Play as austrilia! Serious!!!! Defend Sydney!! :)

[LordSturm]

Indeed as i have tried.

How would i go about putting Australia into the South-East Asia map?

Australia isnt in any of the territory maps yet.

[Montyphy]

What image editing programs do you have to use and do you know how to use them?

[LordSturm]

I've got CS2 but I can't say I'm too good at using it, lol...

[Montyphy]

If you know how do layers and opacity then you should be fine. Open the territory you want change as well as perhaps the coastlines.bmp. Copy the territory image and paste it as a new layer onto the coastlines image. Select the territory layer and drop its opacity to something like 50%. Now grab the colour white on the paint brush, and splosh on the bits you want to be able to place land units, having the coastlines background helps you know where "real" land is. Now use the pretre tool which grabs the colour of where you select and use it to get the grey colour. Get the paint brush out and use this colour to paint where you want sea units to be placed. With that done, you now crack out the black on the paint brush, and "erase" the stuff you don't want that territory to have. When done, copy and paste the layer back to the original territory picture and save.

Hope that makes sense because I have proof read this.

[LordSturm]

Yes it make sense fairly...
Thanks, ill give it a good try, and am i aloud to share the resulting files? or are they copyright.

Considering they are included in the demo I don't know.

[Montyphy]

Thanks, ill give it a good try, and am i aloud to share the resulting files? or are they copyright.

I doubt you would get into trouble from IV for encouraging people to mod the game. Just don't selling it to your friends though.

[Lionel Mandrake]

Someone ought to make a specially-packed 'realism mod', methinks, so that files could be kept seperately and swapped whenever one wanted to play with a realistic instead of fictionalised map.

[Montyphy]

zanzer7 is already working on a mod loader and I'm sure if enough mods are made IV will implement one themselves. In fact, zanzer7 is looking for testers of the loader, just visit his site if you're interested.

[LordSturm]

I could make a mod loader simply enough, all it needs to do is rename folders...

[nikeplektrum]

this will be great at lan parties =) im going to make a map of my room with furniture as coutries

if it's cool (and not illegal), i can upload it

[Lionel Mandrake]

This does sound most entertaining, keep me updated, chaps!

[LordSturm]

Next up, a map of ...

I don't know, you could use google earth to get good maps.

[Lionel Mandrake]

What about a large game based entirely on a European theatre of war? Or one based on conflict over the Arctic Circle between the United States and the Soviet Union?

[Montyphy]

if it's cool (and not illegal), i can upload it

I don't see what would be illegal about it.


We all just need to wait for NeoThermic's Map Maker as it's currently rather difficult to make an entire map from scratch.

[LordSturm]

Yay! - If anyone still wants my southasia.bmp just pm me.