Is it possible to edit or make a new world map, and therefore be able to use more of the cities, mines and other landmarks that are in Amn?
World Map Editing?
Started by Cam, Apr 07 2004 10:02 PM
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 10:02 PM
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Silent as a forest No heart can match wits with destiny.
Fierce as fire
Immovable as a mountain
- Sun Tzu (403-221 B.C.)
If one's life is useless, can death be a loss?
- Dong Xun (Minister of the Interior)
Zhuge's mighty name hands proudly on the upper sphere;
Stern and grand, the royal liege man's likeness claims respect.
In the tri-part world below he spun deep schemes.
In the age old realm of cloud, one single plume unites our gaze.
In command he was more sure than Xiao or Cao.
But the stars had turned; he could not save Han's reign.
Toiling to the end, body broken, will unbroken.
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 10:21 PM
Hell ya'. Many mods do this already, not including the TCs. 
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Posted 09 April 2004 - 05:28 PM
Well, can you point me in the right direction.
I was thinking of trying to add some new towns, and other quest areas... presuming I can make the maps or can find someone else with the skill to do them.
I was thinking of trying to add some new towns, and other quest areas... presuming I can make the maps or can find someone else with the skill to do them.
Swift as the wind No man can master the infinity of possibility;
Silent as a forest No heart can match wits with destiny.
Fierce as fire
Immovable as a mountain
- Sun Tzu (403-221 B.C.)
If one's life is useless, can death be a loss?
- Dong Xun (Minister of the Interior)
Zhuge's mighty name hands proudly on the upper sphere;
Stern and grand, the royal liege man's likeness claims respect.
In the tri-part world below he spun deep schemes.
In the age old realm of cloud, one single plume unites our gaze.
In command he was more sure than Xiao or Cao.
But the stars had turned; he could not save Han's reign.
Toiling to the end, body broken, will unbroken.
- Du Fu
Silent as a forest No heart can match wits with destiny.
Fierce as fire
Immovable as a mountain
- Sun Tzu (403-221 B.C.)
If one's life is useless, can death be a loss?
- Dong Xun (Minister of the Interior)
Zhuge's mighty name hands proudly on the upper sphere;
Stern and grand, the royal liege man's likeness claims respect.
In the tri-part world below he spun deep schemes.
In the age old realm of cloud, one single plume unites our gaze.
In command he was more sure than Xiao or Cao.
But the stars had turned; he could not save Han's reign.
Toiling to the end, body broken, will unbroken.
- Du Fu
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Posted 09 April 2004 - 05:46 PM
Is there a technique that allows changes to be made to the map in save files, the way ToB does when it adds Watcher's Keep?
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Posted 09 April 2004 - 06:09 PM
I think this is the real issue--a way to update the worldmap on-the-fly and having it update an end-user's savegame file. I'd love to help Wes add this kind of functionality to WeiDU, but I'm afraid it's a bit out of my grasp.
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Posted 09 April 2004 - 06:29 PM
You can edit the WMP with some serious byte editing, but it's really more trouble than it's worth. This was my first plan for the world map fixes until I just gave up. Adding areas ala WK is an interesting idea. It's controlled by a coupla 2da files but IIRC they only get one travel link. May also be more trouble than it's worth.
I did all my WMP editing with NI. However, I was just changing map parameters and adding/changing travel links. I don't think you can use it to add areas.
I did all my WMP editing with NI. However, I was just changing map parameters and adding/changing travel links. I don't think you can use it to add areas.
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Posted 09 April 2004 - 06:37 PM
Not sure about savegames (I haven't tested) but watcher's keep is added via the xNewArea.2da and the xl3000.2da. I and others have added to it successfully. However, I can't for the life of me remember the effect on a savegame... 
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Posted 09 April 2004 - 06:46 PM
Ah, thanks, hlid. Now the question is--how to add new icons without completely overwriting mapicons.bam...
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Posted 09 April 2004 - 07:43 PM
Hell if I know, ya' got me there.
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Posted 10 April 2004 - 06:57 AM
There was some talk about that on the Weidu board, but I don't recall it being something that was easily done. I suppose you could make multiple mapicons.bam files by taking mapicons files from mods that edit the World Map and adding your info in there. Then you'd have to detect if any of those mods are installed (an exists_in_game check should work). It may be more trouble than it's worth. 
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Posted 10 April 2004 - 07:55 AM
One thing that could be done would be to make a general "world map mod", which would be updated any time the makers of an almost-finished mod wanted to add a new location. If a mod which the world map mod covers isn't installed, clicking on the icon for it would simply take you to some kind of dummy area.
