Starting a multi-map scenario for ToT

[Harry Tuttle]

Re: Re: Re: Starting a multi-map scenario for ToT

Originally posted by techumseh
Absolutely. Think of it as several layers, stacked one on top of another. Inter-map movement is between squares with the same co-ordinates. Events such as createunit, etc., use an extra co-ordinate to determine which map the unit appears on, eg. (47,81,0).

How about if the second map is a different dimension, but the coordinates are the same? Have you ever encountered that or will the game just bomb out?

[Mercator]

Civ2 only stores the map dimensions once, so it wouldn't know how to display a map of different dimensions.

Even if you somehow managed to hexedit a map of different dimensions in, Civ2 would probably crash if it had a different surface area. If it had the same surface area (e.g. you're adding an 80x50 map to a 50x80 map), your map would come out all garbled, turned into a 50x80 map.

[Harry Tuttle]

Ah ok, my curious mind wanted to check that one out. Thank you for the clarification.

[techumseh]

If anyone wants to see some very well made 4 map scenarios, vistit Kestrel's site, here: http://www.users.bigpond.com/Kestrel18/ He had this stuff nailed long before I figured out how to do it, or rather, was tutored by William Keenan.

[Broken_Erika]

Originally posted by curtsibling


Can't wait to see that!

most of my other experiments have given me enough info to do this, now i need to go terrain hunting,