MapEdit released!

[Mercator]

MapEdit is available NOW at Mercator's Civilization

It's a versatile map editing tool, capable of creating oversized and gigantic maps, converting maps to bitmaps and back, repositioning, flipping, inverting, previewing maps and more.

[Prometeus]

Thanks, thy great cartographer!!!

Ave Mercator ! Apolitani te salutant!!!

[DarthVeda]

As I'm sure I've said before in another forum, this editor cannot create giga maps >10900

[Stefan Härtel]

That util is awesome! Perhaps it will someday make my "Fars" map perfect!

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[C0ckney]

Another great tool added to the scenario designers kit, hats off to Mercator

[Julius Brenzaida]

Mercator, this is simpy fantastic !!!
Where did you get all this useful tools like extending maps, reverting them, putting river on a type of terrain, etc.
It shall help everybody who wants to create maps, especially gigantic ones.

One single regret, that I dare to formulate 'cause I know it's probably impossible to make it perfectly, the conversions betweem bmp and mp are not entirely satisfying. So it is not enough to convert a world.mp into a .bmp, extend it and get back a nice gigaworld.mp.
Some work still must be done the hard way.

BUT THIS IS REALLY GREAT !!!


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[Mercator]

Thank you! Most of the things in MapEdit really are pretty basic when you know how to program.
DarthVeda:
Do you have MGE/ToT? gigamaps only work for Civ2 version >FW. MapEdit has a default maximum value of 10,922; only when you indicate the location and version of your Civ2 executable will MapEdit be able to create maps larger than 10,922 (if the version you indicate is MGE/ToT. Note that you don't actually need MGE or ToT to do this. Just locate your Civ2 executable [View > Options...], select the MGE/ToT as your Civ2 version and MapEdit will be able to create gigamaps. When you don't have MGE/ToT you can create gigamaps with MapEdit, but you won't be able to edit them or use them in Civ2 or the Civ2 MapEditor... Does that solve the problem?
Julius:
That problem probably involves flipping/mirroring/repositioning a map? Every other horizontal line of tiles sort of indents half a tile to create the isometric view. Since the bitmap version of a map doesn't have this indentation you will get some inconsistensies, say when adding one line at the top of a map, or when flipping a map with an odd height... That kinda sucks, but I'm afraid that can't be solved just like that

[zyxpsilon]

ANYone who is serious about mapping a CIV/Game must have your utility!
Thank's.

[Kestrel]

Mercator,

Yet another testimonial of praise for you.

I have a map (non-earth) that I particularly like because of its topographic realism, but it was 75 by 120, too big (too long) for many of my games. I wondered how I could reduce it in size.

With the Maputil (and PaintshopPro) I have been able to convert to a bmp, resize with PaintshopPro, and then convert back to a mp (60 by 96) with minimal editing required.

Doing this also means that if I want to I can convert all "Plains" to "Desert" (or any terrain to any terrain) if I so choose merely by swapping the correct colours across when it is a bmp.

Once again, thanks for all your good work.

[St Leo]

You may want to look into MapUtil (available at the Ziggurat) if you are interested in resizing maps.

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[Alinestra Covelia]

Hey, Mercator! How do you get the "Hotseat" hack to work for Civ2? Will it work for versions FW or earlier?

I'm making a scenario (Star Wars) that I'd love to play against my housemate hotseat!

[Mercator]

Check out this thread for info about the use of the Hotseat thingy:
http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum5/HT...tml?date=23:27

You could also go to: http://users.sgi.net/~harden/index.html , There you can find CivHot, another program that does the same thing.