This tutorial looks at o­ne of the most basic features of the map editor - the brush size tool. See how it affects the eraser, rocks and terrain and have you ever tried right-clicking o­n it?

Submitted by Aubergine

The terrain editor has 7 different brush sizes for painting land and water terrain, changing terrain heights and the eraser tool.

When you click o­n the brush size, it will change as shown below:

That's right, you can right-click to go in the opposite direction - a nice little time saver!

Note that the round brush sizes do not actually give a round brush - all of the brush sizes give square brushes having the same width and height. We'll see why there are round and square brushes later in this tutorial...

Terrain (land, water, height) and Eraser

To make it easier to count the number of tiles for the various brish sizes, we've placed stone walls along the edges of a patch of sand painted with each brush size. A single tile of wood wall has been placed at the top right for no other reason than it kinda looked nice!

The smallest brush size gives a 1x1 brush as shown below:

The next size up gives 2x2:

Then 3x3:

And 4x4:

Then 5x5:

And then 7x7 to catch us out:

And finally 9x9 for the largest size:

Rocks

Only the square brush sizes can be used for rocks. If you have a round brush size selected then as soon as you select a rock it will jump to the next size up in order to become a square brush size. That's why we have the round and square brush sizes!

The very smallest brush size gives rocks that are 1x1 tile in size:

The next size up gives rocks that are 2x2 tiles in size:

The next size gives rocks that are 3x3 tiles in size:

And finally, the largest brush size gives rocks that are 4x4 tiles in size:

Happy painting!