Create maps?

[delusan]

I do enjoy making my own maps to battle over. I posted this same question on the Slitherine forum, and at the risk of being chided for duplicate postings am also going to ask here ... The Slitherine product description states "The game supports modded campaigns. You can create new maps covering any area you like, even fantasy maps." Does this mean I can create my own maps from scratch?

[delusan]

OK - got my answer over at Slitherine. Here it is ...

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Hmmm - I'm not sure of how it finally ended up working. I know we had code in to allow heightmap-style campaign maps (which is what I think it was refering to). But I'm not sure if it made it into the final code. Let me check...

Yes - there does seem to be code in there to take a flat user map with a custom texture in a modded campaign, and a height texture to allow for hills etc. So you could build your own campaign map visuals, and then use the same files as the game for setting up the areas etc. The battle maps are hand built and exported into Granny format, so it's not practical to create those.

Cheers

Pip
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Excuse me but ... this is what you meant by "You can create new maps covering any area you like. Even fantasy maps."?

I think it all boils down to - No. There is no map editor.

[IainMcNeil]

There is a mp editor. You can use any existing map and lay out units on it and give orders and objectives and script all sorts of events. You can also create your own maps. Basically you would have all the tools we used to make the game.