Map making tutorial?

[SapperAstro_MatrixForum]

Just wondering if there are any good map making tutorials for this engine? An overall scenario making tutorial wouldn't be bad as well, but the maps have always been my main stumbling block in modern wargames.

Thanks.

[vandorenp]

There is of course the map maker guide. It is a lot of help. But a tutorial no. I have mastered map making but shudder at the thought of making a tutorial.

For me there are three big lessons:

* merging maps requires a lot of planning and trial and error for the fitting with a lot of cleanup regardless at the joints
* cutting up maps requires cleanup at the edges (line features have dangling threads that cling to the map edge.)
* draw the rivers and streams first then do the contours from the highest elevations down.
* roads and bodies of water in close approximation are problematic. Take poetic license with the placement of roads along the rivers. You have to kludge you way past the 100 meter square calculations that are made. If the analysis judges the two to be in the same 100 meters the road is broken. Shoot for 200 meters away from the rivers to reduce this problem. load your completed map into a scenario and test the roads that follow rivers.