What is LM [terrain] in C3C editor?

[MoonWolf]

I was looking in the editor and considering making a map of my own country. Suddenly I discovered you can add some terrain types named LM Mountains, LM Forest etc. They have some squares/ diamonds on them with "beams" through. I assume they are for use during creation of a map, but don't know what they're actually good for. Anyone knows?

[WarpStorm]

The beams are an error that I've fixed.

The use of them is to create new terrains for use in your scenarios. In the Mesopotamia Conquest, for example, there is a LM Forest named the Cedars of Lebanon (oddly enough in Lebanon) that gives extra shields and gives extra commerce when roaded.

If you want, you can give them a different look than regular terrain of that type.

[Colwyn]

Ive noticed that although there a 7 landmarks to be edited the editor that there is only 3 landmark terrains in the arts dir for conquests??

Why isn't their terrain landmarks for the others?? I was going to do a landmark say for plains with a canyon (extra defence) but canot now slightly edit the existing landmark graphics for it b/c its not there!

What must I do create a seperate gfx file for the others or what?

[WarpStorm]

There are a lot of them.

You need to look at all of the lx*.pcx and lw*.pcx files too. To edit LM plains you will need to mod all lx*p*.pcx files (three files, IIRC).

The modded terrain must tile with all tiles that plains can tile with also (besides tiling with LM plains).

[MoonWolf]

Thanks WarpStorm! And now I learned that LM is landmark as well... Can bring some great uppertunities for a scenario this stuff...