, etc? Cuz only the destroyed part is visible.

All I did was create a 256x256 square in gmax (2 triangles) with a HEIGHT OF 1 and assign a blp texture to it.

If you make it a height of 0, it does some graphical funky effects with the ground, so it needs to be 1 unit high.

If more than 1, units selection circles dissapear underneath em.

Then imported both.

 

[baggis]

Sorry guys if you find me annoying, but this is the first time i do this stuff, and overall im very bad with computers. I have installed Autodesk 3DS Max8, does that program has the same functions as gmax that you are talking about?