Drawing new borders

[pacman14k]

I'm trying to design a scenario with some fictional countries but I need to draw some new borders as well as designate a boxed area as "contested territory". Is there a way to draw lines and boxes to denote these?

[KnightHawk75]

Not in the traditional sense (can't adjust borders or draw your own).
Easiest you can do without modding installed files (which will not travel with your scene), is use RPs, exclusions or other zones, etc that don't actually exclude anything to sort of indicate your borders and contested areas. Alternatively and probably what might work better for you is to create one or more custom layers that shows what you want and let the user enable that too see what you want and just advise them to turn off borders\coastlines and placenames layers. You can also embed these layers as attachments in your scene. You can find some tutorials on the forums for custom layers one of several possible starting points fb.asp?m=3763178.


As for modding the shapefiles in \GIS\Mappinghacks that control the borders just to play around on your own _local_ system, it can be done, but I strongly recommend against it unless you have familiarity with tooling\software (QGIS is free and helpful) needed for doing that and it's a "scene\mod for yourself only" sort of thing.

[BDukes]

Think during CMANO era. I built out some overlays using GMAP generated images and used a paint program to add lines etc. Very hacky sloppy messy thing but got me where I was going.

Mike

[pacman14k]

Thanks, I wondered if those were the only two options. I'll try it out.

[thewood1]

I don't use them, but can you use an overlay?

[BDukes]

ORIGINAL: thewood1

I don't use them, but can you use an overlay?

Yeah. Grab image, edit image. Not exactly elegant but doable.

FWIW my very first request was drawing tools. Those really would be handy.

Mike