Photopea was able to open and edit the raw. Though when I imported the new height map into the map editor, it set any lines to 256 height and everything else to 0. Don't know if I did something wrong. I'm rebuilding the map manually, but would be nice to know how to generate height maps outside the editor, as it can be very frustrating to do certain things.

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Photopea works! When opening and saving a height map, make sure to set Byte Order to "34-12" or it will be completely messed up when you import it back into the map editor.

I don't know about spawns being marked in the map editor as belonging to any particular team.

The lobby has 3 ways of assuming which team a spawn point should be one (top vs. bottom, left vs right, or odd vs even). Those are the options to choose between. All 3 of those options assume there will be exactly 2 teams. So none of those three options work for you. That's why it's necessary to set teams manually for a 3-team match.

It is considered good practice to support odd-vs-even team assignments if someone is making a map that is balanced for competitive multiplayer games with 2 teams.

But for a 3-way map, you wouldn't have that. I would just group them up like: spawns 1-3 are for team 1, spawns 4-6 are for team 2, and spawns 7-9 are for team 3. That way, in the lobby, it's easy to see the teams because the players on each team are grouped together (the first 3 spawns will be team 1, etc.)

Did you add an army called "VULCAN" under Extra Armies on the Map > Armies Tab?

@madmax said in Simple Question about Duplicate, Copy, Paste Tools....:

held together with duck tape

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@OnceHandsome

But when selecting these tools there is no further options to select anything so can someone breifly explain how to use these edit tools?

Works for map markers and props. Not sure why you'd think it would work on terrain without leaving all kinds of artefacts. Take MadMax's advice and come to the FAF mapping discord for these kind of questions.

thnx

If you need the code from the FAF version, then you should look here:

C:\ProgramData\FAForever\gamedata\lua.nx2 (also a .zip archive like the .scd files)

Method 1: With Blessings

Does NOT apply to GPG original maps

Contact original author and obtain permission to rework a map, or find a map with an open license (e.g. Survivial Genesis, Adaptive Alpine Valley) Download the latest version of the map Rename the folders, filenames, and file name references within the files to a new, unique name Open with editor of choice, and make changes you desire Upload and enjoy Method 2: Without Blessings

NOT ethically sound

Download the latest version of a map Open two map editors simultaneously on the same screen Load the map you want to remix on one instance of the editor, and make a new map on the other Make a map from scratch, using the existing map as reference This will get you in trouble if you cannot reasonably prove you made a map from scratch and didn't directly copy any existing features

load the map in editor , make your modifications, change the name, use save as, then upload through the client same as any other map

Units in the game can be changed via hocks. does the dot work in maps too?

Sounds good will try to participate 👍

I love this idea, as I am regularly scouring the vault for new customs.

@ghoustaq_14 said in [New problem]How to make extraarmies behave like AI players?:

@penguin_ Wow, It seems that you created a new AI for the map of Twin Cities. I wonder if it is possible for extra amies to call the original AI codes?

OK， I think I already solved this problem. Thank everyone for helping me.😊

@jip said in [Another question]How do those different types of layer work on game?:

You'd need to do that in a mod, but that is possible yes. If you want to take that road you're better off asking in #modding-general on the official discord. Make sure to give yourself the modder role in #role-selection. There's a lot more activity on Discord

you can do this in the map script

https://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=19181

@Ghoustaq_14 Any other question feel free to reach out on the discord in adding yourself a role in #role-selection and give your self the mapping role and all the experience people live their and will be bale to aid you further

Desert Planet II - FAF Version

Issue 1

the map is asymmetrical
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Fixed by using the top half and rotating it to the bottom half i also added a dry lake bed to replace the lost one

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Issue 2

The map had random spots of blocking terrain type all over causing units to die on transport drops

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Fixed by redoing the terrain types to be more consistent

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Issue 3

The map had no AI path markers

Fixed by adding path markers (only showing land markers amph and air markers are also present)

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Resources

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credit to @Sheikah for proving the rotated scmap

This man has clearly not matched many setons if he thinks we only play a certain way

M27 worked great, note to self: try more of the newer AIs. Thanks for your help @maudlin27