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In this tutorial we'll go through the steps of adding your custom template images to World Builder. These template images can be used for creating a map layout based on real locations. You could also draw fictional designs in Photoshop. It's all up to you!
For example Relic mappers use template images for map layout designs. Take a look at the Official CoH2 World Builder trailer to exactly get what this tutorial is all about.
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I actually planned to stream while building my first map. But somehow i finished it already before the patch was released to public, so now i am done already I might stream some when i do another map, or a winter conversion of the existing one. Can't say when though. Company of Heroes World Builder. A GameBanana (GB) Forum Thread in the Games & Servers category, submitted by Adrian Shephard. WorldBuilder - This is the map creation tool used to create maps, and is included with Company of Heroes. It can be found where your CoH installation is (usually C: Program Files (x86) Steam steamapps common Company of Heroes Relaunch) World Builder Manual v1.0 - An instruction manual which will tell you everything about using WorldBuilder. Megan Huang on Coh World Builder Download allatav. Jan 10, 2014 — This is a collection of the most important stuff you need to know to build a Comapny Of Heroes 2 map with the World Builder. For the past year and a half, we’ve worked with teachers like you and your students to reimagine MapMaker to be simple to start, fit your classroom workflow, and feature high-quality, up-to-date map layers to support the topics you need to teach. Today, we’re excited to invite you to join us as an early access user of our new MapMaker (Beta).


Rule #1:
Do not keep World Builder open while doing the steps in this tutorial unless told to.
Rule #2: No other rules.
Required tools:
  • Basic text editor. Microsoft Notepad is great for this. More suitable tool would be notepad++, which you can download from notepad-plus-plus.org
  • Adobe Photoshop with DDS plugin
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We'll start by setting up a folder system to hold the templates and by downloading a set of example files to test it.
  • Create this folder structure to your CoH2 Installation folder:
  • Download example files and extract the contents of the .zip archive (lyon.dds and lyon.terrainmaterial) to
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  • Launch World Builder. You should now be able to access the new splat in Splat placement tool:

    Place the splat called 'lyon' to the map. You will notice the small size of the new splat immediately. To make it larger, set scale to 128 or something similar and place the splat again.


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You can use World Builder Ruler tool to determine scale. Ruler measures distance in meters.
Now that we have a working system, we can continue to creating our own template image(s). This does not work anymore and most likely never will in this form.
Assuming that you already have a template image, we'll start by saving it as .dds
In case you have no template image, head to, for example, https://maps.google.com/ and get one by taking a screenshot.
World Builder For Coh Downloadable MapsLoad your template image to Photoshop. Make sure the image width and height are multiples of four. Here is a list of few examples (basically any power of 2 is suitable):
Once you have done necessary adjustments to your image ensuring correct image width and height, save your template image as yourTemplateName.dds to
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, using following settings in Photoshop:

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Now, when your image is successfully exported as .dds, we'll create a .terrainmaterial file to describe the properties of the new splat. You can do that by doing the following steps:

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  • Open Notepad/Notepad++ and paste in following content:
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  • Change yourTemplateName to match your .dds file name.
  • Save this text as yourTemplateName.terrainmaterial to the same folder where your .dds image is. Close the file.
  • Launch World Builder. You should now be able to access your new custom template.
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In this tutorial you learned how to add custom template images to the World Builder. Feel free to share your results in this thread!