I sent the link to the udogs forum post in...
well...it was right in front of me all along...problems all solved now...got a program that takes the watermask from an m2 map and puts it in a tfl...i might throw together just a water mask extracter as well...since if u dont want to use loathing for m2 to make the map...u can have still do ur water mask...kind of important i guess...well...that means all i got left is the easy stuff like item placement...and the rest be done...myth tfl pc editors...finally...muhahahah..
The most interesting part to me is the end of it :) the watermasks is just part of the problems strat was encountering in this project.